Tony Burnett
Board Treasurer
Educated at University of North Texas, Tony Burnett (Board Treasurer) is Managing Editor at Kallisto Gaia Press, home of The Ocotillo Review and The Texas Poetry Calendar. An award winning poet, journalist, activist and songwriter, his poetry and short fiction have been published in literary magazines and anthologies including, Sixfold, Connotation Press, Short Story America, Frontier Tales, Texas Poetry Calendar, Poetry @ Round Top anthology, Tidal Basin Review, Di-verse-city and Toucan Literary Magazine. He is the former Editor in Chief of Scribe, the on-line blog with over 6000 subscribers and served as Board President of the Writers’ League of Texas from 2013 through 2017. He makes his home in rural central Texas with his trophy wife, Robin. His hobbies include poking wasp nests with short sticks and wandering aimlessly about.
Joseph Borden
Director
Joseph W. Borden graduated from Tusculum University with a degree in Creative Writing. He is an Editor at Clay Stafford Books and Managing Editor of Killer Nashville Magazine. He also helps organize the Killer Nashville Writers’ Conference. He previously served as Managing Editor of The Tusculum Review. He is an award-winning fiction writer, scriptwriter, and poet. He lives in Tennessee where he spends his free time reading, writing, and riding his motorcycle
Andrea Barbosa
Director
Award-winning novelist and poet Andrea Barbosa is an avid reader, soccer fanatic, and a tourist at heart who studied Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.
In addition to her work as a writer for Yahoo Contributor Network she has worked in public relations for an international jewelry company in Brazil, as a tour guide for Space Center Houston, and as a medical interpreter for major hospitals before joining the corporate world. These fine places introduced her to new people, big ideas, and global concepts that helped shape the writer she is today. When not writing or working her full-time job, she travels in search of history, museums, and tourist attractions. She has published two novels and a poetry collection, and her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and in the Southern Pacific Review. Her poetry collection, Holes in Space, won the 2015 Reader’s Favorite Silver Medal and her Flash Fiction piece, The Queen of Carnival, won the 2016 Spider’s Web Prize from Spider Road Press. She has earned other accolades in Flash Fiction and Mystery.
Her work has been influenced by contemporary authors Paulo Coelho, Fernando Sabino, Sylvia Plath, Erica Jong and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. She recently served as VP and Press Director for the Houston Writers Guild.
A.R.(Russell) Ashworth
Board President
A.R. (Russell) Ashworth lives with his wife and their big gray tabby at the edge of the Texas Hill Country. His first two DCI Elaine Hope novels—SOULS OF MEN and TWO-FACED—were published by Crooked Lane Books. He is currently writing the third DCI Elaine Hope novel, and a series of linked horror stories set in the Louisiana bayou country. Ashworth enjoys barbecue, almost all musical genres, cerebral British crime shows, and gritty French cop shows. Soprano arias and Jane Austen (preferably at the same time) get his groove on.
Jerica Glover
Board Secretary
Jerica Glover reads voraciously across all genres and loves singing and listening to vocally challenging music. In addition to serving as a reader for KGP she works in the outreach department at Temple Public Library. She has read Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” so many times to her children, she can recite it forwards and backwards from memory.
Gogi Hale
Board Member
Gogi Hale is a widely published horror and speculative fiction writer who has been short-listed in the Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest. She’s an active member of the Writers’ League of Texas and former Board President of Kallisto Gaia Press