Writers Salon– Elizabeth Drake and Roberta Harold

Putney Public Library Writers Salon
Elizabeth Drake and Roberta Harold
Thursday Feb. 12, 7pm-8pm
via Zoom: LINK HERE

Putney Public Library Writers Salon is a winter Zoom series hosted by Putney Public Library and Toni Ortner.
Toni Ortner lives in Putney, Vermont. She has had 34 books published by small presses. Most recent are The Van Gogh Notebook by Dancing Girl Press and Prayers are the Kites We Fly by Rockwood Press of Portland, OR. Her forthcoming books are Passing Through by Deerbrook Editions then Monarch in the Desert and the Door That Opens Into Light both of which honor the work of Georgia O’Keeffe. Toni was Vice President of Write Action which is a nonprofit group that supports writers in southern VT. She taught English at the University of Connecticut and is now retired.
Elizabeth Drake and Roberta Harold will be reading on Thursday Feb. 12
Elizabeth Drake is the author of sci-fi novels, set in the future in which computers govern society. Elizabeth published several young adult dystopian novels and six computer textbooks while working as a computer programming professor at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. She moved to Vermont at the age of 72 where the woods are her backyard and her dog takes her on hikes. She is a silent partner to her daughter Severia in the By Ways Bookstore in Brattleboro. She still writes and edits for large publishers.
Roberta Harold is the author of Portrait of an Unseen Woman and two historical mysteries Heron Island and Murdered Sleep as well as many articles, reviews, short stories and poems. A native of Scotland and 2001 graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English, she won the 1999 poetry prize and lives with her husband and cats in Montpelier, Vermont.