Today, we are thrilled to interview Gregory Luce and Norah Vawter, the Co-Founders of Washington UnBound! the source for all things literary in the DMV.
Norah Vawter is a freelance writer and editor. She spent five years as the Local Authors Editor of online magazine DCTRENDING.com, where she created and championed the Local Authors section. Norah has published creative writing in Memoir Magazine, Nassau Review, This is What America Looks Like, and journalism in The Washington Post, Otherwords, and Washington Independent Review of Books, among others. Norah holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from George Mason and is represented by Victress Literary. Her first novel, a finalist for the Eludia Award and longlisted for the Dzanc Prize, is on submission. She’s obsessed with the ocean, the stars, Fitzgerald, and the way that storytelling makes us human. Norah lives with her family in the D.C. area.
Gregory Luce is the author of six books of poems: Signs of Small Grace, Drinking Weather, Memory and Desire, Tile, Riffs & Improvisations and Smells Like Rain. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Kansas Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Innisfree Poetry Review, If, Northern Virginia Review, Juke Jar, Praxilla, Little Patuxent Review, Buffalo Creek Review, and in several anthologies. He serves as Chair of the Editorial Board of The Mid-Atlantic review. In 2014, he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Retired after 32 years from National Geographic, he now lives in Arlington, Virginia. He is a volunteer writing tutor and mentor with 826DC.
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