About Our Authors: Jennifer Semple Siegel

Jennifer Semple Siegel in 1958
Backside photos offer a metaphor
for her life.
Read why in Why I Write.

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JENNIFER SEMPLE SIEGEL, now retired from academia, is a writer, an editor, and a webmaster.

She has taught Creative Writing and Literature at York College of Pennsylvania and Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (Skopje, Macedonia).

Her fiction and non-fiction, including scholarly articles, have been published in various national and regional journals, magazines, and anthologies.

From 1993-1996, she edited Onion River Review, a literary journal.

She is currently the owner and webmaster of Poets.net, Ban My Book (parent company of this catalog site), and her personal blog Life is a Brand, among other sites.

She earned her M.F.A. in fiction from Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont).

In 2009, Semple Siegel served as a Fulbright Scholar in Skopje, Macedonia.

In addition to her teaching and own writing, her Fulbright project included helping to develop a new American Studies program at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University.

She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband Jerry.

For the long version of her author’s bio, see “Jennifer’s Story” on Why I Write. 

About Our Authors: Jeffrey A. Brown

JEFFREY A. BROWN lives near Dover, Pennsylvania, a small town on the edge of the Pennsylvania Dutch country that attained fleeting international notoriety in 2004 when its school board added “Intelligent Design” to the district’s Biology curriculum.

Both Brown and his wife “Casey” — members of Dover’s school board at that time — resigned in protest, testified in the subsequent trial, and Mr. Brown, at least, thoroughly enjoyed his fifteen minutes of media attention. He was even a punchline in a Jon Stewart monologue on The Daily Show, a fact he intends to have emblazoned on his tombstone.

Brown now writes fantasy/mystery novels, light humor — and recommends Ed Humes’ Monkey Girl to anyone still interested in his hometown’s issues with Charles Darwin.

When he isn’t writing deathless prose, Brown cartoons, acts in and/ or directs plays, and is also, when money gets tight, a self-employed electrician.