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President & Regional Director
Dan Griffith had a full academic scholarship in engineering, but took his degree in business administration and another in education. He taught public school in Syracuse for 34 years before retiring to Florida in 1997. In Brevard, he led a languishing local poetry group in new activities and growth. Becoming a Florida Writers Association Regional Director in 2002, he recruited and trained other RDs and became FWA president in 2005. Dan enjoys outdoor sports, his big family, community advocacy for the aged, and studying the Bible. He writes in the genres of poetry and Judeo-Christian inspiration. Dan's delegated management style centers on training, authorization, and accountability.
Vice-President & Regional Director
Secretary
Shara Rendell-Smock has written Living with Big Cats and Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that Sell, as well as a chapter in How I Got the Gig, a writer’s handbook. Prior to writing fun books, she wrote more than thirty computer software manuals and numerous features for online and print, including a column for The Sarasota Herald-Tribune. With Kathryn Taromina, Shara is writing Let’s Talk Dirty about Garbage, a book of America’s best stories from garbage collectors.
Shara's Website
Treasurer
Anne Linne' has owned Custom Crafted Software, Inc., since 1992. Her writing career consisted of numerous technical manuals, until 2007 when she wrote her first Christian romance, "Desires of her Heart," which won second place in the 2007 RPLA contest. Her latest achievement has been to complete the FWA Website. Anne is a member of Florida Writers Association and the Christian Writers Fellowship International. She has two daughters, Kaitlin, who also posed for the photo and Lesley who is in college. She has been blissfully married to Doug, for 26 years.
Regional Director - Northeast Florida 
After thirty-five years in public broadcasting working as a producer, director, fundraiser, and producer of the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Vic DiGenti turned to his first love -- writing. He found inspiration in his household of feline critters and wrote three adventure/fantasies with a feline protagonist. His first two novels, Windrusher and Windrusher and the Cave of Tho-hoth (Ocean Publishing), have won multiple awards and attracted readers of all ages. His third in the series, Windrusher and the Trail of Fire, will be released in June 2008.
Vic DiGenti's Website
Regional Director - Southwest Florida 
Robert E. Gelinas (Bob) entered the publishing industry in the early 1990’s when his first of many novels was published by Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books. In 2003 he founded ArcheBooks Publishing. When Bob isn’t publishing and editing books, managing his editorial and production staff, directing sales and marketing campaigns, designing cover art and dust-jackets, expanding his distribution channels, dealing with authors and agents, attending book conventions, lecturing on writing and publishing, giving interviews to print and broadcast media, developing proprietary software for ArcheBooks’ online e-commerce system, or writing his own works, he’s also an accomplished musician.
Bob Gelinas's Website
Regional Director - Hillsborough County
Holding an MS degree in computer science education, Eugene Orlando teaches computers at an adult high school in Tampa. He studied playwriting under a visiting guest artist at the University of South Florida. In Florida writing associations, he received three first place wins for unpublished novels and short stories, three second place novel acknowledgements, and three third place novel recognitions. He's received three honorable mentions in the Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competitions for short stories.
Regional Director - Central Florida
Andrew J. Robinson is a Civil Engineer by day and a writer/filmmaker by night. He has written three novels -- a murder mystery and two young adult/sci-fi novels. One YA novel, Lexa and the Gordian Maze of Terra, was published by Amira Press. He has written close to a dozen screenplays. His first script, Wiccans Lair, made into a motion picture by PC Productions, is seeking distribution. He’s married with one daughter age 16, which explains his why most of his stories and scripts feature strong female main characters. He met his wife doing community theatre, and they had a theatre-theme wedding.
Regional Director
Tammy Freed - A scholar of theology and religion, Tammy served as a Chaplains Assistant in the United States Army Reserve. She is a Regional Director for the Florida Writers Association. Her poetry recently won an award in the Florida Christian Poetry Contest. Published in two books and other periodicals, she is working on several manuscripts. Tammy and her husband Rick live in Ocala.