NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2013
ROLL CALL
» thank you Amelia Adams is a retired high school English teacher who began her career at Newnan High in 1966 and joined The Heritage School as a charter member of the faculty. Returning to her high school alma mater, Monroe Area High School, in 1983, she took the advice of one of her professors: “Get on the other side on the desk.” She has written a food column for The Walton Tribune for 23 years.
The Newnan Times-Herald who’s still occasionally astonished she managed to get a real job with a degree in history. As a teen, she wanted to write novels, but quickly discovered non-fiction a much better fit — though she’s been flirting with the idea of writing children’s books. She’d rather be camping.
JEFF BISHOP is a writer and public historian who lives in Newnan with his wife and five children. The author of “A Cold Coming,” a story of murder and family history, he is currently working on a book about the McIntosh Trail.
Though "Knight and Day" was not a box-office smash, Ana Ivey and her Fayetteville-based family, husband Andy and their 17-year-old son, Carlos, enjoyed the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz movie. She was thrilled to learn her subject for Newnan-Coweta Magazine, Skip Scurry, had worked on the special effects for the movie. An avid Tolkien fan, Ana is looking forward to the second installment of “The Hobbit” series, which will be released in December.
Leverett Butts teaches composition and literature at the Gainesville campus of the University of North Georgia. His poetry and fiction have appeared in The University of West Georgia’s Eclectic publication and in The Georgia State University Review. He’s written a collection of short fiction, “Emily’s Stitches: The Confessions of Thomas Calloway and Other Stories,” and a novella, “Guns of the Waste Land: Departure.” Carolyn Crist is a freelance writer and graduate student in health and medical journalism in Athens, Ga. While studying journalism at the University of Georgia, Crist interned at The Newnan Times-Herald for two summers. Following graduation, she became a reporter for The Times in Gainesville, Ga., where she wrote several Santa stories.
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Melissa Dickson Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry, “Cameo” and “Sweet Aegis, Medusa Poems.” She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in poetry from Converse College. She lives in Newnan with her husband and four children.
A native of Warm Springs, Ga., Bart Gibson currently lives in Newnan with his wife and two daughters. He is the author of the “The Place,” a book based on actual events and his family from the World War II era. When not writing, he enjoys outdoor activities and reading history. A former Newnan Times-Herald newspaperman, Gary Leftwich works for Southwire Company as manager of the company’s corporate philanthropy and media relations programs. He is a graduate of the University of West Georgia and the University of Georgia.