WAYNE R. WALLACE (“Home for the Holidays”), now retired from the local electric utility company in Oklahoma City, is a college professor working on his first novel. His story “A Bike for Christmas” was published in Classic Christmas: True Stories of Holiday Cheer and Goodwill.
STELLA WARD WHITLOCK (“Grandpa's Love”) is the wife of a Presbyterian minister, mother of four, grandmother of seven, writer, and teacher. Stella currently teaches at Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina.
MEGAN (MOLLY) D. WILLOME (“The Sweetness of Giving”) contributes to Wacoan, a monthly lifestyle magazine, volunteers her time and expertise on newsletters for nonprofit organizations, and also writes for Directions: The Magazine of the Texas Hill Country. Additionally, Megan's work has been included in several anthologies.
LESLIE J. WYATT (“Evergreen”) is a freelance writer for children and adults, with more than eighty articles and stories accepted for publication, as well as a middle-grade historical novel, Poor is Just a Starting Place (Holiday House). Leslie and her husband of twenty-four years have six children and live in an 1880s farmhouse in rural Missouri.
About the Editor
Helen Szymanski and her high school sweetheart, Thomas Polaski, have been married for thirty-two years and have three grown children of whom they are very proud.
Over the course of her career, Helen has progressed from poet to essayist, photojournalist to author, and newspaper editor to book editor. As an enjoyable pastime, Helen keeps the magic of her own childhood Christmases alive through her Web site www.theelfdoor.com , where she designs elf doors, a hobby she began when she was eight years old. Contact her at [email protected].
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