Furious Flower Staff
Joanne V. Gabbin is the Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center as well as a professor of English and the director of the Honors Program at James Madison University. She is author of Sterling A Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition and she edited Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present. She is executive producer of Furious Flower: The First Video Anthology of African American Poetry. She has published several articles and received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and scholarship. She is the founder of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective and the owner of the 150 Franklin Street Gallery in Harrisonburg.
Elizabeth Haworth is the Interim Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center. In her previous lives she taught junior high school English, high school English, theater and public speaking, was a news librarian and library administrator at The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, Newsday on Long Island, New York, and Time Inc. in New York City. Before relocating to the Shenandoah Valley she was Director of the Library and Educational Technology at Midlands Technical College, South Carolina's largest community college, for seven years. She lives in a creepy old house in historic Staunton, Virginia with her husband, Steve, goddaughter, Anna, and four misbehaved cats.
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Julie Goldman Caran is the Editorial Assitant for the Furious Flower Poetry Center. She received her Master of Arts in English from James Madison University in May 2005. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Julie attended Emory University for two years, then transferred to Hollins College (now University) in Roanoke, Virginia, to focus on creative writing. She graduated from Hollins with honors in 1999. Between college and grad school she worked as a Coordinating Editor at LexisNexis and as a Director of Religious Education at First Unitarian Church of Richmond. Julie enjoys anything involving the arts, but especially likes songwriting and craft projects. She lives in Harrisonburg with her husband, Kevin, and their three dogs.