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Executive Committee
Having been a refugee and immigrant child, Hannelore never forgot the significance of the "open door" which allowed her and her family to slip into the United States, an experience which decades later imbued IWWG with its "no portfolio necessary" philosophy: allowing anyone, regardless of background, or education to enter and to seek the support and training to express her true self and fervent interests through writing. Now, more than three decades later, some 4,000 books have been published by Guild members and the honing of "thinking on paper," regardless of publication, has become a tool for lifelong learning to thousands of women who literally feel a sense of family within the Guild, particularly upon experiencing IWWG gatherings and conferences.
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HANNELORE HAHN, Founder & Executive Director: It has been said that ironing informed the writing of Tillie Olsen. Equally true is the fact that vacuuming propelled Hannelore's vision of the Guild when she founded it in 1976 as a network using writing as the means for life-long learning and personal as well as professional growth.
SUSAN BAUGH, 2nd Vice President, is the Executive Director of Atkins House, a residential and outpatient treatment center for women offenders. Her article, “Treatment Issues and the Woman Offender,” was published inFemale, Crime and Delinquency: Critical Perspectives and Effective Interventions. Susan has been the editor of a literary magazine and has had over 50 articles, poems and short stories published.
CAROL PECK,taught creative writing for over 30 years at University of Maryland University College and was Writer/Composer-in-Residence at Sidwell Friends School for 13 years. One of Maryland's original Artists-in-Education, she has conducted poetry workshops in schools since 1971. She also works with at-risk teens, teachers, museum docents, hospitalized children, prison inmates, hospice patients, and bereavement groups. She has published From Deep Within (poetry workshops in nursing homes), “I Ain’t Gonna Write No Pome!” (working with at-risk teens), numerous poems and articles, and several children's musicals and songs. Her work has appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Michigan Quarterly Review, Teachers and Writers, Maryland English Journal, South Coast Journal, New Virginia Review, and numerous other journals, as well as Scholastic’s anthology A Poem For Every Day! Her awards include an Avery Hopwood Award in poetry from the University of Michigan, an Excellence in Educational Journalism Award from the Educational Press Association of America, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from University of Maryland University College. 
ELIZABETH JULIA STOUMEN, IWWG Associate Director, has worked alongside her mother, Hannelore Hahn, since the inception of the Guild. She does much of the daily behind-the-scenes work that enables IWWG to effectively serve its members. She is involved with all aspects of the Guild's operations, including conference planning, maintaining the membership database, and coordinating local writing workshops with IWWG regional representatives. She is the editor of the Guild's Network journal.
LYNNE BARRETT, is the author of The Secret Names of Women and The Land of Go and co-editor of the anthology Birth: A Literary Companion. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Delta Blues, Night Train, Saw Palm, A Hell of a Woman, Miami Noir, A Dixie Christmas, One Year to a Writing Life, and many other magazines and anthologies. The Penguin books Now Write! Nonfiction and Now Write! include her writing exercises, and her poetry recently appeared in The Southern Women’s Review. Her work has been honored with the Edgar Allan Poe award of the Mystery Writers of America for best mystery story. She is editor of The Florida Book Review and she teaches in the M.F. A. program at Florida International University. For more info. check her webpage, 
RACHEL DE BAERE, teaches ongoing writing practice groups in the San Francisco Bay Area and offers writing retreats, editing and project coaching throughout the United States and Europe. In 2009, Rachel's work appeared in the Hurricane Review, RiversEdge, Limestone, Poetry Flash, Oregon East, and Darkling. A member of the International Women’s Writing Guild Board of Directors and Faculty, Rachel also participates in the Poet's Roundtable, the California State Poetry Society, the Marin Poetry Center, Left Coast Writers and she is on the 2010 faculty of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project. Her current writing projects are a memoir and a poetry manuscript.
HOPE PLAYER, CPA, CFP, CVA is the Managing Member of The Arcadian Group, LLC which provides tax, accounting, and consulting services to small businesses. Hope received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of South Carolina and she speaks on small business and financial literacy topics. She serves as chair of the Financial Literacy Committee of New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, and treasurer of board of directors of the International Women’s Writing Guild. She authored the eBook, Find the Numbers for Your Business Plan released in 2009, a newsletter The Hope Chest, and numerous tax and accounting articles.
SUSAN TIBERGHIEN, is an American writer living in Switzerland who has been teaching writing for 20 years. She is the author of three memoirs: Looking for Gold, Circling to the Center, and Footsteps, A European Album, plus numerous essays in journals and anthologies. Her fourth book, One Year to a Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft, was published by Perseus Books in 2007. (“Tiberghien’s advice, encouragement, and wisdom make this an invaluable book for writers at all stages of their writing lives.” – Michael Steinberg.) She teaches at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, at writers’ conferences and at the monthly Geneva Writers’ Workshops. She has been a workshop director for IWWG since 1990. An active member of International PEN, she directs the Geneva Writers’ Conferences. Susan’s website is 
NANCY WEBER, RN and Certified Clinical Aromatherapist, is also one of the nations few Psychic Detectives awarded an honorary Chief of Detectives badge, and is seen on nearly two dozen television documentaries worldwide. Her talks on pet health (annual convention of Young Living) and aromatherapy are nationwide as are her workshops on Sacred Powers (most recent the annual Healing Touch Program). An activist since the 70’s for the environment, Nancy educates worldwide on the importance of going green and how aromatic practices used by indigenous people can help us to healthier, longer lives. The ability to expand horizons and tap into never before used talents are the results of believing in what she teaches and applying these same principles in her own life. Nancy is also the author of two books, The Gift of Interspecies Communication, True Stories and Exercises for the Soul and Psychic Detective, True Stories and Exercises for the Soul. Nancy published a magazine, Conscious Living, is founder and President of Holistic Alliance International, a nonprofit, and her poems and articles on holistic health have been published in various magazines and newspapers in New Jersey. With folk-singer Elaine Silver she co-wrote a dozen songs: “Stormwinds” and “Sister Moon, Brother Sun” are two songs chosen for her CD Divine Favorites.