Fletcher Shipp is a free-lance book editor and former journalist who is a proud member of the National League of American Pen Women.  She is also a proud alumna of Brenau Women’s College, BA magna cum laude, 1976 in Journalism and English, where she was the newspaper editor for two years.  Her involvement with writing began at Wolfson Senior High School in Jacksonville, FL in 1971, when she joined the school newspaper staff as a copywriter and proofreader.

She has been involved with the spoken word scene in Jacksonville in the past decade, and been published in Open Mic Jacksonville, Vol. 1.  She is a new member of the NLAPW, but has been its newsletter editor since 2009.

Yes, she has a book of poetry (unpublished) and a novel, which she is still writing.  No, she doubts they will be available anytime soon.

She greatly admires the writing of A.S. Byatt, Jane Austen, and Dorothy Parker, not necessarily in that order.  She will endeavor to live up to their standards on this blog.

(If she does not, please suck it up and restrain your emotions. Thank you.)