Writing Consultants Network

As WCN's Founder and Manager, Linda Cruise is a full-time writer, editor, instructor, researcher,and multimedia consultant (e.g., photography, graphic design, and marketing), with over 20 years of experience, including time spent as an editor of the esteemed literary journal, The Louisville Review.  She has developed and taught several creative-writing classes, for children through adults, in both traditional and non-traditional settings, including time spent as a high-school Speech & Language Pathology Assistant, where she taught writing and literacy skills to Special-Education students.

Having earned her MFA in Writing (Spalding University), M.A. in Anthropology (Binghamton University), and B.A. in Anthropology (Douglass College, at Rutgers University), Linda is also a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature.  She is a featured artist of the Vermont Arts Council and Vice-President of the League of Vermont Writers, as well as a member of the Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs, Society of Children Book Writers & Illustrators, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Red Pines Honor Society (Douglass College, at Rutgers U.). 

Her published work includes fiction, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, nonfiction (journalism, biography, and editorial), poetry, and photography; it has appeared in Soaring, Public Republic, Tecumseh Herald, The Times Ink!, The Hinesburg Record, Vermont Catholic Tribune, and League Lines.  When Linda is not occupied with her work at WCN, she devotes much of her creative energy to writing three current fiction book-length projects: a WWII story set in France (adult), a time-traveling story set in Vermont (middle-reader), and a collection of linked stories (adult). 

In addition to the above, she is a member of her local Richmond Area Business Association, where she serves as Managing Editor.  While enjoying the high quality of life found in the village of Richmond, Vermont (with her husband, two children, and family dog), Linda serves actively in her community as a coach, religious-education teacher, and trained, Wish-granter volunteer for Make-A-Wish of Vermont.  Click here to see Linda's Curriculum Vitae.

For many years, Meg Heiman has taught English, Reading, and Study Skills, at Vermillion Community College, in northern Minnesota. She also is Adjunct Faculty at Kaplan University.  In addition to her teaching, she maintains a blog for the Ely Chamber of Commerce. 

Before earning her MFA in Writing at Spalding University, in Louisville, Kentucky, she had earned a B.A. (English), at the University of Evansville, in Indiana, and a Post-secondary Reading & Learning Certificate, from California State University (Fullerton). Additionally, she has completed both undergraduate and graduate coursework at University of Wisconsin (Madison), University of Southern Indiana (Evansville), and Indiana University (Bloomington).

Meg shares her expertise, not only as one of our WCN Consultants, but also serves as Creative Non-fiction Editor for The Algonquin Review.  She lives in Ely, Minnesota, with her husband, four sons, and numerous pets. Click here to see Meg's Curriculum Vitae.