The original Flatiron Writers began meeting in the Flatiron Building on Asheville’s Wall Street in 1993. Since then, meetings have moved around to different places in town: PJ’s Coffee Shop, Gourmet Perks, Port City Java, Greenlife, and the Book Xchange, just to name the most memorable. The group has been as many as eight members and as few as three.

Geneve Bacon
Genève Bacon’s articles and short stories have appeared in various publications, most recently in the Great Smokies Review. She took third place in an American Short Fiction contest, was a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Contest, and a finalist for the Bread Loaf Rona Jaffee Scholarship. She received an Emerging Artist grant from the Asheville Arts Council in  2004-5; and, as a co-recipient with Toby Heaton and Heather Newton, received a grant from the Asheville Arts Council and; NC State Council on the Arts in 2007-8 to publish a collection of stories by the Flatiron Writers, Irons in the Fire.

Heather Newton
Heather Newton’s debut novel Under The Mercy Trees (HarperCollins 2011) won the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, was chosen by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads Selection and by the Southern Independent Bookstore Alliance as an Okra Pick (“great southern fiction fresh off the vine”). Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in 27 Views of Asheville, Crucible, Encore Magazine, Lonzie’s Fried Chicken and elsewhere, and been recognized in competitions including the Robert Ruark Society short fiction contest, Pirate’s Alley William Faulkner-William Wisdom creative writing competition, Iowa Woman contest, Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize competition and Dana Awards. She has taught creative writing workshops for the Great Smokies Writing Program and the N.C. Writers Network. She is an attorney and mediator in Asheville, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Visit her at www.heathernewton.net

A.K. Benninghofen
A.K. Benninghofen grew up in the Mississippi Delta. She spent the first part of her adult life living in New York City and Los Angeles pursuing a career as an actress—which means that she has a lot of restaurant experience. She now lives happily with her husband and two small children in Asheville.
Her fiction has appeared in Evergreen Review, Necessary Fiction, and Connotation Press. Her story Sidewalk won an Honorable Mention Award in the 2010 Oaxaca International Literature Competition. She has been a fiction contributor at the 2011 Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a Writer-in-Residence at the Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, and the recipient of a Regional Artist Project Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. Currently, she is at work on her first book, Landmine Maps of the Hospitality State, a collection of linked stories.
Sidewalk in Evergreen Review
Easier Than You Think at Connotation Press
Before We Were Almost Lovers at Necessary Fiction

Marjorie Klein
Marjorie Klein’s first novel, Test Pattern (Wm. Morrow Publishers, 2000) was a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and is being re-released by HarperCollins as an eBook. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in various publications, including 20 years of free-lance work for Tropic, the Miami Herald’s Sunday magazine. She has taught at the University of Miami, Warren Wilson College, and Florida International University (where she received her MFA), and has led workshops at the Florida Center for Literary Arts at Miami Dade College, UNCA’s Center for Creative Retirement and the Great Smokies Writers Program. Recipient of a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in 2007, and honorable mention in 2002, she served as a preliminary judge in the writing category for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts from 1991-2006, until she moved to Asheville. She has recently completed a new novel, Shifting Gears.

Maggie Marshall
Maggie Marshall moved to Asheville five years ago from Los Angeles. Her first career was as a professional actress, some twenty-odd years of which she spent performing on regional stages throughout the U.S., as well as Broadway, Los Angeles, and Dublin, Ireland. She then segued into screenwriting, eventually landing in television and writing for numerous cable and syndicated one-hour drama series. She is the recipient of the Carl Sautter Memorial Screenwriting Award and a Scriptapalooza Award, both for One-Hour Drama. She is currently at work on her first novel, The Gondolier’s Wife, an excerpt of which has been published in the Great Smokies Review, and lives in West Asheville with her husband, Stephen, and Yuri the Wonderdog.

Marc Archambault
In 2004 Marc self-published his first novel, Roundeye. His work has appeared in local literary magazines, punk rock fan zines and art-o-mat machines. Marc is currently at work on a novel entitled Hardcore and an educational comic book about tax zombies. He lives in asheville with his family and works as a stone mason and graphic facilitator.