Members

The Writers’ Room of Boston is home to writers working in fiction, poetry, drama, history, memoir, and every other literary genre you can possibly imagine. Check out some of the exciting work they’re doing below.

And if you’d like to become a member, fill out the free application here.

Lisa Braxton is the author of the novel, The Talking Drum, winner of an Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards Gold Medal and a 2020 Outstanding Literary Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, and a Finalist for the International Book Awards. In addition to being a novelist, she is an Emmy-nominated former television journalist, essayist, and short story writer.

Fernando Contreras is a writer, visual artist, photographer, and coder of interactive text-based games. His work, Charlie The Robot, was a finalist at the 2017 Interactive Fiction Comp. His plays, Press One for Guadalupe and Instant Family, have been produced in Dallas and New York. He just finished his first novel, A Monopoly of Violence.

Marc Eichen has a Ph.D. from Clark University. His stories have appeared in Still Points Arts Quarterly, The Adirondack Review, West Trade Review, and Toyon. He is the winner of the Richard Cortez Day Prize in fiction. Current projects include short stories in Swahili and English, a mystery set in Zanzibar and a novel set in Idaho. He is represented by Kristen Carey at Blue Hen.

Evelyn Krieger is the author of the award-winning middle-grade novel, One Is Not A Lonely Number. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Hunger Mountain Journal, Hippocampus, Lilith, Gemini, Sunlight Press, Writer’s Digest, Tablet Magazine, Teachers & Writers, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and other publications. Visit her at EvelynKrieger.net