BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers
Dominick D'Aunno MD, President
Dominick D’Aunno MD, a writer of speculative fiction, is an Internal Medicine physician with a subspecialty in Space Medicine and Physiology and Addiction Medicine. His NASA research includes cardiovascular adaptation to microgravity, immune system alterations in extreme environments and musculoskeletal alterations to variable gravities. Dominick works with writers to increase the use, and accuracy of, medicine and physiology in speculative fiction. dures, Space Medicine, etc.
Leslie Archibald, Secretary/Treasurer
Leslie Archibald is a graduate of the University of Houston, majoring in English Creative Writing with a minor in Women’s Studies. She is a local writer/reader and businesswoman who manages office operations for a small company in the agricultural import/export industry while writing, editing, and reading for local presses part time. Leslie has volunteered with Writespace since 2015 and continues to support Writespace through volunteering and financial support. Leslie has benefited from the positive direction and nurturing received through Writespace and credits her successes as a writer to the organization.
Directors
Holly Lyn Walrath, Director
Holly Lyn Walrath holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas and a Master's in Creative Writing from Denver University. She is a poet and author of the Elgin Award-winning chapbook Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a chapbook in Italian, Numinose Lapidi (Kipple Press, 2020), and a full-length poetry collection, The Smallest of Bones (Clash Books, 2021). She is the Managing Editor of Interstellar Flight Press, a science fiction and fantasy small press. With Rice University, she is the coordinator for Religious Studies Review, a quarterly review of publications across the entire field of religion and related disciplines.
Davida Green-Norris
Davida Green-Norris, who writes as Dicey Grenor, also known as Spicy Dicey, is a black woman, attorney, author, podcaster, and pre-WGA TV writer. As author of The Narcoleptic Vampire Series, and other erotic romance, sci-fi, fantasy, horror books (11), short stories (30+), and scripts (4), Dicey enjoys crossing genres while writing inclusive, character-driven stories about sexy creatures that don't stay dead.
In addition to creating and moderating 20+ diversity, horror, and erotic literary panels from 2014-2019, Dicey recently worked as a Production Assistant on Real Estate Moguls of Houston, an upcoming reality TV show, and advanced to Quarterfinalist in the 2021 Page Turner Screenplay Competition.
In addition to creating and moderating 20+ diversity, horror, and erotic literary panels from 2014-2019, Dicey recently worked as a Production Assistant on Real Estate Moguls of Houston, an upcoming reality TV show, and advanced to Quarterfinalist in the 2021 Page Turner Screenplay Competition.
Eloisa Pérez-Lozano
Eloísa Pérez-Lozano (she/her) writes poems and essays about Mexican-American identity, women’s issues, and motherhood. She graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in psychology and an M.S. in journalism and mass communications. A Best of the Net-nominated writer, her work has been featured in The Texas Observer, Houston Chronicle, Houston Public Media, and Poets Reading the News, among others. She lives with her family in Houston, Texas.
Christopher D. Lewis, JD, MPH, MBA
Christopher D. Lewis, J.D. M.P.H., M.B.A., has over twenty years' professional experience writing persuasive nonfiction, published reviews of genre fiction for nearly a decade, and moderated or served on numerous convention panels related to genre fiction topics including law in fictional world-building, writing craft, and science in science fiction. Lewis has supported the national and international competition in the amateur sport of underwater hockey by founding the Houston Underwater Hockey Trust, co-organizing national underwater hockey tournaments in Texas, and maintaining the Underwater Hockey Tourist which supports traveling underwater hockey players in finding a game to join while traveling across the country or around the globe.