Core Support Team

Susanne has a BA in English and a Masters in Library Science and Information Management. She worked as a children’s librarian and then a reference librarian in Colorado where she also edited the employee newsletter and chaired the annual statewide Young Adult Literature Conference. She reviewed books for School Library Journal for many years in the “Adult Books for Teens” section. Susanne and her husband moved to Bainbridge Island in 2002. She started work as a substitute librarian for Kitsap Regional Library, mostly at the Bainbridge Library. She also facilitates the monthly book group at the Little Boston Library. She enjoys walking, gardening, painting, and curling up with a good book.

Robin has lived on Bainbridge Island for 18 years and has worked and volunteered for nonprofits her entire professional life. She has an English degree, as well as a Masters in adult education, and has been an instructor in Motheread/Fatheread, a national family literacy program. Her fulltime (i.e. paying) job is as program manager/registrar for the Center for Courage & Renewal. Robin’s passion is writing, and she has one unfinished middle-grade novel and numerous picture books in various stages of production. She is currently working on a series of essays dealing with grief, loss, and gratitude.

Becky grew up on Bainbridge Island, graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in journalism, and worked in daily and community newspapers for 25 years, during which time she wrote about everything from the Hillside Strangler to county fairs. She then jumped to the World Wide Web, witnessing the demise of four dot-coms in three years and amassing a box full of worthless stock options. After a four-year stint at Expedia.com, she quit the commute and the 20,000 hotel descriptions for the Marketing Department at Town & Country Markets Inc. Becky was the author of a long-running column, “Letters Home,” in the Bainbridge Review and Kitsap Sun Islander. She also raised two amazing daughters.

Wendy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.B.A. and a Doctorate of Jurisprudence. After living in Texas, California and Alaska, she came to Bainbridge Island and eventually began blogging in 2006. Her writings and photography have been published locally and online at her site, Let The Dog In!, as well as the Seattle P-I, Kitsap Sun, BlogHer, and Seattle Mom Blogs sites. She has several adult and children’s projects in progress, and her comedic one-act play was produced and performed at the Bainbridge Performing Arts’ Evening of New Works in spring 2011. Never far from an online connection, Wendy can be found blogging and tweeting (and occasionally helping her dog tweet). She also administers the Field’s End Facebook group and other social media communications.

Elsa is a native Washingtonian who loves getting to know the writers of Bainbridge Island. She graduated from Carleton College with a degree in classical languages, spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer with her husband in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, and now works at the West Sound Wildlife Shelter. Elsa is the author of Maid Marian (2004), forthcoming novels Dog Days (2012) and The Love Dog (2013), and a short story in the anthology Penumbra (2011). She has deep appreciation for the mission of Field’s End, creating a community for writers on Bainbridge.