Joan Dobbie, President
Joan Dobbie has a 1988 MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, where she has been teaching yoga for 27 years. She writes & publishes poetry, life stories etc. As the new Emerald Literary Guild President, Joan co-hosted the River Road Reading Series (RRRS) for nine years and now co-hosts the Windfall Reading Series at the Eugene Public Library. Her poetry books include Woodstock Baby, A Novel in Poetry (The Unforgettables Press), The Language of Stone (Uttered Chaos Press), and Zenyatta/Joanna (Finishing Line Press). She has two well-grown children and six nearly grown grands. Find her at joanspoetry.blogspot.com
Erica Goss, VP & Treasurer
Erica Goss is the author of Landscape with Womb and Paradox (Broadstone Books, 2025), and Night Court. She has received numerous Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations, and a 2023 Best American Essay Notable. Publications include The Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Creative Nonfiction, and North Dakota Quarterly. Erica teaches, writes and edits the newsletter Sticks & Stones.
Andrew “Andy” Dobbie, Secretary
Andrew “Andy” Dobbie brings more than 20 years of consumer-goods leadership, sales, marketing, category management, and business operations experience to the Emerald Literary Guild. A lifelong reader since age eight, Andy built a personal collection of more than 4,000 books, with a special love for science fiction, fantasy, the written word, and storytelling. When he left the British Virgin Islands in 2016, he donated that collection to local schools, but never stopped reading. While he does not join the Guild as a writer, Andy serves as Secretary and supports the board by helping organize the business, administrative, and operational side of the nonprofit so it can grow more effective.