California Writers Club
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Jordan Bernal
President
Jordan Bernal joined CWC Tri-Valley Branch in January 2010.
She has volunteered in a variety of branch board positions, most notably as the president three different times. Jordan served as vice president of the CWC central board from 2024 to 2026. She is the international award-winning author of The Keepers of Éire, a dragon fantasy that encourages readers to let their imaginations take flight. Love of fantasy inspires her to write and publish through her independent press, Dragon Wing Publishing. In 2017, Jordan published a middle-grade, anti-bullying spin off novel, Reluctant Paladin. The second novel in her adult series, The Keepers of Alba, was published in 2020, and she is currently working on the third novel in her Celtic Dragonrider series. Follow Jordan at http://www.jordanbernal.com.
Email: president@calwriters.org
Crissi Langwell
Vice President
Crissi Langwell writes romance novels that tell stories of the heart.
She joined Redwood Writers in 2012 and has served as the club’s 2020 and 2021 anthologies editor, along with past vice president, secretary, newsletter editor, and social media manager. Currently, she is the club’s president and web editor. When she’s not writing or serving Redwood Writers, she’s working as Communications Director For Oakmont Village Association in Santa Rosa, or enjoying family life with her husband, Shawn, at home in Petaluma. CrissiLangwell.com
Email: vp@calwriters.org
Roger Lubeck
Immediate Past President
Roger C. Lubeck, PhD is the former president of the California Writers Club and the publisher of It Is What It Is Press.
Roger’s publications include: 14 novels, 2 business books, a book of poetry, short stories, poetry, and two performed short plays. Roger’s writing, poetry, art, and photography are on his blog: www.rogerinblue.com.
Email: cwcipp@calwriters.org
Evelyn LaTorre
Secretary
Evelyn served as the Fremont Area Writers first secretary when it was founded in 2009 and as treasurer of FAW for a year.
Evelyn served as the Fremont Area Writers first secretary when it was founded in 2009 and as treasurer of FAW for a year. For over a decade she has been the branch’s CWC and NorCal Rep.
Her memoirs, Between Inca Walls, about falling in love while serving in the Peace Corps, and Love in Any Language, about marrying someone from another culture, have won several awards. Evelyn holds a doctorate in Multicultural Education. She is retired from 32 years as a school psychologist and special education administrator. She and her husband have traveled to over 100 foreign countries and lived for a year in Italy.
Email: secretary@calwriters.org
Bernard Wozny
Treasurer
Bernard’s career as a software engineer, allowed him to specialize in digital TV.
His
career culminated as a consultant, whose clients included Sony, News Corp, OpenTV,
Virgin Media, Cisco, to name but a few.
Throughout his career, he mentored all those around him, from interns to management.
With this he gained respect and promotion.
As past president of the Sacramento branch, he always promoted the membership of
the club. He championed California Writer Week, and created the Sacramento Book
Festival. His aim is to promote fellow writers.
His knowledge of business provides Bernard with valuable insight to assist the
California Writers Club. His insight into accounting provides welcome knowledge as
treasurer.
His love of engineering inspired him to write science thrillers, where technology
challenges humanity and vice versa. He is also driven to write creative nonfiction, where
true stories are dramatized in words.
Bernard continues to uphold the values of the California Writers Club.,
Email: treasurer@calwriters.org
Sandy Moffett
Executive Member-at-Large
Sandy Moffett has been a poet and lyricist for more than 50 years.
She has been an inspirational speaker for women’s groups and used her personal life experiences and history as a third- generation funeral owner to help those who are grieving. Sandy’s tales as a funeral singer have
appeared in, Mortuary Management and International Mortuary and Cemetery Management. She is the author of Dear Ones, a collection of poetry and prose and has had stories published in Cup of Comfort: Devotional for Mothers and Daughters and Chicken Soup for the Soul Angels Among Us and Christmas is in the Air. She is a mother of four, grandmother of 14 and lives with her husband, Greg in Bakersfield, California.
Committee Leaders
Sandy Moffett
Membership Chair
Sandy Moffett has been a poet and lyricist for more than 50 years.
She has been an inspirational speaker for women’s groups and used her personal life experiences and history as a third- generation funeral owner to help those who are grieving. Sandy’s tales as a funeral singer have appeared in, Mortuary Management and International Mortuary and Cemetery Management. She is the author of Dear Ones, a collection of poetry and prose and has had stories published in Cup of Comfort: Devotional for Mothers and Daughters and Chicken Soup for the Soul Angels Among Us and Christmas is in the Air. She is a mother of four, grandmother of 14 and lives with her husband, Greg in Bakersfield, California.
Email: membership@calwriters.org
Roger Lubeck
Member Records Management
Roger C. Lubeck, PhD is president of the California Writers Club and the publisher of It Is What It Is Press.
Roger’s publications include: 14 novels, 2 business books, a book of poetry, short stories, poetry, and two performed short plays. Roger’s writing, poetry, art, and photography are on his blog: www.rogerinblue.com.
Email: mrms@calwriters.org
Susan Owens
Bulletin Editor
Susan Marquez Owen is the former newsletter editor for the Sacramento branch of the California Writer’s Club.
A granddaughter of Mexican migrant farm workers and great-granddaughter of Welsh coal miners, education was key to her life trajectory. After graduating from high school with highest honors, she won a full scholarship to Stanford University. There she earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a master’s degree in English and American Literature with an emphasis on poetry. Susan worked as a developmental editor for Addison-Wesley Publishing Conmpany. She also worked as an award-winning news reporter and foreign service correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Oakland Tribune. Now retired, she writes poetry and short stories, and is beginning her first novel.
Email: editor@calwriters.org
Donna McCrohan Rosenthal
Historian
Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, a Past President of the CWC, has written books for six major publishing houses and articles for national magazines and California newspapers.
She has appeared on A&E Biography and Oprah, her speaking engagements have
included the Smithsonian Institution, and she represented the international service
organization Pilot International at the United Nations.
Email: cwcdonna@iwvisp.com