Board Members
Below is a list of the current volunteer Board Members. You can find the Board Meeting Minutes on our Google Drive. Contact us if you are interested in becoming a Committee Head or sitting in a Board Meeting.
Lisa Hess
ICW Secretary
Lisa is a women’s fiction, YA fiction, and non-fiction author and blogger, journalist, non-profit consultant, mentor, homeschooling mom, dog-lover and bookpusher, both those you buy and those you borrow. In addition to Idaho, she’s lived in every state along the Pacific Coast and loved the people in all of them. She finds humans fascinating, and her writing tends to reflect that, along with an evolving faith in God and hope for humanity. You can read about Lisa’s ICW odyssey in Writerly Wednesdays, here.
Tammy Murray
Treasurer
Tammy brings a unique blend of personal story and ministry experience. She writes from tender, soul-deep places, desiring to honor God. Her narrative nonfiction has been published in several national and local magazines. Tammy lives in Boise, where she enjoys trekking trails, hosting dinners, thrift shopping, coffee with friends, and reading.
Paul Regnier
ICW Board Member
Paul Regnier is a speculative fiction author. He believes one of the closest things to magic on this earth is imagination. His favorite type of story is filled with adventure, humor, and heartfelt moments between characters. He likes to dream up worlds of fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and the supernatural. Sometimes they end up in a book.
Paul is the writer of The Most Dangerous Pet Shop, The Agency of Magic and Mythical Creatures, Monster Therapist, Bard Tidings, the Luke and Bandit cozy mystery series, the Paranormia series, and the Space Drifters series.
Paul lives in Treasure Valley, Idaho, with his wife and two children.
Tiffany Link
ICW Vice President
Tiffany has always been enraptured with stories. A voracious reader since childhood, she eventually found her own brand of storytelling through the performing arts. After coming to faith, her focus shifted primarily to raising her family and unwrapping the layers of God’s story. She returned to school at the age of 50 to pursue a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and she is a current student at Drexel University, working on a Master of Fine Arts. She is a published nonfiction writer and journalist and is currently in the final phase of writing her first novel. You can find her on Substack at Letters and Literature.
Hilarey Johnson
ICW President
Hilarey has published six novels and several audiobooks. She has dabbled in writing for newspapers, magazines, blogs and ghostwriting. Hilarey previously served on the IdaHope Writers Board before the ICW relaunch. She loves paddleboarding, swimming and hiking with friends or family. Hilarey favors women’s literary fiction, but appreciates any story with irony, poetic justice or disruption of dogma.