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

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.


Angela Cooper

Angela Cooper

ICW Treasurer

Angela can’t write, but she can spell.


Amber Bennett

Amber Bennett

ICW Board Member

Amber moved to Boise in 2010 when she fell in love with (in no particular order) the people, the foothills, and her husband. Since then, she’s spent her time collecting books, cats, and pithy stickers. She’s been writing since the third grade, when she wrote thirty pages in her double spaced notebook of an unfinished story. Even though finishing was required for a grade, the story remains unfinished. When she isn’t spending her time with her people, reading, or starting (and finishing) home improvement projects, Amber daylights as a Licensed Professional Counselor.


Tiffany Link

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

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.