In 1987 when I invited a group of women to the Wintergreen Resort nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains to welcome Nikki Giovanni to Virginia, I could not have known that we would become the Wintergreen Women Writers’ Collective, a gathering of writers who gain strength and direction from communion with one another. Joanne Gabbin
A haven. Where we cheer each other on. Not my mother’s friends, for sure, but riding the night winds, our hearts skip across the clouds, coming to the rest on a distant star called possibility; we arrive at Wintergreen. Good for us.
Nikki Giovanni
