Ginger B. Collins - Writer, Sailor, Lover of Life

In the US.............1485 Jordan Road - Powder Springs, GA 30127 - Phone: 770-424-0757
In Canada............1533 Orangedale-Iona Rd - Orangedale, NS B0E2K0 - Phone:902-756-3527

E-mail: Gingerb@gingerbcollins.com Website: www.gingerbcollins.com
.........About Ginger...........

Ginger B. (Barbara) Collins began her writing career as a high school student in Huntington, West Virginia. Covering basketball games for the school paper and writing ad copy and press releases for a local dress shop gave her that first thrill of seeing her name in print. A career in sales, marketing, and public relations followed, spanning over 25 years and taking her from West Virginia to Columbus, Ohio, and on to Philadelphia, before her move to Atlanta in 1993.

Ginger and her husband Melvin took up sailing in 1994. They have sailed the Chesapeake Bay and coastal waters of the southeastern states, and cruised the Alaskan shoreline, Caribbean islands, and the Dutch Isslemeer. She now describes herself as a “liveaboard-in-training,” and is looking forward to long stretches of sailing time from a new retirement homebase on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

She is the past Vice President & Program Chair for the Atlanta Writers Club, and a member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia .

Ginger's short stories have been selected for publication by LunchHour Stories Literary Journal, and the Silver Boomers Anthology. Her personal essay, REASON TO BELIEVE will be included in the "Voices of . . ." Anthology due for publication in early 2008 published by LaChance Publishing. Her creative non-fiction has been published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Cincinnati Inquirer, Cruising World Magazine, and Living Aboard Magazine. She has also contributed to Reunions Magazine and Real Simple.

Click here for Living Aboard story

Click here for Cruising World story

......................Click here for more Published Works

First Mate Ginger exhibits her fishing prowess in the August issue of Latitudes & Attitudes.