George Miller - Author

Southern Maryland author and poet George Miller first served his country as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. His subsequent civilian career saw him engaged with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and later as a successful CEO of his own computer software company. He is the author of several works, including Wrap Your Ass in Fiberglass, a novel, The Bucklodge Flagstop and Other Poems, and The Best Free Verse Ten Dollars Can Buy.

He manages a small publishing company in Southern Maryland where he has facilitated books under several local imprints. In conjunction with Elisavietta Ritchie's Wineberry Press, he edited and produced PAX: An Anthology of Southern Maryland Poetry (the works of thirteen regional poets of the lower Western Shore of Maryland Chesapeake).

Recently his nautical poem, Flat Bottoms, God Bless'em, took first prize among several dozen entries  in the New Bay Books poetry contest.

Donald Grady Shomette is a nationally known maritime historian and for more than two decades a staff member of the Library of Congress. As a cultural resources consultant and marine archaeologist he has been engaged by myriad governments, universities and museums. As a researcher, writer and lecturer he has worked internationally under the sponsorships of the National Park Service, the National Geographic Society, the US Navy, and others. Author of eighteen books, and contributor to many professional journals, encyclopedias and anthologies of history, archaeology and poetry, his writings have also appeared in such publications as National Geographic, History and Technology, and Sea History. He is thrice winner of the prestigious John Lyman Book Award for Best American Maritime History, recipient of the Calvert Prize for historic preservation, and holds an honorary PhD from the University of Baltimore.