Chapter Officers & History
2012 Board of Directors
President: Brinda Berry
Vice President: Elle James
Program Director: Voirey Linger
Treasurer: Cynthia D'Alba
Secretary: Nena Clements
Membership: Cynthia D'Alba
Communications: Merlyssa Cormack
Webmistress: Elle James
Past
President: Delilah Devlin
If you're interested in joining or learning more about DSRA,
please contact Brinda Berry

DSRA History
April 15, 2006, five Arkansas
Romance Writers of America (and another 3 in spirit) met and formed
the Diamond State Romance Authors (DSRA). Three more meetings followed,
all open to interested RWA members and RWA member-gonnabes, in which
we discussed and decided upon things such as chapter goals, bylaws,
and basic policies and procedures.
After the formation meetings,
Diamond State Romance Authors was ready to roll. We had adopted
a set of bylaws, we were in the process of filing for Federal tax-exempt
status with the IRS, we were incorporating as a non-profit organization
within the State of Arkansas and we had grown to 24 members, many of
whom were already published Romance novelists.

This is who we were when we began:
CHARTER MEMBERS
Anna J. Evans
Elle James
Myla Jackson
Shayla Kersten
Julie Linker
Cynthia D'Alba
Robin Miller
Sherice Smith
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Anna J. Evans
Elle James
Myla Jackson
Shayla Kersten
Robin Miller
Cynthia D'Abla
Sherice Smith
Sharon Vanetta
Mary Ann Webber
Presidents
2006-Cynthia D'Alba
2007-Shayla Kersten
2008-Ellen
Cooley
2009-Shada
Royce
2010-Sandra Jones
2011-Delilah Devlin
2012-Brinda Berry
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