Diane Dombrowski, Ph.D. (Co-Curator of Halloween Salon) has been teaching high school and college English for over 25 years.  Her area of interest is American literature, with a focus on Poe, Fitzgerald, Douglass, Hawthorne, Alexie, Kidd, and Hemingway.  She also teaches creative writing, writes poetry, and contributes to several blogs.  Diane’s dissertation concentrated on the shared experiences of former high school students taking a creative writing course.