About Elaine L. Orr
Elaine L. Orr has written, edited, and published for more than 30 years in business and
popular fields. Topics are as diverse as family caregving, how to distract yourself from
worry, family and local histories, social service programs, human resources, and
management of public sector organizations.
Fiction includes short stories, novellas, and novels. She has also written screenplays, and
her play, Permission to Hope, received a staged reading at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda,
Maryland.
Nonfiction book-length works includes Monett (Arcadia Publishing), Caring for Treasures:
Helping Your Parents Through Life and Death and Words to Write By: Putting Your Thoughts on
Paper. Caring for Treasures is out of print but Elaine is considering revising it. In 2011 she
published Orr, Campbell, Mitchell and Shirley Families: Descendants of Paul Orr and Isabelle
Boyd in Ireland and America.
A disciplined freelance writer and editor, Elaine’s work has appeared in Government
Executive, Public Administration Times, The Public Manager, and The Peace Institute Reporter.
She regularly submits to www.voices.yahoo.com.
Elaine has written or edited reports for such organizations as the National Academy of
Public Administration, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, CPS Human
Resources, and Women in Community Service. She was associate editor of The Public
Manager for 11 years, and has written for a variety of newsletters.
Elaine graduated from the University of Dayton with a BA in Political Science and from
the American University with an MA in Government. She has done journalism coursework
at the University of Maryland and taken many fiction courses from The Writer’s Center in
Bethesda, MD, Georgetown University’s Continuing Education Program, the University of
Iowa Summer Writing Program, and Midwest Writers Workshop.
She divides her time between writing/editing and other endeavors. Elaine moved from
the Washington metro area to Iowa in 1994. For years she traveled and telecommuted for a
range of clients. She then worked in Iowa for two members of Congress, Jim Leach and
Dave Loebsack. She is married to James Larkin, whom she met in Iowa. They now live in
Indiana and Elaine has retired from the federal government. She writes and edits full-time
and looks forward to becoming more involved in the community of Muncie, IN.
popular fields. Topics are as diverse as family caregving, how to distract yourself from
worry, family and local histories, social service programs, human resources, and
management of public sector organizations.
Fiction includes short stories, novellas, and novels. She has also written screenplays, and
her play, Permission to Hope, received a staged reading at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda,
Maryland.
Nonfiction book-length works includes Monett (Arcadia Publishing), Caring for Treasures:
Helping Your Parents Through Life and Death and Words to Write By: Putting Your Thoughts on
Paper. Caring for Treasures is out of print but Elaine is considering revising it. In 2011 she
published Orr, Campbell, Mitchell and Shirley Families: Descendants of Paul Orr and Isabelle
Boyd in Ireland and America.
A disciplined freelance writer and editor, Elaine’s work has appeared in Government
Executive, Public Administration Times, The Public Manager, and The Peace Institute Reporter.
She regularly submits to www.voices.yahoo.com.
Elaine has written or edited reports for such organizations as the National Academy of
Public Administration, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, CPS Human
Resources, and Women in Community Service. She was associate editor of The Public
Manager for 11 years, and has written for a variety of newsletters.
Elaine graduated from the University of Dayton with a BA in Political Science and from
the American University with an MA in Government. She has done journalism coursework
at the University of Maryland and taken many fiction courses from The Writer’s Center in
Bethesda, MD, Georgetown University’s Continuing Education Program, the University of
Iowa Summer Writing Program, and Midwest Writers Workshop.
She divides her time between writing/editing and other endeavors. Elaine moved from
the Washington metro area to Iowa in 1994. For years she traveled and telecommuted for a
range of clients. She then worked in Iowa for two members of Congress, Jim Leach and
Dave Loebsack. She is married to James Larkin, whom she met in Iowa. They now live in
Indiana and Elaine has retired from the federal government. She writes and edits full-time
and looks forward to becoming more involved in the community of Muncie, IN.
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Three of the books I publish are available for free lending via the Amazon Kindle
Select Program. This means if you are an Amazon Prime member you can borrow
them for free with no return date. (You don't need a Kindle.)
Biding Time
www.amazon.com/Biding-Time-ebook/dp/B004HB23XK/
Words to Write By
www.amazon.com/Words-Write-Putting-Thoughts-ebook/dp/B002UNN7GY/
Portrait Through Poetry, by Miles D. Orr, which features A Parent's Prayer.
www.amazon.com/Portrait-through-Poetry-ebook/dp/B004T5WAQY/
Select Program. This means if you are an Amazon Prime member you can borrow
them for free with no return date. (You don't need a Kindle.)
Biding Time
www.amazon.com/Biding-Time-ebook/dp/B004HB23XK/
Words to Write By
www.amazon.com/Words-Write-Putting-Thoughts-ebook/dp/B002UNN7GY/
Portrait Through Poetry, by Miles D. Orr, which features A Parent's Prayer.
www.amazon.com/Portrait-through-Poetry-ebook/dp/B004T5WAQY/
