Authors' Biographies

International Guild of Knot Tyers

Marj Shook.jpgMarje is a straw artist, working primarily with wheat, creating corn dollies, straw marquetry and straw jewelry items. She works and volunteers for the Madison Historical Society, as well as being a maple syrup producer with her husband Ed. They reside on a small family farm in the heart of the snow belt in NE Ohio. Marje describes herself as the official ‘unofficial’ secretary and gopher for the Earl Hensel NE Ohio Chapter of the IGKT.