Staff

William Buchheit graduated from the Spartanburg Day School in 1994 and received a Bachelors Degree in English from Rhodes College in 1998. After earning a Masters degree in American Literature at USC-Columbia, he began reporting for Spartanburg’s Hometown News weekly newspaper chain in 2001. He received the South Carolina Medical Association’s Print Journalism Award in 2005 and was named the 2011 Reporter of the Year by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). He lives in Greer.

A native of Greer, Julie Holcombe is a 1993 graduate of Greer High School and 1997 graduate of the University of South Carolina, Spartanburg with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. She has worked at The Greer Citizen for over 20 years as typesetter, graphic artist, and reporter. She has won multiple awards from the South Carolina Press Association for feature writing as well as editorial and advertising design. She is married to Scott Holcombe, a graduate of Blue Ridge High School and Greenville Technical College.

Macy has been a writer since she was a young teenager and often found her nose in books. She got her start as a news reporter at the world’s smallest daily newspaper while she was a student at North Greenville University. Now, she is a journalist by day, author of young adult romance by night. A lover of all things coffee, autumn, and baking, Macy can generally be found sipping a latte by the fire while cookies are in the oven.

Shayna is a third-generation newspaper family member.  Her grandfather sold advertising for newspapers across the South, her father was a newspaper publisher in Hopewell, Virginia; Union, South Carolina; Williamson, West Virginia and lastly he retired from Hometown News in Spartanburg.  Shayna is a graduate of USC Upstate with a degree in Nursing.  Ink is in her blood, so she decided to get back to her roots and is ready to show you how advertising works!