a system of shorthand; several makers produced Gregg models, which typically have an enamel Gregg logo set into the top of the cap alf-Balance recently-coined term for Sheaffer pens with streamlined cap & flat-bottomed barrel, hybrids produced to get rid of old parts after the introduction of the streamlined "Balance"; often mistakenly called "transitional"

a frequent contributor to literary quarterlies, and has had her work featured in Ironwood