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Barbara Babcock
Barbara, an Emmy-award winning actress, divides her time between acting and writing fiction.
Karen Blomain
Karen has received two PEN USA Syndicated Fiction Prizes, numerous fellowships and residencies. She has published four volumes of poetry and has edited an anthology of regional poetry. Her novel, A Trick of Light, is currently in development for Barbra Streisand’s Barwood Films.
Angela Churm
This web site features one of Angela's projects, the BBC's "Cleaners, the "World's First Online Team-written Sitcom."
Anna Claybourne
"I'm a freelance children's writer and editor, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. At this site, you can find out about me and my books, check my schedule, and find some useful links to publishers I work for, other freelancers, and sites I like. If you're a reader who wants to write to me, or a commissioning editor looking for a writer or editor, please contact me at anna@annaclaybourne.co.uk "
Billy Collins
While U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001-2003, Billy Collins created Poetry 180 to help make poetry an important part of the daily lives of high school students. "Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed. Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year. I have selected the poems you will find here with high school students in mind. They are intended to be listened to, and I suggest that all members of the school community be included as readers."
Carolyn Cohagan
New York comedienne, performer and writer, who has entertained audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
Blair Hull Curtwright
The web site for Congregational Church in Deerfield (Illinois) United Church of Christ for which Blair is pastor.
Susan DeBow
I'm a writer who loves her work and enjoys talking shop with other writers. I also conduct workshops and "mentor" novice writers.
Michael Downend AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS
"I had my first assignment as a photojournalist when I was fifteen. The editor of The Dallas Post knew of my interest in photography and writing; he said, "C'mon in kid. Let's see what you can do." He sent me off to do a piece on the drover and spring lambs at a large farm in my hometown. When I turned it in, he took a look at it, said he liked the photos, wouldn't have to change a word in the piece, paid me fifteen bucks and sent me off into a world in which I've been at it ever since. With photography somewhat in hand, I went on to study writing for the visual media: television and theatre; my work has been produced in both. Along the way, I gathered some acting skills. That felicitous combination of the visual with the word has taken me through a career that found me working across these crafts. My photography has been published in various forms, e.g., a number of book covers and stills for my documentary work, has won a number of prizes, has been featured in shows, and is in permanent collections including that of the late actor and playwright, Jason Miller. I’ve written plays and television scripts; I've had acting roles ranging from the soaps, plays and movies with some notoriety in the latter. I played the scientist, Jorn [who eventually becomes a deep-fried avocado] in the world's worst science fiction film, The Robot Holocaust. Keeping it all in perspective for me is my beloved wife, the novelist and poet, Karen Blomain.
Peter H. Fogtdal
Danish novelist. 47 years old with a body of a 46-year-old. Nine novels published in Denmark. Three of them best sellers. One novel published in French (Fall 2004). Website in Danish and English.
David Gardiner
A writer's home page containing a large number of short stories, film reviews and other writing, one novel ("SIRAT" which is a sci-fi story), voice files of stories and songs in streaming MP3 format, as well personal material and links to purchase the author's published material and to sites of particular interest to writers. Also jokes, recipes and general madness. Come early and take a pack lunch. (it's big!)
Jan Goldstein
Jan is a nationally honored educator, an ordained rabbi, a playwright, published poet and screenwriter who was introduced to music as a child by Maria von Trapp. He serves the Shofar Synagogue for the Performing Arts in Hollywood where he has addressed thousands over the years from the stage of the Director’s Guild of America. Jan’s passion and enthusiasm are infectious. He founded Artists for Understanding as a response to the LA riots following the Rodney King verdict, and has led young adults in ongoing workshops using theater to foster understanding between races and cultures.
Claudia Harris
A professfor of English and theatre critic, Claudia also writes and directs plays. Tania Hershman
A science and technology journalist from Israel, Tania is taking time to do an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University College in Bristol, England and is working on a collection of short stories. Betty Hockett
A writer, teacher, and speaker, Betty has written 15 non-fiction books, many stories, articles, Christian education curricula, devotionals, book reviews, and several video scripts, including a documentary for which she received a local award. She teaches writing to adults, and speaks to women's groups, as well as elementary school children. Along with her husband of 52 years, Betty has traveled to Great Britain, Kenya, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Hungary, Argentina, and Paraguay. She did extensive research for her book, Come What May, while in Honduras. At Anam Cara for a week in September 2000, Betty began working on her memoir, Imagine That! A Book of Remembrance. She and her husband, Gene, live in Newberg, Oregon.
Charles Huschle
A poet and an English teacher, Charles is also a yoga instructor.
Jerrie Hurd
The stories we tell ourselves shape who we are and what we expect from our lives. Think of the generations of little girls who've grown up on Cinderella. I grew up on a ranch that had been run by four generations of women. When my grandmother told me that story, she always added a twist.
Ann Jennings
The Anna foundation is dedicated to the celebration of Anna Caroline Jennings' life through exhibiting her incredible art work as well as using her life experience to educate others on the epidemic of childhood sexual abuse and its horrific effects on the individual and society. Ann is now Dr. Ann Jennings and works professionally in the field of sex abuse trauma prevention and recovery.
Jennifer Hill Kaucher
"Wordpainting runs workshops for poets of all ages and levels and residencies for schools and organizations in Pennsylvania. Since 1998, we have worked toward a blend of literature and design through writing, teaching creative writing workshops and designing and publishing books through our division Paper Kite Press. Recent and upcoming releases with Paper Kite Press include: Part of a Geography by John E. McGuigan, Spinning with the Tornado by Andrea Jade Talarico and Zoo Haiku by Michael Czarnecki. We focus on book design, the written word and the promotion of poets."
Ginny Keegan
Director of the Contemplative Writing Center, Ginny is a Certified Teacher of the Metcalf-Simon Practice of Proprioceptive Writing. In 1995 after a breast cancer diagnosis, she co-founded Cancer and Creativity Workshops, which received a grant from the Maine Women's fund to be presented to underserved women in rural Maine. Today she teaches privately and leads workshops at retreat centers, schools and hospitals in New England, Canada and Ireland. She sits on the Board of the Proprioceptive Writing Center in New York City, the Irish Heritage Center in Portland and the Maine Scholar - University of Southern Maine. Ginny is a long-time student of Buddhist meditation and an ordained lay member of the Order of Interbeing founded by Vietnamese Buddhist poet and teacher, the Ven Thich NHat Hanh.
Linda Hoffman Kimball
Linda Hoffman Kimball is a columnist for Beliefnet.com. She graduated from Wellesley College with an MFA from Boston University. She is the author of Home to Roost and the editor of the book Saints Well Seasoned.
Carol Lem
Carol Lem teaches creative writing, composition, and literature at East Los Angeles College and has published poems in several well-respected literary journals as well as eight books of poetry. Anne Lister
Writing songs and singing them, bridging past and present, telling stories in the songs that draw modern parallels from ancient myths, Anne Lister "sings the land awake." Cauvery Madhavan
Cauvery was born and educated in India. As an army officer’s daughter she attended ten schools, always run by nuns, and retains an abiding horror of needlework. She graduated with a First in Economics from Stella Maris College, University of Madras and then worked in a variety of marketing jobs. She got her first taste of writing whilst working at an ad agency. She moved to Ireland with her husband Prakash, a newly qualified doctor, in 1987 arriving on St. Valentine’s Day. Despite the Irish weather she has been in love with the country ever since. A keen cook, she now lives with her husband and three children in County Kildare. She has published two novels, Paddy Indian and The Uncoupling, and is working on her third, a story about the Connaught Rangers in India.
Barbara J. McGrath’s
Barbara J. McGrath’s poetry and reviews have appeared in numerous literary publications. Her article on Anam Cara appears in /Poets & Writers /(Mar/Apr ’03). [See "In the News, Anam Cara" section.] She has won several first place poetry awards, including a choreographed live performance of her poem “The Hag of Beara,” and a limited edition broadside of her poem “Shift,” designed and printed by Oneiros Press. A native of California, she is an associate professor of English in New Mexico.
Jack McGuigan
A poet, Jack also teaches workshops with Jennifer Hill Kaucher for Wordpainting, including one at Anam Cara and for Pennsylvania educational institutions.
Sheila Ortiz-Taylor
Sheila Ortiz-Taylor is a critically acclaimed Chicana novelist, poet and lecturer, and winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award (1997). She says of her upbringing: "Daughters of a tap dancer and a yo-yo painter, my sister and I were sitting ducks for the muses, who handed her a paint set and me three yellow pencils." Ortiz-Taylor is Professor of English at Florida State University where she also has served as Director of Women's Studies. She has received numerous awards for her work.
Celia Purcell
Celia, director of the gallery Celia Purcell Contemporary in North London, also writes novels and short stories.
Kim Richardson
Kim is a much-published haiku poet; he has edited a book of translations from Rumi, Gardens of the Beloved, which was published in November 2003.
Laura Riddell
A healer, writer, and artist as well as a business person, wife, mother and friend, Laura launched a vibrating head massager called a HeeBeeGeeBee onto the worldwide market as well as products like the Pearls of Wisdom Insight cards and Handheld Labyrinths. The HeeBeeGeeBee is for the Body, the other two for the Soul. She is now working on the product for the Mind, a book. She also runs a consulting company that works with Women Groups and Women in Small Business, mentoring and guiding them through their challenges. Somehow she finds time to write "especially when I am at Anam Cara" as well as time to just sit — meditating and appreciating nature.
Celeste Snowber
Celeste is currently working on a book combining her poetry and art.
R.J. Stewart
Robert John (R.J.) Stewart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father came from a Gaelic-speaking family originally from the Western Highlands. His mother was Welsh, from a Welsh- speaking family from the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, with a tradition of singing and playing the Welsh triple-harp. He is known today as a composer, author, and teacher, with 40 books in publication, translated into many languages worldwide. He is widely experienced in theater, film, and television, and is a skilled performer and presenter.
Russell Tomlin
A linguistics professor, Russ focuses his creative writing on the personal essay.
Iris Lee Underwood
"I am a freelance writer based in north Oakland County, Michigan. My bylines include a weekly column under the flag Encouraging Words in the Oxford Leader from 1994-1998, and hundreds of profiles/feature articles in various newspapers. When I’m not writing, I most enjoy my writing workshops where people of like mind explore the marvelous in the mundane and the outstanding in the ordinary in Writing Your Legacy, a personal journal workshop, and various creative writing workshop types."
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