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- Chris Benevich — Panache Writing, Inc. www.panachewriting.com
- Terra Brockmann — founder of The Land Connection
(see www.thelandconnection.org);
speaker on food and farm topics; regular contributor to Mindful Metropolis,
Edible Chicago, and Zester Daily; author of The Seasons on Henry’s
Farm, nominated for the 2010 James Beard Award in Literature. www.TerraBrockman.com
- Jotham Burrello — novelist; instructor at
Columbia College-Chicago; creator of Submit! and So, Is it
Done Yet? writing DVDs. See Elephant
Rock Productions.
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- Lisa Chalem — Visit her blog Feel the Love.
Eat the Food. at ferniegirlfood.blogspot.com
- Suzanne Clores — writer/lecturer. www.SuzanneClores.com
- Christine Cupaiuolo — Writes about gender, politics,
culture and digital media and edits print and online publications. She is
the managing editor of the 40th anniversary edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves
(Simon & Schuster, 2011). She also consults for nonprofit organizations,
helping to bridge content and technology. www.christine2.com.
- Meg Cox — freelance editor and writer.
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- Dina Elenbogen — Award-winning poet and prose writer
whose work has been published widely in magazines and anthologies. Author
of the poetry collection Apples of the Earth and a book-length
memoir about her work with Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. Teaches creative
writing at the University of Chicago Graham School. Contact www.dinaelenbogen.com.
- Julie Englander
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- Andrea Friedmann — Fiction writer; Spanish interpreter
and ATA certified translator. Services include consecutive, simultaneous,
and escort interpreting; proofreading and editing of Spanish texts; narrations
and voice-overs; script translation; and transcriptions. (Andrea is also
a Reiki Master Teacher and offers Reiki sessions and classes on an ongoing
basis.) Contact Andrea at andrea<at>vibrationsreikitouch<dot>com
and visit her blog www.reflectionsfromtrueself.wordpress.com
and website www.vibrationsreikitouch.com
for more info about her work.
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- Maggie Kast — Author of The Crack between the
Worlds: a dancer’s memoir of loss, faith and family; fiction
writer and essayist. Publications include The Sun, Nimrod, Rosebud,
Paper Street, The Writer's Chronicle, Image, and others. Excerpts of
her memoir have appeared in America, Image, and ACM (Another
Chicago Magazine). The latter received a Pushcart nomination and a
Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council.
- Georgette Kelly
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- Dika Lam
- Kristin LaTour — published poet, active in Chicago's
open-mic scene. Her work has appeared in the journals Fifth Wednesday,
After Hours, Pearl, and Rambunctious Review, as well as online
at New Verse News and La Fovea. She has a chapbook of
dramatic monologues titled Town Limits: Red Beaver Lake, Minnesota
(Pudding House Press) and another titled Blood (Naked Mannequin
Press). See www.kristinlatour.com.
- Lisbeth Levine — Author of The
Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day (Workman Publishing,
2008); an award-winning journalist and contributing editor at In Style
magazine, her work also has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago
Tribune, Newsday, Brides, Seventeen, and Chicago magazine.
- John Lordan
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- B. E. Pinkham — Freelance writer, memoirist, essayist,
and short story writer. Her work has appeared in Brain, Child
magazine and in the anthology Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on
Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum.
- Aaron Pitluck
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- Don Seiden — Writer, artist, and art mentor. Author
of Mind Over Matter, Artobiography, and co-author with
Amy Davis of the forthcoming Art Works: How Making Art Illuminates Your
Life. www.DonSeiden.com
- Jackie Seiden
- Craig Seymour
- Alex Shakar — www.AlexShakar.com
- William Shunn — Science fiction writer and memoirist.
Short fiction credits include Salon, Storyteller, Asimov’s Science
Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy. Nominated for Hugo, Nebula,
and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards. Horror novel Cast a Cold Eye
(with Derryl Murphy). Co-producer and co-host (with Sara Ross) of the Tuesday
Funk Reading Series in Chicago. For stories and podcasts, visit www.shunn.net.
- Karen Skalitzky — writer, speaker, and spiritual
director. Author of A Recipe for Hope: Stories of Transformation by
People Struggling with Homelessness (ACTA Publications, 2006). See
www.arecipeforhope.com.
- Jerry Soverinsky — award-winning journalist, writer,
and author. www.JerrySoverinksy.com
- Esther Spodek — edited In Our Voices,
a collection of Holocaust survivor memoirs, published by the Illinois Holocaust
Museum. Taught the Survivor Writers' Workshop at the Illinois Holocaust
Museum, 2007-2009.
- Marianna Swallow — author, speaker, and facilitator.
www.mariannaswallow.com.
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- Laura Tiebert — Travel writer, fiction writer,
& author of Frommer's Chicago with Kids, Frommer's Chicago
Day by Day, and Chicago for Dummies. Has ghostwritten or contributed
to eight other [...for] Dummies books, as well. Currently, the
Midwest Family Travel Editor for Away.com.
Recently completed her first novel and is at work on another.
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- Karan Uhlmann — graduated in June 2010 from the
Bennington MFA program in fiction, and has had short stories published in
the Southern Indiana Review, The Bennington Review, Phantasmagoria,
and other small literary magazines
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September 5, 2011
