Kendra Bonnett uses her extensive marketing experience, writing talent and Internet know-how to help women, whether authors or entrepreneurs (there really isn't much difference), utilize 21st century technology to increase book sales and expand their businesses. She is the co-author of Rosie's Daughters: The "First Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story, has written more than 200 magazine articles, authored four books (The Everyone Can Build a Robot Book; ACT IT: Using Your Computer in School; The Creative Printmaster; an IBM Guide to Doing Business on the Internet), and ghostwritten two books for prominent business executives.
As a business executive, Bonnett has 20 years experience in direct marketing, public relations, and marketing communications for both international corporations and smaller, entrepreneurial firms. She co-founded Digit, one of the first computer magazines for children, and Profit: Information Technology for Entrepreneurs and Beyond Computing, a joint magazine publishing venture between IBM and The New York Times. Her websites: Rosie's Daughters and Women's Memoirs.
Currently teaching: Start Small Finish Big: From Memoir Vignette to Publication, Part 1 and Start Small Finish Big: From Memoir Vignette to Publication, Part 2
Matilda Butler teaches women's memoir writing classes with the goal of helping women tell their life stories whether for personal understanding, family and friends, business marketing, or commercial publication. Her collective memoir, Rosie's Daughters: The "First Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story, has just been awarded the 2008 IPPY National Book Award, women's issues category.
Butler taught and conducted research at Stanford University, created the nationwide Women's Educational Equity Communication Network, and co-founded Knowledge Access International, a software company specializing in CD-ROM information products. She has published more than 50 articles about women, contributed chapters to published books about women in education and work, co-authored the award-winning book Women and the Mass Media and co-edited the book Knowledge Utilization Systems in Education. Her websites: Women's Memoirs and Rosie's Daughters.
Currently teaching: Start Small Finish Big: From Memoir Vignette to Publication, Part 1 and Start Small Finish Big: From Memoir Vignette to Publication, Part 2
As a Therapeutic Writing Coach, Tina Games-Evans uses a variety of journaling methods designed to help writers work through life's challenges. Tina is a certified instructor of the Journal to the Self process, the Writing for Wellness curriculum and the Seasons of Change model, as well as a member of the Story Circle Network. She specializes in working with women who are facing major life transitions and who are challenged with the loss of personal identity. She lives in Alexandria VA with her husband and two young children. Her websites: Journaling Moms; Coach For Moms; Moonlight Moms; Journaling by the Moonlight.
Currently teaching: Journaling by the Moonlight: A Woman's Path to Self-Discovery
Katherine Misegades has been a website designer for ten years, an extension of her career as a graphic artist. She has set up blogs for many of her clients and helped them maintain their blogs through telephone consultation and email. She maintains four personal blogs, three on Wordpress and one on Google's Blogger (Blogspot).
Currently teaching: Begin Blogging
Erin Philbin has been a member of Story Circle Network for 10 years, contributing regularly to the Story Circle Journal. She has been a member of Story Circle Internet Chapter since its inception, and has been the facilitator for one of its writing circles for the past year. In her professional capacity, she is responsible for the supervision of graduate students learning to write professional documentation. She believes in using story telling to connect with others and is passionate about encouraging others to write their own stories.
Currently teaching: Finding Joy in the Details: Using the "Small" Stories to Tell the Large Stories of Your Life
Robin Reger published her first essay in her junior high school newspaper and progressed to feature articles in national magazines during her campus years. She's taught in major universities, minor colleges, and corporate seminars. Experienced in editing, marketing, and public relations, she's currently restoring a century-old farmhouse and writing about it in Archer City, Texas, home of eighteen hundred people, five hundred thousand books, and one stoplight.
Currently teaching: What to Keep: An Introduction to Memoir Writing
Amber Lea Starfire is the publisher and editor of The Writer's Eye Magazine, a freelance editor, writer, and photographer. She earned her M.A. from Stanford University in Education (the design and development of Educational Programs). She has developed a variety of courses for schools and businesses, from one-day to 12-week courses in business and/or system processes, Effective Business Writing, and Journaling for Self-Discovery. She has taught at Foothill Community College in Los Altos California, and has developed coursework and training programs for a variety of business clients.
Currently teaching: Journaling a Path Through the Chakras: A Unique Approach to Journaling for Self-Discovery and Personal Growth
Susan Tweit has written eleven books, all of which draw on nature and the land (several have won awards); and hundreds of feature articles, essays, and columns for newspapers and magazines. She has taught dozens of workshops at colleges and universities from coast to coast (University of California - Riverside to Wofford College, South Carolina), as well as at conferences organized by groups like Story Circle Network. She has coached tens of writers individually, by mail and online.
Currently teaching: Writing Wild! Using Nature and Place as Inspiration
An experienced journalist, personal historian, and past vice president of the Association of Personal Historians, Paula Stallings Yost believes passionately in the power of story. In 1999, she jettisoned a public relations/journalism career and life in the suburbs to found LifeSketches.a biography service in the piney woods of East Texas helping others preserve the real stories of people from all walks of life. Paula also served as a co-editor and contributing author for the SCN anthology, What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest, and has recently retired as co-editor of Story Circle Book Reviews. For more information, an interview published in the Story Circle Journal may be found here.
Currently teaching: Memory to Memoir, Part 1
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