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: Writing Alchemy: Quick-Start Method
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: Writing Alchemy: Quick-Start Method
Dawn Espelage is the author of Life Lines: Celebrate Your Journey. She is a Certified Journal Instructor through The Center of Journal Therapy and has worked in the social work field for 13 years. She has written two journal-writing workbooks, Life Lines: Celebrate Your Journey and Celebrate Your Journey: Monthly Planner and Journal Companion. She has previously taught online for SCN. Visit her website.
Currently teaching: Celebrate Your Journey
Tina Games is a freelance writer, creativity and life purpose coach, and journaling workshop facilitator for women who are challenged by issues related to the loss of personal identity and who desire a more authentic life, filled with purpose, passion and creative expression. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and their two children. Visit her website or her blog.
Currently teaching: Gratitude Journaling: Being Thankful for Everyday Gifts
B. Lynn Goodwin is a freelance writer, editor, teacher, former caregiver, and the author of i>You Want Me To Do What?: Journaling for Caregivers (Tate Publishing). She is published in Voices of Caregivers; Hip Mama; the Oakland Tribune; the Contra Costa Times; the Danville Weekly; Staying Sane When You.re Dieting; Small Press Review; Dramatics Magazine; Career, We Care, Caregiving, and Self-Care NCDA Monograph; Families of Loved Ones Magazine; The Sun Magazine (May, 2010) and numerous e-zines. She facilitates journaling workshops and publishes Writer Advice.
Currently teaching: Writing to Heal
Born in Minnesota to a Mexican Mother and German American father, Lorraine Mejia-Green became a marathon runner, flamenco dancer, artist, editor, librarian, educator, poet, author, and storyteller. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a MLS in Youth Librarianship. Lorraine Mejia-Green's poems have won several awards, and have appeared in anthologies such as Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets of the Midwest and in literary journals including Willow Springs, Inkwell, and Calyx. She has taught poetry classes to children, teens, and adults all around the country.
Currently teaching: The Wonderful, Awful Stories She Had to Tell: Telling Stories Through Poetry & Dear Mother
A Canadian, A. Mary Murphy is a lifelong writer whose doctoral work was in life writing. Her group biography of her mother's family, Pierce: Six Prairie Lives, is forthcoming from Temeron Press. Her poetry collection, Shattered Fanatics, was published by BuschekBooks in 2007. Mary teaches post-secondary classes in literature and film, leads field schools to Ireland, and has a freelance writing, editing, and mentoring business, Writing Life.
Currently teaching: Introduction to Writing Family History
Donna Remmert has led dream interpretation workshops since 1980 and writing circles since 2001. Her background in dream study includes a year of training to become a lay dream teacher under Monteque Ullman, former head of the Maimonides Dream Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York; several years of workshop participation at Jungian centers in New York City, Houston and Austin; two years of participation in a study group dedicated to reading the collected works of Carl Jung, led by Jungian analyst Charles Dominey; workshop participation in Dream Tending, led by Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D. and president of Pacifica Institute; and workshop participation in a dream seminar led by Jeremy Taylor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Currently teaching: Nighttime Illuminations
Amber Starfire is Publisher & Editor of The Writer's Eye Magazine, freelance editor, writer, & photographer. She earned her Masters degree at Stanford University and has taught at community colleges and businesses for twenty years.
Currently teaching: How to Revise and Edit Your Writing Part 1: The Big Picture; How to Revise and Edit Your Writing Part 2: Polishing Your Story; Finding Your Voice, Part I; & Finding Your Voice, Part II
Sarah White has been teaching reminiscence writing to small groups in Madison, Wisconsin since 2004. She began teaching online for Story Circle Network in 2009. In her online groups she strives to preserve the sense of community created in her face-to-face classes. A published author of several business how-to books, Sarah's entered the memoir genre in 2008 with the publication of "The Plunge" in My Words Are Gonna Linger, an anthology from Personal History Press. Some of her travel memoirs have been published on Star Thrower, an online project dedicated to autobiographical narrative and funded by the Indiana Humanities Council. For more about Sarah, explore her website.
Currently teaching: Write Your Travel Memoirs
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