Elizabeth Silver
Sep30

Elizabeth Silver

Elizabeth L. Silver is the author of the novel, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, which was the Amazon Best Debut of the Month, an Amazon Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Summer, Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year, Oprah “Ten Books to Pick up Now,” and selection for the Target Emerging Author Series. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton has been optioned for film by ImageMovers Production Company (Robert Zemeckis)...

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Elisa Kay Sparks
Sep30

Elisa Kay Sparks

A teacher of literature (contemporary, modern British, and science fiction) and women’s studies for 35 years at Clemson University, Elisa Kay Sparks has published a series of articles on parks, gardens, and flowers in Virginia Woolf’s life and work as well as a number of pieces exploring connections between the works of Woolf and the American Modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe. She is also a printmaker, specializing in color-reduction...

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Lynne Southerland
Sep30

Lynne Southerland

After a long career as a producer and director of animated movies and television, Lynne Southerland felt a strange pull to write her own stories and began writing a novel. The gravity of the process gently sucked her in until now the primary focus of her life is her writing. In the never-ending process of expanding her skills, Lynne has participated in The Highlights Foundation Writers’ Workshop at Chautauqua and actively attends...

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Sep30

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a transmedia storyteller and journalist who believes story is the most important unit of social change. Growing up as a Tamil Dalit, she was driven to tell the stories of marginalized communities. This led to her founding the international media training organization Third World Majority. As a singer/director she fuses epic stories with complex visuals and melodies. Her films often explore interactivity,...

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Jennifer Steil
Sep30

Jennifer Steil

Jennifer Steil is an American writer, journalist, and actor currently living in La Paz, Bolivia. Her first book, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (Broadway Books 2010) is a memoir about her adventures as editor of the Yemen Observer newspaper in Sana’a. The book received accolades in The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Sydney Morning Herald, among other publications. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune chose it as one of their best travel...

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