Angelique Palmer
Angelique Palmer is a writer, teacher and performer from Miami by way of New Orleans; she now calls Northern Virginia home. A Creative Writing graduate from Florida State University, she found slam poetry through Will “Da Real One” Bell and was born and raised on the Literary Café and Poetry Lounge stage, becoming a “Café Baby.” As an Elementary School Creative Writing Instructor at the American Poetry Museum in Washington, DC, she...
Alicia Payne
Alicia Payne is a professional actor and published writer whose credits encompass theatre, film, television and radio. She’s also a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African American Music. Her professional memberships include ACTRA, CAEA, Dramatists Guild of America and Playwrights Guild of Canada. As a professional simulator, she provides feedback to learners in corporate settings through PlaysthatWork. As an artist educator, she...
Anne Pedersen
During her life, Anne Pedersen has been: a film editor; camerawoman; documentary film producer and writer; journalist; and development executive for a major Hollywood studio. She is also the author of several books for children and young adults, one of which, Kidding Around Washington, D.C., won the Benjamin Franklin Award of Publishers Marketing Association in 1990. Presently, she is working on a collection of short fiction (for...
Marsha Pincus
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus is a post mid-life, post-career woman writing for her life. After more than three decades of teaching in a public high school and at the University of Pennsylvania, Marsha retired in 2011 to write full time. A Carnegie Fellow and Philadelphia Teacher of the Year in 1989 and 2005, she’s published essays on teaching in several anthologies. Four of Marsha’s playwriting students had their plays produced...
Deborah Polikoff
Deborah Polikoff played a piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony as a teenager, was awarded the Radcliffe Poetry Prize in her twenties, and co-founded a community arts center in Silver City, NM, in her thirties. In her forties, she became Eve Kodiak – mother, practitioner specializing in developmental movement and personal growth, writer and composer for children, and improvisational recording artist with cellist David...
