Judith Speizer Crandell
I have recently lost my writing mentor and close friend, Suzanne Byerley. I am taking her spirit – along with those of Georgia O’Keeffe and Virginia Woolf – with me as inspiration for this conference. As for my background, I am a seasoned, award-winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. I’ve received a residency at Yaddo and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Recently, I won two Raymond Carver Short...
Teri Crane
Teri Crane lives and writes in her native California where she retired from a 35 year career in teaching, and also a career as a Marriage and Family therapist. Her 2010 MFA thesis, We Never Used the F Word, awaits publication. Teri’s current project is an historical novel about two women who come West on wagon trains in 1865. Teri continues to instruct teachers in online courses for LA County Office of Education. She counts...
Tracey Cravens-Gras
A life-long lover of the written word, I studied English at the University of Cincinnati, and graduated with honors from the Ohio State University in 1997. After a miraculous decade raising two kids, and a family relocation to the desert southwest, I began working for A Room of Her Own as Darlene Chandler Bassett’s personal assistant in 2008. Author of thousands of emails and the rare and wildly-scrawled thank you note, I savor the...
Nicelle Davis
Originally from Utah, Nicelle Davis now resides in Lancaster, California, with her son J.J. She has taught poetry at Youth for Positive Change, an organization that promotes success for youth in secondary schools, and with Volunteers of America in their Homeless Youth Center. She currently teaches at Antelope Valley College and for the Writing in the Schools Program. Her second book, Becoming Judas, is scheduled to be released from...
Lane Devereux
Lane Devereux: I am a memoirist who works in many different media, including words, images, and constructions. I have a passion for making anything from dessert to altered books, from plays to photographs. I am working on too many projects to probably to ever finish, but I am having a great time doing it all. I am currently completing a full length memoir about adopting and raising a special needs child while gravely ill myself. I...