Jenny Douglas
Aug01

Jenny Douglas

Jenny Douglas is the founder of The Brooklyn Cottage, an arts salon that champions creativity, generosity and unleashing–through storytelling evenings, meditation gatherings, cooking classes, artist receptions, and workshops of all kinds–our most unafraid selves in the presence of each other. A Canadian raised in Tokyo, Jenny traveled to India this past spring to co-produce The Untouchables, a documentary-in-progress...

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Kim Dower
Aug01

Kim Dower

Kim Dower grew up in New York City and received a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, where she also taught. Her company, Kim-from-L.A., Literary & Media Services, has been helping publishers and writers promote and publicize their books for over twenty-five years.  A media trainer as well, Kim helps her clients – from bestselling commercial fiction writers to literary fiction and non-fictions writers —  prepare...

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Patricia Dreyfus
Aug01

Patricia Dreyfus

Patricia Dreyfus is too old to be eulogized as so young and so gifted. Born in North Dakota, she grew up in Compton, California. Her mother was a Viking with their strength and organization, and her father had the discipline of his German father and the Irish fey of his mother. She inherited all of it with varying difficulties and benefits. She has traveled the world, speaks very poor Spanish and is married to her first and favorite...

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Andrea Ellickson
Aug01

Andrea Ellickson

Andrea Ellickson earned her B.A. in English Literature and Psychology from UC Santa Barbara. In 2009, her essay titled “Becoming a Burner” won the Fahrenheit 451 SBCC Student Symposium, sponsored by The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, she writes and interns for the Office of Letters and Light, a literary nonprofit that supports over 300,000 writers worldwide for National Novel Writing Month...

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Lisa Estus
Aug01

Lisa Estus

Lisa Estus is a fiction writer and poet. Her work appears in Puerto del Sol, Rain City Review, Reed Magazine and other literary journals. An entrepreneur from an early age, Estus has owned and operated a natural candle, soap and toiletries company,  marketing consulting practice, jewelry design business and snow shoveling service. She briefly considered starting a vintage hosiery e-business but opted instead to consolidate interests...

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