Nicelle Davis
Aug01

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...

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Lane Devereux
Aug01

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...

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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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