Elana Bell
Aug01

Elana Bell

Elana Bell was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 2011. Her first collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2012. Elana is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Drisha Institute. Her work has recently appeared in Harvard Review, CALYX Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, and Storyscape....

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Jayne Benjulian
Aug01

Jayne Benjulian

Jayne Benjulian is director of new play development at Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Before she began work in theater, Jayne was executive producer and creative leader at a number of Silicon Valley companies and chief speechwriter at Apple. She was Fulbright Lecturer in Language and Literature at the Université Lyon III in France and Danforth teaching fellow at Emory University, where she earned an M.A. in American and British...

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Amy Berkower
Aug01

Amy Berkower

President of Writers House LLC, Amy Berkower began her career as a literary agent in 1979 after graduating from University of California at Santa Cruz. She founded the company’s now thriving children’s book department and has developed a diverse client list including bestselling authors Nora Roberts, Ken Follett, Erica Jong, Sharon Creech, Laurie Anderson, Barbara Delinsky, Ann Martin, and Andrew Clements.  AROHO Advisory...

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Mary Rose Betten
Aug01

Mary Rose Betten

Mary Rose Betten—Poet, playwright, essaist, retired character actress of stage, screen, and television—three-time Clio award winner. Her plays are produced in New York, Hollywood and The National Theatre, London. Her  book of meditation drama: “People Of The Passion,” Sheed & Ward, 1985 is still being performed throughout the US. and used in meditation sevices by our troops in Iraq.  . Her first chapbook, “Hanging Out...

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Bridget Birdsall
Aug01

Bridget Birdsall

Mary Rose Betten—Poet, playwright, essaist, retired character actress of stage, screen, and television—three-time Clio award winner. Her plays are produced in New York, Hollywood and The National Theatre, London. Her  book of meditation drama: “People Of The Passion,” Sheed & Ward, 1985 is still being performed throughout the US. and used in meditation sevices by our troops in Iraq.  . Her first chapbook, “Hanging Out...

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