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Jeanne Sirotkin – The First Two Thirds, or How Jeanne Finally Unpacked Her Bags and Settled Down
It was the sixties. After briefly attending Eastern Michigan, Wayne State and Wilmington College in Ohio, Jeanne hopped in a car one summer (an Austin America that only ran in dry weather) and moved to San Francisco. During the next eight years, ...
Caitlin Doyle – a poet compelled to uncover the strangeness that lives within the seemingly ordinary.
Caitlin Doyle's poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, and many others. Her poems have also been published in several anthologies, including The Best Emerging Poets of 2013, Best New ...
Jake Smith – dog lover, editor, and a committed writer who never let a rejection letter get him down.
In high school, Jake Smith gave up the dream to play Major League Baseball when he realized he wasn’t fast enough. His new dream immediately became: published novelist. It took quite a long time, but that dream finally came true with Wish, ...
The National Writers Series is launching a recurring online column entitled Writers on Writing. The column will feature professional and working authors talking about the craft of writing. Our good friend, writer Michael Delp, is the first author featured in this column. He will offer up recurring gems of advice for writers, both established ...
Ross Richardson – deputy, diver, and discoverer.
AUTHOR AND SHIPWRECK HUNTER Ross Richardson is often thought of as the underwater Indiana Jones of the Great Lakes Region. In 2010 he discovered the wreck of the treasure ship Westmoreland in Lake Michigan, which is considered one of the most sought after shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. He has ...
Kate Bassett – a Scrabble addict, reader, writer and part-time black thumb gardener who also admits to being a reformed vagabond and a ski/baseball/soccer/cross country runner mom who is (mostly) happy to be on the sidelines.
Kate’s debut Young Adult novel is Words and Their Meanings. She went to many colleges and studied many things before ...
Roberta F. King – an author who wrote her first epic tale in third grade, is working on her first novel for middle schoolers and just might be Jim Harrison’s number one fan.
King works as the Vice President of PR & Marketing at Grand Rapids Community Foundation. Outside of her professional public relations writing, her articles and essays ...
Julie Straw will bring leadership lessons from The Work of Leaders book to life, and give participants a high-level overview of The Work of Leaders model of Vision, Alignment, and Execution and The Work of Leaders Assessment. Each participant will receive their own copy of the book The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution ...