Inspired by the many teachers who mentored her, Beverly J. Armento became an educator and enjoyed a fifty-plus year career as a middle school teacher and University Professor, aiming to nurture educators to believe in and hold high expectations for each child. Retired now, she is a Professor Emerita at Georgia State University and holds […]
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Author Q&A With Loretta Breuning
Loretta Breuning, PhD, is the Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of many personal development books, including Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, and Endorphin Levels. As a teacher and a parent, […]
Author Q&A With Kay Smith-Blum
An Austin, TX transplant and lifetime environmental advocate, Kay Smith-Blum has resided in Seattle for more than four decades. The recent upheaval over leaking waste tanks at the Hanford site in Washington state compelled her to write a Hanford story in a way that would educate and entertain readers, resulting in her debut novel, Tangles. […]
Author Q&A With Margaret Dulaney
Margaret Dulaney has written story-based essays on mystical themes for a quarter of a century. In 2010 she began offering these writings on ListenWell.org, a website featuring once-monthly spoken word essays, exploring open-faith ideas through story and metaphor. She has authored three books of nonfiction: To Hear the Forest Sing, The Parables of Sunlight and […]
Author Q&A With Tracy Badua
Tracy Badua is an award-winning author of books for young people. By day, she is an attorney who works in national housing policy, and by night, she squeezes in writing, family time, and bites of her secret candy stash (she has strong opinions on the correct ratio of chocolate to filling in peanut butter cups). […]
Author Q&A With Gillian Eliza West
Gillian Eliza West, debut author of Ruin: The Infernis Duology Book One, lives in Austin, Texas. With a passion for mythology that has taken her around the world despite her fear of flying, she strives to infuse her stories with a similar kind of wonder and magic. Her first foray into writing for an audience […]
Author Q&A With Michelle M. Pillow
Michelle M. Pillow, a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, is known for her paranormal and sci-fi romance novels. With over 100 titles, including series such as Merely Mortal, Order of Magic, Warlocks MacGregor, and Dragon Lords, Michelle has captivated readers with her intricate world-building and immersive storytelling. A passionate advocate for the power […]
Author Q&A With Ann Crawford
Ann Crawford is and author and award-winning documentary filmmaker. She accompanied a group of vets back to Viet Nam and filmed them doing humanitarian work, returning to their Areas of Operation, and healing their wounds of war. A few years later, she traveled around the world and interviewed people from all walks of life—heads of […]
Author Q&A With Julia Marie Davis
Julia Marie Davis is an American poet and novelist. Julia’s writing has appeared in The Bangalore Review, The Dillydoun Review, New Note Poetry, Moonstone Arts Center’s Nasty Women’s Anthology, and TaintTaintTaint Literary Magazine. She holds a BA in English from Boston College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. Her forthcoming novella, Catbird […]
Author Q&A With Rabbi Adina Allen
Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, writer, and educator who grew up in an art studio where she learned firsthand the power of creativity for connecting to self and to the Sacred. She is co-founder and creative director of Jewish Studio Project (JSP), an organization that is seeding a future in which every person […]