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Deborah Gordon Cooper
- Ellie Schoenfeld
- Jen Wright
- Joan M. Drury
- Kathleen Melin
- Julia M. Williams
Deborah Gordon Cooper has been writing poetry for more than twenty years. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including ArtWord Quarterly, The Roaring Muse, Kalliope, Wolf Head Quarterly, North Coast Review, Minnesota Monthly, Nimrod, Rosebud, and Dust and Fire. She and her husband, Joel, who is a printmaker, have exhibited their collaborative images throughout the Midwest.
Deborah has used poetry extensively in her work as a Hospice Chaplain. She co-edited the anthology: Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow! Press, 2009), and she frequently teaches writing classes for those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. She also conducts workshops on the interfacing of poetry and spirituality, and has mentored inmates at the St. Louis County Jail.
Deborah is the author of four previous collections of poems, most recently Between the Ceiling & the Moon, published by Finishing Line Press as part of its New Women’s Voices Series.She was recently honored to be chosen as the 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of Duluth, Minnesota.
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Ellie Schoenfeld is a poet native to Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Screaming Red Gladiolus! (Poetry Harbor, 1999) and Difficult Valentines (Fallow Deer Books, 2004), and her work has been published in an anthology, The Moon Rolls Out of Our Mouths (Calyx Press, 2005), with the four other women in her writing group. Schoenfeld enjoys collaborating with artists of other genres. Her work is featured along with the music of some of her favorite musicians on the CDs Personal Ad, Almost Through the Rinse Cycle, and Taking It Off. She has worked with area groups Poetry Harbor and Spirit Lake Poetry Series. Though she has thought about it extensively, she has never actually run away with the circus.
Thursday, August 26, 2010. Garrison Keillor read Ellie Schoenfeld's poem "I Ride Greyhound" on The Writer's Almanac. Listen to the podcast!
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Jen Wright lives in Clover Valley, a small community located northeast of Duluth near the north shore of Lake Superior.
Jen has worked in probation and corrections for more than twenty years. She is currently a Court and Field Supervisor for a regional corrections agency, supervising probation officers and overseeing programs.
Killer Storm received a favorable review in the November 2007 issue of Midwest Book Review Bookwatch.
Senior reviewer Shelley Glodowski said that Jen Wright weaves “her own personal knowledge into a whodunit that is smart and contemporary. She relieves the tension of dealing with homicidal teenagers with a sweet emerging love story for Jo Spence, who is also sorting out in her own mind what it takes to create a lasting relationship. Wright also throws in a bit of betrayal to sweeten the mix of an already compelling story. KILLER STORM is an entertaining whodunit from a new generation of talented writers, and Jen Wright has much to offer as an author.”
Big Noise won honorable mention in the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards.
Dead Ahead won a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Fiction and was a Finalist in the Mystery/Thriller category of the Golden Crown Literary Society Awards.
An interview with Jen was featured in the December 2009 issue of Curve Magazine.
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Joan M. Drury, former publisher of Spinsters Ink and sponsor of Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women, lives and writes from her home on the north shore of Lake Superior. She is the author of four novels, including the Tyler Jones mystery series. As a publisher, she was awarded the Publisher Service Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. She now owns Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais, Minnesota.
Joan Drury’s Tyler Jones mystery trilogy consists of The Other Side of Silence (1993)—a Minnesota Book Award finalist; Silent Words (1996, 2009)—a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award finalist, a Small Press Book Award finalist, a Midwest Independent Publishers Association Midwest Book Achievement Award merit winner, a Minnesota Book Award winner, a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award winner, and a Publishers Marketing Association Benjamin Franklin Award winner; and Closed in Silence (1998)—a Minnesota Book Award finalist, a Publishers Marketing Association Benjamin Franklin Award finalist, and a Midwest Independent Publishers Association Midwest Book Achievement Award merit winner. In 2000, her rmost recent novel Those Jordan Girls was issued.
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Kathleen Melin writes about home schooling based on more than twelve continuous years of teaching her children at home. Kathleen’s three children were home schooled during their early childhood years and from 1992 through 2004. Her middle child home schooled his entire K-12 education; her youngest and oldest children each home schooled three-fourths of their K-12 lives. Her children’s education incorporated a spectrum of learning support systems including participation in two home school charters in Alaska; a Minnesota arts-based charter school; public education in Wisconsin and Alaska; and self-directed, bureaucracy-free, child-centered learning at home.
In addition to her experience as a parent-educator, Kathleen was a University of Wisconsin instructor in English Composition from 2001 through 2006, a creative writing teaching assistant at the University of Minnesota in 1995, and an artist in residence at Summit School for the Arts 1997-1998. Each of these experiences sharpened her thinking about optimal learning.
Her intimate portrayal of a home schooling family is backed by the research of her creative thesis for the Master of Fine Arts degree conferred May 1998 at the University of Minnesota. Her creative writing credits include nonfiction in Eric Utne’s Cosmo Doogood’s Urban Almanac (2005 and 2006) and “Blue Lupine” in A Woman’s Place (1997). Her fiction has appeared in Feminist Parenting (Crossing Press 1995). She was senior writer for the Twin Cities Family Fun Guide (KidsLife Books 1981), and she wrote The Health Careers Book (1987), produced by the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation and Kuskokwim Community College, Bethel, Alaska. In addition, she has worked as a magazine editor, as an assistant editor for a weekly newspaper, as a freelance writer for national and regional publications, as a grant writer, in public relations, and as a community education and arts advocate.
Kathleen Melin lives the good life on her ancestral farm in northwestern Wisconsin, where she operates a retreat for artists and is currently writing a young adult novel series.
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Julia M. Williams, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She works in the field as a grant evaluator and leads strategic planning and school initiatives throughout northern Minnesota. Her research centers in the areas of professional development for educators, leadership and systems of leadership in schools, shared decision making, and effective assessment.
She brings a lifetime and career as a mother, stepmother, high school teacher, Minnesota State Department of Education specialist, licensed principal and superintendent, staff developer, and professor of future educators to her writing and to her thinking.
Dr. Williams recently received the 2013 Minnesota Excellence in Education Award. The award notes her unparalleled leadership in promoting and advancing excellence in education.
Julia was interviewed by Lisa Johnson during the KUMD Coffee Break program on Friday, April 18, 2008.
Jules on Schools received a favorable review in the May 2008 issue of Midwest Book Review Bookwatch. Diane C. Donovan calls the book "heartful and witty," and she says that it "deserves a place in every community library education collection."
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220 pages, paperback
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