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• Nadia Ali is a freelance writer born in London, UK, and now living in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Her work has been published in magazines, books and online. She encourages you to view the nesting habits of the phenomenal leatherback turtles.
• Mavis Anderson grew up in the Myrtle Beach / Conway area and lived on the campus of Coastal Carolina University from its founding until 1973. Both her Mother and Father died of cancer; her mother at 56 and her father at 77. Each experience was very different, and Mavis knows first hand how much progress has been made in the treatment of this disease.
• Connie Barnard refers to her life as 50 years of slow-growing epiphany. After almost 30 years of teaching English composition to high school and college students, she has joyfully returned to writing herself.
• Sara Harrell Banks grew up in Alabama and Georgia where she was raised by a number of odd but loving relatives. The author of fourteen books, her newest book (after a hiatus of four years), will be published by Peachtree Publishers in Spring 2010. Known as “the Bedouin” Harrell by friends and family, she currently lives in High Point, N.C.
• Avil Beckford is an accomplished writer and the published author of Tales of People Who Get It and companion workbook Journey to Getting It. She blogs at The Invisible Mentor, http://theinvisiblementor.com.
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  Kathleen Bergeron is a happily married mom of four, living in the high desert of California. She currently works as a substitute teacher, and has been writing and selling freelance for over 20 years.
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  Margaret Bishop is a stay at home mom in Camden, SC. She and her husband, Matt, have three children: David – 6, Olivia – 4, and Thomas – 1.
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  Jennifer Borchers is a frequent visitor to Myrtle Beach. As an Upstate resident, she looks forward to spending her vacation time at the shore and among her favorite haunts along the Grand Strand. Jennifer is a senior at Converse College and will receive a BA in English in 2008. She lives in Greer with her husband and two children.
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  Suzan Chiacchio Brand is a freelance writer and photographer from Mt. Pleasant, S.C. You can see more of her work at her website, www.suzancbrand.com.
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  Mary J. Breen is a writer and editor living in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She has published two books about women’s health as well as essays, articles and short fiction. Currently Mary teaches memoir writing.
• Myrtle Beach resident, Debbie Bullen, is a wife, mother of two of the world’s finest children and freelance writer. She has lived all over the southeast undergoing numerous career re-incarnations in TV, advertising, marketing and real estate.
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  Aimee Cirucci is a Philadelphia-area writer whose work often focuses on the humorous aspects of families, relationships, and everyday life. Her website is www.cirucci.com.
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  Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow is Founding General Manager of WYCC-TV/PBS and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Wright College in Chicago. Her non-fiction stories and essays are published in numerous anthologies and magazines. Her husband is her muse. Visit Elynne at http://LookAroundMe.blogspot.com.
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  Merry Carol Cotton arrived in Pawleys Island over five years ago after having taught high school English in Michigan for nearly thirty years. She has published in the National Council of Teachers of English Journal, edited medical textbooks, and contributed many articles to church-related publications. She and her husband have three grown children and seven grandchildren.
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  Anne Dalton astarted her second career as a journalist three years ago. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and has published several feature, profile and editorial articles in the Aztec Press, the student newspaper at Pima Community College.
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  Susan DeBow is a Midwest writer with a Southern heart. Her work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Family Circle, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Writer, Poets and Writers, among many others. Her first novel, Cleaning Closets, was published in 2007 by Dialogue Publishing.
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  Ilka Doubek is artistic director at Litchfield Dance Arts Academy in Pawleys Island, S.C. She and her husband, Tom Fox, founded the school in 1995. Born in Omaha, NE, Doubek has worked professionally in ballet and modern dance since 1973.
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  Diane L. Dunton M.S. is President of Potential Released Consulting Services which offers executive coaching and leadership programs. A widely recognized keynote speaker, Diane’s work has been published internationally in business and management publications: www.potentialreleased.com.
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  Pam Drake started her career writing social dramas for schools. She continued to pursue her passion for writing by creating business newsletters and as a contributing editor for Christine Columbus. Currently, she is writing a book on traveling with children. Pam loves spending time with her family and living in Portland, Oregon.
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  Terri Elders, a lifelong freelance writer, received the UCLA Alumni Association Award for Community Service in 2006. In her acceptance speech she mentioned the Merry Sea Rat. She is a public member of the Washington State Medical Commission.
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  Melissa Face lives in Wakefield, Virginia, with her husband, Craig, and her Boxer, Tyson. She teaches special education in Prince George County. Melissa devotes nearly all of her free time to writing and had a story come out in November in Chicken Soup For The Soul: Teens Talk Middle School. Email her at: writermsface@yahoo.com.
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  Kathie Freeman is a California native and has been married for 40 years. She and her husband currently reside in Fallbrook with one cat. She is the author of Catwalk A Feline Odyssey.
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  Virginia Foley is a Canadian writer, currently living in Wisconsin with her British-born husband and American-born puppy. Her three grown children live in Canada. She has just completed her first historical novel, My Father Played the Flute. Visit Virginia at www.virginiafoley.com.
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  Joanne Gillespie iis originally from the seaside city of Nelson, New Zealand, but has lived in Italy since 2000. She loves crafts, including knitting and sewing, as well as writing.
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  Cathy C. Hall is a freelance writer and humor columnist from the metro Atlanta area. Her family life essays have been included in anthologies, including Chicken Soup for the Tea Lover’s Soul and Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers. She has also been published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, webzines and several regional magazines. You can find out more at her website: www.cathy-c-hall.com.
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  Jean Matthew Hall is a freelance writer. She and her husband, Jerry, live in Indian Trail, N.C. She blogs her Conversations With God at www.jeanmatthewhall.blogspot.com.
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  Heather Hale-Van Kleek has spent many years as a freelance copy editor and proofreader and is now finding much joy in the role of writer. She squeezes in her writing time between shifts as the taxi driver for her three active and creative children. Heather is a proud stay-at-home mom living in Tualatin, Oregon.
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  A native South Carolinian, Lisa Hamilton is the director of the First Presbyterian Church Preschool and Kindergarten. Of course she loves reading, but also finds time for cooking and walking her dog, Hurley.
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  Susan Harvey is a humor writer who teaches college English. She lives in Murrells Inlet, and in her spare time enjoys cooking and reading mysteries.
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  Sonja Herbert is the author of an award-winning unpublished novel about her mother surviving the Holocaust in a circus, and of many other true stories. Her website is germanwriter.com.
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  Erika Hoffman is the author of fifty-five published stories and articles and one novel. Her novel, Secrets, Lies, and Grace, will be released November 1, 2010, by Comfort Publishing. She uses the pseudonym, Riki Vogel, for her fiction.
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  Although metro Detroit is “home” for Lisa Howard, having the chance to travel has provided her with some of life’s most memorable moments. In 2008, she created a culinary blog – www.theculturedcook.com – to spread the word about knowledgeable nibbling.
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  Mary Hughes has been published in Chicken Soup for the Tea Lover’s Soul. She also writes newspaper articles, devotionals and stories of encouragement for women. Her subscriber based newsletter, Christian Potpourri, is in its seventh year of publication.
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  Oak Island resident, Lynn Ingram, has written stories since she was 12 years old. She grows flowers, takes long beach walks and studies clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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  Ann Ipock is a humorist, author and speaker, who is shoe-obsessed – her faves being flip-flops. After getting the mayor’s mustache caught in her dental hygiene polisher, she turned to writing. Life Is Short, So Read This Fast! is her third book. Visit her website at www.annipock.com.
• Author and humorist Roberta Beach Jacobson makes her home on a remote Greek island. Her website: www.robertabeachjacobson.com.
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  Carol Joseph is a freelance writer who lives in Naples, Florida. She writes a column entitled “Thinking Out Loud” for her local newspaper. She has won numerous awards for advertising writing and creativity.
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  Lara Keough lives in Pawleys Island with her husband, her son and presumed to be half-human golden retriever, Daisy. Her article, “This Old Head of Mine,” can be found in the Spring 2009 edition of Tempo Magazine.
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  Kim Alden Mallin is 46 years-old and lives with her husband on the marsh in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. Most of the time, she practices family medicine, but in her spare time she’s working on her first novel.
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  Sue Mayfield-Geiger is a freelance writer and editor residing on the Texas Gulf Coast. Contact Sue at www.smgwriter.com.
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  B.F. McCune is a freelance writer, married, mother of two and grandmother of two, currently in training for a bicycling vacation and entering numerous recipe contests in the hope of gaining a windfall. She has numerous credits in local, regional, and specialty publications for news and features, and is co-author of Recruiting and Managing Volunteers in Libraries (Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1995).
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  Sharon McGregor has had stories and articles appear in Lake Country Journal, Fifty Something, Stories That Lift, Horizon and Reader’s Digest Canada.
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  Mindi Mikula is a staff writer for a small rural newspaper, based in East Texas. She is a native Texan and single mother of two wonderful children. Mikula is also currently hard at work on her first novel.
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  Rita Milios, The Mind Mentor, is a psychotherapist practicing in the Tampa Bay area. Often writing on topics of personal and spiritual growth, she also teaches intuitive training workshops to professional and lay audiences.
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  Deborah Missal is a writer living with her family in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She previously worked as an attorney and public relations professional in Washington, D.C.
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  Caroline Misner was born in a country that, at the time, was known as Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to Canada. To see more of her work, visit thewritersezine.com, truepoetmagazine.com and bewilderingstories.com. Caroline currently lives in Georgetown, Ontario, where she continues to read, write and follow her muse.
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  Leslie Moore is the editor for Strand Media Group. A 25 year resident of Pawleys Island, she is blessed with a life filled with the love of family and friends and satisfying work to do every day.
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  A freelance writer who occasionally vacations on the S.C. coast with friends, family and chardonnay, Kellie Murphy lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband, four children, and three dogs.
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  Alice Muschany lives in Wentzville, Missouri. Publications include Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors and Chicken Soup for the Soul True Love.
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  Kathleen Neal lstarted her in-home business, Arnold Neal Communications, Inc., in 2001. She is currently working on a new book tentatively titled Making Sense of Things That Don’t Make Sense.
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  Stephanie Necessary is a creative writing teacher at Forestbrook Middle School. She lives in Surfside Beach, S.C. with her husband, Mark, and her two boys; Miles and Harley.
• Linda O’Connell, from St. Louis, Mo., is a veteran teacher. Her prose, essays, poems and articles have appeared in periodicals, anthologies, online and in newspapers.
• Nancy Oliver, is a writer and editor who is currently working on the renovation of her family’s 104-year-old farmhouse in rural North Carolina. When she’s not sanding floors, she’s making notes about the life around her.
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  Dee Orr is a native Texan, born in Ft. Worth, and a graduate of Baylor University School of Music. Before retiring to the Myrtle Beach area in 1993, she taught middle school music in upstate New York.
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  Liz Pardue-Schultz is a freelance writer living in Myrtle Beach with the love of her life and their perfect little girl. She changes diapers, pushes strollers, makes organic baby food and loves every minute of it.
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  Dace Pedecis has been writing since the third grade, but she keeps her day job to support her writing and yarn habits. Her publishing credits include Sunshine and Woman’s World magazines and the Latvian newspaper, Laiks.
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  Novelist Perry P. Perkins was born and raised in Oregon. His writing includes Just Past Oysterville, and Shoalwater Voices, as well as dozens of articles in national magazines. His work can be found online at www.perryperkinsbooks.com.
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  Felice Prager is a freelance writer and multisensory educational therapist from Scottsdale, Arizona. Hundreds of her essays have been published locally, nationally, and internationally in print and on the Internet. She is the author of the recently released book, QUIZ IT: ARIZONA from Arthur McAllister Publishers. To find out more about Felice’s book or to find links to more of her work, please visit http://www.QuizItAZ.com.
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  Sharon Raines is the author of Through Mom’s Eyes, and has also been published in Dabblingmum and Western North Carolina Woman. You can read about her writings and other interests on her web site: sharonraines.com.
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  Karen Rodgers is 53 years old and on disability from the cancer and its effects on her life. She has worked in banking her entire life and is a Professional Genealogist.
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  Debbie Roppolo’s works have appeared in magazines, newspapers, Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Coffee Lover’s Soul. She resides in the Texas Hill Country with her husband, and is the zoo keeper of two cats, one Siberian Husky, a rabbit, several horses and two boys. In her spare time, she enjoys tormenting her children by dancing in the aisles of grocery stores.
• Tricia L. Sanders, former instructional designer and corporate trainer, has been writing since she received her first chubby pencil and Big Chief tablet. She is a member of the Missouri Writers’ Guild and recently finished her first novel.
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  Judie Schaal is a 31 year resident of the Grand Strand. She is married to her favorite golf pro, Gary. She has two grown children and three grandchildren. She has written for The Sun News as a tennis columnist and On the Green.
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  Vivian A. Segelken is a graduate of Elmira College in N.Y., and WNC-Wilmington. Mother of one daughter and two grandsons, Vivian retired after 40 years in the manufacturing business. Now a Georgetown resident, Vivian is an avid reader and loves catalog descriptions. She also loves yard work and coaxing her husband to lend a helping hand.
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  Lorraine Settanni lives in Connecticut close to her family with her husband and daughter. Her door is always open and loving chaos reigns; writing seems put it all in order.
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  Deborah Shave lives in upstate New York and is a freelance writer of humor, poetry and personal essays. She has a story appearing in an upcoming issue of GreenPrints magazine.
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  Alisa Singer’ humorous essays have appeared in a variety of print and online newspapers and magazines. She is the author of the books I Still Wanna Be A… and My Baby Boomer Memory Album. Contact: ASingerAuthor@gmail.com.
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  Laurie Chance Smith works as a freelance writer and photographer on myriad topics. Her work has been published in Brio, Listen, Focus on the Family Clubhouse, Nature Friend, The School Magazine, TWINS, The Christian Science Monitor, American Fitness, Kids’ Ministry Ideas, and many others. She lives in Texas with her husband James and twin sons, Luke and Joshua.
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  Mary Ellen Scarborough is “Rootbound in Southern Women’s Traditions” and can be reached at maryellenscarborough@yahoo.com.
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  Kim Seeley is a former librarian and teacher who lives with her husband, Wayne, in Wakefield, Virginia. She now teaches part-time at a center for handicapped adults. She has just published her first national article in the new volume of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series entitled, What I Learned from the Dog. Kim’s article is called, “Yuck, Dog Germs.”
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  Noelle Sterne, writer, editor and writing coach, regularly publishes essays and craft pieces, with articles forthcoming in 11.11, Writing World, and The Writer. An agent is currently reading her handbook of practical spirituality, Trust Your Life: Forgive Yourself and Go After Your Dreams.
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  Susan Sundwall is a freelance writer and children’s playwright. She is currently working on her second cozy mystery and hopes that her first will be published soon.
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  Diane Stark is a wife, a mother of five and a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in publications like Chicken Soup for the Soul: A Tribute to Moms, Woman’s World, and MOMsense. She loves to write about her family and her faith.
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  Diane DeVaughn Stokes is a TV Host and Producer working on new statewide culinary TV show, and a spokesperson for many commercials throughout the Carolinas. She and her husband own Stages Video Productions in Myrtle Beach and share a passion for theater and travel.
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  Sharon Struth is a freelance writer and mother of two teenage daughters. Someday she hopes to be able to complete her Sudoku puzzles in pen, like her husband.
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  Laura Tobin left the wintry Midwest to reside in Myrtle Beach. She received her graduate degree from Michigan State University, and was an International English Language and Literature teacher. She writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and recently completed a novel about women pilots who flew for the military during WWII.
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  Marsha Tennant lives in Calabash N.C., with her hubby, Randy, and a cat named Clara. She was recently published in The Gullah Grass Doll Creation and has just completed a children’s picture book, Margaret, Pirate Queen. Marsha is delighted to be a contributor to Sasee.
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  Faye Tucker is a photojournalist published nationally and internationally on myriad topics.
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  Linda Vasenius and her husband retired to the Myrtle Beach area in 2007. She was a librarian for many years, a job that she found truly rewarding. Her interests now include reading, knitting, seeing friends, volunteering and writing.
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  Sabrina Wang is a university student from Vancouver, Canada. She is a young bone-marrow transplant survivor who often writes about her unique experiences while sipping a good cup of tea.
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  Anne Aldridge Webb is a freelance writer in Burlington, North Carolina, who has written for publications such as Our State, and North Carolina Signature magazines. Her first children’s book, Appalachian State A to Z, was published this year by Parkway Publishers.
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  Martha Wegner is a freelance writer living in St. Paul, Minn., with her husband and two children. See more of her articles and essays at www.marthawegner.com.
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  Ferida Wolff is author of 17 books for children and three essay books for adults. A frequent contributor to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, she also writes for newspapers and magazines, online at www.grandparents.com and is a columnist for www.seniorwomen.com. Her website is www.feridawolff.com, and her newest book is Missed Perceptions: Challenge Your Thoughts Change Your Thinking (Pranava Books 2009).
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  Janey Womeldorf is a freelance writer who talks out loud to herself on a daily basis. She scribbles and chatters away in Memphis, TN.
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  Dallas Woodburn, 22, is the author of two collections of short stories and a forthcoming novel. She is also the founder of Write On! For Literacy and Write On! Books Publishing Company: www.writeonbooks.org.