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Lis Anna

The winner of numerous awards in film, since attending ClarityWorks classes Lis Anna has placed 2nd in the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Contest 2006, 4th in New Century Writers Short Fiction Contest and 2nd in the Best Dramatic Short Tupelo Film Festival 2006.  Most recently her poem “If I could be anything I would be a poem on the desk of Gabriel Garcia Marquez” placed 1st in the 11th Annual Poet Hunt Award.

Jeanne Charters

She has published a compilation of her humorous columns in a book entitled  funny, isn't it? and is working on two novels.  She credits  a class with Peggy as well as Peggy's personal encouragement for becoming a columnist in WNC Woman magazine. Her book is available at local book stores and through the publisher.   www.Catawbapublishing.com

Cheryl Dietrich

Her nonfiction essay “Zagreb” was published by The Gettysburg Review,  Spring, 2006. She’s also published articles and essays in The Asheville Citizen-Times and WNC-Woman and short stories “Giselle and Leo Dance” in Mudrock Stories and Tales and “Widow’s Weeds” in the e-zine longshortstory.com.

Betsy Fletcher

Betsy's poem “Passion” was published by Rapid River Magazine in 2006.

Alice Johnson

Alice's work has appeared in the O. Henry Festival of Short Stories, and recently awarded the first prize in the literary magazine The Crucible.  Two of her short stories appear in the anthologies I Thought My Father Was God, edited by Paul Auster and Alice Redux: Tales of Alice in Wonderland and Lewis Carroll. In addition, she has published in Pembroke Magazine and The Guilford Review.

Karen Lauritzen

Karen is a published author of short stories. She is also the co-author of Hope Help and Healing: Traveling for Treatment in China, her first work of nonfiction.  She is currently at work on a novel.  Hope Help and Healing is available through the ClarityWork's Bookstore.

Shonnie Lavender

Drawing on her personal experience and work as a life coach, Shonnie wrote Live the Life You Imagined: 100 Practical Strategies for Creating Your Ideal Life. With her husband, Bruce Mulkey, she co-authored I Do! I Do! The Marriage Vow Workbook, a step-by-step resource for creating unique wedding vows.  Click here for the ClarityWork's  Bookstore  or learn more about  Shonnie at ShonnieLavender.com.

Valerie Ann Leff

Valerie's novel Better Homes and Husbands was published in 2004 by St. Martin's Press and has been optioned for a television series by NBC.  Her stories and essays have been published in magazines like The Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Chelsea, Lilith, The South Carolina Review, The Sun, and many others.

Laurey Masterton

Laurey's book, Elsie's Biscuits, published 2007, is a memoir supplemented with her mother's recipes as cookbook author and co-owner of an inn in Vermont and with Laurey's recipes as owner of Laurey's Yum Catering in Asheville, NC. Many of Laurey's stories began as responses to writing prompts in ClarityWorks' classes, but her style and her voice are her own. A delightful read and a wonderful gift to the many writers who cook and cooks who write. To order her book, go to http://www.laureysyum.com

Martha McMullen

Martha has written a memoir featuring a woody station wagon and its role in her family’s life during WW II. As a stand-alone essay, her chapter "The Lights of Paris," is included in the first edition of The Writers Circle at the Kravis Center, a publication funded by the Picower Foundation. The story was also read by professional actors  at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.

Kelle Olwyler

Kelle is co-author with Jerry Fletcher of Paradoxical Thinking: How to Profit from Your Contradictions (Berrett Kohler Publishers, 1997).  She wrote a column for three years for MoneyWorld magazine and has written numerous pieces for WNC Woman magazine. She  also writes songs she occasionally performs for ClarityWorks' classes.  

Martha Jane Petersen

Martha Jane has published articles, pamphlets, poems, essays, and studies primarily for the Presbyterian Church, USA. In 1983, she published God's Fire: A Personal Journey and in 1999 published a history of Villa International Atlanta, a hospitality ministry  in the Atlanta area. In the same year she edited a cookbook for the same ministry entitled, "A Global Table."

Pam Ruatto

Pam's story “Sensitive Ponytail Man" appeared in The Emrys Journal in 2004.

Rachelle Rogers

Rachelle is the nonfiction author of Creative Crafts Desk Handbook (Prentice-Hall, Inc.), fiction author of A Love Apart (iUniverse, Inc), and her poetry and short stories have won competitive recognition/awards. Her work has appeared in Lucid Moon, WNC Woman, Passager, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Calyx:A Journal of Art and Literature by Women.  www.rachellerogers.com

Lisa Sarasohn

Author of The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your Treasure Within, Lisa’s articles on honoring the body's center have appeared in publications including Yoga Journal, SageWoman, Radiance, and Personal Transformation. www.loveyourbelly.com

Susan S. Trout, Ph.D.

Dr. Trout has written Born to Serve: The Evolution of the Soul through Service and The  Awakened Leader: Leadership as a Classroom of the Soul, as well as many articles. She is at work on a third nonfiction book about feminine leadership. She is Executive Director of The Institute for the Advancement of Service, Alexandria, Virginia. www.ias-online.org

Corrie Woods

Corrie began her first book, The Woman's Field Guide to Exceptional Living, at a ClarityWorks' Lake Logan retreat.  Reflecting Corrie's passion as a women's life coach, this is the first book in the series, with book two due out in spring of 2009.  www.womansfieldguide.com

Maggie Wynne

Maggie's story “Morning” received honorable mention in the 2006 WNC-Woman Short Story Contest and her poem “Flash,” a villanelle, was selected for publication in Kakalak’s Anthology of North and South Carolina Poetry, 2006.  In 2008, Kakalak accepted another poem, "Dare."