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Issue One : Summer 2001
Martha
Tod Dudman is the author of Augusta,
Gone published by Simon & Schuster in March 2001, and Dawn, Short
Stories and a Novella. She served as President and General Manager of
Dudman Communications, from 1990 to 1999. Now a professional fundraiser,
she lives in Northeast Harbor, Maine, with her son and daughter.
Jo
Giese is a special correspondent for Marketplace, a
production of Minnesota Public Radio. Her most recent series "How Much is that
Doggie in the Window?" looked at the new high costs -- emotional and financial
-- of having an animal companion. The 4-part series can be heard by going to
www.Marketplace.org, click on Features,
and scroll down to Doggie. She's also been writing for BARk, the dog
culture magazine. Her prizewinning radio series
"Breaking the Mold,"
broadcast on Marketplace, Public Radio International won a prestigious Peabody
2000. For her "superior portrayal of the changing roles of women," Jo also
received a GRACIE 2000 award from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and
Television.
Her
5-part series "Starting Over" will air in June on Marketplace. The series looks
at lifestyle entrepreneurs across America -- folks who ditched their job and
their paycheck to Start Over, to make not just a living, but a life. Readers can
listen to all of Jo's work by going to
marketplace.org, clicking on Features and going to "Breaking the Mold,"
"Checking In," "How Much is That Doggie in the Window?", and after June -
"Starting Over." Her writing has appeared in scores of
national publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles
Times, Vogue, Ms., The Utne Reader, LA Weekly,
New Woman, and European Travel & Life. She was a regular
columnist for Buzz: The Talk of Los Angeles. Jo
authored the award-winning book
A Woman's Path
(Golden/St. Martin's) and The Good Food Compendium (Doubleday). She
lives in Malibu, California, with her husband, a physician, and two dogs -- a
cocker spaniel and a Yorkshire terrier puppy.
Beau
Boudreaux grew up in New Orleans and has a B.A. in English from
U.S.C. and
an M.A. in English from U.S.M. He has attended the Writer's Workshop at Iowa and
the Writer's Workshop at University of Lancaster in Ireland. He is a doctoral
candidate at the the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin. His latest work appears
in the Southern Poetry Review.
Ronnie
Claire Edwards is known all across the world for her role as
Corabeth Walton Godsey on the television series, "The Waltons."
She has appeared extensively in television, film, and theater. Her writing
credits include the musicals, "Cowboy" and "Idols of the King,"
as well as a cookbook, "Sugar and Grease(paint)." Her
award-winning fiction has appeared in "Texas Short Stories." She
recently toured the United States in a one-woman show based on her book,
The
Knife-Thrower's Assistant, Memoirs of a Human Target which was
published by Hawk Publishing Group in January 2000.
Rob Roberge's fiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA,
Chelsea, Other Voices, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Fatal
Embrace. His plays have been produced in Los Angeles by Empire
Red Lip and Wolfskill Theater. He publishes the Doublewide Press, an
independent press that highlights Los Angeles playwrights and fiction
writers. Recent fiction appeared in the "10 Writers Worth
Knowing" issue of The Literary Review, with new work scheduled to appear in
an anthology on California writers, due out next year on City Lights
Books. He wrote the screenplay for and co-produced the feature-length
movie "Worst Case Scenario," which was filmed in the summer of 2000 in
Salt Lake City. He lives in Long Beach, CA, and is at work on a new script
and book.
Judith
Searle
is the author of the novel Lovelife and of Getting the
Part, a book for actors. Her authorial credits also include Sleep
Talk by Lois Haddad with Patricia Wilson and Judith Searle. Many of her
articles have appeared in Enneagram
Monthly. A Professional Member of the International Enneagram Association,
she teaches workshops around the country. Her most recent book,
The
Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out was published in July
2000. She lives in Santa Monica, California.