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Anastasia Werner Guadron
Category: Literary, Poet
“At any age, we are all poets. We are all writers. Expression on paper doesn’t have to be designated to a genre. If we learn the power and play of writing, inspiration is inevitable.” Anastasia Guadron is the owner of Mightier than the Sword, LLC and Vegetarian Food Blog www.thegourmetvegetarian.com. She is a firm believer that everyone has ...
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Brenda Connor-Bey
Category: Literary, Poet
Brenda Connor-Bey is a co-founder of New Renaissance Writers Guild and founder of MenWem Writers Workshop. In 2002 she was named “Outstanding Arts Educator” by the Westchester Fund for Women and Girls. Brenda is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction, a NYS CAPS award for poetry, ...
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C. D. Grant
Category: Literary, Slam Poet
C.D. Grant is a nationally-published writer of poetry, fiction, scholarly articles and a featured writer for magazines and newspapers. The former music editor and feature writer for Essence Magazine, he also has three published books of poetry. As a photographer, Grant studied with the New York Institute of Photography and specializes in portraiture, special events ...
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Catherine Wald
Category: Literary
Catherine Wald is the author of The Resilient Writer: Tales of Rejection and Triumph from 23 Top Authors (Persea Books 2005), winner of a 2006 Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her web site for creative artists, rejectioncollection.com, has been featured in The New York Times, Writer’s Digest and others. ...
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Charisse Brown
Category: Literary, Theater, Video and Film, Stage, Puppetry, Comedy, Musicals, Screenwriter, Slam Poet, Playwright
“Through the dramatic roles and worlds that are available vicariously in theatre and directly in process drama, we can learn both who we are and what we may be. It is this that makes the essential nature of both theatre and process drama profoundly educational” – Cecily O’Neill (one of my favorite quotes! ...
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D. Colin
Category: Visual, Literary, Painting, Drawing, Poet
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Dale Rascoe
Category: Visual, Literary, Jewelry, Fiber Arts, Novelist
DALE RASCOE FIRST STUDIED THE ART OF JAZZ, AFRICAN, AND BALLET TO THEN TRANSFORM CULTURE STUDY TO CLOTHNG STUDY. HER STYLE IS A BLEND OF ORGANIC FABRICS WITH NEW YORK FUNK. MANY ITEMS SWIRL WITH ETHNIC HOMESPUM AND LACEY TRIM. AS AN AUTHOR, DALE HAS COMPLETED HER FIRST MANUSCRIPT – GUERRILLA GIRL, MEMOIR ...
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Deborah Batterman
Category: Literary, Poet
Symbols, and their metaphoric underpinnings, play a large part in the stories I write. Getting beneath the surface of words, past the literal, is what makes stories resonate, and as a writer, I think a lot about resonance . . . the resonance of words, the resonance of everyday occurrences as well as those that ...
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Deborah Batterman
Category: Literary
Symbols, and their metaphoric underpinnings, play a large part in the stories I write. Getting beneath the surface of words, past the literal, is what makes stories resonate, and as a writer, I think a lot about resonance . . . the resonance of words, the resonance of everyday occurrences as well as those that ...
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Eric ZORK Alan
Category: Literary, Poet
Zork is the author of two books in national distribution: “Stolen Snapshots: I am NOT a poet” and “Things to do with beer bottles.” Zork is probably best known for standing on chairs. It just so happens that when upon a chair he belches out PopTart, Pez, and Push Up poems. He ...
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Jeffrey Fuerst
Category: Literary, Poet
Playwright and author of many children’s books, plays, TV shows, magazine articles and website features. In Spring, 2003, “The Substitute Tooth Fairy,” a farce for family audiences, toured Westchester-area libraries with support from the a WAC Arts Alive grant. Other plays have been seen in NYC and regional theatres. Frequent guest speaker/workshop presenter at schools, libraries, ...
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Jehan Clements
Category: Literary
Jehan Clements is a Storyteller, Author, Illustrator, Inventor, Teaching Artist, and Literacy Educational Consultant. He has performed in Elementary Schools, Libraries, Museums and Festivals in New York for the past 30 years. He is the inventor of: “The Storytelling Flip-Over Picture Book.” Jehan is currently offering Storytelling performances of his original stories for elementary schools with ...
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Karen Rippstein
Category: Literary, Poet
I’m a certified poetry therapist, a journal writer, and a creative writing instructor. The discovery and empowerment received from my ever evolving journal allows me to inspire students to create a writing space of their own to find comfort, safety, and solitude in a world that is too often chaotic. Whether the goal ...
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Kate Gallagher
Category: Literary, Poet
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Leila Blackman
Category: Dance, Literary, Music, Theater, Poet, Slam Poet, World Music, Blues
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Leslie Holder
Category: Visual, Literary, Photography, Poet
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Louise Wareham Leonard
Category: Literary, Novelist
My writing is known for its intensity and control. I choose subjects that are compelling to me – love, death, suicide, survival – and then I try to create works that are alive and fresh. Though I have published traditional narrative prose, I more and more aim for work that illuminates the written word ...
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Mary Crescenzo
Category: Literary
Playwright, poet, Jazz singer, producer, installationist, cofounder and coartistic director of The Peekskill Playhouse, the staging of my first and second play took place after soliciting my principal as a fourth grader at PS 59 in the Bronx to produce these shows in the school auditorium. Although I have worn many hats in my ...
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MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick
Category: Visual, Literary, Collage, Poet
MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick is currently working on a manuscript of poems. Her poetry has been published in Make Room for Dada, The Mount Vernon Independent, OBSOLETE! Magazine, The Mount Vernon Inquirer, Cavalier Literary Couture, Mount Vernon Today, Thick With Conviction, The Westchester Times Tribune, in “Vox Mom” –an online feature of The Mom Egg literary ...
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Nina Gabriele-Cuva
Category: Literary, Theater, Stage, Comedy, Screenwriter, Playwright
Nina Gabriele-Cuva who has been crocheting for 40 years, since the age of nine, began Hope Cottage Creations seven years ago. Nina creates original patterns and takes into consideration the latest fashion trends and makes garments that flatter a woman’s figure. Although the styling is ...
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Relda N. Hill
Category: Visual, Dance, Literary, Music, Painting, Drawing, Folk, Poet, Instrumental, Choral
I have been an artist since I was a child; I took music lessons in classical piano. However, my formal education took precedence. However, I continued to draw in my 20′s and 30′s. During high school and undergrad, I was in choirs for singers and bell choirs. I played with The Riverside ...
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Richard Lattarulo
Category: Literary
Recently Rich and his son wrote a book called “The Artist: Born to Create.” Besides exploring the source and purpose of creativity, the book will include two complete compositions: a screenplay, “Set the Captives Free,” written last year while Rich worked at SingSing, training prisoners to be teachers; a musical, “The Garden of Voluptuous Pleasure,” ...
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Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Category: Literary
I have been a poet-in-residence in Schools, homeless shelters and prisons throughout Westchester for the last ten years. I received my MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. My manuscript, Talking Underwater, was a finalist for the Nimrod/ Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. My poems have appeared in Poetry London, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, ...
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Sarah Bracey White
Category: Literary, Novelist
Sarah Bracey White is a writer, teacher, motivational speaker and arts consultant. Her literary work includes a collection of poetry, “Feelings Brought to Surface,” many short stories, several novels and a memoir. Her creative non-fiction has been included in Children of the Dream; Dreaming in Color, Living in Black and White; Aunties: 35 Writers ...
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Sean Gallagher
Category: Literary, Slam Poet
Sean Gallagher is a member of The Intangible Collective, a group of creative minds that aims to connect with and empower artists, audiences and communities through multiple mediums of creative expression via live performance, publications, and educational workshops. A member of the 2008 SUNY Oneonta Poetry Slam Team, he was Ranked 4th in the Nation at ...
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sheila benedis
Category: Visual, Literary, Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media, Collage, Drawing, Printmaking, Fiber Arts, Poet
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Susan Henle-Christensen
Category: Literary, Theater
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Susan Hodara
Category: Literary
I am a freelance journalist, memorist and editor. My articles have been published in the New York Times, Communication Arts, Harvard Magazine, Wesleyan Magazine, salon.com, and more. I teach memoir writing workshops at the Hudson Valley Writersâ?? Center and the Pelham Art Center. My memoirs appear in anthologies including Illness & Grace, Terror & Transformation, ...
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