WNBA-SF Chapter
Juliana Kleist-Corwin
Julaina Kleist-Corwin published an anthology in 2014 called Written Across the Genres. She is an award-winning writer and her short stories are published in the California Writers Club Literary Review, Harlequin’s Christmas books, and other anthologies. She teaches creative writing in Dublin and Pleasanton California.
Visit her at www.timetowritenow.com
Jeanne Choy Tate
Jeanne Choy Tate, at age nineteen, crossed the American continent to “find my identity” and work as a live-in volunteer at the Cameron House mission in San Francisco’s Chinatown. This marked the beginning of her lifelong involvement with Chinese culture and the Chinese-American experience. Through her roles as a bilingual-bicultural early childhood educator, a Presbyterian lay pastor, and a wife and mother in a biracial-bicultural family, she discovered that the interdependent values of Chinese cultural heritage are, in many ways, closer to values held by early biblical communities than those of modern individualism. Her experience inspired her MA dissertation with Robert Bellah on Chinese and American educational values and her PhD at Graduate Theological Union on culture and caregiving.
Her recently published book, Something Greater: Culture, Family, and Community as Living Story (WipfandStock 2013) draws on the author’s experiences in San Francisco’s Chinatown to contrast intergenerational childrearing in biblical and Chinese communities with American individualism. Awarded third place as a Presbyterian Writers Guild “First Book,” Something Greater explores individualism and cultural diversity in American society. Available on Amazon and on Kindle at bit.ly/JeanneTate. Visit my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JeanneChoyTate.author.
Brenda Knight
Brenda Knight is a twenty-year publishing veteran, starting at HarperCollins and authored American Book Award-winning Women of the Beat Generation, Rituals for Life and Wild Women and Books. Knight has worked with many bestselling authors including Mark Nepo, Phil Cousineau, Congresswoman Jackie Speier, and Paolo Coehlo. Knight volunteers for the American Cancer Society as a counselor for the newly diagnosed and leads writing workshops, “Putting Your Passion on Paper.” Founding editor of Viva Editions, a division of Cleis Press, Knight lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dorothy Hearst
I am the author of Promise of the Wolves and Secrets of the Wolves, the first two books of the “Wolf Chronicles” trilogy published by Simon & Schuster. The trilogy tells the story of how the wolf became the dog from the wolf’s point of view. It’s narrated by a young shewolf living 14,000 years ago, and is based on the theory of wolf/human coevolution. The third book in the trilogy, “Spirit of the Wolves” will be published in December 2014.
Previously, I was a senior editor at Jossey-Bass, where I published books for nonprofit, public, and social change leaders.
http://www.dorothyhearst.com
Cathy Turney
Cathy Turney captures the humor in coping with technology and social media, her left/brain right brain marriage to MyHusband, TheEngineer, dogs, and real estate. A life-long resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Cathy was in the first graduating class of the University of California, Santa Cruz, but she’s not that old.
Cathy writes a humor column for The Concordian and for Emmy Award-winning Judd McIlvain’s TroubleShooter Judd.com Website and has had stories published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Catharsis Journal, the Healey Marque national magazine, and Moss Motors Magazine. She has won finalist and semi-finalist awards from Humor Press.
Her first book, Dog Stories, Hilarious Tales of a Codependent Pet Owner, was published in 2012. She is at work on her next book, a humorous take on her thirty years in real estate. Cathy is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and California Writers Club, Mt. Diablo Branch. She loves networking with other writers on Facebook (Cathy Turney) and on her blog at www.ALittleBitOff.net.
Vicki DeArmon
Vicki DeArmon works as the Events & Marketing Director for Copperfield’s Books in San Francisco’s North Bay, booking authors for events. In the wee hours, she writes. Her passion is reading and writing fiction. Right now she’s working on a collection of short stories, She Let Go Their Hands, depicting families riding the roller coaster of addiction. Her story from this collection entitled “Hydroplaning” placed second in the 2015 Women’s National Book Association annual writing contest. And there’s a comic novel brewing called Tilting: The Nearly True Story of a Small Book Publishing Empire that draws from the years she spent running Foghorn Press in San Francisco in the 1990s. This year, she’s been honored to read at Litquake, to attend Lit Camp 2015 and to be chosen as one of a cast of 13 selected to read pieces at this year’s Listen to Your Mother event in San Francisco. Her blog (onemothersedge.com) is a humorous attempt to consolidate three aspects of her being: writing, motherhood, and co-dependence .
Katy Pye lives and writes on California’s North Coast. Her multiple award-wining novel, Elizabeth’s Landing sprang from her years as an environmental activist and natural resources project manager. The ocean bluffs and redwood forest trails out her back door are daily inspiration for writing and her amateur photography. Known to talk to tree frogs, hummingbirds, turkeys—sometimes coyotes, she is delighted when they talk back.
Her website and blog have more about sea turtles and young people creating positive change.
http://katypye.com
Janet Thornburg’s collection of short stories, Rhubarb Pie, was published in 2005. Her short stories have appeared in Carve Magazine, The Distillery, In The Family, Lumina, The MacGuffin, Phantasmagoria, Phoebe, Diverse Voices Quarterly, and Sanskrit.
In addition to writing fiction, she has written and performed seven solo shows, and her poetry has appeared in Womanthology, A Collection of Colorado Women Poets and Most of the Holes are Occupied: A Santa Fe Anthology.
Website: www.janetthornburg.com
Margie Yee Webb is the author/photographer of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life, a gift book for cat lovers and their finicky friends! Also, she is the co-creator of Not Your Mother’s Book . . . On Cats, a humor anthology of 62 cat-approved stories written by their humans (https://PublishingSyndicate.com/), and one of the producers of FEMME: Women Healing the World, an inspiring documentary featuring interviews with influential women around the world to inspire a new hope for the future (http://www.FemmeTheMovie.com/).
Margie has previously served as CWC Sacramento branch President (July 2007-June 2015), branch Board of Directors member (July 2011-June 2013), and CWC NorCal Representative. For the CWC Central Board, she is serving as New Branch Development Chair and served as Vice President (July 2012-July 2015) and Member-at-Large (July 2008-July 2010). She is the recipient of the 2011 Jack London Award for outstanding service to the club.
Additionally, she is a member of the Cat Writers’ Association (CWA), Northern California Publishers & Authors Association (NCPA), and Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA).
For Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings, Margie was awarded Certificates of Excellence for “Gift” and for “Color Photographs (series)” in the CWA 2011 Communications Contest. Also, she received “Best Nonfiction 2012-Gift” and “Best Book Design 2012, 2nd Place” in the NCPA Awards.
In June 2015, she was honored to write a WNBA-SF Chapter blog post titled “The Bay Area Book Festival: Literary Feat and Fun!” (https://wnba-sfchapter.org/the-bay-area-book-festival-literary-feat-and-fun/).
Margie encourages everyone to write their stories and to make a difference in the issues that are closest to their heart.
Facebook: [http://facebook.com/MargieYeeWebb]
LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/margieyeewebb]
Charlotte E Thompson
Charlotte E. Thompson, M.D. has been a practicing physician for fifty years and is the author of eight books; six have been published by William Morrow, Random House, Oxford University Press, Econ-Verlag in Germany and Jessica Kingsley Publishers in the U.S. and UK. Her first book, Raising a Handicapped Child, was published in 1986 and continues to sell in its fifth edition. The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Autism was completely revised by Dr.Thompson in 2010.
Dr. Thompson’s latest books are: Your Personal Parenting Guide-Infant and Childcare Wisdom from a Top Pediatrician and Prescription (Rx) for Parenting. How to Raise Healthy Infants and Children. They will be available in September 2015 can be pre-ordered and are also available from Amazon and the Publisher, Atlantic Publishing Group.
Her Blog is: www.findinggoodmedicalcare.com