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DR. ELEANOR HUBBARD

Seimi-retired from university teaching, Dr. Hubbard is now a full-time writer and publisher. She has written two books, an autobiography, Finding my Way Home: A Remembrance Nest, Callie Press, 2010; and a guide for family and friends of transgender people, Trans-Kin: A Guide for Family and Friends of Transgender People, with Cameron T. Whitley, Bolder Press, 2012, as well as articles for academic journals. She does national diversity training, particularly in gender and sexual orientation. She is married with two grown daughters, two grandchildren and a pug.

 

PAMELA MINGLE

A former teacher and librarian, her debut novel, Kissing Shakespeare, was released by Delacorte Press in August 2012. She has won the Pikes Peak Writers Contest and is active in RMC-SCBWI and the Jane Austen Society of North America. She and her husband live in Lakewood.

 

DENNY DRESSMAN

 Denny Dressman is the author of five books, including Sterling Heroes of World War II,
published in July, and Eddie Robinson ". . . he was the Martin Luther King of football," a
Colorado Book Awards finalist in biography in 2010. He's also edited four other books.

In a 43-year newspaper career in Cincinnati, Louisville (KY), Oakland (CA) and Denver,
he was an award-winning reporter and columnist; held the positions of city editor,
executive sports editor, managing editor and editor; and for 10 years at the Rocky
Mountain News was vice president labor/human resources. He is a past president of
the Colorado Press Association and the Denver Press Club, and a member of the Denver
Press Club Hall of Fame. He has been invited to teach a writing course in the University
of Denver University College Enrichment Program during the Fall 2012 term.

 

KRISTEN HANNUM

Kristen Hannum returned to her native Colorado after 16 years in Portland, Oregon,
where she raised her children and worked as reporter, contributing editor, editorial
writer, and feature writer on staff at The Catholic Sentinel newspaper. She won two
dozen awards for her feature articles there, including nine first place awards, from
the Catholic Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, Catholic Relief
Services (the Eileen Egan Award, 2004), the Catholic Communications Campaign
(Proclaim Award, 2005), and the Society for the Propagation of the Faith (Edward T.
O'Meara Award, 2006).

Since her return to Colorado, she's written articles for a variety of magazines (including
cover articles forU.S. CatholicandColorado Country Living); two novels (so far unpublished);
and the first draft of the report on the Greening of the Democratic National Convention
2008. She’s also done freelance editing, both fiction and nonfiction, including for a best-
selling author.

 

NICOLE WEAVER

Fluent in four languages, Nicole Weaver loves writing children's picture books in English,
French, and Spanish to help young children learn the importance of early language
acquisition, something she learned having grown up speaking French and Creole and later
learned English and Spanish.  

Nicole believes all children can master a foreign language if given the opportunity to do
so. Her trilingual children's book, My Sister is My Best Friend was published by Guardian
Angel Publishing, November 2011 and My Brother is My Best Friend was also published
by Guardian Angel Publishing.

 

PAULA SILICI

Paula L. Silici has nearly twenty years of experience as the senior editor at Pro-Edits
where she has helped countless authors polish their work and ready it for a publisher’s
eyes. In addition, she is an associate editor and copy editor for the online literary
magazine Talking Writing.

As an award-winning author, her works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared
in regional and national publications, includingWoman’s World, numerous editions of
Chicken Soup for the Soul
, Guide Posts, and Award Winning Tales. Paula recently published
her first historical Western novel, A Way in the Wilderness (Moonlight Mesa Associates),
which was a Colorado Authors’ League 2012 Awards Book-Length Genre Fiction finalist.

 

 

SAMANTHA PRUST

Samantha Prust received her BA in English from Minnesota
State University in 1992 and her MFA in creative writing
from Colorado State University in 1999. From 1999 until
2010, she worked as a writer and editor for Cottonwood
Press, Inc., an independent book publisher specializing in
English and language arts.

Samantha is the author of the short story collection,
Romance and Other Stories (The Write Deal, 2011). She is
also the author of A Sentence a Day: Short Playful Proofreading
Exercises
(Prufrock Press, 2007). She was a contributing writer
for many English and language arts books: Language Is Served,
Phunny Stuph: Proofreading Exercises with a Sense of Humor
,
and More Abravocabra: The Amazingly Sensible Approach to
Teaching Vocabulary
. Samantha won 1st place in fiction in the
Minnesota State University Writing Competition and 1st place in
fiction in the MacMurray and Beck Writing Competition (Denver).

She currently works as a freelance writer and editor for various
clients, including Larimer County Natural Resources and 3Play Media.
Visit her blog at Little Wayward Typewriter.

 

SEPTEMBER 2011

MARGARET EVANS

DM SLATE

Margaret “Marji” Evans is a graduate of Oregon
State University. A former teacher at the
secondary level, her first writing experience was
writing curriculum for the Salem School District.
She then complete tow very popular non-fiction
equestrian trail guide books for the Denver area
titled: Riding Colorado (2003) and Riding
Colorado II (2005). Both continue to sell briskly
at tack and feed stores along the Front Range.
Her first fantasy novel was released in 2011, titled
Behind the Mist, Book One of the Mist Trilogy
. The
target audience is the 10 to 14 year old reader
who loves fantasy or horse stories.

DM Slate’s first sci-fi horror novella was
published in December of 2009, and it’s
been full speed ahead since then. She
credits herself with an overactive
imagination and constantly drawing
inspiration from everything around me,
hence a million unfinished stories. She
has reached a point in her career where
she needs to start networking and making
connections with more seasoned
professionals who can give me advice
and point me in the right direction.

 

 

 

 


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