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Creative NonFiction Memoir

BETTY CRAIGE Betty Jean Craige is University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia. She has published books in the fields of literature, history of ideas, politics, ecology, and art. Two of her translations of Marjorie Agosín’s poetry were published by Sherman Asher: Poems for Josefina and Mother, Speak to Us of War / Madre, háblanos de la guerra.

Sister Anna.

SUSAN GILBERT HARVEY Postmarks: The Summers of ‘98 Susan Gilbert Harvey was born in Rome, Georgia. She graduated from Hollins College and studied Advanced Design at Shorter College. During her thirty-year sculpture career, Harvey exhibited her work nationally and received a Georgia Women in the Arts Award. The Rome Area Council for the Arts awarded Harvey a Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in visual, performance, and literary arts. In 2005, Harvey founded Golden Apple Press and published Tea with Sister Anna: a Paris journal. Postmarks: The Summers of ‘98is the prequel to Tea with

LINDA NIEMANN Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century Linda Grant Niemann teaches creative nonfiction atKennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She is author of Boomer: Railroad Memoirs and Railroad Voices. After obtaining her Ph.D. in English Dr. Niemann spent years working on the railroad before coming to the University to teach creative writing.

D. CRAIG RIKARD Hidden Epidemic CRAIG RIKARD and his wife Gail have led busy lives together. Craig has been a United Methodist Clergyman for over thirty-two years. Craig has earned three post-graduate degrees in theology and marriage and family therapy. Their shared faith and love, enlivened by their differences, have led to 36 years of marriage.


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