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AUTHORS APRIL PETTY LEONARD NASH
Leonard Nash has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, with eighteen years of teaching, writing, and consulting experience, including five years as an English instructor at Florida International University in Miami, and experience as a commercial magazine copy editor. He has published short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and magazine articles. You Can't Get There from Here and Other Stories is his first book-length collecton. When not writing and consulting, Nash enjoys tennis, hiking, bicycle riding, and attending sporting events such as baseball, tennis, and football. A unique pleasure is shopping at estate sales, garage sales, auctions, and thrift stores, which he finds are great sources of inspiration for fiction. Says Nash, “There is a story behind every garage sale. What prompts a person to spread his or her worldly belongings on the front lawn for the world to see?” SANDRA BANDUCCI
Sandra began channeling the entity known to her as Raine through automatic writing several years ago. Her first book, Conversations with Raine, has been distilled from her many journals documenting those sessions.
MARY JANE RYALS
Mary Jane Ryals' poetry is delicious, sensory, rapturous, riviting ... a feast for the senses. An award-winning author of nonfiction, poetry, and short stories; editor at the Apalachee Review literary magazine; and research associate at Florida State University's College of Business, Mary Jane Ryals has added a new title to her portfolio: 2008-2010 Big Bend Poet Laureate. She is also the 2006 winner of the Second Annual Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook Contest for Florida Poets. Her short story collection, A Messy Job I Never Did See a Girl Do, is available from Livingston Press, and her nonfiction book, Getting into the Intercultural Groove: Intercultural Communication for Everyone, was released in 2006 from Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
Ellen is a former college professor (English and interdisciplinary Humanities) and a modern dancer (performing with the company Avodah, now based in New York, and in Florida State University productions). JAMES PROTZMAN
In his spare time, James is a gourd artist whose sculptures have been featured in several galleries. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and daughter, and is currently working on another novel, Plaid.
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April is a popular Yoga and Pilates instructor working in the Seattle area. She teaches Hatha Yoga classes that often incorporate postures and techniques from Astanga, Sivananda, Kundalini, and Prahna styles of Yoga. April says that her classes are "a physical as well as a spiritual journey toward balance." Her Pilates classes are based on the original fitness regimen created by Joseph Pilates. She also teaches Aquatic Fitness, Beginner Ballet and Jazz Dance, Ballet Fitness, and offers one-on-one personal training. She studied Theatre Arts and Dance at East Carolina University, Florida State University, and the University of West Florida. April is certified by American Fitness Professionals and Associates and the American Heart Association (CPR). She is also a Third-Degree Reiki Master.
Sandra has lived a vibrant, varied life - from early childhood growing up in Hawaii, to joining the San Francisco Ballet as an apprentice right out of high school, to travels in Europe and England. Her studies in sociology, anthropology, and paleontology have led her onto many paths that she continues to explore. She is the grand-niece of acclaimed anthropologist and humanist, Dr. Loren Eiseley, author of The Immense Journey and many other books. 
Ellen Ashdown is a writer now living at St. George Island, Florida. A Florida Fiction Fellow, she has published feature articles on art, dance, and education in regional and national magazines. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida, is Phi Beta Kappa, a former dancer, and a writer for major textbook publishers, advertising agencies, and universities. She has made her living solely by writing for almost 20 years. Her recent articles include an interview with Suzanne Farrell, George Balanchine’s muse and New York City Ballet prima ballerina, and a feature article on Jawole Zollar, founder and artistic director of Urban Bush Women dance troupe.
James Alexander Protzman had been looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places – until he found it writing his first novel, Jesus Swept. Today he carries that happy knowledge into his work as a political activist, a blogger, and a freelance writer. James graduated from the United States Naval Academy and later earned a masters degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina. 
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