Kate Farrell

Kate Farrell earned a MA from UC Berkeley; taught language arts in

high schools, colleges, and universities; founded the Word Weaving

storytelling project in collaboration with the California Department

of Education with a grant from the Zellerbach Family Fund, and

published numerous educational materials. She is founder of

Wisdom Has a Voice memoir project and edited Wisdom Has a

Voice: Every Daughter's Memories of Mother (2011). Farrell is

president of the Women's National Book Association, San Francisco

Chapter, a board member of Redwood Branch of the California

Writers Club, and a member of Story Circle Network and the

National Association of Memoir Writers.

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Linda Joy Myers is president and founder of the National

Association of Memoir Writers, and the author of four books:

Don't Call Me Mother—A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment

to Forgiveness, The Power of Memoir—How to Write Your Healing

Story, and a workbook The Journey of Memoir: The Three Stages of

Memoir Writing. Her book Becoming Whole—Writing Your Healing

Story was a finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award.

A speaker and award-winning author, she co-teaches the program

Write Your Memoir in Six Months, and offers editing, coaching, and

mentoring for memoir, nonfiction, and fiction. Visit her at: www.

namw.org ;and ;http://memoriesandmemoirs.com.

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Amber Lea Starfire

Amber Lea Starfire, ;whose passion is helping others tell their stories,

is the author of ;Week by Week: A Year's Worth of Journaling Prompts &

Meditations ;(2012) and Not the Mother I Remember, due for release

in the fall of 2013. A writing teacher and editor, she earned her

MFA in Creative Writing from University of San Francisco and is a

member of the California Writers Club in Napa and Santa Rosa, the

Story Circle Network, the National Association of Memoir Writers,

and the International Association for Journal Writing. In her spare

time, she enjoys spending time outdoors. Visit her at: www.writingthroughlife.

com.