Speaker-artist
Bonnie Hanson
is author of several books for adults and children, including the popular
Ponytail Girls
series, plus hundreds of published articles and poems. Her family includes husband Don, sons, grandchildren, cats, birds and possums! Contact: 3330 S. Lowell St., Santa Ana, CA 92707; (714) 751-7824;
[email protected].
Maria Harden
lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She writes for newspapers, magazines and Web sites, sharing her life experiences. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, playing the piano and spending time with her family, especially her grandson. Contact Maria at
[email protected].
Emily Sue Harvey
's upbeat stories appear in women's magazines, the
Chocolate
series,
Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul, From Eulogy to Joy
and
Caution:
Children Praying.
Her mainstream fictional novel,
God Only Knows,
about an all-too-human preacher's family, is with the Peter Miller Agency in New York. Her current project,
Sunny Flavors,
is about Sunny, a mill hill girl, and her quest to overcome her family's shame. Please contact Emily at (864) 439-5358 or
[email protected].
Jonny Hawkins
' cartoons in
Chicken Soup for the Grandma's Soul
are dedicated to his beloved Grandma Hawkins.
Barbara Hibschman
is a writer and speaker. She is the author of eight books and a contributing author to thirteen inspirational books. She speaks for women's groups, churches and seminars in the United States and abroad. She enjoys team-teaching at marriage retreats with her pastor-husband, Jim. Contact:
[email protected].
Born in Michigan and raised in Texas,
Renee Hixson
now resides in beautiful British Columbia with her husband and four children. She has taught Sunday school and high school English and written early childhood curriculum. At the moment Renee is working on a romantic adventure novel. Please e-mail her at
[email protected].
Erin Hoffman
is a freelance writer and designer currently residing in Los Angeles. She dedicates this publication to her grandmother, Dorothy Asakawa. Erin was born in San Diego, California, and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003. She specializes in fantasy and young adult fiction. For more information, visit
www.erinhoffman.com
.
Alaska's long winters give
Valerie A. Horner
plenty of time to write and quilt. She runs a bed and breakfast, catering to guests from around the world. She loves traveling, boating and gardening. She is known for her great cooking and has published a cookbook. Her e-mail is
[email protected].
Beverly Houseman
is a retired registered nurse. She has published a book about her son, Rusty. Beverly is a contributor to
Chicken Soup for the Nurse's
Soul, Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, From the Heart
books 1 & 2 by Kendall Bell. She is a pro-life counselor with Osceola Pregnancy Center in Kissimmee. Florida. Please e-mail her at
[email protected].
Sheila S. Hudson
is published in the “Chocolates for Women” series, including “God Allows U-Turns,” “Stories from the HeartâVolumes 1 and 2,” “Taking Education Higher” and “God's Vitamin C.” She is a columnist for
Athens Banner
Herald
, contributor for the
Christian Standard Magazine
and president of Southeastern Writers of America.
Anne Johnson
earned a bachelor of science degree and is a registered nurse in Nebraska in an intensive care unit. However, her most rewarding job is being a wife and mother. Writing is her way of relaxing.
Louise Tucker Jones
is a Gold Medallion awardâwinning author and popular speaker. She holds a master's degree in creative writing and is author and coauthor of three books. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and compilation books, including
Guideposts
and other
Chicken Soup
titles. Louise resides in Edmond, Oklahoma. E-mail:
[email protected].
Shirley Jump
spends her days writing romantic comedies with sweet attitude for Kensington Books (
The Bachelor Committed Pastry,
February 2006) and Silhouette Romance (
The Marine's Kiss,
August 2005) to feed her shoe addiction and avoid doing housework. Visit her Web site at
www.shirleyjump.com
.
Kathryn Kimzey Judkins
, LVN, has lived in California since 1962. Since retiring in 1998, she spends much of her time writing poetry and short stories. Married fifty-eight years, she has three children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Betty King
is an author, newspaper columnist and speaker. She is a wife, mother and grandmother and has lived with the disease MS for thirty-eight years. She is read in publications worldwide. Her Web site is
www.bettyking.net
and e-mail is
[email protected].
Jean Kinsey
, a native Kentuckian, enjoys traveling, camping and writing. Her personal experience stories have been published in
Chicken Soup, Reminiscence,
Live
and e-zines. American Syringomyelia Alliance Project has published twelve of her profile columns. Jean hopes to finish soon her novel
Brightest Star,
about a boy who has syringomyelia. E-mail:
[email protected].
Roger Kiser
's stories have been publsihed in seventeen books in five countries. Roger will never forget how he was treated as less than human while living in a Jacksonville, Florida, orphanage. Roger's story is at
www.geocities.com/trampolineone/survive/noframe.htm
.
Contact Roger at
[email protected].
J. Kenneth Kreider
is professor emeritus of European history at Elizabethtown College (Pennsylvania). He received his Ph.D from the Pennsylvania State University and is author of
A Cup of Cold Water: The Story of Brethen Service
(2001). He conducts tours and has traveled in over ninety countries and seven continents.
Margaret Lang
received her bachelor of arts degree from Brown University in 1963. She teaches women and children's groups in California. Margaret has one story accepted for publication and others under consideration. Her daughter is a physician/missionary, her son a youth pastor, and she has one granddaughter.
Patti Lawson
is an author, lawyer and public speaker who lives in Charleston, West Virginia, with her dog Sadie. Patti and Sadie write a newspaper column, “Dogs . . . Diets . . . Dating,” for the
Sunday Gazette-Mail.
Patti's first book,
The
Dog Diet,
will be published in 2005. Visit her Web site at
www.thedogdiet.com
.
CLASS graduate
Delores Christian Liesner
of Racine, Wisconsin, delights in sharing her faith-walk with eight grandchildren, radio audiences (Chapel of the Air; Renaissance Racine), by written word
(Woman's World, God Answers Prayer,
Renaissance, CBN Internet, Health and Wellness,
etc.), speaking inspirationally or creating personalized poetry. Contact:
www.deloresliesner.com
or
[email protected].
Patricia Lorenz
is the proud grandma of Hailey, Hannah, Zachary, Casey, Riley, Chloe, Adeline and Ethan. She's an art-of-living speaker, author of five books and a top contributor to the
Chicken Soup for the Soul
books, with stories in twenty-five of them. To hire her as a speaker, e-mail
[email protected]
or visit
www.patricialorenz.com
.
Alice Malloy
is a recently retired social worker from Long Island, New York. Besides writing, her new life consists of long walks by the ocean, good books and, of course, Tuesdays with her grandchildren. Please contact her at
[email protected].
Bettye Martin-McRae
, writer's mentor, founder of Writers' Ongoing Workshops, has been freelancing since 1972, including daily newspapers,
Guideposts,
Focus on the Family,
The Christian Reader,
Texas Folklore Society; national columns in
Mules
and More Magazine,
and author of eight western humor and inspirational books. Please contact:
www.BunkhouseBooks.com
; [email protected];
(325) 235-9969.
John McCaslin
is a nationally syndicated political columnist and author based in Washington, D.C. He's seen regularly on national television discussing the latest White House and Capitol Hill gossip. In his spare time, he enjoys writing travel articles for numerous publications. Mostly, he relishes time spent with his daughter, Kerry.
Janet Lynn Mitchell
is a wife, mother, author and inspirational speaker. She is the coauthor of
A Special Kind of Love, For Those Who Love Children with Special
Needs,
published by Broadman and Holman and Focus on the Family, 2004. Janet can be reached at
[email protected]
or by fax (714) 633-6309.
Laura Mueller
lives in southern Vermont with her husband, Andy, and their two young children. Laura has published numerous essays, is writing a novel about teenage girls and has recently finished cowriting a play called
Mommy
Talk
with playwright Adriana Elliot. Laura can be reached at
[email protected].
Motivational humorist
Jennifer Oliver
, a former El Pasoan, resides in central Texas with her husband and four kids. Author of
Four Ears: Works of Heart,
her stories have appeared in
Chicken Soup for the Soul, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff,
Heartwarmers, Stories for a Woman's Heart
and
Half Full.
Karen J. Olson
is a writer and columnist from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She writes two columns regionally as well as inspirational magazine articles on local, regional and national levels. She enjoys reading, bicycling and scrap-booking. You may reach her at
[email protected].
Rachel R. Patrick
writes Bible studies and teaches in her church's women's ministry. Married nearly thirty years to Al, she has a grown son, three nearly teen granddaughters and a toddler grandson. Encouraging women to apply biblical principles to their lives is her life's goal.
Denise Peebles
is a happily married mother of two children, Ashley, age twenty, and Jonathan, age ten. She and her husband, Keith, enjoy traveling and watching their son play sports. Denise dreams of publishing a children's book someday. Please e-mail her at
[email protected].
Dr. Debra D. Peppers
, a retired English teacher, was inducted into the prestigious National Teachers Hall of Fame. Now a university instructor, Emmy awardâwinning playwright, radio and television host, Debra is also a member of the National Speakers Association. Dr. Peppers is available for bookings at (314) 842-7425,
[email protected]
, or visit her Web site at
www.pepperseed.org
.
Teresa Pitman
is the author or coauthor of ten published books and a regular contributor to
Today's Parent
magazine. As the single mother of four children and the grandmother of two, she loves writing about parentingâand now grandparenting.
Shirley Pope Waite
has had fillers, articles, poems and devotions in over 150 publications and twenty-four books, including her own
Delight in the Day.
She has taught at writers' conferences and currently writes a weekly column and teaches a class helping seniors write their life stories.
Trudy Reeder
has a Ph.D in psychology from the University of Denver, a master's degree in education from Wayne State University and a bachelor's degree from Eastern Michigan University. She loves people, psychology, teaching, art and writing, and she worked at Loretto Heights College, the University of Northern Colorado and in Poudre School District. E-mail her at
[email protected].
Carol McAdoo Rehme
, one of
Chicken Soup
's managing editors and most prolific contributors, compares grannyhood to homemade happinessâlife's natural sweetener. Carol directs a nonprofit organization, Vintage Voices, Inc.,
which brings interactive programming to the vulnerable elderly. Speaking engagements and storytelling gigs fill her spare time. Contact:
[email protected];
www.rehme.com
.
Kimberly Ripley
is a wife and mother of five from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She is the author of six books, including
Freelancing Later in Life.
Visit her Web site at
www.kimberlyripley.writergazette.com
.
Michelle Rocker
is a mother of two boys and two girls. She is passionate about music and addicted to reading. She loves writing, has written several children's programs and is currently working on a women's inspirational book.
Please e-mail her at
[email protected].
Stephen D. Rogers
is a stay-at-home dad who is late with his own thank-you notes. Please e-mail him at
[email protected].
Harriet May Savitz
has had twenty-two books published and an ABC-TV “Afterschool Special” produced by Henry Winkler. Her recent book of essays,
More Than EverâA View from My 70s
, is available through
Authorhouse.com
.
Visit her at
www.harrietmaysavitz.com
or reach her by e-mail at
[email protected].