|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
More About our Visiting Presenters
Dorianne Laux |
| Barbara Deal Barbara Neighbors Deal published her first book at age 22 (Singin' a Song of Joy, Abingdon Press). In the ensuing 35 years, she has published six more books, and innumerable articles in professional journals, popular magazines and major newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Chile, and Peru. Ms. Deal has been a literary agent for 17 years. Literary Associates specializes in works that deal with body/mind/spirit: spirituality, psychology, philosophy, self-help, lifestyle, health and alternative health topics, education, the new physics, and the areas of convergence amongst these topics. We accept occasional projects outside our specialty if they show unusual commercial promise. The agency works with writers in manuscript and book proposal development, editing (or refer to editor associates) contract negotiation, book sales to publishers, and sales of subsidiary rights. Ms. Deal is often asked by publishers to edit books on psychology, self-help, spirituality, mysticism, and philosophy; most recently manuscripts have been edited for publication for Paragon House, Abingdon Press, and Element Books International. Ms. Deal also consults with small and mid-sized publishers on program expansion, publicity, marketing, and developing new publishing programs. Ms. Deal’s eclectic career included 15 years as chief administrative officer of CFO International, an inter-religious world-wide spiritual fellowship whose mission was to bring people together across the barriers that usually divide them -- barriers of tribe and language in Africa, of caste and religion in India, of class and the Protestant/Catholic turmoil in Latin America, and of denomination and race in the United States and Europe, to discover their essential oneness. She lectured and taught on developing the spiritual life in more than 30 countries, and lived in those countries training local leaders in public speaking, leadership skills in creative writing and creative art, and choral conducting. Named by the California State Senate a Living Treasure in the Literary Arts, she mentors students who desire to become professional writers and editors, as well as presenting writing and editing workshops to schools, writer’s groups, churches, and community organizations. Barbara Neighbors Deal received her BA in Philosophy and Religion (magna cum laude) from California Western University. She completed a master’s degree and the course work for a Ph.D. in Human Behavior (Counseling), with highest honors, at United States International University, under the mentorship of Viktor Frankl, Carl Rogers, and Abraham Maslow. A Ph.D. in Psychology and Religion was completed in 1983. While in graduate school she taught sociology, psychology, and religion at Cal Western, and also taught counseling, and supervised counseling practicum, at U.S.I.U. She holds lifetime teaching credentials (psychology, philosophy, and religion) and lifetime counselor credentials in the California Community College system. Professional memberships include Book Publicists of Southern California, Publisher’s Marketing Association, and SPAN. |
Derrick Jensen![]() Derrick
Jensen’s
writing has been described as “breaking and mending the reader’s
heart” (Publishers Weekly). Author, teacher, activist, small
farmer, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, he regularly stirs
auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. Jensen holds
a degree in creative writing from Eastern Washington University, a degree
in mineral engineering physics from the Colorado School of Mines, and has
taught at Eastern Washington University and Pelican Bay State Prison. He
lives in Crescent City, California. http://www.derrickjensen.org/ |
Jay Lake Jay
Lake lives and works in Portland, Oregon, within sight of an 11,000 foot
volcano. He is the author of more than one hundred short stories, three
collections, and a chapbook, with an upcoming novel from Fairwood Press.
Jay is also the coeditor with Deborah Layne of the critically-acclaimed
Polyphony anthology series from Wheatland Press, as well as the highly
successful All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories with David Moles. His next
few projects include TEL: Stories, Polyphony 5 and Spicy Slipstream Stories.
In 2004, Jay won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has
also been a Hugo nominee for his short fiction and a World Fantasy Award
nominee for his editing. Visit his website: http://www.jlake.com. |
Joseph Millar Joseph
Millar grew up in Pennsylvania and received his MFA from Johns Hopkins
University where he wrote and taught stories, plays, and poems. He then
spent 25 years in the San Francisco Bay area, working at a variety of
jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. He continued
writing, attending writer's conferences, and taking occasional workshops
in his spare time. He also taught for The California Poets in the Schools
Program. In 1997 he moved to Eugene, Oregon where he began teaching composition,
fiction, and poetry at Mt. Hood Community College. His poems have appeared
in numerous magazines including TriQuarterly Review, Prairie Schooner,
DoubleTake, Ploughshares, New Letters, Manoa, and River Styx, and he
has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry,
the Moncalvo Center for the Arts, and from Oregon Literary Arts. A short
essay on Jazz will be published in the next issue of Poetry Northwest.
He now teaches at Oregon State University, The University of Oregon,
Pacific University’s Low Residency Program, and yearly at Esalen
in Big Sur, California. |
Presenters | Contact Us |
FAQ | Home | Location | Lodging
Registration | Rental
Cars / Taxi Service | Schedule | Sponsors