Linda Cruise, M.F.A., M.A. currently freelances as a writer, editor, instructor, multimedia consultant, and photographer, having earned her Master of Fine Arts in Writing at Spalding University, in Louisville, Kentucky. During her last year, she served as one of the editors for the program’s esteemed literary journal, The Louisville Review. Along with a B.A. (Anthropology) from Douglass College, Rutgers University and an M.A. in Anthropology from Binghamton University, Linda is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature, as well as one of the Vermont Arts Council’s featured artists and a member of the Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs, League of Vermont Writers, and Society of Children Book Writers & Illustrators. With over 20 years of experience, she has taught children through adults in both traditional and non-traditional settings.
She is also the former Founder and Managing Partner of Writing Consultants Network LLP, a multimedia firm based in Vermont, Minnesota, Michigan, and Indiana, which has evolved into Nor'easter Multimedia. Linda devotes much of her creative energy to photography and writing three current fiction book-length projects. Her published creative work includes fiction, creative non-fiction, literary criticism, journalism, poetry, biography, and photography; it has appeared in the Burlington Free Press, Public Republic, Tecumseh Herald, The Times Ink!, The Hinesburg Record, Soaring, Vermont Catholic Tribune, and League Lines. A sample of her published writing can be viewed at Public Republic, an online literary magazine. Additional information, including references, Curriculum Vitae, and testimonials can be found at our Testimonials page.
Cristina
Trapani-Scott, M.F.A. is an award-winning writer, whose poetry,
fiction, and essays have been published online and in print in such
publications as Hip Mama Magazine, Mamazine.com, Public Republic, Salamander
Poems, Driftwood, and the Bear River Review. Her work also appears in the Writers
Reading at Sweetwaters Anthology, A Cup of Comfort for a
Better World and Sweet Lemons 2: International Writings with a Sicilian Accent. As a journalist for
the bi-weekly publication, the Tecumseh Herald, she earned awards
from the National Newspaper Association for both humor and serious columns and
from the Michigan Press Association for her column and spot news writing.
In addition, she has earned two Chelsea Poetry Competition Awards, a first
place in 2003 and an honorable mention in 2004. She also earned an honorable
mention for her short story, “It’s Only a Matter of Survival,” in the 2008 Metro Detroit Writers Member Contest, and
she won two Kentuckiana Metroversity Writing Contest awards as a graduate
student in the brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Spalding University, in Louisville,
Kentucky. She currently teaches college writing and writes regular features on
cooking at Examiner.com as the Ann Arbor Cooking Examiner.
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