WHO WE ARE
Leslie Rutkin worked in publishing for over 22 years, winding up her career as a Creative Director at Random House. She and a partner then opened a successful marketing and design company which they ran for several years. Leslie has also written promotion materials for other companies, for print media and for the web. Currently she is shopping around a memoir she wrote about the early part of her marriage and starting work on another book.
Lynda Myles started as an actress, appearing on and off-Broadway and in regional theaters playing parts ranging from Shakespeare to light comedies to Greek tragedies. She wrote several plays, some of which got produced and also wrote for many TV soap operas. Her short story "The Blue Dress" received the John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2007.
Bettina Bradbury wrote hundreds of dazzling scripts for Santa Barbara and All My Children while she and husband, Gary, raised two remarkable sons, Danny and Casey. She is currently starting work on the official biography of her father, the writer, Ray Bradbury.
Elizabeth Swain is currently a member of the Antaeus Company in Los Angeles where she directs and teaches. She has acted on Broadway and acted and directed at theaters throughout the country. She taught at Barnard College in New York City and is currently Professor Emeritus at Marymount Manhattan College. She has written numerous articles for theater and academic publications.
Lucille Santiago, at age sixteen, has made an auspicious start as a writer with her two deeply personal essays in this issue. She attends East Lyme High School in New London, CT.Writers from past issues:
Orumé Hays grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, part of a large, colorful, polygamous family; John Loomis was born and bred in Texas, practiced as a psychiatrist in New York City, plays sublime piano, and believes in "orphan memories;" Dotty Hammer spent 25 years traveling the world bringing native crafts back to the U.S. along with a thousand stories; Paula Galloway's family home was in Newark, New Jersey, and no one can invoke those mean, scary and funny streets more trenchantly than she. Carolyn Culliton, was born in Indiana and went to Northwestern University. She's written for numerous daytime serials, including All My Children, Another World, and Days of Our Lives, as a headwriter, editor, breakdown and script writer. She and her husband, Richard, created the General Hospital spinoff, Port Charles.
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