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The Artist's Biography

FILM

Ojai Film Festival
Action on Film Festival (three times)
Trail Dance Film Festival
60 Second Film Festival (twice)
Sixty Second Film Festival (producer and participant)

SCREENWRITING

So Shall You Reap
All That We See or Seem
Appellation
How Do We Wanna Go Out
Finding Mandolin's Daughter
Stealing Magnolias
My Name is Mattie
Stiches
Lysistrata: The Western, The Musical

Jessika with Director's Chair
Jessika with awards

AWARDS

Best Music Video for How Do We Wanna Go Out, AOF, Pasadena CA
Without A Box Best Script for So Shall You Reap, AOF, Pasadena, CA
Best Dialogue in a Script for So Shall You Reap, AOF, Pasadena, CA
Best Dramatic Script for Appellation, AOF, Pasadena, CA
Silver Sierra Award for Appellation, Yosemite Film Festival
Third Place Essay Contest, The Inlander, Spokane WA

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WRITING

Books:
Bumping Up to First Class
Your Next Step: Going from A to B
Synchronicity: The Entrepreneur's Edge

Chapbooks:
Saints and Sages--release All Saints Day--November 1, 2021
Come to My Dinner Party
I'm a Product of Thomas Jefferson's Seventh Generation
The Angle of Repose.

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WRITING RESIDENCIES

Irish Hermitage
Studium Visiting Scholar
St. Gertrude Monastery Artist in Residence
Northwood University Fellowship
Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship
Kalani Writers Artist in Residence

CONFERENCES AND WRITING RETREATS

Maui Writers Retreat and ConferenceĀ  3 years
Port Townsend Writers FestivalĀ  1 year
Freefall Writers RetreatsĀ  3 years Doe Bay, WA; Forks WA, near Cardiff, Wales.

TEACHERS/MENTORS


Holly Knight, Songwriter, The Best, Love is a Battlefield, Invincible
Stewart Stern, Screenwriter, Rebel Without A Cause, Sybil
Dan Kneece, Camera Operator for director David Lynch for more than 20 years
Ron Vidor, Camera Operator, worked in Hollywood for more than 50 years.
Anne Waldman, Poet, Naropa University professor and Guggenheim Fellow.
Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company

COMMUNITY SERVICE


Harborview Medical Center's Poetry Project
King County 1% for Art Juror