Deborah Batterman is a fiction writer, essayist, and teaching artist. A story from her debut collection, Shoes Hair Nails was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in anthologies as well as various print and online journals, and a selection of her essays, Because My Name…
In the May Issue of The Bookwoman, the winners for the First Annual WNBA Writing Contest were announced and two of our chapter members were recognized! Deborah Batterman – All Mine, Third Place, Fiction Deborah Batterman is a fiction writer, essayist, and teaching artist. A story from her debut collection,…
Welcome to our first Member Monday: Blog Roll Call! In addition to our usual Member Monday news, updates, and interviews, we’ll be showcasing your blogs. Here’s what member Linda Rosen, who is the hospitality chair and a Great Group Reads committee member, has to say about her blog, The Literary Leotard:…
Pauline Hsia is the Literary Agent Assistant at Doris S. Michaels Literary Agency in New York. She is a member of the Women’s National Book Association, Association of Author’s Representatives, and Young to Publishing Group. How long have you been a member of the WNBA-NYC? How did you get involved…
Deirdre Bair was nominated for the prestigious Plutarch award for her recent book, Saul Steinberg: a Biography. Jane Kinney-Denning, WNBA-NYC president, interviewed John P. Stern, president of Storm King Art Center, the sculpture park in Mountainville, for Chronogram magazine. Read the interview here. Linda Epstein, literary agent and WNBA-NYC…
Pamela Milam, a member of the New York Chapter of the WNBA, is a reader, author, and therapist living part-time in both Dallas and New York. Represented by Jim Levine at the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency, her most recent book takes a closer look at what happens inside the therapy…
Barbara Foster is an Associate Professor and research librarian at CUNY. She is co-author of three highly acclaimed books, including the biographies Forbidden Journey (Harper/Collins) and The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel (third printing Overlook, 2007). Her biography of Adah Isaacs Menken, America’s first superstar, A Dangerous Woman, was published…
Canadian Gila Green’s debut novel KING OF THE CLASS is published by Now or Never Publishing (2013). Her novel in stories WHITE ZION, nominated for the Doris Bakwin Literary Award, will be released in spring 2014. She teaches fiction at: www.womenonwriting.com and lives in Israel with her husband and children.…
Rachel Slaiman is currently a freelance and blog writer for LatinTRENDS Magazine, with an M.S. in Publishing from Pace University. She writes about events that she attends around the city and articles that are geared toward the Latino community. Her two passions are reading and writing. How did you become…
Talia Carner, author of Jerusalem Maiden, is expanding her reach and has accepted a speaking invitation in Paris, France in April and an appearance in Jerusalem in July. For details, please check her website, www.TaliaCarner.com Barbara Foster recently presented A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken to the New York…
