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Scarsdale Library Writers' Center Presents…
Join us once a month when the writers from our critique group program and other local authors present their short essays, poetry or book excerpts, all revolving around a theme. Here’s your chance to be moved by the creativity and talent of your local friends and neighbors — and to get the scoop on their upcoming publications! Watch our bulletin or social media for each month’s theme and the readers who’ll be appearing!
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You will receive an email with the Zoom link approximately 1 hour before the beginning of the event.
Marlena Maduro Baraf immigrated to the United States from her native Panama and is author of the memoir, At the Narrow Waist of the World. Her essays and poems have been published in Ms. Sweet Lit, Lilith, Lumina, Read 650, HuffPost, The Night Heron Barks, and Poets Reading the News. Marlena blogs regularly at breathinginspanish.com
Liane Kupferberg Carter is the author of the award-winning memoir, Ketchup Is My Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows Up With Autism. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Next Avenue, and many journals, blogs and book anthologies. Liane has a master’s in journalism from New York University and a B.A. in English from Brandeis University. She met her husband Marc at Club Med, and they got engaged two weeks later.
Linda Hillman Chayes’ chapbook, The Lapse, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in journals including American Poetry Journal, 2 Horatio, and Westchester Review. She works as a psychoanalyst with practices in New York City and Westchester. She recently published “The Voice of the Analyst: Narratives in Developing a Psychoanalytic Identity” with Routledge Press.
Brad Crownover's writing has appeared in two edited book volumes, Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation and Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process, both published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. He wrote, directed, and performed in a solo play, Here With You, a piece about loss, memory, and moving forward. Brad has a Ph.D. in Communication and Media Studies from Rutgers University and an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a professor and Director of Theatre and Performing Arts Programs at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Brad performs regularly in plays around Westchester and NYC and at open mics (ukulele in hand). He currently resides in Yonkers, NY.
Linda Ellenbogen I am the mother of three, and two in law children Grandmother of 6. I am a retired New York City elementary school teacher. And have always had a love of and interest in writing. Since I retired I have had the time to pursue this interest. I have had two essays published.
Carolyn Lyall grew up in the UK, but has since lived in New York, India, Belgium and Hong Kong. Despite her undiagnosed childhood dyslexia Carolyn has published, as C.B. Lyall, two novels: The Virus of Beauty - Book 1 and The Veil of Corruption - Book 2 in her three book YA Fantasy Series (available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc). She’s also a contributor in the Short Story Anthology - 25 Servings of Soop - Volume 1. They have accepted another of her short stories for Volume 2, which is due to be released in September 2021. She is currently working on the last book in her fantasy series and a historical fiction novel based on the British Women’s Emigration Association. Carolyn has studied at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and The Scarsdale Library’s Writers Center. She lives in Hastings on Hudson with her husband. She has three adult sons and one grandson. To learn more, visit cblyall.com. Listen to her podcasts on iTunes - Story_Hub by C. B. Lyall https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/story-hub-with-c-b-lyall/id1510006979?mt=2&ls=1
Jack Miller has lived in Scarsdale for more than 20 years. Over that time, he has poorly coached many youth sports teams and been active in the community, volunteering on several executive boards. Jack has a master’s degree in Architecture from Tulane University, and has attended classes at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College as well as The Scarsdale Library’s Writers Center. He has had work appear in Westchester Magazine, The Scarsdale Inquirer and Scarsdale Living Magazine as well as on AOL, where he contributed to their “Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad” articles for many
Harriet Shenkman has published two chapbooks, Teetering and The Present Abandoned. She has published poetry in many national and international journals and is a Professor Emerita at CUNY.
Lisa VanGundy joined the Scarsdale Library Writers’ Center at its inception.Her articles and photographs have been published in The Inquirer.She writes memoir, how to, historical fiction and expanded consciousness.