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Sheila Bender Sheila Bender is a poet, essayist, author, and
publisher of WritingItReal.com. Her poems appear in North American
literary journals and anthologies such as Poetry Northwest, The Seattle Review,
Writers' Forum, Northern Lights, and We Used to Be Wives, among others. Her
many books on writing include Keeping a Journal You Love, A Year in the Life:
Journaling for Self-Discovery, Writing Personal Poetry: Creating Poems from Life
Experience, Writing Personal Essays: How to Shape Your Life Experiences for the
Page, and Writing in a New Convertible with the Top Down. She is a past
contributing poetry editor to Writer's Digest Magazine and is on the faculties
of the Colorado Mountain Writer's Conference and the La Jolla Writer's
Conference. She holds a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing
from the University of Washington and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Keane
College in New Jersey. She has helped hundreds of students begin to write, continue, and publish. Courses Testimonials "Sheila possesses the unique ability to combine
the art of teaching with her sensitivity as a poet. She offered strategies and
techniques that allowed me to grow as a writer and offered critiques that
respected the integrity of the work I created. --David Durham "Sheila helped me to rework a skeleton of a poem
until it blossomed like a tree bearing fruit. Sheila is always
encouraging, never intimidating. I respect her. --Marcia Wall, inspirational speaker and teacher,
Louisiana "Working with Sheila is like having your favorite
aunt read your work-- and that aunt is the poetry critic for The New York
Times. (Is there such a person?) She sees everything, tells you most of
it, and makes you feel like you could be the next Maya Angelou. Her insights are
right on, and her encouragement is priceless. --Kate Kalb, RN, Washington State "Think you can't write poetry? Neither did
many of my students. Sheila helped them discover sparkling metaphors,
encouraged them to manipulate the words, massage the verses, and imbue them with
liquid freshness radiating the inner warmth of the author. To a person, we
finished the class with enthusiasm and confidence that we are, in fact, poets."
--Sam Turner, teacher and poet |
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