Dr. Rachell Anderson
Dr. Anderson ran a private clinical practice in Springfield, Illinois from 1974 until she retired in July, 2008. In the practice, she provided Individual, Marriage and Family Therapy and Psychological Education programs to people with mental illnesses and emotional pain. She is credentialed by the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
For twenty years, Dr. Anderson taught clinical courses to graduate students in the Department of Human Services (HMS) at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). She spearheaded the re-development and accreditation of the HMS program and served as its chair from 1999 until 2006.
Dr. Anderson has authored ten books. Her most recent publications are: Before Our Eyes, a chronicle of the healing advantages of watching psychotherapy between a client and a therapist in an open forum, The Legacy Continues: Writing Healing Stories, Run Turkeys, Run: Fifty Years of Celebrating Family a memoir ,and Cultivating Cotton: From Field to Runway.
Since retirement, Dr. Anderson writes a Family Matters column for the Tunica Times, serves on the boards of Trustees for Northwest Mississippi Community College and The Mississippi Writers Guild; volunteers clinical hours weekly at the Church Health Center in Memphis; teaches the Writer’s Workshop for the Mississippi Writers Guild at the Tunica Museum; and co-leads “The Poetry Connection, a poetry writing group at the Unitarian Church in Memphis and has served as president of the Alliance group at her church. She lives and writes in Tunica.
www.drrachellanderson.com
For twenty years, Dr. Anderson taught clinical courses to graduate students in the Department of Human Services (HMS) at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). She spearheaded the re-development and accreditation of the HMS program and served as its chair from 1999 until 2006.
Dr. Anderson has authored ten books. Her most recent publications are: Before Our Eyes, a chronicle of the healing advantages of watching psychotherapy between a client and a therapist in an open forum, The Legacy Continues: Writing Healing Stories, Run Turkeys, Run: Fifty Years of Celebrating Family a memoir ,and Cultivating Cotton: From Field to Runway.
Since retirement, Dr. Anderson writes a Family Matters column for the Tunica Times, serves on the boards of Trustees for Northwest Mississippi Community College and The Mississippi Writers Guild; volunteers clinical hours weekly at the Church Health Center in Memphis; teaches the Writer’s Workshop for the Mississippi Writers Guild at the Tunica Museum; and co-leads “The Poetry Connection, a poetry writing group at the Unitarian Church in Memphis and has served as president of the Alliance group at her church. She lives and writes in Tunica.
www.drrachellanderson.com
Kate Lechler
Kate Lechler (Ph.D. in English Literature) is a scholar and author of modern fairy tales. She currently teaches a course on fairy tales and fairy tale adaptations at the University of Mississippi. Her fairy tale-inspired fiction has been published in the NonBinary Review and she is a regular staff writer for FantasyLiterature.com. She also works as a book consultant and editor for authors in a variety of genres.
http://katelechler.com/
Linda Rettstatt
Linda Rettstatt likes to know what makes people tick and she loves a good story. This combination fuels her passion for creating stories that capture your mind and touch your heart. Her writing garnered the 2012 EPIC eBook Award in Mainstream Fiction for her novel Love, Sam. She is the author of twenty-two novels and writes both women’s fiction and contemporary romance.
Linda grew up in SW Pennsylvania and now lives in NW Mississippi with her cat, Binky, who only allows her to share the apartment because she brings home the kibble.
www.lindarettstatt.com
Linda grew up in SW Pennsylvania and now lives in NW Mississippi with her cat, Binky, who only allows her to share the apartment because she brings home the kibble.
www.lindarettstatt.com
Kim Smith
Kim Smith is the author of four novels, one novella, and many short stories. She has been published by A Mouthfull of Bullets, Red Rose Publishing, Seventh Star Publishing, and soon will have a sci-fi short out in an anthology by Divertir Publishing.
www.kimsmithauthor.com
Larry Wells
|
Lawrence Wells’ first novel, Rommel and the Rebel, was published by Doubleday and Company in 1986. He studied writing under Hudson Strode at the University of Alabama, and Evans Harrington at the University of Mississippi. Wells has written three novels and edited six non-fiction books including William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection. With his wife Dean Faulkner Wells (1936-2011), he operated Yoknapatawpha Press, an independent press in Oxford, Mississippi, and co-published a quarterly journal, The Faulkner Newsletter. Co-founder of the Faux Faulkner Contest, he also scripted an Emmy-winning PBS regional documentary, “Return to the River.” He has been a frequent contributor to American Way and Southwest Spirit magazines and the New York Times Syndicate. (Education: B.A., M.A. in English, University of Alabama; Ph.D., University of Mississippi.) He and Dean were married for 38 years. 
Larry and Dean - Instructors at NWCC, 1976
|
