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Writing While Masked gathers seven aspiring writers' personal pieces, essays, and poems about 2020's deadly pandemic, unparalleled divisiveness, and momentous racial reckoning. Their beautiful, timely, and expressive reflections include thoughts on experiences, lessons learned, and future hopes.
About the author
Mary Ann Gonzales has a long history of working with nonprofit social organizations, from the Seattle AIDS SUPPORT GROUP to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Tyson Greer has undertaken a broad array of endeavors including directing documentaries, teaching screen writing at the University of Washington, and authoring a book on technology for Microsoft Press. She is now writing fiction.
Wanda Herndon has enjoyed a successful corporate career in marketing, retiring from Starbucks as senior vice president, Global Public Affairs, after which she founded W Communications.
Laura Celise Lippman is a retired medical doctor and administrator whose poems have appeared in
Crosswinds, Poontoon Poetry, Mobius, The Journal of Social Change, and other publications.
Jane Spalding started out as a teacher, and then served as development director for several nonprofits, including Harborview Medical Center and Seattle University.
Suzanne Tedesko worked at KCTS/9, producing two national PBS documentaries, and has written Seattle guidebooks for Fodors and a screenplay.
Beth Weir was a professor of education at Meredith College in Raleigh for seventeen years and after moving to Seattle, the executive director of the Dunn Gardens.
