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Are you a local writer interested in becoming a featured author? Contact us! We want to hear from you! |
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Rob Bundschu is the Orchestrator of Happiness (a tour guide) at his family winery Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma, CA, and author of his new memoir Everyone Gets In: My journey from wine to the Divine. The book chronicles his wild, perilous, and sometimes hilarious journey through alcohol addiction (and recovery), mental illness, and finally onto healing through the modern spiritual path of A Course in Miracles. In his free time Rob enjoys watching movies, baseball, and football, and taking drives with his wife (not necessarily in that order). |
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Marilyn Campbell is a former social worker who began writing after retirement. She has published two historical novels: Trains to Concordia and A Train to Nowhere which dealt with the orphan train movement. A co-founder of Napa Valley Writers, she enjoys contributing short stories and poetry to anthologies and small journals. |
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A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, James Conaway is the author of three previous novels, The Big Easy, World’s End, and Nose. The late tv anchor, Jim Lehrer, wrote of it, “Conaway’s prose is as gorgeous as the northern California he describes.” His twelve books of non-fiction include The Far Side of Eden, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year described in the New York Times Book Review as "an important story, emblematic of our time.” Of Conaway’s The Kingdom in the Country Stegner wrote: “He got into places and activities that most Westerners never get close to, and he reports them with verve, wit, irony and a very sharp eye.” _______________________________
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I have been practicing meditation for more than twenty years and am known for merging the art of creative writing with the evolutionary practice of mindfulness meditation. My latest nonfiction book, Writing as a Path to Awakening, is based on my popular writing workshops by the same name. I currently teach writing and mindfulness workshops at The Omega Institute, The Esalen Institute, Spirit Rock Meditation Center and literary conferences nationally. I currently live in Northern California. |
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NapaLife is the insider's guide to Napa Valley. The weekly newsletter is published by insider Paul Franson. Paul Franson: I moved here in 1996 and during that time, I have written extensively about it (and wine and the wine business) for publications and online for local newspapers to international media. |
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Debra Green, author of The Convention of Wives, has always been drawn to good storytelling, especially historical novels and Broadway musicals. While motherhood, hospital administration, and community volunteering were all rewarding, none fulfilled her creative longings. A graduate of Rutgers University and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, she lives with her husband, David, in Scotch Plains, New Jersey where they raised their three children. Debra's been lucky enough to spend quite a bit of time in Napa in the past few years and some of her best writing and editing has been done at the Black Bear Diner. When not writing, reading, or traveling, Debra can be found working in her ever-expanding vegetable garden. The Convention of Wives, published in September of 2022 by She Writes Press, is her first novel. |
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Luisa grew up on the east coast, but hit the road in her 20s, eventually visiting and sometimes working in 43 states and 39 countries. She's had stints at running an ice cream parlor in Puerto Rico, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, as the advertising director for Kitchen Bazaar gourmet houseware stores, and as head of the editorial committee for the NVV Wine Auction catalog. She enjoys snorkeling, reading, cooking, and spent 10 years as part of a hot air balloon crew culminating in a cross-Australia race to celebrate their bicentenary. She currently lives in Yountville with her husband and a couple of rescue dogs in an area they call "rural lite” because although they have a well and septic, are only eight minutes to Whole Foods. |
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Lenore Hirsch is a retired educator who lives in Napa Valley. She writes in many genres, including features in the Napa Valley Register, short stories, poetry, memoir, humor, and travel. She is a founding member of Napa Valley Writers, a branch of the California Writers' Club. Her books include her dog’s memoir, My Leash on Life: Foxy's View of the World from a Foot Off the Ground; a poetry collection, Leavings; humorous essays, Laugh and Live: Advice for Aging Boomers; and a novel, Schooled: Confessions of a Rookie Vice Principal. |
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David Kerns retired two decades ago from his role as Chief Medical Officer at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford to devote himself full-time to writing. For the past twelve years he has been a columnist and feature writer for the Napa Valley Register. Born and educated in Chicago, his inspiration for his 2018 novel, Fortnight on Maxwell Street, was his own two-week Northwestern medical student rite of passage at the Chicago Maternity Center on the city’s West Side. |
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One of the first Grand Canyon boatwomen in the 1970s and 80s, Rebecca Lawton found her muse on rivers. She has lived a water-driven life as a fluvial (stream) geologist and writer passionate about science, river culture, and water in peril. Her essays, poems, and stories have been published in her ten books, many anthologies, and journals like Audubon, Orion, and Terrain.org. She shares her love of nature and writing through Literary Bird Walks for people of all ages and abilities |
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Dr Rebecca Levy-Gantt is a Board Certified ObGyn and a certified menopause practitioner who has been practicing for the last 15 years in Napa. She is originally from New York City, where she grew up and went to medical school at the NY College of Osteopathic Medicine, graduating in 1992. She practiced on Long Island for 11 years before moving to Napa. Her special interests are menopause management, including hormones and alternative management strategies, as well as vaginal and vulvar pain syndromes. She owns a solo private practice which has been growing for the past 5 years, teaches medical students from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, and spends her free time teaching, traveling, running and writing. She writes articles for various online publications as well as on medium.com. She has self-published 2 books of memoir over the past 2 years. Womb With A View, and Motherhood, Medicine and Me. |