Guest Profile: Jill Ferguson
Author of over 600 articles, essays and poems published in newspapers, magazines and literary journals, such as Writer's Digest, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Christian Science Monitor, Pittsburgh Parent, School Violence Prevention Report and many more. I contributed to three books by Starburst Publishers in the 1990s. In late 2005, small press In Your Face Ink published my first novel Sometimes Art Can't Save You, which placed as a semi-finalist in the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition and the New Century Writer's Awards.
Jill L. Ferguson is an award-winning writer, editor and workshop keynote
speaker. She has published more than 600 articles, including
contributions to three books. She has been a guest lecturer at Central
Washington University and at high schools in Pennsylvania and
Washington.
She currently chairs the General Education Department at the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she also serves as the WASC
Accreditation Liaison Officer and a professor of creative writing,
communication and literature. Jill also teaches children's literature,
writing for the media and corporate communication classes at Notre
Dame de Namur University.
Jill received a B.S. in Communication from La Roche College and an M.A.
in English from Notre Dame de Namur University. She also has taken
classes in higher education administration, not-for-profit leadership, and
business administration and marketing.
In October 2005, In YourFace Ink published her novel, Sometimes Art
Can’t Save You. This book was nominated as a semi-finalist in both the
Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition and the New
Century Writers Competition.
Jill can be contacted at jill@jillferguson.com.
Website: www.jillferguson.com
Jill Ferguson's Shows:
Jan 04, 2007 |
Author of Sometimes Art Can't Save You talks about teenagers that are self-abusers and how they got there. |
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