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President:
Barbara Truax
President@cwcmarinwriters.com
Barbara
Truax is a founding member of Marin branch and past president
of the state-wide California Writers Club. During her state presidency,
the California Writers Club accepted a California Legislative Resolution,
declaring the third week of October as California Writers Week.
A native
of Wisconsin, she and her husband Don "came across the Rockies
and never looked back" in 1974. She worked in the medical field
for 24 years, signed up for a romance writing class at the local
community college "for fun" and a writer was born. Four
unpublished novels later, bemoaning her fate, her writing teacher
said, "You’re a writer—you can write anything!"
Barbara has published short stories and articles and now, after
a three year hiatus, has returned to writing. Her latest project
is the history of the Carnegie libraries in the United States. She
credits her seventh grade teacher Sister Emily for her ability to
still diagram sentences. Bad writing, typos, and grammatical errors
drive her crazy.
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Membership Chair - Mary
Jane Essex
Membership@cwcmarinwriters.com
Mary
Jane Essex is past
President of the Marin Branch of CWC: Mary Jane taught English at
University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, and Thomas More College,
her alma mater. She has retired from teaching to work with developmentally
disabled adults and to write. Having grown up in Ohio and lived
most of her life in California, Mary Jane feels she has a foot on
each side of the country. Sometimes that can be a bit of a stretch.
Her literary
models are Jane Austen, Barbara Pym, Agatha Christie, Susan Conant,
Susan Wittig Albert, William Shakespeare, Sarah Graves, Geoffrey
Chaucer, and David Lodge, not necessarily in that order. She is
still working on getting her first book published, but lives in
hope.
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Member at Large - Cindy
Pavlinac
MemberAL@cwcmarinwriters.com
Cindy
A. Pavlinac is a writer and photographer specializing
in the power of place. She works on location throughout Europe and
North America visiting historic sites and prehistoric sanctuaries.
Her travel writing and photo essays have appeared in over 600 publications,
including Time Magazine’s Pictures of the Year, Martha
Stewart TV, Where San Francisco, Forbes Magazine, Spirituality
and Health, Family Circle, Delicious, Self, Healthy Living, Glamour,
Body Mind Spirit, Site Saver, Environment and Art Letter, Women
of Power, Whole Person, Northern California Home and Garden, Marin
Magazine, Utne Reader, and as Principal Photographer in the
books Labyrinths and Sanctuaries of the Goddess. She wrote
a chapter for Earthwalking Sky Dancers: Women's Pilgrimages
to Sacred Places and was an editor of Shaman's Drum Magazine
and Editor-in-Chief of Artists Dialogue. Her writing awards
include Gourmet Magazine for Travel, Maupintour Travel International,
KINSA Kodak Journalism, Maynard Owen Williams (National Geographic
Founder) Award, P.O.W. (Power of Women Writers), and Young Writers
Conference Cranbrook, Michigan with Joyce Carol Oates.
Cindy earned a Masters Degree in Arts and Consciousness Studies
focusing on the use of art and story for healing in ancient cultures,
and a B.A. in Photography, minoring in astrophysics, with foreign
study in Athens and Rome in archaeology. She has been visiting special
places ever since Apollo hollered at her in Delphi, Greece in 1977,
striving to bridge the ancient with the modern and to inspire people
through images, words, music, and performance.
Cindy lives in Marin Country, California with her collaborators,
musician husband, Martin Gregory and their magical pup, Merlin.
She has a studio in San Rafael and creates site specific interactive
installations with storytelling and imagery for labyrinth walk events
and overnight Dream Quests, projecting hundreds of photos onto 50
foot hanging silk veils. Cindy is chauffeur and typist for Merlin's
Road Trip blog and maintains a website at CAPavlinac.com
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