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Advisory Board

The Memoir Certificate program has been designed by UW faculty with contributions and guidance from these industry professionals:

Knute Berger, Editor-at-Large, Seattle magazine

Pam Binder, Author, My Secret Protector (Pocket Books, 2003), Program Graduate

Stesha Brandon, Events Coordinator, University Book Store

Elisabeth DeVos, Author, Seraphim Rising; Program Graduate

Tony English, Assistant Director, UW Extension

J. Glenn Evans, Executive Director, Poets Northwest; Former Director, Seattle Free Lances

Mary Ann Gwinn, Book Editor, Seattle Times

Marlene Howard, Founder and Manager, Oregon Writers' Colony; Publisher, Media Weavers

Jayne A. Krentz, Author, Summer in Eclipse Bay (Penguin Putman, 2002)

Chapple Langemack, Readers Services, King County Library System

Jerry Large, Personal Interest Columnist, Seattle Times/PI

Gary Lothian, Northwest Regional Sales Manager, Ingram Book Co.

Margret Read Macdonald, Folklorist, Children's Literature Specialist, and Author, Fat Cat (Harper Collins, 2001)

Donald Maass, Maass Literary Agency

Jennifer McCord, Jennifer McCord Associates, LLC, Past President, Pacific Northwest Writers Association

Cynthia Ozick, Author, Quarrel & Quandry (Vintage Books, 2001)

Gloria Rand, Author, Fighting for the Forest (Henry Holt & Co., Inc.) and numerous picture books for children

Pat Soden, Director, University of Washington Press

Maya Sonenberg, Director, Creative Writing, University of Washington; Author, Cartographies

David Szatmary, Vice Provost, UW Educational Outreach

Douglas Underwood, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington

Elizabeth Wales, Wales Literary Agency