Writing Away the Demons

 

 

Sherry Reiter is Director of The Creative “Righting” Center, a poetry therapy training center for helping professionals. Dr. Reiter is a clinical social worker (LCSW, PhD) and registered poetry and drama therapist who combines talk therapy with writing, story and re-claiming of voice. Her time is divided between teaching at Touro College & Hofstra University and private practice. She is coordinator of a long distance Poets-Behind-Bars at maximum security Indiana State Prison. Past President of The National Association for Poetry Therapy, as well as the National Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, Dr. Reiter is well known as a poetry therapy pioneer. She is recipient of several national awards and most recently, the 2009 Instructor of the Year at Touro College. For workshops, lectures, or training, contact: www.thecreativerightingcenter.com

 

CO-AUTHORS

Barbara Bethea is a Licensed Creative Art Therapist who works with dually diagnosed populations. Also known as the Afrikana Madonna, Poetess, she has completed a cd project entitled Like Manna for the Soul which offers spiritual and therapeutic healing. Motivational speaker available at afrikanamadonna1@aol.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maryellen Bova is Director of The Goddess Center, The Goddess Coach, a Certified Poetry Arts Therapist and Journal to the Self Instructor, a Published Poet and Writer, and an English and Humanities Educator. She created The Goddess Center to encourage women to tap into the self dealing with the body, the soul, and the mind as a whole to embark on a journey toward self-nurturance, personal growth, and Divine healing. www.thegoddesscenter.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alysa Cummings is a ten year cancer survivor who works full time supporting the healing of fellow cancer survivors as a poetry therapist, patient navigator, health educator, treatment coach, freelance writer and poet-in-residence for the University of Pennsylvania website Oncolink.

 

      

 

 

 

 

 

Rich Fireman has been writing for almost forty years and has given readings at several libraries, Barnes & Noble, and the Colts Neck Fair. He has had many poems published in the Monmouth Review, the International Journal of Poetry Therapy, and
has one upcoming in Passager magazine. He and his wife & lots of dogs & cats live in NJ, where he is currently working on a  screenplay and novel.

 

 

 

 

 

 Joel Gabriel is a 1st generation Jewish Mexican-American, providing therapeutic services to the Washington Heights community in upper Manhattan for the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services.  Joel is also an educator on issues of multiculturalism and race.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preston Hood’s poems have appeared in Animus, The Café Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod: International Journal, Rattle, Salamander, and many other literary publications. His book, A Chill I Understand, (2006) received Honorable Mention in the 2007 Maine Literary Awards for published poetry. Most recently, he returned from Arizona State University where he was a visiting writer in residence while his book was being taught as Poetry of Witness.

 

 

 

 

Linda Lanza is a poet and calligrapher whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide including Caligraphia USA/USSR in Russia, Words for Peace in San Francisco, and Museum of the Bora, Trieste, Italy. For over 25 years, Linda has facilitated expressive and reflective writing workshops for strength, growth, and healing. www.inkwings.com/index.html

 

 

 

 

 

Susan Riback RN, CPT works as a Psychiatric Nurse and continues to use her journal to navigate her course into the unknown. Much to her relief there are more joyful writings and images to validate her healing and progress. Also, she uses meditation to help her find inner strength and peacefulness that is necessary to move forward into her new life.

 

Sr. Mary Sullivan is a Member of the Religious Congregation of Our Lady Of the Retreat in the Cenacle for more than fifty years.  She has lived and served in several countries.  Sister gives retreats, spiritual direction, has written for the local diocesan paper as a columnist.  She is the co=author of books on prayer for women.  She loves poetry and finds it has become a standard for her life.
 

 

Note: Authors who are not listed have chosen to remain anonymous.