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 Cecil Murphey
Award-winning writer Cecil (Cec) Murphey has authored or co-authored
more than 100 books, including the New York Times bestseller 90
Minutes in Heaven (with Don Piper), and Gifted Hands: The Ben
Carson Story (with Dr. Ben Carson). He is also the author of
When Someone You Love Has Cancer, When God Turned off the Lights,
and Christmas Miracles, all 2009 releases. As he enters 2010,
he has nine additional books contracted or finished. His books have
sold millions of copies and have brought hope and encouragement to
countless people around the world. In addition to his books, Murphey
has written hundreds of articles that have appeared in a variety of
publications. He stays busy as a professional writer and travels
extensively to speak on many topics such as writing, recovery,
spiritual growth, care giving, significant living, male sexual
abuse, and more. For more
information, visit
www.cecilmurphey.com. For writing tips, visit his newly launched
blog:
www.cecmurpheyswritertowriter.blogspot.com.
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 Dr. Roald Tweet
Dr. Tweet is Professor Emeritus of
English at Augustana College in Rock Island, where he served as the
Conrad Bergendoff Professor in the Humanities, and has written and
lectured extensively about the Upper Mississippi and its past. His
publications include A History of the Rock Island District Corps
of Engineers, 1866-1893 and The Quad Cities: An American
Mosaic. His first published work on the river went to print in
1975 and resulted from research conducted while camping along the
Mississippi with his family. As part of his ongoing radio series
“Rock Island Lines,” he has created more than 1,000 three-minute
vignettes inspired by the region's lore.
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 Emma Rainey
Emma Rainey earned an M.F.A. at
the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and, for the
time being, prefers writing about Iowa. Currently she researches,
writes, and edits for the Teaching Company, and holds an adjunct
position at Iowa Wesleyan College and Kirkwood Community College.
Past undertakings involve serving as artistic director for several
dance companies, working with homeless teens, teaching yoga, and
volunteering as faculty advisor for ONE, an organization that fights
extreme poverty and global diseases in Africa. In January Ms. Rainey
organized the first free writing workshop for veterans in Iowa City.
Her essays can be found in The Iowa Review, Two Hawks Quarterly,
and The Southeast Review among other publications.
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.gif) Eric Butterman
Eric Butterman is a freelance writer and teacher who has written for
more than 50 publications, including Glamour and
ESPN.com. His articles have
allowed him to do everything from chat with Venus Williams about her
killer serve to finding out Action Film Director John Woo would
actually love to direct a musical. His students have credited his
courses with helping them sell an article for as much as $4,000 and
make four-figure deals before the course was even over. Butterman
concentrates on using actual pitches that sold as examples and
taking you through an understanding of every step that goes into
succeeding in writing--including negotiating deals and how to turn
one assignment into many. He has been a freelance instructor for the
Editorial Freelancers Association,
JournalismJobs.com and
Ed2010.com. In addition, he's
lectured at NYU and Harvard.
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 Dr. Stephen Frech
Dr. Stephen Frech has earned degrees
from Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis,
and the University of Cincinnati. He has published three volumes of
poetry: Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent (1996), If
Not For These Wrinkles of Darkness (2001), and The Dark
Villages of Childhood (2009). He is founder and editor of
Oneiros Press, publisher of award-winning letterpress poetry
broadsides.
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 Steve Semken
Steve Semken began Ice Cube
Books in 1993 and now bases his press in North Liberty, Iowa. He was
one of Radish Magazines award winners for 2009. A publisher
of well over 50 books he has focused primarily on place-based
writing as a way to better understand how to best live where we do,
whether through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual arts, or memoir.
He is also the author of six books, including The Great Blues
(Woodley Press) on great blue herons, which won the Kansas Book
Award and Pick Up Stick City (Rivers Bend Press) a novella
which Publishers Weekly claimed was “funny, poignant and more
than a bit whimsical, this allegorical tale of small town and
environmental care is suffused with wonder.” He was also a
writer-in-residence at the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska.
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.gif) Twila Belk
Twila Belk, also known as the
Gotta Tell Somebody Gal, is a popular speaker, writer, publicist,
and director of two writers conferences—the Quad-Cities Christian
Writers Conference and the Presbyterian Writers Conference to be
held in Nashville. In addition, she works closely with bestselling
author Cecil Murphey as his manager, publicist, and personal
assistant. In her full-time work with Cecil Murphey, she has the
opportunity to coach and counsel many writers and to work together
with industry professionals. For more info, visit
www.gottatellsomebody.com.
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