| Michael Cheno Wickert |
 Michael Cheno Wickert, a former City College student, earned both his B.A. in English and his M.F.A. in creative writing from San Diego State University. Out of high school, he worked as a painter, carpenter, and pipe fitter throughout the shipyards of Southern California. A former elementary school teacher for 12 years, he now teaches English composition and teacher education courses at Southwestern College. He lives in Chula Vista with his wife Denise and his son Julian. Creatively he explores how the personal and political collide in everyday life. |
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| Laurel Corona |
 Award-winning author Laurel Corona’s latest work, The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi’s Venice, is only in its sixth month of publication, but is already in its second printing and has been translated into French, German, and Spanish.
Her highly acclaimed The Four Seasons won the Book of the Year award at the 15th Annual San Diego Book and Writing Awards in May, 2009.
In addition, a previous work, Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance (St. Martin's Press), has recently received a 2009 Christopher Award.
The Christopher Award is given to writers who “craft words and images into a clear, cohesive vision” and “affirm the highest values of the human spirit.”
Until Our Last Breath is a study of the Jewish resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
"Corona shines when showing musicians at work," Publishers Weekly says. Booklist praises it as a "charming, exquisite, and poetic" depiction of "the dazzling light of Venice and…two orphaned sisters full of ambition, heart, and steadfast love."
Corona began her career as a published author in 1999 with a book on Kenya for Lucent Books and went on to write 17 young adult titles for that company before turning her attention to books for adults.
The author has combined her love of writing and teaching for more than three decades. A professor of English and Humanities at San Diego City College, she has taught in the San Diego area for over 30 years.
For more about Corona, see http://www.laurelcorona.com. |
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