Jennifer Svendsen-Delaney
Jennifer’s manuscript Stealing Monkey won Colorado University’s Jovanovich Imaginative Award for best graduate thesis as well as receiving finalist status in the Nidus Literary Journal competition. After graduating from CU with a Masters in creative writing/English, she worked as a writing consultant for the CU math department. With B.A. degrees in English and dance from the University of California in Santa Barbara, Jennifer began her writing career in New York City where she worked as copy editor for a real estate publishing company as well as The Diplomatic World News, a United Nations publication. In Los Angeles, she worked in marketing for three years. Jennifer writes for a monthly newspaper and her work has been published in literary journals and magazines as well as Lucia Capacchion’s The Creative Journal and Creative Journal for Teens.
Susan Griffin
A principal in Journey Productions LLC, an idependent film company which produced her first screenplay This Place of Love, and MM Productions LLC, a production company that showcased a theatrical preview of the rock opera Magdalene, Woman of Light, Susan is above all a lover of story and the elements of structure. These have been with her throughout her life fueling her desire to write, first as a journalist and then as a writer of fiction. The love of structure can be seen in her background as an architectural model builder (she holds an Associate’s degree in Architectural Technology), and her ability to deeply listen and respond intuitively to someone’s “story” can be witnessed in her work as a craniosacral practitioner (Susan is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist). Among others, Susan has studied with screenwriter Barbara Wilder and novelist Barbara Steiner. In addition to coaching, she teaches writing courses geared to finding your internal voice and learning about the landscape of writing.
