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 Katherine Schimmel Abdel Baki | Katherine Schimmel Baki, Director of Global PartnershipsKatherine Schimmel Baki is co-founder of haut>art, an art consulting company whose mission is to acquaint the public with the work of new artists and to create visually compelling spaces for its clients. Katherine has a longstanding interest in the perceptual dynamics of visual and aural phenomena. She holds a BA degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music and a graduate degree (ALM) in the field of Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East conducting original research on the Adhan, the Islamic oral call to prayer. Her field work in Cairo resulted in a dissertation entitled, Hayya ‘ala al-Salat: The Socio-Religious Impact of the Adhan on the Muslim Community of Cairo, (1994). In 2005-2006, she was part of the Quark Park team of Princeton, New Jersey, whose goal was to generate greater public interest in science and art through the creation of an interactive 18,000 square foot science park in the heart of town. Katherine is currently working on a number of research projects within the fields of ethnomusicology and social anthropology.KATHERINE SCHIMMEL ABDEL BAKI IN THIS EDITION: COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Introduction COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Interview with Dr. William A. Graham COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Phenomenology of Islam COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Gift COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — Interview with Dr. William Chittick |
 Don Lafferty | Don Lafferty, Social Media ConsultantDon was born and raised in Philadelphia but ran away from it all at the age of nineteen to see the worlds while serving his country flight testing guidance systems for the US Air Force.After a four year hitch, he fell into the sales end of the electronics business on the first working day of ‘84 and by 1992 had become widely regarded as one of the strongest technical communicators and salespeople in the country. Since then, Don has continued to provide sales and training based solutions to companies targeting new markets and increased market share.In addition to writing corporate communication, corporate marketing copy, and articles for national magazines, Don is a regular contributor to the global conversation revolving around Online Social Networks like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. He’s crafted and executed some of the first successful marketing strategies through these communities, and continues to define methodologies for helping business capitalize on this exploding social phenomenon.EMAIL: dlafferty@wildriverreview.com |
 Angie Brenner | Angie Brenner, West Coast EditorFreelance writer Angie Brenner is currently working on her first book: Anatolian Days and Nights. Brenner has written articles about Turkey for local papers, and facilitates travel literature reading groups and presentations at bookstores and libraries in southern California and Oregon. Brenner has traveled extensively through Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam bringing back both hair-raising and humorous stories. In 1997 she closed her store in order to travel and write, and works with elementary students in their Language Arts program near her home in Julian, California. She has recently returned from her fifteenth journey to Turkey.ANGIE BRENNER IN THIS EDITION: SPOTLIGHT: Changing the Face of Banking WRR@LARGE PEN WORLD VOICES: Global Writer, Heart & Soul — An Interview with Pico Iyer SPOTLIGHT: Rumi and Coke — An Excerpt from Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey SPOTLIGHT: Turkish Authors Face Controversy |
 Dale Cotton | Dale Cotton, WRR Photo EditorDale H. Cotton is a freelance photograher who specializes in the built environment. He photographs everything from manhole covers to street signs to the buildings of Frank Gehry. Dale has also worked as an editor, producer, and art director/designer in the book publishing industry in Seattle, New York, Boston, and Princeton.WEBSITE: www.hingephoto.com EMAIL: cotton.photos@gmail.com DALE COTTON IN THIS EDITION: ALTERED SPACES: Blowing Apart the Rectangle — Behind the Scenes at Frank Gehry’s New Building ALTERED SPACES: Odditorium: Times Square[d] Oddities BLOG: Live @ PEN World Voices (photo) QUARK PARK: Journey into the Male & Female Brain (photo) QUARK PARK: Music in Stone (photo) QUARK PARK: The Scientist as Rebel (photo) SPOTLIGHT: Fly Me to the Moon — A Conversation with Mathematician and Artist, Ed Belbruno (photo) QUARK PARK: Quark Park — Visions (photo) |
 Angela Ajayi | Angela Ajayi, WRR Contributing EditorBorn in Nigeria, Angela Ajayi came to the United States to attend college and discovered an undeniable love for literature — and books. After completing a B.A. in English literature, she spent six weeks at the Radcliffe Publishing Course in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then moved to New York City where she worked in scholarly publishing for a number of years and completed an M.A. in comparative literature at Columbia University. She currently works for a publishing house in New Jersey and edits mainly scholarly books on Africa.EMAIL: aiajayi@gmail.com ANGELA AJAYI IN THIS EDITION: SPOTLIGHT: A Love Letter to Kenya SPOTLIGHT: Believing Is Doing: An Interview with Ewuare Osayande PEN WORLD VOICES: Drawing on the Universal in Africa — An Interview with Marguerite Abouet PEN WORLD VOICES: Drawing on the Universal in Africa — An Interview with Marguerite Abouet (Français) BLOG: Live @ PEN World Voices |
 Joseph Glantz | Joseph Glantz, WRR Consulting EditorJoe practiced law in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for a dozen years and designed large scale databases for AT&T.; He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received his J.D. from George Washington Law School.He received a grant from the Thomas Skelton Harrison Foundation for his writing project, Philadelphia Originals, which seeks to show that the unique styles (how Philadelphians paint, sing, practice law, tell a joke, cook) of Philadelphia’s most notable professions can be traced back to the perfect complement of the spiritual William Penn and the practical Benjamin Franklin. His second project. Philadelphia Before You Were Born, is a study of the last time Philadelphia newspapers used artists for all their illustrations.Joe’s published writings include a humorous look at book clubs for the Bucks County Writer and the literary stages of a baseball season for the Philadelphia Inquirer.His favorite quote is William Penn’s “Where wit has wisdom to express it, now there’s the best orator.”EMAIL: jglantz@wildriverreview.com JOSEPH GLANTZ IN THIS EDITION: COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Ben Franklin Speaks COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Jane Austen Speaks COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Abraham Lincoln Speaks COLUMN: Interviews with the Famously Departed: Charles Dickens Speaks |
 Fred Young | Fred Young, WRR Finance EditorFred Young is a New Jersey-based banker who grew up in Wisconsin. Twenty-eight years ago he started as a broker. For the past 22 years he has been in the banking industry. Currently he is on sabbatical advising 501(c)3 organizations and start-up ventures. As the middle child of 14, Fred has been a keen observer of the power and the options that the understanding of money can provide. He joined the finance world at a time when mortgages were 20% and Reagan’s trickle-down theories were in full force. He has advised individuals and not-for-profits on how best to properly structure their savings plans and their assets from the commercial real estate scare of the early 90’s to the dot-com bust to Y2K, and all the good and bad in between.EMAIL: fyoung@wildriverreview.com FRED YOUNG IN THIS EDITION: |
 Bryan Palmer | Bryan Palmer, Director, WRR Web TeamBryan Palmer is a recent graduate of the Information Science & Technology program at Temple University. During his time at Temple he worked with Microsoft as a Campus Representative and was President of the Association for Computing Machinery chapter.Bryan was recognized with the Student Leadership Award from the Computer Information Sciences department for work with faculty, staff and peers over his academic career. He currently serves on several technology planning committees and is a member of the Philadelphia Linux Users Group.EMAIL: bpalmer@wildriverreview.com |
 Jeremy Trout | Jeremy Trout, WRR Media Consultant, Web TechA graduate of Temple University’s intensive Radio, Television and Film program, Mr. Trout is a multi-media jack of all trades. Jeremy works (simultaneously) in such diverse fields as Web Design and Maintenance, Tech Solutions, Audio/Video Production, Literary Publicity, Publishing and Design.As part of Wild River Review’s Web team, Jeremy bridges the gap between old-school craft and 21st-century technology.EMAIL: jtrout@wildriverreview.com VIDEO WORK: “Stagnant F.” – Live Video and Promos – Book Publicity Promo Web and Graphic work: “Test Site” |
 Terrence Cheromcka | Terrence Cheromcka, Deputy EditorBorn and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Terrence Cheromcka is a student at New York University. Her love of New York City and her writing career began when she became a Time For Kids reporter at age 11. She interviewed stars such a Jewel, New Jersey Nets player, Richard Jefferson; Lil Bow Wow, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.; and she covered the first Kid’s Conference at the United Nations. Along with being a published political cartoonist she is also a contributor to “the Vent” section of her local newspaper.EMAIL: tcheromcka@wildriverreview.com |
 Lauren Johnson | Lauren Johnson, Contributing EditorLauren Johnson is the founding editor if XNK Magazine (www.backpocketbooks.com) and a graduate of Bard College with a Bachelor’s Degree in English. She was an editorial intern with Conjunctions magazine, and has done freelance work for The National Collegian. Lauren began her literary career working in foreign rights for literary agencies in New York City. She writes both fiction and poetry, and her work can be found in The Common Ground Review, The Bard Papers, and The Berkshire Review, volumes I and II. .EMAIL: ljohnson@wildriverreview.com XNK Magazine: “www.backpocketbooks.com” |
 Brett Celinski | Brett Celinski, InternBorn in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1987, Brett Celinski is a senior at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. A writer of fiction, satire, stories of childhood-born creatures, and an aspiring illustrator since elementary school (influenced by Tove Jansson, Antonio Prohias and Ralph Steadman), Celinski possesses political curiosity and an eye for journalistic integrity.EMAIL: bcelinski@wildriverreview.com |
 Jill Sherer Murray | Jill Sherer Murray, WRR Contributing EditorJill Sherer Murray is an award-winning journalist, whose work has appeared in a variety of business- and health-related media. In addition to writing feature articles, scripts, books and other marketing, corporate and creative communications for more than 18 years, she designs and facilitates corporate communication workshops and seminars for clients like Gatorade, PepsiCo, Tellerx, and Quaker Oats (to name a few). A former “Weight Loss Diary” columnist for Shape Magazine, she took six million readers (who now know how much she weighs) on her journey to get fit each month through a series of personal essays and live chats. Currently, Jill is working on her second novel and rewriting her first — again — so she can get it to her agent before he dies or retires. You can read about her writing and other pursuits (i.e., dating and marriage) in her blog “Diary of a Writer in Mid-Life Crisis,” which is featured on the Wild River Review. She lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with her husband Dan, her rescue dog Winnie, too many houseguests, and a lot of chocolate and over-the-counter pain medication.EMAIL: jsherer@wildriverreview.com JILL SHERER MURRAY IN THIS EDITION: BLOG: Diary of a Writer in Midlife Crisis |
 Raquel B. Pidal | Raquel B. Pidal, WRR Contributing EditorRaquel B. Pidal is a freelance editor and writer who has worked on a variety of projects, including memoirs, business and career management books and articles, health articles, book proposals, and novel synopses and analyses. She has also taught several workshops for children and young writers. Raquel graduated Cum Laude from Ursinus College with a degree in English and Creative Writing. She earned Departmental Honors for her senior thesis, a memoir about her Cuban mother, and has won several awards for her writing. Raquel’s creative nonfiction has been published in The Bucks County Writer, The Bucks County Review, and Wild River Review. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she is working on her M.A. in Publishing and Writing at Emerson College. She writes a blog, CopyRighteous, about writers’ rights as part of her coursework, and she also works for the Emerson College literary magazine, Redivider.EMAIL: rpidal@wildriverreview.com RAQUEL B. PIDAL IN THIS EDITION: ART: The Cutting Edge — An Interview with Artist Chris Resko |
 Gabriel Amadeus Cooney | Gabriel Amadeus Cooney, WRR Staff PhotographerThe world of Gabriel Cooney’s award-winning photography ranges from the intimate intensity of portraiture to the powerful evocations in his landscapes. He was first drawn into photography as an eighteen-year-old on the streets of Morocco. Since then he has earned acclaim for his penetrating portraits of artists and writers, as well as farm workers and schoolchildren. Working with only natural light, Cooney finds the hidden inner nature of his subjects. His assignments for non-profits and academic institutions have taken him from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Rio de Janeiro, from Italy to Cuba, and Harvard to Oxford.WEBSITE: www.GabrielCooney.com GABRIEL COONEY IN THIS EDITION: COLUMN: The Mystic Pen — The Gift (photo) |
 Brian O’Connell | Brian O’Connell, WRR Contributing Editor https://web.archive.org/web/20090223084611if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=wilrivrev-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0375502130&fc1=000000&IS2=1%3C1=_blank&lc1=bf7d1e&bc1=FFFFFF&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrBrian O’Connell is a Bucks County, PA based freelance writer. A former Wall Street bond trader, O’Connell is the author of 15 books, including two bestsellers. His work has also appeared in publications like The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, USA Today, Cigar Magazine, CBS News Marketwatch, Newsweek, and many others.EMAIL: boconnell@wildriverreview.com |
 Christopher Tiefel | Christopher Tiefel, WRR Contributing EditorChristopher Tiefel is a noun & verb collector & organizer. A poet working as a freelance editor & writer, Chris has discovered that his favorite word is steep. In June he attended the Juniper Writing Institute after graduating from Kutztown University with a degree in English/Professional Writing. While at Kutztown he managed the literary magazine Shoofly & also received the Raymond Ford award for poetry, & the Mary S. Kittle award for social & environmental justice. Now engaged, Chris is working on a chapbook & a catalog of this work can be found at Treefull, a collaborative poetry blog updated maybe regularly.CHRISTOPHER TIEFEL IN THIS EDITION: SPOTLIGHT: The Other Side Of Abu Ghraib (Part 1) — The Detainees’ Quest for Justice BLOG: Live @ PEN World Voices REVIEW: What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward |
 Rosa Sophia | Rosa Sophia, WRR Associate EditorRosa Sophia is a writer of suspense, mystery, and psychological horror. She has had several short stories published and has written a number of unpublished novels including Taking 1960, Smile America, Safe, and Out on the Bluffs. She is currently working on a mystery novel called Dissonance, which tells the story of an Indie rock band forced to solve a series of brutal murders as they make their way cross-country. Other than writing, Rosa is also interested in criminology, forensics, auto-mechanics, and playing her bass guitar, Charlotte. Rosa’s work can be viewed online at the Writer’s Café.She also has a Myspace website dedicated to her writing as well as her continued progess with Dissonance.WRITER’S CAFÉ: www.writerscafe.org/profile/rosysophia/ MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/raizel_jones ROSA SOPHIA IN THIS EDITION: PROFILE: Murder, He Wrote — An Interview with Jeff Markowitz |
 Jonathan Bush | Jonathan Bush, WRR Web TeamFor as long as Jon can remember he’s had a story in his head. They are sometimes short and simple, others are deep and warrant a bit of time to write down. He’s currently a senior at Penn State as a communications major. Jon is open to learning about the world but he has a seething anger toward stupidity. Unfortunately the latter surrounds him more often then not. He writes a blog online and is working on a short story and a novel. |
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