Anya AchtenbergAnya Achtenberg is an award‐winning fiction writer and poet. Her recently completed novel, More Than The Wind, was excerpted in Harvard Review. Her second book of poetry, The Stone of Language, was published in 2004 by West End Press. Her storis have received awards from Coppola's Zoetrope: All‐Story, New Letters, the Asheville Fiction Writers Workshop, the Raymond Carver Story Contest and others. She received a 2008 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant for work on History Artist, a novel‐in‐progress, centering on Devi Mau, a Cambodian woman born of anAfrican‐American father at the moment the bombing of Cambodia began. She is working on a book to turn her multi‐genre course, Writing for Social Change: Re‐Dream a Just World, into a moveable workshop. She has taught creative writing at universities and colleges, for writers' organizations, with drop‐out youth, working adults, and in the public schools. She teaches independent workshops throughout the country and online, on essential elements of story in fiction and memoir; deepening characterization; autobiography and autobiographical fiction; and writing for social change. She offers manuscript consultations in fiction, poetry, and memoir. Visit her website Writing Story / Finding Poetry / Freeing Voice: Swimming through the ocean of language at www.Anya-Achtenberg.com Read More Read Less