Cunningham, Cindy: - Cindy Cunningham holds a BA in Psychology from Wake Forest University, an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a PhD in Literature from Georgia State University. She teaches Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature courses at the college level and at the Appomattox Regional Governor's School for Arts and Technology (ARGS) in Petersburg, VA where she has served as Director of Literary Arts since 2002. In addition, she's an instructor at Life in 10 Minutes in Richmond, VA. She has taught writing workshops for over two decades and thrills in hearing stories from all sorts of voices. Her special skill lies in finding kernels of truth within each person's words. Cindy writes memoir, essays, and poetry and sits on the Board of the nonprofit, Richmond Young Writers. She is currently at work on both a full-length memoir and a poetry manuscript. She has published poetry and essays in journals including the Greensboro Review, Lilliput Review, Aethlon, Charlotte Poetry Review, and The Dead Mule, and Nine Lives: A Life in 10 Minutes Anthology Bittersweet Swallows, her poetry Chapbook was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. Her poem, Good Luck Charm, was selected to appear in Aethlon: XXXVI:2 Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 THE JOURNAL OF SPORT LITERATURE Special Issue: Teaching Sport Literature. Her greatest teaching accomplishments are earning the title, Empress of Safe Spaces, from a L10 group and Most Real Teacher from a high school group. There's no honor higher.Haggard, Valley: - Valley Haggard has written in short and long form all her life. She is a big fan of the postcard, the 6-word memoir and drawers full of unfinished manuscripts. She has slept in tents, hostels, motels, couches, tool sheds, log cabins, bunk beds and ship bowels for short periods of time and the house she grew up in for much longer than that. She has lived in Virginia, New York, Italy, Colorado, Arkansas, and Alaska, holding jobs as a Waffle House waitress, Dude Ranch Cabin Girl, cruise ship stewardess and hotel maid. She has written book reviews, author interviews and first person columns; judged fiction contests and fellowships and sat on non-profit writing boards. She is the recipient of a Richmond Magazine 2014 Theresa Pollak Prize, a 2015 Style Weekly Women in the Arts Award and the winner of the 2018 James River Writers's Emyl Jenkins award. The founder of Richmond Young Writers in 2009, Valley now leads creative nonfiction marathons, workshops and retreats for adults. She is the founder of Life in 10 Minutes, the author of The Halfway House for Writers and Surrender Your Weapons: Writing to Heal, and the co-editor of Nine Lives: a Life in 10 Minutes Anthology. She has a handsome husband, a brilliant son, an addictive personality and a voracious appetite for all things word.Hensley, Llewellyn: - Llewellyn is a graphic designer who cares about clarity, content, and character. She uses images, typography, and form to make beautiful vehicles for ideas. As creative director at Life in 10 Minutes Press, Llewellyn works with writers and editors to construct graphic design and book layouts that clarify stories, structures, and narrative content. Her combination of interests and experiences form a strong toolkit for thinking about space, hierarchy, and detail.
