Friends who've inspired me
Christine Sneed
Christine is the author of the novels Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, Little Known Facts, and Paris, He Said, and the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry and The Virginity of Famous Men. She is also the editor of the short fiction anthology, Love in the Time of Time’s Up. Her seventh book, Direct Sunlight, a short story collection, was published in June 2023. Her work has been included in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, New York Times, New England Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares,and many other publications. Among numerous awards, she has received the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, the Chicago Writers’ Association Book of the Year Award twice, an O. Henry Prize, and Ploughshares’ Zacharis Award. She teaches for the graduate writing program at Northwestern University and for Stanford University Continuing Studies.
Visit Christine’s website for more about this wonderful writer and great person:
She also publishes an excellent weekly Substack devoted to writing and the writing life:
David Chamberlain
David is a playful polymath, a serious enquirer and an artful thinker who gets away with making a living at it. He has been a professional artist for almost five decades, through the usual thick & thin, and wants us to believe that “it is all good”. His insatiable curiosity has led him to pursue as many realms of the fine arts field as he can find, having discovered that they are all related – to each other, to creativity, to the worlds we inhabit. He strives to make dimensional paintings and painterly sculptures whose abstract imagery is about musical patterns, themes and relationships. Ideas become compositions.
He received an architecture degree from Princeton, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in sculpture and graphic arts, and an MLA from the Unversity of Colorado at Denver in Landscape Architecture. Along with receiving many commisions and grants, he has placed 200 works in museums and institutions across the world. David has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Clemson University, and the University of South Carolina at Columbia, and has been a visiting artist, critic, and presenter at 23 colleges, schools, and universities. He continues to sing bass in an acapella group that began at Princeton many decades ago.
To see more of David’s work, visit his multifaceted website:
