The following authors will speak:

Lea Aschkenas, journalist, author, and teacher. Lea Aschkenas's writing on travel, literature, and life at large have been published in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as on salon.com, and in: The Best Women's Travel Writing 2006, Travelers' Tales Cuba, Travelers' Tales Central America, The Unsavvy Traveler, and Two in the Wild. She is the author of the memoir, Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island. Lea lives in Northern California where she works at a public library and teaches with the California Poets in the Schools program.

Laura Pritchett, writer, author, and teacher. Laura Pritchett is the author of a novel, Sky Bridge (winner of the WILLA Literary Award) and a collection of short stories, Hell's Bottom, Colorado (winner of the PEN USA award and the Milkweed National Fiction Prize). She is co-editor and contributor to Home Land: Writings for a West that Works (2007) and The Pulse of the River: Colorado Writers Speak for the Endangered Cache la Poudre (2006). Pritchett's work has also appeared in numerous magazines, including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, and 5280. Her hands-on writing workshops are continually sold out!

Janet Lane, writer, columnist, teacher, and author. Janet Lane has been writing for seven years. After a successful career as a journalist and promotion representative in both print and regional and national television, she moved to Denver and worked as a writer and a special sections editor for Network, the Magazine for Colorado Women. She currently writes a monthly column and presents workshops on the craft of writing. Janet pens women's adventure fiction and historical romance set in fifteenth century England. Tabor's Trinket, her debut novel, is, as one reviewer writes, "a superbly woven story that gives the reader exactly what they love in a romance."

TBA. The fourth panelist has not yet been confirmed.

Moderator:

Rosemary Carstens, freelance writer, and marketing and design consultant. She is the editor of the quarterly e-zine FEAST, about books, art, film, food, and travel, author of DREAMRIDER: Roadmap to an Adventurous Life (2003), and co-author of Sustaining Thought (forthcoming 2007). She has been published in regional and national magazines and is an avid adventure traveler. When not writing or hosting presentations and workshops, two of her favorite leisure activities are surfing the 'Net and riding crosscountry on her motorcycle, the Road Goddess.