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ALLISON DAILY is the director of Pathfinders ÂValley Angels, a nonprofit organization that serves Aspen-area cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. She works as a substitute teacher in the Aspen public school system and as a unit clerk in the obstetrics department of Aspen Valley Hospital.
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Annie Chagnot is an editor at Crown and has edited The VIPs: A Novel by Scott Poulson-Bryant and I Can’t Believe it’s Not Fattening: Over 150 Ridiculously Easy Recipes for the Super Busy by Devin Alexander.
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ELISE BALLARD, the author of Epiphany, is an actress, independent filmmaker, and producer. She started her career working as an actress in New York, Austin, and Los Angeles before moving to production work. Her critically acclaimed directorial debut, Lord of the Wiens: A Dachumentary, a movie about the annual Wiener Dog Races in Buda, Texas, became a cult hit.
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JANET BOND BRILL, Ph.D., R.D., LDN, is a registered and licensed dietitian/nutritionist, exercise physiologist, and certified wellness coach. She has been published in the International Journal of Obesity and the International Journal of Sport Nutrition, as well as in the popular press
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Katie Conneally is an editor of Books for Better Living and works in marketing for the Crown Publishing Group. She likes kale, yoga and running, and just finished her first half-marathon.
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Kim Brittingham is a writer and blogger whose personal essays have been published on iVillage, Salon and Fresh Yarn. She received widespread national attention, including appearances on the Today Show and NPR, when she created a mock self-help book jacket with the title, Fat is Contagious: How Sitting Next to a Fat Person Can Make YOU Fat, wrapped it around a real book, and pretended to read it while riding the buses of New York City as an informal social experiment. She divides her time between New York City and Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
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Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., the author of The Worry Cure, is clinical professor in psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the editor and author of thirteen books. He is a founding fellow and the president-elect of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, the president of the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy, and the director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City.
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Sandra Beasley is the author of Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life and poetry collections I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Theories of Falling, which won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. Her honors include a DCCAH Individual Artist Fellowship, the Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, Inc. She lives in Washington, D.C., where her prose has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine. Learn more at sandrabeasley.com.
Healthy Body Author
Sara J. Henry is the author of Learning to Swim: A Novel, whose main character loves to bicycle, and has written for Bicycling and Prevention magazines. Her website is www.SaraJHenry.com; she’s at www.facebook.com/pages/Sara-J-Henry/92608031036 on Facebook, and is @SaraJHenry on Twitter.
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SUSAN CAIN has been a consultant to major corporations and law firms and has coached individuals on negotiation and personal presentation style. She lives in the Hudson River Valley with her husband and two sons.
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A writer and solo performer currently living in Seattle, SUZANNE MORRISON has a one-woman show, Yoga Bitch, which has been called "Ambitious, ballsy, and hilarious" by Seattle Weekly and "New Age Nirvana" by Time Out London. The show has played to sold-out houses in New York City, Maui, Seattle, Memphis, London, and Oxford. Her work has been covered in the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, and in blogs such as yogajournal.com and seattlest. You can find Suzanne at Huffington Post and at www.suzanne-morrison.com, where she writes about absolutely everything she's reading, writing, and rehearsing.
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Valerie Young, Ed.D. is an internationally-known speaker and the author of The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It with Crown Publishing. She can be reached through her website at www.impostorsyndrome.com
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Wade Rouse is the critically acclaimed author of four memoirs, including his latest It’s All Relative: 2 Families, 3 Dogs, 34 Holidays & 50 Boxes of Wine (Crown). This essay is excerpted from his new dog anthology, I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship: Hilarious, Heartwarming Tales about Man’s Best Friend from America’s Favorite Humorists (NAL, September 2011), a collection of bark-out-loud essays from today’s hottest writers and comics, including Jen Lancaster, Laurie Notaro, Jane Green, Beth Harbison, Jill Conner Browne, Rita Mae Brown, Bruce Cameron, and featuring a Foreword by Chelsea Handler’s dog, Chunk. Wade is donating a portion of the royalties he earns from sales of this book to The Humane Society of the United States. Wade is a regular contributor to Michigan Public Radio and a humor columnist for Metrosource magazine. For more, visit www.waderouse.com, www.rhspeakers.com, www.wadeswriters.com, or via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=549704947.
