Contributors
Gary David Johnson
Susan Marque
Carley Steiner
Gary David Johnson is a nine-time
While Susan Marque was working as
Carley Steiner was born in Louisiana,
Emmy Award-winning writer-producer
a professional actress in Hollywood,
schooled in New York, and now works
and an award-winning poet. He spent
she spent most of her time
as a writer in LA. She loves making
over a decade as Supervising Producer
investigating alternative methods of
things by hand, her rescue dog, eating
and Head Writer of Jeopardy! and has
healing, and eventually healed herself.
unidentifiable ethnic treats from
written for The Hollywood Squares,
That led to her fellow actors
hidden restaurants, and anything that
Nova, Scrabble, and many others. His
launching her into a food coaching
can be categorized as "cozy".
book Head Trauma:Sonnets and Other
business, which led her to writing and
Poems won the Independent Publisher
photography. Susan left L.A. for New
Book Awards Silver Medal for Poetry
York where she became a full time
and was featured in the anthology Best
student in January 2010, graduating
New Writing of 2008.
with honors, and getting both her
B.A. and M.F.A. in creative writing,
journalism, and screenwriting by
2014 (with self study in
photography). She currently lives in
Manhattan.
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