The Cone Issue #6 Summer 2015 - Travel | Page 7

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. 7 THE CONE - ISSUE #5 - SUMMER 2015