CoHo Student Reading

Join us on Friday, October 16 from 9:30 am - 11:30 am at the Stanford Coho coffee shop to hear from the writers in the Online Writing Certificate Program. Hear a series of eight minute readings from students sharing from the novels they finished during their years in the Online Writing Certificate Program. Learn more about the authors below.
 

	Gail Ansel After 30+ years, Gail Ansel uprooted from Massachusetts to Palo Alto this summer, embracing the mantle "Full-time Writer", a swan-dive off an OWC inspired cliff.
	Shanda Bahles Shanda Bahles lives in California with her husband, 2 teenagers and a fuzzy dog. She aspires to write stories that readers can lose themselves in.
	Andrea Charvet Andrea's memoir explores the dynamics of a Catholic family living in conservative arid Eastern Washington where the mother is diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
	Harvey W. Gunther Harvey W. Gunther is an attorney, who slogged software for a career and finds fulfillment and renewed excitement, recycling a lifetime of delights and disappointments into literary—character-driven—fiction. He doesn’t dabble.
	Kim Hester Kim Hester is an ex-Marine and grad of Stanford. He has lived overseas for much of his life, and uses the experiences gained there in his fiction writing.
	Caroline Kellems Godoy Caroline Kellems Godoy lives, works and writes in Guatemala where she owns a coffee company. Her debut novel, The Coffee Diary, was released in 2010.
	Carol Luther Once known as the Last Medieval Mind in Berkeley, California, Carol Luther is retired from teaching and now serves as Priest-in-Charge at St. Aidan's Church in Bolinas, California.
	MaryLee MacDonald Marylee MacDonald is a the author of Montpelier Tomorrow, a novel, and Bonds of Love & Blood, a short story collection. She will be reading from The Vermillion Sea, historical fiction about a young French artist who puts his life in jeopardy by traveling half way around the world in search of fame and fortune.
	Elizabeth Palmer Martin Elizabeth Palmer Martin is a native Texan who divides her time between Austin and Chautauqua, NY. She is a journalist, by training, and recovering advertising executive, by trade
	Kristine Mietzner Kristine Mietzner’s essay “Juneau” appears in the anthology Something That Matters. Her novel Matisse in Winter was a finalist in the San Francisco Writers Conference Writing Contest.
	Denise Osso Denise Osso lives and writes in Los Angeles. She recently spent three glorious weeks at the Ragdale Foundation close to her hometown Chicago, writing a memoir.
	Anne Rosales Despite a BA from Yale, an MBA from Stanford and varied work experience, Anne considers raising three children to be her greatest achievement – at least so far.
	Rachel Padget Waller Rachel Padget Waller traded in her broadcast news career for a chance to live around the world. “Home” has been Ulaanbaatar and Barcelona and, for now, is Seattle.