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Edith Roseman Tarbescu (Annushka's Voyage and The Boy Who Stuck Out His Tongue: A Yiddish Folk Tale) is an author and playwright living in Albuqeurque, New Mexico. She uses interactive materials, such as enlarged photographs of immigrants traveling in steerage and photographs of the Lower East Side, when she talks about Annushka's Voyage and the immigrant experience in the early 1900s. She also discusses how she adapted Annushka's Voyage into a play for young people, which had its debut at The Little Theatre in Albuquerque. When Tarbescu gives talks about her Hungarian-born father who told her The Boy Who Stuck Out His Tongue, she explains how she embellished the story and asks the audience to help her act out the scenes. Tarbescu will travel anywhere. Her motto is: Have books, will travel! Email her at tarbescu@comcast.net or visit her website www.home.earthlink.net/~tarbescu.

Sydell Blossom Waxman (My Mannequins and The Rooster Prince) lives in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Winner of a Choice Award from the Canadian Children's Books Centre, Waxman gives writing workshops for adults and children, and interactive presentations for grades 1-4 in schools, synagogues, and libraries throughout Ontario and Quebec in Canada and the Buffalo and New York City areas of New York. She travels to the Sarasota/Bradenton area of Florida every January and February. In her presentations, Waxman focuses on the history of Jews in the needle industry (My Mannequins) or Jewish stories and retellings (The Rooster Prince). To arrange a program, email Waxman at mannequin@sympatico.ca, visit her website www.sydellwaxman.com, or phone her at 905-731-7369.

April Halprin Wayland (New Year at the Pier—A Rosh Hashanah Story) lives in Los Angeles, California, where she is an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Winner of a Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry Book and Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor for Children's Poetry Book, Wayland performs story times for younger children, poetry workshops and picture book writing workshops for teens and adults, assemblies for grades K-12 about the rollercoaster world of writing, and teacher in-service workshops on writing poetry. Her presentation titles include: "The Long And Winding Road From Tossing Bread Crumbs To Turning Pages," "I'm Sorry, I Forgive You—A Workshop," "Secrets into Poems—a Workshop," and "W.O.W: Writers' Observation Workshop." Wayland is willing to travel anywhere and has Skype software for virtual visits. To arrange a program, contact her at aprilwayland@aol.com, or visit her website www.aprilwayland.com.

Elka Weber (The Yankee at the Seder) lives in Teaneck, New Jersey. A former history teacher with a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies, Weber gives talks in bookstores, synagogues, and libraries on "History is a Story: How to Use Real Events as the Basis for Books." She also gives talks in schools to junior high and high school students on "Read, Write, Revise: How to Get Started." She is willing to travel anywhere in the U.S. and Canada if her expenses are covered. To arrange a program, contact Weber at elka@elkaweber.com, through her website www.elkaweber.com, or through Tricycle Press publicist Hayley Gonnason at hayley.gonnason@tenspeed.com, phone 510-559-1600, ext. 3087.

Ronna Wineberg (Second Language) lives in New York City, where she is Senior Fiction Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review. Winner of the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition and a Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Wineberg gives readings from her book and a talk in which she discusses how being Jewish affects the lives and choices of her characters. In a second talk entitled "Second Language: Forging a Partnership Between Literature and Medicine," she refers to stories in the book about aging and illness, and discusses the importance of literature to medicine and the need for empathy between doctor and patients. Wineberg is willing to travel anywhere. To arrange a program, contact her by email at ronnagroup@aol.com or visit her website www.RonnaWineberg.com.

Michele Zackheim (Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl and Violette's Embrace) lives in New York City where she teaches a master's class at the School of Visual Arts on writing from a visual perspective. When Zackheim gives talks about the Jewish aspect of her books, she describes growing up in a little town in California with no Jews and making Einstein her idol and reason for withstanding the ugliness she experienced as a Jew. She also describes how the memoir part of Violette's Embrace reflects what she knew about life as a Jew in a small town. Zackheim will travel anywhere as long as her expenses are covered. Email her at michelezackheim@mac.com or visit her website www.MicheleZackheim.com.

Victoria Zackheim (The Bone Weaver) lives in San Francisco, California, where she edits anthologies and teaches writing in the UCLA Writers Program. Zackheim gives workshops and talks on "The Women Who Came Before Us: Jewish Women in Literature," "Turning Our Family History into Fiction," and "The Importance of Memoir Writing: Preserving Our Family's Heritage." She is willing to travel throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and France. To arrange a program, email Zackheim at vdzack@aol.com or visit her website www.VictoriaZackheim.com.

Peter Zheutlin (Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride) is a freelance journalist in Needham, Massachusetts. He offers a PowerPoint presentation in which he takes readers back to the 1890s and explores the connections between the bicycle craze, the women's suffrage movement, and globalization. Zheutlin shows how these forces created the fertile ground for Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a Jewish housewife and mother, to become the first international female sports star under her pseudonym Annie Londonderry, taken from her first corporate sponsor: the Londonderry Lithia Spring Water Company of New Hampshire. Zheutlin is willing to travel anywhere in North America. To arrange a program, email him at pzheutlin@rcn.com, phone 781-444-9056, or visit his website www.AnnieLondonderry.com.

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