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DEBRA GWARTNEY (Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters) and AMY GOLDWASSER (editor of RED: Teenage Girls in America Write on What Fires Up Their Lives Today)

Debra Gwartney is on the nonfiction writing faculty at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, and is co-editor, with Barry Lopez, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, published in 2006 by Trinity University Press. Her short stories, personal narratives, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. Debra is a former reporter for The Oregonian, was a nonfiction scholar at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, and has received fellowships from Literary Arts, Hedgebrook Writer’s Colony, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the American Antiquarian Society. She lives in Western Oregon with her husband, the writer Barry Lopez, and is the mother of four daughters.

Amy Goldwasser is an editorial consultant who edits and writes for publications including Elle, The New Yorker, Seventeen, Vogue, The Advocate, The New York Times Magazine, and Salon. She teaches editing in the magazine workshop of the Columbia Publishing Course and writing at the Lower Eastside Girls Club. She’s the editor of RED: Teenage Girls in America Write On What Fires Up Their Lives Today and http://redthebook.com/cs/, where every one of the book’s 58 teen authors has her own blog. She is currently working with the Red girls daily, publishing their cultural, personal and political writing on national op-ed pages (the LA Times, Newsweek, the Huffington Post, etc.), their style and culture trendspotting as RED Hearts http://redthebook.com/cs/redhearts/; leading peer-to-peer writing workshops nationally and internationally; and adapting the book for theater (title Bloody Red Heart, next workshop in LA in April), TV, and web serial. She lives blocks from KGB with her husband, the illustrator Peter Arkle.