Kathryn Mattingly
Senior Editorial Director, Senior Contributor
Kathryn is passionate about the power of the written word, especially when penned to perfection through excellent editing. Whether doing interviews, editorial commentary or feature articles for Leading Possibilities, she is determined to make an impact. As a former college Academic Program Chair Kathryn managed the weekly campus newspaper and did report writing for the college’s nationally distributed ARTISTIK magazine. She taught English, receiving outstanding instructor awards throughout her tenure. Kathryn is a reader/judge for Pacific NW Writer’s annual literary contest. She is published in 8 short story collections and holds 6 writing awards for fiction. Her novel Benjamin (a New Century Quarterly Finalist) will be released May of 2013 by Winter Goose Publishing. Kathryn has earned a BFA from University of Oregon, and MAT from Pacific University. Visit her website @pen publish promote if you would like your manuscript edited for publication, or if you wish to partake in her creative writing workshops.
- Sac’s New Creative Economy: Flywheel Incubator (Part 2)
By Kathryn Mattingly If you should get hit by a fluke meteorite falling from the sky one day soon and have a few last thoughts other than why me… will they be thoughts of regret for some passion you never got around to pursuing? Some unfinished work in your heart and ...
- Sac’s New Creative Economy: Flywheel Incubator
From the desk of Kathryn Mattingly. Can you imagine a world without creativity? Without art? Written, sung, played, acted, chiseled, drawn, painted, however envisioned… not created? Me either. Thank goodness society has come up with ways to supports the arts. Our culture would be quite unimaginative without them. For a donation of ...
- Barbed-Wire Butterflies
Jessica Kristie will be signing her new book Barbed-Wire Butterflies at Face in a Book in El Dorado Hills Town Center on April 13th from 11-1pm. How exciting is that? She just happens to be one of my favorite poets, and people. Her latest release however is a fiction novel. ...
- Rayme Waters Captivates
Born in San Francisco, Rayme Waters grew up in Northern California and has spent a few years in Sweden since then. Rayme was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Dzanc Best of the Web Award for her short story The Watertower and is the author of a short story ...
- Susan Keale – Finding Presence Through Her Passion
Susan Keale has studied art and art history with an emphasis on symbolism and art as it relates to revealing positive solutions. She selects imagery that expresses insights into life challenges, mindfulness, and the practice of kindness. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe and is held in ...
- The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain
LPTrendsGreatWriters. Judith Horstman. From Kathryn’s Desk… Judith Horstman is a long-time journalist and author who has been a Washington correspondent, university professor and Fulbright scholar. She specializes in writing about health, science and other complex issues while using language we can all understand. In her fourth (and latest) book about the brain, ...
