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Marcia Meier

Director, Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Author, Journalist

Marcia Meier is an award-winning journalist, author, poet, photographer, teacher, and owner and director of the 37-year-old Santa Barbara Writers Conference, which provides workshops, panels and speakers for 400 writers over six days every summer. Before buying the conference, Meier spent 20 years writing and editing for daily newspapers, taught college-level courses in journalism, column-writing and the impact of media on society, and was marketing and communications director for a liberal arts college. She is the author of Santa Barbara, Paradise on the Pacific (Longstreet Press, 1996) and continues to freelance for a number of publications in print and online. Her book, Navigating the Rough Waters of Today’s Publishing World Storm: Critical Advice for Writers from Industry Insiders, will be published by Quill Driver Books in fall 2009. Web site: my.sbwriters.com/profile/MarciaMeier

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