Lauran's latest Author Biography:

Lauran, a professional editor, teaches writing and facilitates writers' workshops at a city sponsored Adult Learning Center in Virginia Beach, VA. When she's not editing for Moondance Magazine, an international woman e-zine, she edits for NFG, a Canadian Print Magazine. Lauran's work has been featured in Dog-eared, Gator Springs Gazette, AtomicPetals, Retrozine, Copperfield Review, A Woman of a Certain Age, Moondance, Monkey Bicycle, Insolent Rudder, LongStoryShort, Edifice Wrecked, The Virginian Pilot, Whistling Shade Literary Review, Somewhat, Green Tricycle, and Reading Divas. One of her essays was read on NPR's literary show, Word By Word. She is the winner of the NFG's 4th great 69er contest. She has several short stories and essays forthcoming in both print and online literary reviews and magazines in 2004 and 2005.

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1997 ART Get Togethers

Pictures from the August Niagara Falls ART Party.

Pictures from the Oct 98 gathering of a few Art-campfire chatters in Missouri.

If you'd like to hear how some of the chatters sound then you've come to the right place. We've built a small collection of wav voice files.

Our special thanks to Aeroblade for his assistance sizing many of these pictures and for creating the title banner on this page. We'd also like to thank Seven for creating the title banner on the index page and for his assistance sizing and converting some of the pictures.