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Brigid Pasulka was the 2010 winner of the PEN Hemingway Award for her novel, *A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True*.

A native of France where she was trained as a dancer, Brigitte Byrd is the author of *Fence above the Sea* (Ahsahta, 2005) and *The Dazzling Land* (Black Zinnias, 2008). Her third collection *Song of a Living Room* is scheduled for fall 2009 (Ahsahta). Brigitte's work is forthcoming in the anthology *Online Writing:The Best of the First Ten Years* (Snow*Vigate Press, with an introduction by Brian Evenson). New poems recently appeared in *Lilies and Cannonballs*, *Quarter After Eight*, *Tarpaulin Sky*, *Coconut Poetry*, and *Taiga*. Her work has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and she is the first-prize poetry winner of the St. Petersburg (Russia) Summer Literary Seminar 2000. Brigitte received a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University 2003. She teaches Creative Writing at Clayton State University. She is also an editorial reviewer for *Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies* and writes micro-reviews for *Oranges & Sardines*.

Brigitte Cazalis-Collins founded the Friends of Maiti Nepal as the official representative of Maiti Nepal in the United States in 2001. She and her husband, Joseph H. Collins, have lived and worked in Nepal intermittently for more than twenty years. In 2001, Cazalis-Colins devoted her efforts to the struggle against human trafficking, increasing awareness of sex trafficking, and raising funds for Maiti Nepal. She has also directed and implemented major outreach projects assisting refugees and women both in the U.S. and in Nepal. In the U.S. she was a member of the founding board of the Tibetan Resettlement Project, which provided sponsors, housing, employment and counseling to Tibetan families who immigrated to the U.S. under the Immigration Act of 1992.

Britt Salvesen has been named director and chief curator for The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography. Salvesen, who earned her doctorate in art history from the University of Chicago, has earned several distinctions in the field of photography. They include a scholarly residence with the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center and a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship. She joined the UA's center as curator in October 2004 after a stint as associate curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Art Institute of Chicago. In June 2007, after the departure of Doug Nickel, Salvesen was appointed interim director and curator for the UA's center and has since overseen the continued digitization of the print collection. Salvesen also reintroduced the centers scholarly journal, *The Archive*, and guided ambitious exhibition programs for the centers primary gallery and for its new Norton Photography Gallery at the Phoenix Art Museum.

**Britt Vitello** has taught endurance and strength training over the last eight years and opened her own fitness studio at the age of 26, which she eventually merged with top studios in Boston. Britt currently works as an instructor at Barry’s Bootcamp and takes a no-nonsense approach in her fitness classes, which drives clients to be mentally and physically strong. In addition to the in-person classes Britt normally offers, she has also branched out into virtual personal fitness classes as well as started a YouTube channel.

Brittany Huckabee is the founder and principal of Version One Productions, Inc., and served as a 2006-2007 Filmmaker-in-Residence at WGBH, Boston's award-winning PBS station. Her directing experience includes four documentaries and two weekly series that were broadcast nationally on PBS. Most recently, she produced and directed the three-hour documentary series Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, which debuted on PBS in June 2005. The Mosque in Morgantown is Huckabee's first independent film project. She is currently developing a new project about human trafficking in Nepal.

Brock Clarke is the author of six novels, his latest work being \_The Happiest People in the World\_ (2014). He currently lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College and in University of Tampa's low residency MFA program.

Brock Dolman is a co-founder of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (www.oaec.org), where he co-directs the Permaculture Program, Wildlands Program and the WATER Institute in Sonoma County, California. He is a wildlife biologist, permaculture designer and watershed ecologist and has been active in promoting the idea of Bringing Back the Beaver in California since the late 1990’s.

Brooke is a local freelancer and dumpling aficionado based in Allston. As an undergrad at Boston University, she’s written extensively for the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and various local food blogs. She loves chatting with chefs, lying on hardwood floors after big meals, and walking around unknown neighborhoods with food in her hands. She also has a complicated relationship with burritos, and an unhealthy obsession with Jamaica Plain. One time, a waiter in Atlanta told her she had an exquisite palate -- she’s referenced it in job interviews ever since.

A professor emerita at New York University, where she was the founding director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and taught from 1998 to 2021. She was UN correspondent for Newsday, deputy metropolitan editor at New York Newsday, and for more than a decade before that, a correspondent, editor, and bureau and division chief for United Press International at home and abroad.

Brooks Rainwater is the American Institute of Architecture's director of Local Relations. As director, Brooks is responsible for advancing the Institute's and the architecture profession's goals at the local level by promoting the AIA's public policies and empowering local components to effectively manage their legislative, regulatory, and legal efforts. Previously Brooks worked as a research associate for the Artemis Group LLC. Prior to that, he interned with the North Carolina Smart Growth Alliance in the area of rural development policy. Brooks earned the Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds a Master's of Public Administration degree from the George Washington University.

Harvard graduate and author of five books (including two national bestsellers), Broughton Coburn is a premier authority on the culture and environment of the Himalaya, where he has lived and worked for two of the past three years