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Jo Anne Lordal

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About Jo Ann
 Here is my professional face. Celestial Arts, a publisher, made me a lot of copies of it, so this picture is the one I use and hand out at most opportunities!
This Indian-braid girl was a long ago young woman growing up in Alabama. That farm background is a valued stabilizing influence and taught me early lessons about independence and equality.
This is a working vacation trip to Santo Domingo and Haiti. An ordinary routine helps me write; traveling opens my mind and heart and helps me live. I love to travel and will go out of my way to accept speaking, workshops, writing conferences and seminar invitations.
We all had a wonderful time at this library-sponsored book-fair in Jacksonville (speaking before the Friends of the Library groups is a favorite activity). My workshop on women, money and spirituality was heavily attended and the party that night was at a lovely house on the St John’s river.
At a workshop, Computer Magic, at the national convention of Pen (National League of American Pen Women) in Tampa in 1998, I’m demonstrating my laptop computer, small traveling printer and how I can dial locally and receive and send my email from anywhere.
What a thrill to meet Gaylord Nelson and his charming wife in their old home town of Clear Lake, Wisconsin. I edited a book that summer in Stillwater and Clear Lake and even wrote some poetry.
This picture fools most people! At the ABA (American Booksellers Association) a few years ago, a dummy, but still jaunty, George Burns posed with a lot of independent booksellers and a few lucky writers.
This recent beach picture shows favorite activities of birds and sunset watching. Kaua‘i is wonderful!
Credentials & Travel
Ph.D. Florida State University. Study at the Academy of American Poets in Manhattan, with Janet Burroway at FSU & Donald Justice at U of F. Art fellowships at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Allen Ginsberg) 1984; Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Tumecula, CA, 1986, 1992, 1995; Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota, FL 1988 & Ucross in Wyoming 1994.
Travel includes most of the US, 2 years in Canada, 6 months in London, 4 months in Argentina and trips to Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean including Cuba, Haiti and Santo Domingo. Have visited all the main Hawaiian islands: Big Island, O’ahu, Moloka’i, Lana’i, lived on Maui for three years and now live on Kaua’i.

Date Recorded: 8/6/2012

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