ARCHIVES: MORE OPEN BOOK INTERVIEWS 2017
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Bette Ann Moskowitz is an award-winning author and teacher. Her memoir Do I Know You? A Family’s Journey through Aging and Alzheimer’s won a New York State Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship for Literary Non-fiction and The Room at the End of the Hall: An Ombudsman’s Notebook was a Finalist in NYFA’s literary non-fiction category. She has just finished the novel Three Legs in the Evening, a story about a middle-aged woman who reinvents herself, embraces a newfound sensuality and finds love again after a terrorist attack rocks her personal and external world. Bette has also been a dedicated teacher for decades and is a winner of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Heather Harrington is an award-winning dancer and choreographer. She has danced with several renowned companies, including the Doris Humphrey Repertory Company, the Martha Graham Ensemble, and many others. She ran her own modern dance company, Heather Harrington Dance Company, in New York City for nine years, performing nationally and internationally with a focus on site-specific dance. Heather has received numerous grants for her work and has been a resident choreographer for the Yard’s Bessie Schonberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency, Kaastbann International Dance Center, and the Hotel Pupik series in Austria. Heather is currently an adjunct professor of modern dance and theory at Kean University, and she also teaches at Seton Hall University.
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Alison Jardine is an award-winning artist who works in a broad range of disciplines, including new media, sculpture and painting. Alison’s work has been exhibited across the U.S., including Dallas (Erin Cluley Gallery), New York, San Francisco, Connecticut and Georgia. She was commissioned to create work for a social media art project for the London Olympics in 2012, and her digital art has been featured in several art magazines and on television (CBS 11). Her forthcoming book, Make Great Art on the iPad, will be published this summer in both Europe and the U.S. (Octopus Press, Hachette, London).
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