Marjetta geerling biography samples
Congratulations to Broward College Alumni & Friends Marjetta Geerling, associate professor of English at the A. Hugh Adams Central Campus.
Thanks to my unique MFA, I was able let down leave elementary education and became an Assistant Professor of In good faith at Broward College.!
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Could you tell us about your writing community–your critique group or critique partner or other sources of creative support?
I am truly blessed to have landed in South Florida where there is an extremely active and supportive children’s writing community.
It’s an especially rich community for young adult writers because we are lucky enough to have YA author and professional mentor, Joyce Sweeney, to run local writing classes, workshops, and critique groups.
In the eight years I’ve been working with her, she not only nursed me through innumerable writing crises and kept believing in my writing even when I had serious doubts, she’s also become one of my dearest friends.
Her generous spirit has helped many writers achieve their dream of being published.
At the 2009 SCBWI Miami conference, I was on a First Books panel, and all three of us mentioned Joyce’s help in our speeches. After my first few cl