Wicked Writers

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BellaBianca Lynn is from Dedham MA. She studied creative writing/professional writing at Curry College and did an undergrad thesis on therapeutic writing. She is a belly dancer and has contributed her explorations to Belly Dance New England Magazine. Digital Content Writer for Step Up For Mental Health or co-editor for V'Well Magazine. She hopes to complete my memoir someday that incorporates my body tales.

Her website is www.bellabiancalynn.com and you can find her on Twitter: @bellabiancal Facebook: BellaBianca Lynn Page.

Sasha Cagen is a writer and life coach who specializes in helping brilliant women and sensitive, self-aware men who identify with her quirkyalone concept (now a word on dictionary.com). She is the author of the cult favorite Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics and To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us. Her work as an author, life coach for women and entrepreneur has been featured everywhere from NPR and the New York Times to CNN and Vogue.

Her website is www.sashacagen.com. Find her on Facebook at Sasha Cagen Writer and Instagram @sashacagen.

​Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Zorana studies the role of emotion and emotion skills in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills.

​Zorana has collaborated with colleagues from Denmark, Spain, China, and Croatia and published her research in journals such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Sex Roles, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Creative Behavior, Career Development International and others. She is Associate Editor of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, and the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving.

She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, received a doctorate from the University of New Hampshire (with Dr. Jack Mayer, co-creator of the theory of emotional intelligence), and did postdoctoral research at the Interpersonal Communication and Interaction laboratory at Tufts University (with Dr. Nalini Ambady who pioneered research on thin slices of behavior).

Her website is https://www.zoranaivcevicpringle.com/.

Originally from the Chicagoland area, Jamie is a professional in the Cambridge biotech scene, a graduate student at Boston University School of Public Health, and a lifelong multi-hobbyist. He enjoys reading, writing, singing, playing music, photography, cooking, creating, exploring, travelling. Jamie is also a burgeoning advocate and activist within the transgender community.