 |
Lisa Shea, Senior Poetry Editor
Lisa Shea feels that beauty can be discovered in any corner of nature - from the glistening autumn leaf on a mossy rock to the spiral swirls of a shell nestled into a sandy beach. She is drawn to serene organic images, enjoying both photography and haiku as her primary means of discovery. Her short stories examine the hopes, dreams, and growth that we each go through in life. In addition to owning BellaOnline Lisa writes for the Low Carb and Video Gaming topic areas here. She has three non-fiction books in print, sharing the joys of the Courtship and Wedding Traditions in Ireland, Italy, and France. The next book in the series will be on Native American traditions. On the fiction side, she has published seven medieval romance novels with all proceeds benefiting battered women´s shelters. Lisa is thrilled that the BellaOnline Mused Literary Magazine has helped hundreds of artists reach a world-wide audience and find recognition for their talents. |
|  |
Diane Cipollo, Art Director
Diane Cipollo started as a traditional pen and ink artist and won third place in the Decorative Artist's Workbook 1998 Holiday Card Contest. She has always been fascinated by animated movies such as Disney's Fantasia and turned in her traditional pen and ink for digital pixels several years ago when digital art and animation software arrived on the scene. She has been with BellaOnline since 2003 as editor for the HTML, PHP, Animation and Digital Art and Design sections. She is also an animator at Ecards Ecards Ecards. |
|  |
Terri Johansen
Terri Johansen is a member of the Mused poetry and artwork review teams, as well as Editor of the Exercise Site for BellaOline.com. Terri loves writing poetry including haiku as well as non-fiction, essays, and the occasional short story. She has been a yoga teacher and fitness instructor for many years. She strives to keep her fitness and yoga knowledge current through practice, study, and working on new advanced certifications. She enjoys sharing her depth of knowledge and experience through her writing and teaching fitness classes. She particular enjoys working one on one with individuals. Terri’s writing has been published in local magazines as well as online. Her work for BellaOnline.com has inspired her to write her first about exercise, an E-book, titled "Exercise Basics". |
|  |
Kim Kenney
Kim Kenney is the author of four books with Arcadia Publishing, Canton: A Journey Through Time, Canton´s West Lawn Cemetery, Canton´s Pioneers in Flight, and a brand new release Canton Entertainment. She has also published an exhibition review in The Public Historian, the journal of the National Council for Public History. Her work has appeared in Mused, The Boston Globe, The Repository, and the Amazon Shorts program. She serves as editor of the Museums website at BellaOnline.com, where she has authored several ebooks. Her hobbies include cooking, travel, reading, counted cross stitch, and photography. |
|  |
Cynthia Parker, Senior Fiction Editor
Cynthia Parker is the editor of the Single Parents column on BellaOnline, a delighted member of the Mused poetry team and senior editor for the Mused fiction team. She enjoys writing poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, relying heavily on life experiences and her research in cultural anthropology and human behavior. She is currently working on a series of essays exploring what it means to grow up female in the South. |
|  |
Vannie Ryanes
Vannie Ryanes is a writer and home business owner. A book reviewer, she was a final manuscript reader for “Chicken Soup for the African American Soul.” She retired from a health sciences university where she received two awards from the university president for outstanding service and exceptional dedication; and an award from the university’s Board of Concerned Citizens for service, dedication and work of excellence rendered. Always one to give back, she received a certificate of appreciation from the Essex County Friend/Advocate Program for 15 years of volunteer service. She continues to give back by working with civic groups in her town. To relax Vannie reads, cooks, watches classic films and serves as moderator of her online community group for writers of African American and multicultural romance novels. Vannie joined BellaOnline.com in 2004. She is the editor of the Work & Family Site and Hot & Spicy [food] Site. Her personal web site is http://vanniewrites.webs.com. |
|  |
Tina Sansone
Tina Sansone has been with BellaOnline since December 2005 as the Genealogy Editor, and more recently the eBook Manager. She was so impressed with the Muse editions that she wanted to be a small part of it and decided to volunteer in the judging process. The awesome submissions are great and an inspiration as she does her own writing. Tina is a wife, mother and grandma. She is also the Coordinator of the ISFHWE "Excellence in Writing" competition, and the President of the Second Life Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogist. Her website is http://www.bellaonline.com/site/genealogy. |
|  |
Georgia Seitz
Tatting and teaching tatting are at the top of Georgia´s list of fun things to do! She finds the greatest personal and professional satisfaction in teaching new tatters. She has taught at many International Old Lacers, Inc. conventions and local tatting guilds. The Online Tatting class which she leads has offered free lessons for over 12 years. She has written or edited seven tatting books. As a member of the artwork team, she has been with BellaOnline for some time now and she enjoys the wonderful interaction between the tatting forum, the tatting newsletter, Mused and the tatters online. |
|  |
Leif Sutter
Leif is the role-playing games editor for Bella Online. He´s also a husband, student and aspiring entrepreneur -- in that order. The Sutter family includes a two-year-old Bichon Frisé. Leif is presently learning the finer points of animal separation anxiety every time his wife Julie leaves the house without their (her!) pup. Currently he is working on a two-year business management degree, after which his sights are set on a four-year accounting degree. Due to transferring schools with incompatible credits, Leif has completed four English composition courses and feels it would be a shame to let such experience waste away. Therefore, Leif is on the non-fiction team for Mused and has enjoyed every work therein. He fancies himself a harsh critic where writing is concerned but he takes care to read any given work through at least once, without minding errors, in order to experience it on it´s own merit. While far from a perfect writer himself, he´s set on helping others achieve that title. |
|  |
Jill Florio, Founding Editor
Jill Florio was the Art Editor for Flagstaff Live, Staff Reporter & Photographer for the Prescott Valley Tribune, and contributed variously as reporter, photographer, and columnist to the Prescott Art Rag, Prescott Daily Courier, the Arizona Republic, Sweat Magazine, AP News, Suite101.com, Travelwise Magazine, Mountain Living Magazine, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Serving Arizona, the Raven Review, and Active.com. She is the Editor for the 4th Edition of Arizona Off the Beaten Path, published by Globe Pequot Books. She has had poetry, art, and short stories published in both recent and forgotten venues from as early as the 4th grade. Jill also writes for BellaOnline for the topics of Frugal Living. Jill insists on using The Force as an alternative to pecking at her keyboard all day. |
|
|
