Meet Our Team

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Our podcast’s ultimate goal is to encourage, inspire and support authors to advance beyond barriers and enjoy the wonder of writing. Thank you for visiting our site and we encourage you to explore the variety of podcast content and resources provided here.

We believe in the power of writing in the lives of not only readers, but also authors!

Let us encourage and inspire you to try new strategies, reach your next goal.

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Here is an opportunity  to learn  more about Writing  Works Wonders’ co-hosts and advisory team.

 The Founders / Co-Hosts

 

Cheryl McNeil Fisher

• Author, Keynote Speaker, Educator and Coach. Seminars and Workshops Adults and Children. 
• Not only an author, for over 25 years Cheryl has been a national motivational speaker and workshop leader. She inspires audiences and readers to discover the strength to face setbacks, and reach their dreams. Both in her career and volunteer work, Cheryl advocates for children and adults with a full spectrum of differently special traits. Her publications range from fiction to nonfiction. Her creative children’s books nurture imagination, goodness, kindness, and thankfulness, while introducing the lifestyles of differently abled people. Audiences benefit from Cheryl’s counseling background through her positive, supportive perspective.
  
• Cheryl is a Board member of the  New York State Executive Board of the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped
• Cheryl lives in the Hudson Valley area of NY.
• Opportunities to submit your work for publication  on her L.I.F.E. site
• Visit https://www.cherylmcneilfisher.com to learn more about Cheryl’s books, seminars, and speaking

 

Dr. Kathy King 

• Author, Coach, Workshop/ Keynote Speaker, & Professor (Ret.)
• Dr. Kathleen P. King  (Kathy) is an award winning author and editor who has published over 30 books and 200+ articles/papers. As a series editor with Information Age Publishing and in her private coaching, she guides authors through the writing and publishing processes. “Kathy” is a popular keynote and conference speaker, mentor, and writing consultant. As a professor for 30+ years, she was a researcher, administrator, and educator. Her major areas of research include diversity, research, technology innovations, college teaching, transformative learning, leadership, and faculty development. Her 2018 book, “Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning”, garnered the Textbook Excellence award from Textbook and Academic Authors. Since 2021, Kathy lives in Knoxville, TN actively coaching authors, podcasting, public speaking, and writing.
• Learn more about Kathy at her author and consulting site DrKathyKing.com

We Are Proud to Be Members of ….

• American Council of the Blind
• Council of Citizens with Low Vision International (CCLVI)
• Behind Our Eyes
• Guide Dog Users Inc. (Cheryl)
• Textbook and Academic Authors (Kathy)

 

Our Interns 

Each semester, we hope to have a volunteer intern whom we may encourage in their writing and publishing career.  If you were in rolled in college, we might be able to work out an internship in which you earn credit. If you are not enrolled, we will be happy to discuss the many benefits of the volunteer intern opportunity with you.  If you are interested in being considered for this role in the future, please contact us at info@writingworkswonders.com and use the subject Volunteer Intern.

 

Allison Vasquez (Summer 2022)

Allison joins us as an in intern in Summer 2022. Im 2021, she graduated from State University of New Paltz, New York. Her major is digital media production, and her minor is creative writing.

 

 

Sara Cassieri (Spring 2022)

Sara studies English at Mount Saint Mary College and graduated with a bachelor’s in May 2022. She enjoys writing short stories and poems. In her free time, she creates mosaic paintings. Sara is excited to work with Writing Works Wonders and collaborate with Cheryl and Kathy.

Our Advisory Team

Encouragement, support, direction – we need it too!  We are fortunate and grateful to have a small group of very talented authors who provide valuable contributions to the community, website and podcast series. We appreciate their commitment to inspiring writers at all stages of their journey.  

Writing Works Wonders is more than a podcast, it is a community. Thank you to all of our participants, listeners and supporters. 

DeAnna Quietwater Noriega  

DeAnna is half Apache, and a quarter Chippewa. She is the mother of three. As a result of congenital glaucoma, she became totally blind at the age of eight. DeAnna has been a poet/writer since childhood. Her most recent publication is a book titled Fifty Years of Walking with Friends. The book chronicles in poetry and prose the story of her life with nine guide dogs.

DeAnna and her husband met while attending college and he joined her in the Peace Corps. They worked together to establish a school for blind children in Western Samoa.

Making meaningful connections with others through writing.

Since 1998, Ann’s poems, creative nonfiction, essays and fiction have appeared in print journals, online magazines, blogs and small press reviews. Because listening to a story or poem is reading with one’s ears, Ann strives to produce all her writing in audio for people with print disabilities, including performance poetry podcast interviews and informational presentations.

Ann lives in New York’s historic and beautiful lower Hudson valley and continues to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with her assistive technology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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