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Women Writing: A Panel discussion

Are you a writer interested in publishing your work? Join local women authors as they discuss their books and enlighten us about the publication process! Come ready to learn and ask questions!

Meet the Authors!

A.C.E Bauer has been telling stories ever since she could talk (some were real whoppers). After learning how to write, she began handing them out as gifts to her family. Ms. Bauer took a break from writing for a while when she was a lawyer helping poor people, writing legal briefs, and telling stories about her clients. She has returned to fiction and now writes for children of all ages. Born and raised in Montreal, she spends most of the year in Connecticut but returns to Canada whenever she can. 

Barb Nangle is a boundaries coach, speaker, author and the Founder and CEO of Higher Power Coaching and Consulting, LLC and host of the podcast, "Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12 Step Recovery." She also the author of Roadside Recovery: One Woman's Travels and Travails on Her First Solo Road Trip. In 2015 at the age of 52, after decades of therapy and tons of self-help work in a variety of areas, Barb found herself in 12-step recovery. She’s been in two such fellowships since then and has changed deeply and profoundly as a result. As a former addict and people-pleasing rescuer, she empowers people to thrive and take more control over their personal and professional lives by coaching them to build healthy boundaries. She works with organizations in the helping professions, as well as women entrepreneurs to avoid burnout and reduce turnover. Her specialty is working with women who focus on what others think and neglect themselves. She’s coached hundreds using her exclusive BUILD framework. 

She specializes in working with women who focus on what others think and neglect themselves, organizations in the helping professions, as well as women entrepreneurs to avoid burnout and reduce turnover.

Chandra Prasad is the author of the young adult novels Mercury Boys, a 2022 Connecticut Book Award finalist,  and Damselfly, a racially diverse, female-driven survival tale published by Scholastic. She is the editor of—and a contributor to—the W.W. Norton anthology Mixed, the first-ever collection of short stories on the multiracial experience. Her shorter works have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Week, Teen Voices, School Library Journal, and in literary, arts, and poetry journals.

Janae Marks is the author of the critically acclaimed novel From the Desk of Zoe Washington, the New York Times bestselling On Air with Zoe Washington, and A Soft Place to Land. She grew up in the New York City suburbs and now lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter.

Martha Seif Simpson is the former Head of Children’s Services at the Stratford Library, where she worked for 28 years. She has served on many book committees, including the Nutmeg Children’s Book Award, the Newbery Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award. Martha is the author of five library resource books, including Bringing Classes Into the Public Library. She has also written three traditionally published picture books: What NOT to Give Your Mom on Mother’s Day, The Dreidel That Wouldn’t Spin, and Esther’s Gragger. Her next picture book, A Ring for a King, will be published by Wisdom Tales in 2025. Find her on Facebook at Martha Kidlit Author and on her website: www.Martha-Seif-Simpson.com.

Monica Ong is the author of Silent Anatomies (2015), and winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong’s visual poetry innovates on text+image to surface hidden narratives of women and diaspora. You can find recent work featured in POETRY Magazine, Scientific American, Waxwing Magazine, Asian American Literary Review, and ctrl+v. She has been awarded residencies most recently at the Studios at MassMoCA, Marble House Project, Yaddo, Millay Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation.

This program is generously sponsored by the Marie Boroff Grant from the Elizabethan Club of Yale University.

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