Writing about Spirituality/Spirituality and the Writer – An Enlightening Panel Discussion

Moderator: Tracy Jones
Panelists: Thomas Larson, Brae Wyckoff, Kathy Bostrom, Allan Musterer

Tracy Jones is a professional content writer and editor, ghostwriter, and copy editor with more than 25-years experience writing and editing for private clients, non-profits, and corporations. Tracy is the content editor and a featured writer at thefeistywriter.com. She’s a producer, head judge, writing coach, and co-director of the San Diego Annual Memoir Showcase. She’s the co-editor for Volume One and Two of Shaking the Tree: brazen. short. memoir. She’s also a writing coach for SDWI’s Certificate in Memoir Writing, a board member of the San Diego Memoir Writers Association, volunteer director for the San Diego Writer’s Festival, and has been a featured writer/performer in So Say We All’s V.A.M.P. showcase. She also runs two successful read and critique groups; one that meets at San Diego Writers, Ink on Saturdays and another on Tuesday nights in La Jolla. For more information, email Tracy at tjjones1[at]gmail.com.

Thomas Larson, Author, Memoirist
Journalist, book/music critic, and memoirist Thomas Larson is the author of Spirituality and the Writer: A Personal Inquiry (Swallow Press). He has also written The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease (Hudson Whitman), The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ (Pegasus Press), and The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative (Swallow Press). He is a twenty-year staff writer for the San Diego Reader, a six-year book review editor for River Teeth, and a former music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Brae Wyckoff, Author, Director of Kingdom Writers Association
Brae Wyckoff is an award-winning internationally acclaimed author of epic fantasy, children’s books, and historical fiction novels. He travels the world training and equipping other writers of all levels and has taught in Oxford, UK. Brae takes teams to Oxford every couple years to walk the streets that housed legendary writers like JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.
Brae has shared the stage with William Paul Young, author of the Shack, Lynn Vincent, author of Heaven Is For Real and Same Kind of Different As Me, and Peter Berkos, Academy Award winner. He hosts the annual Kingdom Creativity Conference each year here in San Diego and is the Director of Kingdom Writers Association with over 150 members.
He was born and raised here in San Diego, has a beautiful wife, who is also an author, artist, spoken word, and playwright. They have three children and six grandchildren.

Kathy Bostrom, Ordained Minister and Author
Kathy is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) since 1983. She and her husband, Greg, live in Carlsbad, California, where she writes full-time in an office looking out over a grove of eucalyptus trees. She has won awards for preaching and is often requested to speak for groups at the national level. Kathy has published numerous articles in various journals and newspapers and is the author of over three dozen books, most of them for children. Who is Jesus? was a finalist for the 2000 Gold Medallion Award, which is given to the outstanding books in Christian publishing, and What About Heaven? was nominated for the People’s Choice Award. Featured in a 2003 edition of “Something About the Author” and “Contemporary Authors,” which are two of the premiere reference sources for information on children’s authors. Her books (over 40) have sold well over two million copies in the 18 years since her first book was published, and her Little Blessings books are printed in 20 languages, including Chinese, Russian, and Indonesian. The Italian translations can be found in the Vatican bookstore in Rome, Italy

Allan Musterer, Ordained Minister and Author of Upcoming Debut Book, Solomon’s Recipe
Allan was born during WWII in the small town of Garfield, New Jersey. He is a mechanical engineer and co-founder of 4-Ward Tech/Design, Inc. a company that designs medical products. He is an ordained minister in the New Apostolic Church where he served with his loving wife Carol, for 37 years. Allan is currently Director of Garden of Innocence-San Diego, an organization that provides dignified burials for abandoned and unidentified babies. He has written his most poignant life experiences in his upcoming book, Solomon’s Recipe inspired by a sermon prior to going to college. He has used the recipe as guiding principle throughout his life.