 Linda Coleman
Linda Coleman has been writing memoir for the past 12 years and currently facilitates an ongoing Herstory workshop in Southampton, as well as those with Herstory Inside. Her own memoir, Radical Descent, tells of her transit through idealism and dogma amidst the violent revolutionary underground of the early 1970s. Other memoir pieces were published in the Fall 2007 issue of North Atlantic Review and the Summer 2008 issue of Memoir (and)... Along with her ongoing training with Herstory, she brings her many years of nursing and deep study and practice of Buddhism into her work as facilitator. She is the mother of two sons, and lives in Springs.
 Lonnie Mathis
Lonnie Mathis has been writing with Herstory for 10 years. Her first book, Childhood is a Relative Experience, which she is now rewriting, opens with a walk and a peek into a window that changed her life – the moment her lost childhood memories began to resurface – and takes the reader back into the world, the heart, the body, mind and soul of the little girl living in trauma. Her second book, From the Shores of the River Denial (in progress), opens only days later, locked away in a psychiatric ward and locked inside her own silence – “My journey into, through and up out of crazy…” – offering the reader an intimate look into the breakdown and rebuilding of a life. Lonnie has been a workshop facilitator with Herstory since 2004, and teaches up to six workshops a week, including three that she co-teaches for women in prison, two Bridge workshops and special shorter term series in schools and other venues. She frequently co-facilitates with artistic director, Erika Duncan, as she continues to attend hands-on workshops to develop the approach.
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