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Susan Gambrell Reinhardt is a bona-fide crazy woman with a fabulously huge heart to match her semi-huge bra size. She loves motherhood, laughter, old people and children.
She is a syndicated columnist through Gannett Newspapers and a full-time columnist for the Asheville Citizen-Times located in Asheville, N.C. – the prettiest town in America.
Her work has appeared all over the world in major newspapers such as the Washington Post, Chicago Sun, Newsday, Woman’s World, and dozens of other publications.
Her new breasts have appeared less frequently, but debuted on Dec. 10, 2003. And the rumors are true, indeed. She felt so guilty about spending so much on them, she signed on to sponsor a child from Guatemala. They are all getting along swimmingly – the child, Reinhardt, and her new breasts.
Each week, her special brand of heart-infused humor is available to the hundred or more Gannett newspapers that have the option of running her column. Some do, some don’t. She thinks those who don’t are missing out.
Reinhardt has won many dozens awards for her columns, features and fiction writing. She was tapped Gannett’s Outstanding Writer of the Year in 1998 and has won several Best of Gannett honors. She has been nominated for a Pulitzer, which she did not win, obviously, and has penned two novels, which have yet to find a home. They are up for adoption.
Her short stories have been honored by the venerated Story Magazine, Mademoiselle and Writer’s Digest magazines.
As a woman born in South Carolina, reared in Georgia and then transplanted to North Carolina, she knows the South and its people the way a mom knows the roads to her children’s souls and smiles.
She is a woman who can not only write funny, but one who takes it a level deeper by not being afraid to show her pain, her faults, fears and losses. She does it in a way that brings familiar tears with the smiles.
Reinhardt has been a guest on radio and television shows, has given dozens of speeches and is as funny and charming in person as in print. Or so others tell her.
She’s no timid wallflower, but a sassy southern woman who goes after what she wants but leaves the grass tall, and not flattened, in her wake.
She is a long-time volunteer and fund raiser for Hospice, the United Way, the PTO, and other worthwhile and not so worthwhile causes. She is a proud member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Southern Humorists.com and the Not Quite Write Book Club, a group of 10 women who eat too much and pretend to act literary.
She is married to jazz musician, Stuart Reinhardt, and they have two children: Niles Landon 12, and Lindsey Hope, 7.
www.susanreinhardt.com
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Celia Rivenbark is an award-winning newspaper columnist and freelance journalist whose work has been compared to a cross between Erma Bombeck and Hunter S. Thompson. Celia has won national and state press awards and is the author of three humor collections: Bless Your Heart, Tramp
(2000, reprinted in 2006), We're Just Like You, Only Prettier (2004), and Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank (2006). Celia lives in Wilmington, NC, with her husband and daughter. www.celiarivenbark.com
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Joni Rodgers is a critically acclaimed novelist applying the fine art of fiction to the creation of powerful memoirs, Joni Rodgers writes mainstream fiction and serves as a high end ghostwriter, book
doctor, and "memoir guru" to celebrities and other clients.
Joni was born into a family of gospel/bluegrass performers and grew up on stage, opening for sequin-spangled C&W stars of the 1960s. Diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1994, Joni was sidelined from her career in theatre, radio, and voiceovers (her voice has been heard on over 3,500 radio and television commercials) and used the chemo downtime to write her first two novels,
both of which were published to critical acclaim.
Bald in the Land of Big Hair, Joni's memoir about her cancer experience was published by Harper Collins in 2001. Excerpted in Good Housekeeping, condensed by Reader’s Digest, and translated for publication throughout the world, Bald quickly became a reading group favorite and made Joni a popular keynote speaker at conferences and fundraisers
for the American Cancer Society, Junior League, and many other organizations. The book also brought her to the attention of celebrities and others seeking help with memoir projects. (While working on her forthcoming memoir, My First Five Husbands, actress Rue McClanahan wrote to Joni, "You made gorgeous cream pies out of the curds and whey I sent.")
Joni has written articles, essays, and columns for several national magazines and anthologies. Media appearances include the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, the Discovery Channel, TLC, Oxygen, PBS, and BBC. More importantly, she and her family have volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, United Methodist Youth Fellowship, and Operation Compassion, which served evacuees displaced by
Hurricane Katrina. While peer counseling fellow cancer survivors, Joni founded ChemoHeads.com, an online resource center for people living with cancer. She received advanced certification as a United Methodist layspeaker in 1998 and continues private study of the Bible, Torah, and Buddhist scripture.
Married to jet mechanic/home winemaker/anthropology buff Gary Rodgers since 1983, Joni is the proud mom of two exceptionally fine young adults. The whole fam-damily lives near Houston, Texas, where the roses are yellow, the hair is high volume, and salsa is not just for breakfast anymore. www.jonirodgers.com
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Matthew Roloff is an author, actor, farmer, and businessman, best known for appearing with his family in the reality television program Little People, Big World seen on TLC. Roloff is a dwarf, or little person, as is his wife Amy and one of his four children. www.mattroloff.com
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