Founder of WritingItReal.com (now an archive), poet, memoirist, developmental editor, and creative writing teacher/coach. Visit her for new articles at sheilabender.substack.com

Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

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