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Meet Our Members - NLAPW Sarasota Branch

Clarissa

Clarissa

Thomasson

Letters

Award-winning author and playwright with nine novels, two plays and five children’s books. Has written for two national magazines and is a correspondent for the Venice Gondolier. Salt Marsh Publications edits and formats for local authors.

Emma May

Emma May

Weisseneder

Letters

info coming soon

Lynn

Lynn

Wilson

Art

Fine Artist, Writer, Architect, Interior Designer, CEO of Lynn Wilson & Associates. A Masters Graduate on full scholarship at U of Miami. Additional studies at Art Institute of Chicago. Her mediums include pastel and oil. Lynn is a Plein Air artist specializing in landscapes, and Founding President of AAA/Artists Alliance. With her husband, Sir William Franz Spohrer, she is also known as Lady Lynn.

Holly

Holly

Woodward

Letters

Holly Woodward is a writer and artist. She's excited to join the Sarasota Penwomen, and to transfer in from the NY chapter. She writes poetry, fiction, and essays about art.

Diana

Diana

de Avila

Art and Letters

Diana de Avila is an award-winning artist who has acquired savant syndrome and synesthesia. Her artistic gift arrived suddenly and explosively after a relapse
of multiple sclerosis and worsening traumatic brain injury (TBI) in 2017. She is the subject and co-author of "Soldier, Sister, Savant" and a founding director of the Savant Artist Collective.

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