Meet Our Members - NLAPW Sarasota Branch
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.
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
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
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.






