First Sunday Prose Reading featuring Tanya Konerman and Rebekah Spivey

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Tanya Konerman is a children’s author whose picture book, Mud to the Rescue! How Animals Use Mud to Thrive and Survive, was released in May. Her ghost story for 9-12 year-olds, “Danger in the Dunes,” was chosen to represent Indiana in the anthology, The Haunted States of America (2024).

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Rebekah Spivey studied creative writing and sociology at Indiana University. She has lived and worked on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. She is a lifelong writer and lover of words who has co-created and led a group called Poetry Detectives, an informal group that discusses poetry in a non-academic way in order to make the genre more approachable. She has a nineteen-year association with Women Writing for (a) Change, Bloomington, a group that supports giving every person a voice through writing. Rebekah has been a certified facilitator with Women Writing since 2013 and currently facilitates a semester-long virtual class. She has coordinated two Women Writing for (a) Change retreat on the Isle of Iona off the west coast of Scotland. She also facilitates winter writing retreats for Women Writing.

Rebekah retired in 2012 from the Indiana Daily Student newspaper at IU after seventeen years as part of the professional staff. She has been a part-time senior editor for Holon Publishing, a self-publishing company since 2019. And is an editor for private clients. Rebekah published her first novel Marigolds in Boxes in September 2024. Her next novel Flight Plan is in the works.