The Journey to Becoming an Older Debut Author Presented by Tracy Wise

Presented by Tracy Wise
I have written since I was small, and I always received
encouragement from others in the feedback they
provided me on my writing, from elementary school on
through college. As an adult, writing became a part of
many of the jobs I held or the volunteer roles I filled.
But finally finding the time to focus on my own writing,
and then learning about the whole pitching and agents
and types of publishing houses and forms, was a whole
other lesson. The thread through all of this was
persistence--but what is persistence, really, and does it
look the way we think it should look? This is one
writer's journey to having her writing professionally
published.
After an international childhood lived
throughout Asia due to her father’s aid work,
Tracy Wise spent her career in theatre, opera,
and higher education administration. She
earned a BA in Theatre and Spanish from
Washington University in St. Louis and an MA
in Cultural Studies from the University of East
London. She places a strong emphasis on visual
art and music in her writing, and her debut
work, Madame Sorel’s Lodger , is a Van-Gogh-
inspired story about an artist and the impact he
has on a small French village. In her free time,
Tracy designs social media for her local Friends
of the Library in Redlands, California.
This in-person event.