Lisa F. Smith
Lisa Smith is a writer and a lawyer in New York City. Sober for more than ten years, she is passionate about breaking the stigma of drug and alcohol addiction.
Lisa's writing has been published in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, After Party Magazine, and Addiction.com. She is on the Board of Directors of the NY Writers Coalition and The Writers Room in Greenwich Village.
Before working for more than fifteen years in legal marketing, she practiced corporate finance law at a leading international law firm.
She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Rutgers School of Law.
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Clare’s memoir - The Sober Diaries - has helped thousands of people around the world to quit drinking.
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Caroline Knapp
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Burroughs has no formal education beyond elementary school. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, he was also an alcoholic who nearly drank himself to death in 1999. But spurned by a compulsion he did not understand, Burroughs began to write a novel. Never outlining or consciously structuring the book, Burroughs wrote, "as fast as I could type, to keep up." Seven days later, Augusten Burroughs had written his first book. He had also stopped drinking. The book was published one year later. Burroughs remains sober to this day. And Sellevision stands as Burroughs's only published novel. It -
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Before turning to fiction, she worked as a journalist and police press officer in Kent, where she lives with her husband, fellow thriller writer A J Wills, their two sons and three rescue cats.
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Rebecca Weller
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Rebecca writes about love, life, and the strength and potential of the human spirit. Her books include the international bestselling sobriety memoir, A Happier Hour, the long-awaited follow-up, Up All Day, plus Chameleon: Confessions of a Former People-Pleaser, and her newest book: RSVP Sober: Your Guided Journal for Socialising Alcohol-Free.
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Joseph Mattson
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THE SPEED CHRONICLES (Editor/contributor. Anthology of new fiction about the drug speed, feat. William T. Vollmann, Sherman Alexie, Jerry Stahl, Beth Lisick, Megan Abbott, James Greer, and more. Akashic Books).
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I left college before graduating in a snowstorm of psychedelics and stimulants, before gravitating towards the underbelly of New Orleans. I lived a number of years saturated in Jameson and heroin, making my living stripping my way down Bourbon, searching for my next fix. As Hurricane Katrina approached, I did not even consider evacuating, and those 13 dark days following the storm eventually began my path to recovery. Clean for five years now, I write about addiction and recovery. I finally graduated from college, with a BA in Mass Communication and a minor in Journalism. I worked for a few small newspapers before landing a gig writing and curating news for RecoveryNowTV. That position opened up a lot of doors for me, and led me to partneri
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Janelle Hanchett
Janelle Hanchett created the website "Renegade Mothering" in 2011 because she needed to know if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. Writing after her kids went to bed and while she was supposed to be working, Janelle attracted an audience of hundreds of thousands of readers. She holds a BA in English from University of California at Davis and an MA in English literature from Sacramento State. She lives in northern California with her four children and husband, Mac, who thinks "getting dressed up" means shaving his forearm tattoo.
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Heather McCarthy
Heather McCarthy was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and shares her heartrending story about her adoption and finding her biological family. This is a unique adoption with a twist unlike any other you will ever read.
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Jon Vreeland
Jon Vreeland is a writer of prose, poetry, plays, and journalism. His memoir “The Taste of Cigarettes” published May 22, 2018, under Vine Leaves Press of Australia, and can now be purchased through all major bookstores and outlets.
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Vreeland's writing focuses on addiction and its harsh consequence and reality. His stories mostly take place in Huntington Beach, where he lived for thirty years. Vreeland is 38 years old and has been clean from drugs and alcohol for 4 years. Since getting clean he’s published stories with Rebelle Society, Santa Barbara New Press, he currently writes a colum for the Santa Barbara Sentinel and Montecito Journal. His poetry’s been published in a number of journals and three different printed anthologies, two of the