ODYSSEY STORYTELLING PHOTOS and BIOS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 -
"The Seven Deadly Sins"

Teresa Dawn Driver : executive director of Tucson Poetry Festival, co-founder of the Ocotillo Slam (formerly "Words on Fire"), feminist, poet, activist, pacifist, union leader, soapbox preacher, loudmouthed pagan, ex-stage manager, daughter of Jody, wife of Jaison, mother of Kira and Ryan and a four drawer file cabinet full of ideas to be processed.

Nan White, Ph.D is a retired college professor and psychotherapist. She currently has a Life Coaching practice and is engaged as an abstract-expressionist painter. Having lived in Tucson for the past fourteen years, she originally hails from Ann Arbor Michigan, where her two grown daughters still live.


Jane Poynter, one of the original crewmembers of Biosphere 2, is one of only eight people to live for two years sealed in an artificial world. As part of her preparation for the mission, Jane trained in survival techniques in the Australian Outback and on board a concrete research boat in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. While inside Biosphere 2, Jane co-founded Paragon Space Development Corporation, an aerospace firm that builds human life support systems for spacecraft. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she races motorcycles for weekend relaxation. Jane's book, The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2 (Thunder's Mouth Press), will be in shops in September. You can learn more by visiting www.janepoynter.com.

Teresa Simone is a graduate of the Dell'Arte International School for Physical Theater, aka, clown school. She teaches drama and gym to elementary school students at Green Fields Country Day School. She adores yoga and practicing useless silly tricks like tightrope walking, unicycle riding and eating fire. Her personal favorite sin is the art of the ridiculously dishonest tall tale: lying

Shannon Cain is the recipient of a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing. Her short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, The Florida Review and other literary magazines. She earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has taught fiction writing at the University of Arizona. Her short story "This is How it
Starts" was nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize, and her story "Housework" was awarded the 2005 American Literary Review Short Fiction Award. Shannon is the Executive Director of Kore Press (www.korepress.org), a nonprofit independent publisher of literature by women. A Tucsonan for 25 years, she lives in a little brick house with her daughter Brennan and her partner, city councilmember Karin Uhlich. Learn more about Shannon at www.shannoncain.com.

Lindsay Miller is a student, poet and co-founder of the Tucson Poetry Slam. She graduated high school at the Denver School of the Arts and currently attends the U of A. She was raised by Irish and Italian Catholics the way some children were raised by wolves and therefore knows plenty about sin.

Doug Cornell's first job was as a reporter, gathering and writing a variety of stories. Since then he has spent 9 years in solar energy manufacturing and 20 years in finance and investing, he has raised four kids, and he now runs his own investment management firm. But he still loves storytelling, and has returned to it as a hobby. His material comes mainly from his interest in history and his enjoyment of the silly side of life, including his own.

special guest performance by Paul Fisher