Word of Mouth (www.wordofmouthwriters.net) is a group of writers who enjoy presenting their work in public venues. They have joined together to develop and produce spoken-word performances that highlight the individuality of each member within the context of a coherent thematic presentation. Members: Joan Falk, Mike Fitzell, Marcy B. Freedman, Frank Ortega, Pamela Manche Pearce, Golda Solomon, Lissa Weinstein, Sarah W. Young, and Jeannie Zusy. Contact the group by Email: gs@goldajazz.com or mbf@bestweb.net, or Marcy B. Freedman by phone at (914) 271-5891.
	Joan Falk combines interests in poetry, literature, and performance with her professional training as a clinical pyschologist. Having practiced in Chicago, she is delighted with the vibrancy and growth of the arts in Westchester.
	After receiving his MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University, where he studied with Robert Olen Butler and John Wood, Michael Fitzell has worked as an advertising copywriter, UPS truck loader, personal assistant, archivist, substitute teacher, college adjunct, direct mail sorter, psych ward tech, et al. He has two poems in this year’s pacificReview Annual and lives in Peekskill, NY.
	Marcy B. Freedman is a visual artist and an art historian. She has shown her paintings, collages, photographs and videos in more than 200 exhibitions around the country. As a solo performance artist, she has appeared at the Katonah Museum of Art, Beacon Artists Union, Cuchifritos, NYC and Cannon’s Walk, NYC. Recently, she presented Marcy and The Pink Podium -- a one-woman, eight-hour, unscripted performance -- in Peekskill, NY.
	Frank Ortega has had work published by The Madison Review, Colorado Review, Ferro-Botanica, Seneca Review, Z Miscellaneous, Downtown, Amicus Journal and Paragraph. He has been awarded writing residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Karolyi Foundation (France), Dorland Mountain Colony and Millay Colony for the Arts, and a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has read in New York City at the Poetry Society of America, Knitting Factory, New York Public Library, Brecht Forum, Barrow Street Poets and Cornelia Street Café.
	Writer/Performer: Former student of Karen Finley seeks performance opportunities. BA Creative Writing + workshops at Columbia University, New School, etc. Many publications: short stories, poems, essays, reviews, memoirs. 15 years PEN American Center, international writers’ organization (Director Events and Publicity). Available Garrison, NY and Key West, Florida. Will work for applause. Contact: Pamela Manché Pearce c/o Word of Mouth.
	Golda Solomon, “Medicine Woman of Jazz,” is a professor, poet, and producer. She programs and hosts Po’ Jazz, a unique partnering of poetry and jazz at The Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village. Solomon’s mesmerizing spoken word is available in print and on CD’s. Her latest CD, “Word Riffs,” is available at CD Baby and www.JazzJaunts.com. Solomon is also a  member of WOMENWRITEnyc. She has been a long-time Westchester resident  and now resides in SoYo on the Hudson also known as Yonkers, New York.
	Lissa Weinstein is an Associate Professor in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology of the City University of New York and a classically trained psychoanalyst. She is the author of Reading David: A Mother and Son’s Journey through the Labyrinth of Dyslexia and countless academic articles that no one in their right mind would read.
	Sarah W. Young was born in New York, the daughter of a filmmaker and a photographer. A love of animals and a gift for raising wild orphan babies translated into a household full of creatures and an atmosphere that a friend describes as “you could walk in there at two in the morning and find someone at the counter chopping worms.” Sarah is near completion of her first novel that takes place in a South American zoo, and she is working on a collection of stories set in Los Angeles that she hopes will be a TV series, fictionalizing her subversive life as a rescuer of cats and dogs.
	Jeannie Zusy's full-length plays include: “Kicking Inside” (published by Smith and Kraus, “Best Plays by Women” series) , “Welcome to Westchester”, “If Only”, “Massage in Progress”, and “Ma and Betty Save the Day”. She has worked with Hudson Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane Theater, Ars Nova, Rattlestick Theater, Cape Cod Theater Project. Her short screenplay “Ladies Room LA” was directed by Eric Simonson and won numerous Best Comedy and Audience awards in film festivals 2003. She choreographed and was solo-featured in “The Mother Is the One Who Stretches”, a poetic dance film (written by Marcy B. Freedman, directed by Susan Todd), now available on DVD. She wrote book and lyrics for a musical for kids called “Loggerhead Rock!” Off-Broadway she appeared in “Top Girls”, “A Lie of the Mind”, and her own “Kicking Inside”.