Carol Bly

Carol Bly is winner of the 2001 Minnesota Humanities Award for Literature, the University of Minnesota's Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Minnesota Author in 1998-99, and the Minnesota Women's Press Favorite Woman Author for 2000. She has an honorary degree from Northland College.

Her current book is Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction, an Anchor Book from Random House. Other in-print work includes My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories, published by Milkweed Editions in 2000; An Adolescent's Christmas: 1944, published by Afton Historical Society Press; and Changing the Bully Who Rules the World, published by Milkweed in 1996. Recently reprinted work includes Letters from the Country (Univ. of Minnesota Press) and The Passionate, Accurate Story (Milkweed Editions).

To learn more about Carol Bly, please visit her web site, www.carolbly.com.

Cynthia Loveland

Cynthia Loveland, MSW, chairs the Advocacy Publication Committee of the Minnesota School Social Workers' Association. This committee, the only one of its kind of an official social work organization, has so far produced two pamphlets. Pamphlet #1 (2002) is: “A Letter to Three Corporations Who Sponsor Extraordinarily Violent TV Programs—Kellogg, Sony Corporation of America, and AOL Time Warner.” Pamphlet #2 is “A New Psychology for the Privileged Perpetrator,” published in 2003.

These pamphlets address two groups in two different ways. The first audience is the privileged perpetrators. They are asked to examine their own destructive behavior and they are given tools for change. The second audience is Social Workers: they are asked to recognize their expertise as change agents—not only with victims but with perpetrators.

Loveland has almost 40 years' experience in Social Work, the largest part of it in direct service to families and children. Settings have been rural Minnesota and the St. Paul Public Schools. In addition to her work as publisher and writer, she serves on the board of the Minnesota Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).

She is co-founder and proprietor of Bly & Loveland Press (2003). Loveland is the author of “Afterword for Non-Social Workers and Social Workers, Too” and co-author of “The Savage Stripe.”

“’You had better get hold of some sense of the real world, darling,’ she said. ‘You can’t change these things. You just can’t. If you keep trying to change everything you’re going to become a very shrill young lady and then no—‘ “Kimberly cut in. ‘Let’s see if I can guess, Mom. No man with any decent prospects will want to marry me? Is that what you were saying, Mom? Were you going to say that?’”

—Carol Bly and Cynthia Loveland, in “The Savage Stripe”