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Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author of the book My Gift of Now, a collection of her short memoirs. My Gift of Now was named one of Cyrus Webb's Conversations Magazine's 25 Most Inspiring Books of 2015. My Gift of Now is a collection of memoirs and essays about tragic family loss through two plane crashes; finding love and marriage in middle age; travel and laughter; and issues of living the author sees as she looks around her. The reader will move from tears to laughter to empathy as the author tells her true stories of tragedy beyond comprehension happening twice in one family; of finding the needle in the haystack on a dance floor in her middle age years; of travel filled with laughter and unforgettable adventures. After two stellar careers, retirement brought a new career as an author published in over thirty anthologies and the freedom to focus on the gift of now.
Elynne is also a contributing author in the anthologies listed on her Author Central page. She is proud to be part of the various editors' anthologies.
Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow is a an award-winning educator and broadcaster. She is Founding General Manager of WYCC-TV/PBS and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Wright College in Chicago. Her adult storyteller program IN HER OWN VOICE is renowned.
Elynne's performances of her stories have been broadcast on The Bob Edwards Show on NPR, and Rick Kogan's Sunday Papers on WGN radio. She has recently returned from her performance in NYC at the new Museum of Motherhood. Elynne has performed her stories throughout Chicago including the Printer's Row Lit Fest. Her work has been part of the production "Dear Mother" in L.A. at The Lyric Theater. In April,2012 she performed her stories at the Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, Michigan.
Elynne's short memoirs, short stories and essays have been published in magazines and newspapers and are anthologized in the books: Chicken Soup for the Chocolate Lover's Soul (HCI Books) THE REVOLVING DOOR; The Wisdom of Old Souls (Hidden Brook Press) GRANDMA LEBEDOW; Forever Friends (Mandinam Press) features THE ELEVATOR, MR. X and MR. Y, and LIFE 101; My Dad Is My Hero (Adams Media Publishing) HIS WAY; The Ultimate Teacher (HCI Books) THE HAT; Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages (All Things That Matter Press) THE NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK and MY GIFT OF NOW; Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love (Simon and Schuster) RONALD; FOUR SISTERS IN LIFE AND DEATH is published in the new anthology THIS I BELIEVE: ON LOVE. This book is based on the popular NPR radio series. (Wiley Publishing); THE HAT is published in Living Lessons (Whispering Angel Books); DANCER'S LANE and MY OFFICE are published in Press Pause Moments: Essays About Life Transitions By Women Writers, (Winner of a 2011 Clarion Award) (Kiwi Publishing); THE HAT is published in Thin Threads of Teachers & Mentors (Kiwi Publishing); Thin Threads Anthology - More Real Stories of Life Changing Moments has also published THE HAT (Kiwi Publishing); Forever Travels features 10 of Elynne's travel stories ( Mandinam Press); Chicken Soup for the Soul Grieving and Recovery featuring THE RED PEN; Thin Threads Women & Friendship (Kiwi Publishing) featuring WAITING; Nurturing Paws (Whispering Angel Press) featuring DREAM GIRL; Thin Threads Moms & Grandmas (Kiwi Publishing) featuring MORE THAN LIFE, her Pushcart Prize nominated story. FIRST IN LINE in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Married Life; THE ANSWER in Warpaint; MY BEST AUDIENCE in Thin Threads: Hadassah; HER FIRST GRANDCHILD in another Mothers & Grandmothers anthology (Title TBA); DREAM GIRL in The Animal Project Anthology;"More Than Life" (Pushcart Prize Nominee), "Their Home", "Retracing Old Steps", "A Letter To My Husband", "The Ring", "Twice In One Family" in Forever Families."The Revolving Door" in Not Your Mother's Book On Being a Woman; "Dream Girl" in Not Your Mother's Book On Dogs;"Independent" in Fundamentally Female; "RG" in Joy Interrupted; "My Breakfast At Tiffany's" in Not Your Mother's Book On Travel; "The Hat" in Chicken Soup for the Soul From Lemons to Lemonade. "The Hat" was adapted to film and shown at a Chicago Indie film festival. Other books and stories include "Please Be Anonymous" in Too Much; "There Forever" and "Mr. X & Mr. Y" coming September 2014 in Miracles & Extraordinary Blessings; finalist for Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada with "The Holiday Diary" in October, 2014.
Elynne's husband Richard is her muse.
Visit Elynne at http://LookAroundMe.blogspot.com
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