Sheila Bender

Sheila Bender is an author, poet, writing coach and founder of WritingItReal.com, a website dedicated to helping those who write from personal experience. The newest of her many books on writing include Creative Writing DeMystified, Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down co-authored with Christi Glover, Sorrow’s Words: Writing Exercises to Heal Grief, and the digital book Write! Write! Write! 7 Dynamite Writing Exercises for Those Who Want to Write Prose from Personal Experience. She has written articles for Writer’s Digest and The Writer magazine. She hosts the program “In Conversation: Discussions on Writing and the Writing Life” for KPTZ in Port Townsend, WA. Sheila teaches in person and online. You can read her teaching schedule and class descriptions on her online classes page and her inperson seminars page .