Friends of Fate (Links)
Arlene Uslander is the author of 14 non-fiction books. She is an award winning journalist who has had articles/essays published in many national newspapers and magazines; among them, Parents, McCalls’ Working Mother, Mothering, Highlights, and The Writer. She was twice honored by the Illinois Library Association for “Contributions to Literature.” Uslander, who lives in Glenview, Illinois, was an elementary school teacher for 25 years, where she helped create and taught in a model program that received world-wide recognition called “The Study of People.” Her first published book, Their Universe: The Way Children Feel, published by Delacorte Press and then Delta, was about this program. Now retired from teaching, Uslander is a freelance writer and editor. Read more about Arlene at her website www.uslander.net
Brenda Warneka, a partner in a Scottsdale, Arizona, law firm, usually writes on legal topics, but also on travel and human interest subjects. She is a long time contributor of articles to The Maricopa Lawyer and a member of the Arizona Press Women. Warneka divides her time between homes in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and Coronado, California. She has a degree in history and is currently working on a book about an historical figure in Arizona, the culmination of many years of research.
In addition to co-editing The Simple Touch of Fate, Uslander and Warneka each wrote several of the stories in the anthology.