Brenda E Smith is the author of Becoming Fearless: Finding Courage in the African Wilderness (August 2023). Her essays have also appeared in the Rivers of Ink Anthology: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot and the Goose River Anthology 2022. After a successful career as a Certified Public Accountant and as a CFO for an adventure travel company and several non-profit organizations, she has found a new passion in writing. While earning her MS in Philanthropy and Media at Boston’s Suffolk University, she co-produced, co-directed and co-edited an episode for the PBS series The Visionaries shot in Kenya and Tanzania. Brenda also teaches classes for Maine’s consortium of Senior Colleges on how effective writing alters neural networks in the brain to make a story unforgettable. Learn more about Brenda and read her blogs at eyeopenerpress.com.
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