Author Biography
Gwendolyn Curran was born into a military family and moved almost every year until she was 19. She learned the love of travel from her father and the love of books from her mother. Sadly, her father died in the Korean war and left her mother a widow with three daughters whom she raised with a loving hand. Gwendolyn is a graduate of San Francisco State, where she met her first husband while studying both education and dance. Ms. Curran chose teaching as a profession and taught at every level from Kindergarten to Graduate School. Her first teaching experience in Eugene, OR was to produce an educational dance series for the school district's television. She loved being called the Dance Lady when she toured around Oregon. Always creative, she related the arts to all her classroom teaching and even was able to help start a K-8 school for the arts in Eugene, Oregon, where she taught dance to all the students. Dance was always at the core of her life. She is very proud to have been named a Kennedy Center for the Arts Fellow in dance. She has written many articles on both dance and education for different journals, and curriculum guides for dance and related arts. Gwendolyn completed her Masters at the University of Oregon. Retired from teaching, Ms Curran lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she volunteers with AARP and writes the dance reviews for the Eugene Register Guard in addition to finishing her first of three novels in The Journey series. A mother of two successful daughters and two accomplished grandchildren, she makes frequent trips to both Seattle and New York City to visit her family. Ms Curran is also very close to her two younger sisters. One lives in Denver and the other in Chico, CA. She has lived in and/or traveled to almost every European country plus the Soviet Union and China. An avid reader, Gwendolyn feels that reading and listening to the stories of friends and family has provided her an excellent platform for her writing career.
