Author: Ryder Ziebarth

Ryder S. Ziebarth, founder of the Cedar Ridge Writers Series, has been a writer for more than three decades ranging from journalism to marketing and most recently to personal narrative and memoir. She received an MFA in 2016 in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has been published in N Magazine, The New York Times, Punctuate, The Brevity Blog, Tiferet Journal, Assay Journal, plus many other blogs, news outlets, and magazines. A contributor and committee member for the Nantucket Book Festival, Ryder is the 4th generation to live on their 18th century farm (the subject of her memoir in progress) with her husband, daughter, and three West highland Terriers, Petal, Atticus Finch, and George.

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Two mentors of mine, Mr. Dinty W. Moore of Brevity, and Ms. Allsion K. Williams,Brevity’s social media editor– who recently helped me edit the first draft of my memoir in progress– in conversation about memoir on Brevity’s Podcast #5 https://brevity.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/brevity-podcast-episode-5-dinty-w-moore/#comment-38654