WLW Directors

The Directors of  Write Life Workshops are seasoned writers published in diverse markets. They want to share their knowledge and unique experience to help you reach your publishing goals. The tools and insights they provide can make your dream of publication a reality.


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has contributed 30 stories to Chicken Soup for the Soul® books and other anthologies. Her articles and devotions have appeared in national magazines including Focus on the Family, ParentLife, Mature Living, and Upper Room, among others, and her fiction has been featured in Woman’s World and Southern Writers Magazine. She edits Write Life Workshops’ The Write Life newsletter and teaches at conferences across the country. Her course on writing for Chicken Soup for the Soul is one of Serious Writer Academy’s best sellers. She is a freelance editor (one book she edited received a Publisher’s Weekly starred review) and proofreader for Farmers’ Almanac. But her most important job is Grandma to the world’s most adorable grandchildren. Visit Tracy at her website, on her Facebook author page, and on Twitter.

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Marylane Wade Koch has over 30 years of experience in writing, editing, speaking, coaching,and consulting. Koch has authored numerous articles and several healthcare books. She is a contributor to the Chicken Soup anthology series and writes devotions. She has published with Elsevier-Mosby, Harcourt Health Sciences, Delmar/Thompson-Cengage, F.A.Davis, Jones and Bartlett, Salem Press, EBSCO, and Grey House Publishing.  Koch has served as faculty for American Christian Writers and the Mid-South Christian Writers Conference.

Koch is the founder and President of Byhalia Christian Writers (BCW). She is past Vice-President for the Mississippi Writers Guild and a member of the American Medical Writers AssociationEditorial Freelancers Association, and National League of American Pen Women. Koch served as communications support for the Byhalia Area Arts Council and has worked as adjunct faculty with the University of Memphis, University of Tennessee, Austin Peay State University, and Union University. She is a staff writer/editor at WrittenByaPro.

To learn more, visit the WLW staff page.