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CONTRIBUTORS

LISA MANYON is The Business
Marketing Architect and founder of
Write On Creative. She is the creator of
a simple 3-step “Challenge. Solution.
Invitation.™” framework to create
marketing messages with integrity
with a focus on passion points instead
of pain points as featured in #1
international bestselling books, Inc.
Magazine and the People’s Choice Award at the California
Women’s Conference. Lisa serves on the leadership team of
the Women’s Speakers Association. She’s created a mobile
lifestyle so she can work and play anywhere she chooses. She
lives in Ashland, Oregon and loves wine aka entrepreneurial
fuel. www.writeoncreative.com

CHRIS DENNETT moved to the Rogue
Valley at the age of nine in 1983, when
his family opened the McCully House
in Jacksonville as a bed and breakfast.
He has been in the food industry since
1993, including working in hospitality
in both Scotland and Australia, in 1994
and 1997-98 respectively. Dennett
opened Elements in 2006, followed
by Beerworks Medford in 2011 and Beerworks Jacksonville
in 2016. He is a co-founder and organizer for Medford Beer
Week and the Southern Oregon Craft Brew Festival.
EZRA MARCOS is an event and
commercial photographer based in
Southern Oregon. He has documented
events for Asante, MOCA Jacksonville,
World of Wine, Save Africa Global,
Science Works, The Cummer Museum,
Britt, and EU Jacksonville. He has been a
contributing photographer for Southern
Oregon Magazine for several years.
www.ezramarcosphoto.com

JERRY CLARKSON is a freelance
photographer living in Southern
Oregon. He spent most of his early
career doing weddings and portraits and
now focuses on sports and commercial
photography. His sports images capture
the raw emotion during the heat of
an intense, competitive game and he
enjoys the challenge, teamwork and
creativity associated with commercial photography. Freelancing
gives him the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and
meet many interesting people. To see more of his work, visit
www.jerryclarkson.com.

LYNN LEISSLER is a freelance writer
living in Southern Oregon, where she
enjoys the cultural and scenic variety
of the area. She writes for various
publications, and enjoys quilting,
reading, gardening and traveling.
She is currently working on her first
novel, while her cat, Kris Kringle,
looks on from his windowsill perch.

BRITTANY ARNOLD is the wife of a
bearded logger and mother of two
girls. A born-and-raised Portland
girl, Brittany now makes her home in
Southern Oregon’s gorgeous Umpqua
Valley. Life dramatically changed from
cocktail dresses, high heels, and happy
hours to ballet practice, chickens, church
potlucks, and hunting season. In addition
to working as a freelance writer and photographer, Brittany is
the event manager for the Umpqua Economic Development
Partnership. She is passionate about the community she lives in,
the people in it, and while she will always have her city roots – she
is madly in love with small-town, Southern Oregon living.

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