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Dr. Holly Masturzo is an independent consultant, published writer, veteran educator, and practicing artist.
Our Ellipses began in her doctoral research on language and lived experience and suggests a shape for a process that may apply at once to leadership and community building as well as to creativity and personal growth.
Living Learning is her core practice as she seeks to balance and integrate the intellectual, spiritual, physical, and emotional/psychological aspects of human development.
A practitioner of The Art of Hosting through The Berkana Institute and The World Café, Dr. Masturzo is also a certified trainer of Spiral Dynamics integral.
A gifted and accomplished teacher, she has taught workshops for every age group in a variety of adult professional development and continuing education settings, at the university level, including historically black and community colleges, and in public and private schools grades K-12.
Dr. Masturzo has worked as a professor of Humanities and English and served as a nonprofit administrator, creating and directing original programming with a variety of organizations including museums, hospitals, juvenile probation centers, dance studios, grief support centers, and nature sanctuaries.
The success of her teaching practices has been recognized by a research fellowship, through numerous conference presentations, and the publication of pedagogical essays in Third Mind: Creative Writing and Visual Art and The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing.
Co-author of What We Have, What We Share: Mothers and Daughters Bonding Through Breast Cancer, she is honored to have been trusted with editing the letters of late U. S. astronaut Kalpana Chawla and her sister. Her creative work has been recognized by an Established Artist Fellowship from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County and as a finalist for the 2004 Editor's Prize from Fourth Genre, and has recently appeared in Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts, and Humanities.
Dr. Masturzo earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English and Creative Writing from the Florida State University where she was a Kingsbury Writing Fellow and inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and completed a Ph.D. in American Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, then ranked the 2nd best creative writing program in the U.S.
She currently resides in northeast Florida.
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