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Natalia Dagenhart is an award-winning independent writer and artist from Naperville, Illinois. She writes about cultural and social events happening in the Chicago area and in the world. Natalia received the Journalist of the Year 2018 Award from Congressman Danny K. Davis on October 28, 2018. Her brand, "Articles by Natalia Dagenhart," will celebrate its anniversary on November 11, 2018. We have conducted an interview with Natalia. What makes you different from other writers and why should such organizations as orchestras, PR agencies, cultural centers and educational institutions hire you? My writing style. Being an independent journalist and writer, I am my own boss and have freedom to write the way I want. People call the way I write sincere and unique. My slogan is "Combining a personable style of writing and great care to details." I write from my heart, yet I am very detail-oriented. Each story I treat individually and believe that a writer has t...

Iyobosa Ero is the Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at a Global PR Firm. He is a member of the ISC2 and ISACA which are international organizations focused on cyber-security and it's implementations and has served as the Organizer of the SIEM MeetUp group in Chicago. He has 12+ years in IT and Cyber Security. Iyobosa's greatest strengths are his solution driven, creativity, drive and leadership. He thrives on challenges, particularly those that expand the company’s Cyber Security reach. Iyobosa holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree from Finland and an M.Sc from DePaul University and now pursuing his Doctorate in Cyber Security. In his free time, he is a backup singer at his church, Iyobosa loves to travel while spending quality time with his wife. We have conducted an interview with him. What inspires this startup idea 'Preparture'? I must admit, people have different stories of what catapulted/promoted them into starting a new venture. Mine, however, started wit...

Marc Frazier has widely published poetry in journals including The Spoon River Poetry Review, ACM, Good Men Project, f(r)iction, Slant, Permafrost, Plainsongs, and Poet Lore. He has had memoir published in Gravel, Autre, The Good Men Project, decomP, and forthcoming in Evening Street Review and Cobalt Review. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award for poetry and has been featured on Verse Daily. His book The Way Here and his two chapbooks are available on Amazon as well as his second full-length collection Each Thing Touches which has been widely and favorably reviewed. He just finished a book-length memoir titled WITHOUT. We have conducted an interview with him. What are the key differences between writing poetry and memoir? A friend and editor told me when I began writing memoir to "get rid of that poetry voice." It was a big challenge to find the right consistent voice for the memoir. I did weave some of my poetry into the story of my life. Somet...