Writer's Resources
Retreats
Events
Newsletter|
Writer's Resources
Retreats
Events
Newsletter |
|
We
transform our past as a gesture of faith in the future.
__________
|
About
Tristine Rainer Tristine
Rainer, Ph.D, is a pioneer in the fields
of contemporary
journal writing and narrative autobiography. Her
book The
New Diary, how to use a journal for self-guidance and
expanded creativity has
sold over 200,000 copies and has been used as a text
in university Psychology and Occupational Therapy courses, although her
degree
was in English Lit. After a quarter of
a century in print The New Diary will see a new, revised
edition in
2004. Her book Your Life as Story,
Writing the New Autobiography, published in 1997 hit the Los
Angeles Times
bestseller list and is presently being used as a text in many college
writing
programs. Rainer
is the
founder and director of the Center for Autobiographic Studies,
a non-profit educational organization that encourages the creation and
preservation of autobiographic works. A founder of UCLA’s Women’s
Studies
Program, Rainer was also a grad student there. She
taught personal writing for 25 years through the
English Departments
at UCLA and at Indiana University, with her friend and mentor
Anaïs Nin for
International College, through the UCLA Extension Writers program, and
privately as a writer's coach to a diverse array of clients, many of
whom have
successfully published autobiographic books with her assistance. She is
currently an adjunct professor within the Masters of Professional
Writing
Program at USC. http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/mpw
In
a whole separate life, Rainer wrote and
produced four award winning network movies
for television based on true life stories. It
was this experience of shaping stories in
the trenches, she says, that gave her the key to how teach anyone to
transform
their own life experience into a compelling story.
Copyright 2005 Center for
Autobiographic Studies
|
For personalized sessions with Tristine
Rainer please e-mail her at tristine@storyhelp.com Your Life as Story: The New Autobiography You may order through Amazon.com by clicking on the book titles or through your local bookstore. Our Mission Statement
|
