Corrie Lynne Player and her husband
are the parents of nine children and grandparents of 31.
Their special needs foster home, specializing in
attachment disorders, has sheltered more than 40 children over the past 35
years.
A graduate of Stanford University in
creative writing, English, and education, Mrs. Player’s freelance writing
career began in 1972.
She specializes in creative nonfiction,
technical writing, and biography.
She has been a journalist and copy editor for
regional newspapers and has published in national magazines such as
Family Circle,
Woman's Day,
Parents, Trailer Life,
and Ladies Home Journal.
Her work includes four editions of
Anchorage Altogether
(a book of essays about parenting in Alaska, the Last Frontier); an
authorized young adult biography about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of
television, Dreams Do Come True;
two parenting books, So Your Teen Knows All the
Answers and Loving
Firmness: Successfully Raising Teenagers Without Losing Your Mind;
dozens of magazine articles, and two ongoing weekly columns on parenting and
relationships: “Heaven Help Us.”
Her next book, The
Everything Parents Guide to Raising the Adopted Child,
will be released in 2008.
EDUCATION
B.A.:
Creative Writing, Stanford University,
California, 1964.
M.A.:
English/Education, Stanford University,
California, 1965.
Licensed by the states of Alaska,
California, and Utah as a regular and special needs foster home, 1966 - to
the present (with a few
years off).
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Founder and first president of SLO
Nightwriters and Cedar City Nightwriters (both current) and
member of Oklahoma Writers Federation, Incorporated (current).
National Association of Women
Business Owners
Society of Women Engineers
League of Utah Writers
(current, professional status).
National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB).
National Foster Parents Association (NFPA)
The Authors Guild (current, professional status)
From 1965 through 2001, Mrs. Player was an instructor and
adjunct professor in creative writing, technical writing, English, and
speech at (in order of employment) Redwood City High School, Torrance High
School, Anchorage Community College, the University of Alaska, Tulsa Junior
College, California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, Southern Utah
University, Salt Lake Community College, and Snow College.
Mrs. Player has conducted workshops
and been a featured speaker at many seminars and conferences for subjects
ranging from dealing with special waste management issues for arid regions,
through solving personnel management problems in small businesses, to
opening communication channels for troubled relationships.
She has appeared on radio and national
television talk shows about her work with special needs foster and adopted
children.
She is a popular motivational speaker for families and
has worked throughout the Rocky Mountains, California, and Alaska.
