Elaine Gale
Elaine Gale is a California-based writer, performer, storyteller, humorist, educator, journalist (www.elainegale.com) and sixth-generation Nebraskan. Elaine is a former religion reporter for the Los Angeles Times and was an advice columnist and pop culture reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. She is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at California State University, Sacramento, and the Writing Center Director for Antioch University’s Graduate School in Leadership and Change. She has published work in literary journals including Under the Gum Tree and The Manifest-Station and has been a freelance writer for many national magazines including Entertainment Weekly, W, Variety, Stuff Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping—despite the irony. She holds a doctorate in Human Communication from University of Denver and an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. This is her first Fringe. She’s passionate about building community, empowerment, social justice, our shared humanity, unconventionality, joy, and creative self-expression.
