Fran Ponick is a speaker, author, poet, playwright, commentator, teacher, philosopher, and coach who has decades of experience in technical, business, marketing, and proposal writing and editing. She was director of publications at The National Association for Music Education, where she taught music educators how to write publishable books. She is co-publisher at Edge City Press and was a founder of Edge City Review. Fran has won awards in journalism, formal poetry, acting, and other fields. franponick.com