Résumé of Lois Hjelmstad

Professional Profile

Author of Fine Black Lines, The Last Violet,
and This Path We Share
National/International Speaker
President/CEO Mulberry Hill Press

• Presenter in 50 states, DC, Canada and England to such groups as:
  physicians' grand rounds, tumor boards, nurses' in-services,
  women's groups, cancer support groups, poetry readings, conferences
• Radio and television speaker on breast cancer and related issues
• Member of the National Cancer Survivors Day Speakers
  Bureau, Komen Foundation Speakers Bureau, Day of Caring
• Breast Cancer Journey ©1998, Journey Productions
• Living with Cancer—A Message of Hope, Silverman Communications, Inc.

• Publisher of Fine Black Lines: Reflections on Facing Cancer,
  Fear and Loneliness, The Last Violet: Mourning My Mother, and
  This Path We Share: Reflecting on 60 Years of Marriage.
• Director of marketing and production
• Developer of marketing strategies

• Presenter of workshops on Writing as a Way of Healing (World Conference
  on Breast Cancer), Musical Creativity (Colorado State Music Teachers
  Association), as well as various seminars providing CEU and CME
• Music teacher for 40 years; developed nine-year curriculum
• Co-teacher, self-publishing classes at Colorado Free University
• Certified Pace Teacher (International Piano Teaching Foundation)
• Certified Teacher of Music (Colorado State Music Teachers Association)

• American Medical News, April 1994
• Administrative Radiology Journal, September 1994
• Health Progress Magazine, May 1995
• Your Health, October 1995
• PARENTGUIDE, October 1997
• Art.Rage.Us, 1998
• Living in Balance, 2002

• 2005 Recipient of the Sue Miller Award, Day of Caring, Denver, Colorado
• Colorado Independent Publishers Association 2003 Spiritual/Inspiration Award
• Natural Death Centre, London, 1996 Best Book Award
• Colorado Independent Publishers Association 1994 Best Non-fiction
• Mother of the Year, Englewood Independent (1979)

• Colorado Music Teachers Association, First Mennonite Church, Colorado Independent Publishers Association, SPAN, Publishers Marketing Association, National Breast Cancer Coalition

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