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ABOUT OKAY JACKSON:
A professional writer for 40-some years, O.Kay Jackson has won many prestigious awards including the “Golden Quill,” a top worldwide prize for producing an in-house newspaper for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; the national Thomas A. Stokes Award for investigative reporting; eight state awards for investigative journalism, including four first place awards from the Georgia Press Association and the Georgia Associated Press.
She is recognized as an internationally award-winning career journalist and author, one whose byline has been familiar to coastal Georgia readers for decades.
Divorced since the mid-1970s, O.Kay lists among her accomplishments the raising of four children (now successful businessmen, writers, artists and musicians living in York, England, County Limerick, Ireland, Seattle, Washington, and Pembroke, Georgia) who have produced for her enjoyment “eight spectacular grandsons and one grandgirl.”
O.Kay is today a regular contributor to the prestigious Savannah magazine, The Skinnie, and she is in great demand in the Savannah area as a public speaker.
She is also available to visit book clubs outside the Savannah area via conference calls. Click here for more information and scheduling.
ABOUT CONTRIBUTING TALENT:
Heather Swanson
Photography for And Then They All Got Naked
Heather’s photos of models, actors and musicians have been seen in publications as diverse as New York Magazine, Ramp Magazine, The London Sunday Times, Irish Connections Magazine, BMG Music Magazine, 411, and Timeout New York. Her shots of musician Shane MacGowan have appeared in several newspapers and magazines across the world. Most recently, she photographed Alanis Morissette for Oprah’s Oxygen Channel, Dennis Farina for the History Channel, New York Celebrity Chef Marcus Samuelsson, Doug Wilson of Trading Spaces, Frederique van der Wal, Karen Duffy, Drew Carey, and several other on air talent for the TLC Network.
Heather’s signature project is a photo series that reinvents the iconic Vargas Girl style of pin-ups with a modern diversity and sensuality. These photographs and others have been exhibited at New York gallery spaces The Cutting Room, B’lo, Suite, Enve and The Half King. Currently they are on display at the fashionable Enve Spa in the East Village.
Although born a California girl, Heather moved to New York City in the early 1990s and has captured her passion for The City in an extensive collection of her snapshots. A selection of these photographs was recently featured in Northern Ireland’s Ulster Tatler Magazine. Her photos were also published in an annual calendar series for Barnes & Noble: titles include New York City, San Francisco and The Girls of Red Rock West.
Examples of Heather’s work, press, a full biography, and contact information can be found at www.HeathersPhotography.com.
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Robert Swanson
Illustrations and co-author of Odatt's Adventures
Born shortly before the Second World War Robert Swanson grew up in Detroit, Michigan. After an honorable discharge from the Air Force in the late 1950s (where he spent his four long years of military service as an airplane mechanic drinking beer and counting the tumbleweeds blowing across the flight line in Montana), he spent the next several years in various career positions, highlighted by extensive travels to Alaska and the South Pacific as a merchant marine officer.
Married, and later divorced, he fathered a daughter and a son and then returned to school to earn a teaching certificate with a major in art. Quickly realizing teaching was not for him, he then went into the building field and eventually became an inspector in building code enforcement, a position he held until retirement in 1998.
He soon tired of his new life of daytime soaps and talk shows (and the never ending “Honey Do” list), so was easily persuaded to illustrate and co-author the book O-DAAT’s Adventures with his sister, who like himself had by then accumulated many years of recovery from alcohol addiction primarily through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Today he divides his time between counseling people on chemical dependency and traveling the world with Kathy, his wife of nearly 30-years.
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