Author Dana Volney

Access your inner palette to create easily and deepen your work. The Author Ally Team builds you up and provides inspiration. Following a trauma-informed framework, ignite your writing from within. Writing from the body allows creators to balance their core in sense work, allowing them to connect to their work in an authentic and sustainable way. JoNelle's work centers on ebb, flow, essence, immersion, connection, love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, resilience, nurturing, and solace. She feels most at home creating art, reading, and spending time in nature with family and friends. JoNelle encourages others to own the beautiful miracle that is them and the wonders that nature continually provides. One only has to look. Treasure and protect nature, and yourself. She wants everyone to create with joy. She has a proven technique for helping creators access their inner self in order to widen their palette and expand their abilities to express themselves. JoNelle Toriseva believes in self-expression, art and the power of writing for everyone. An award winning writer, her poetry collection, Barbed Water, was elected by Shane McCrane for Saudade's contest. She was also awarded the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry from Cutbank, chosen by Oliver de la Paz. Toriseva’s work has appeared in The North American Review, The Literary Review, The Saranac Review, The Cincinnati Review, Descant, and JACKET, among others, and included in Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound from City Lights, and Best Canadian Poetry in English. Close Calls, edited by Susan Fox Rogers. Toriseva edited the Image Out Anthology for the Image Out Film Fetival. She's taught writing internationally and in the United States, for Mills College, SUNY, California Poets in the Schools, San Francisco WritersCorps, and Literary Arts of Portland, Oregon.

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