Jo Haraf
About me
Jo Haraf lives in the San Francisco Bay area and is active in the local literary scene where she is a Board member of the California Writers Club – Marin Branch.
Jo is spending most of her time in the 1800s working on a fictional biography of Lady Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s only legitimate daughter and the world’s first computer programmer.
From my website
In the past, I’ve waded in the bay of business and technical writing. An article here. A book review there. I even co-authored Achieving Excellence in Legal Technology Management with legal experts I’ve long respected. And then at the end of March, I put my first, and second, toes in…
I recently poked my head out of my writer hole to participate in a few California Writers Club (CWC) events. On March 24th, I shared what it’s like to participate in the Berkeley Certificate of Writing program at the CWC Members-Only pre-meeting. Jean Mansen, one of eight graduates of the program,…
Wrapping up my “First Residency Trilogy”
I spent my first Pacific University MFA residency with one hundred and twenty-five fellow students supported by twenty-five faculty-writers. As my dad used to say, “there wasn’t a clunker in the bunch” although the group did tilt decidedly to the left, not unexpected in a community of artists. One well-know…