August 19

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Amy Curtis was an early participant in the Inspired! live lit storytelling classes and told her first story in 2019.She believes stories express our common humanity and connect us to one another. Amy paints, feeds her backyard birds, iS curious about almost everything and enjoys a good book and a good cup coffee above

most all other things. She is a local

real estate agent and a Lockport

resident.

Cean Magosky is a surgical nurse by day, and a creative dabbler in

whatever free time is left. A long-time member of the Downers

Grove Writer's Workshop and currently affiliated with WriteOn

Joliet, where he has contributed short stories and poetry to several

anthologies, he has also been involved in their WriteOn Live project

for the past three years, providing stories and interstitial script for

the event. Cean draws on a wide variety of life experiences for his

story-telling, including time in the theatre, years as a church

musician, a magician's assistant, fishing guide and 'other duties as

assigned'. Cean and his wife Anne have two grown children and will

celebrate their 35 th wedding anniversary this year. They also

share their home with a parade of senior rescue dogs, helping them

live their best lives. Cean has published two books on local

architectural history, Historic Impressions Volume II, which he

completed after his brother's passing, and Schools by F. S. Allen

which recreates a 1901 advertising booklet to tell the story of the

famous school architect.