"Beyond the Snapshot" will explore ways of adding photography and image to the creative non-fiction memoir. Neal's book Vista Del Mar (Counterpoint,2016) began as both a writing and photography project, and his subsequent publications, several in Catamaran, have also involved the use of the art photograph in conveying mood and theme "beyond the snapshot." He'll discuss this as well as additional subjects in the process of writing and publishing the memoir. 

Neal Snidow has been a public school teacher and private writer for many years. He grew up in Virginia, Nebraska, and Southern California and graduated from high school in Redondo Beach in 11966. He earned a BA in English at the University of California, Riverside, and an MA at the University of Virginia, where he was a Danforth Fellow. He currently teaches, writes, and photographs in Magalia, California.