Résumé of Lois Hjelmstad

Professional Profile

Author of Fine Black Lines & The Last Violet
National/International Speaker
Discussion/Support Group Leader
President/CEO Mulberry Hill Press

• Presenter in 50 states, DC, Canada and England to such groups as:
  physicians' grand rounds, tumor boards, nurses' in-services,
  women's groups, cancer support groups, poetry readings, conferences
• Radio and television speaker on breast cancer and related issues
• Member of the National Cancer Survivors Day Speakers
  Bureau, Komen Foundation Speakers Bureau, Day of Caring
• Breast Cancer Journey ©1998, Journey Productions
• Living with Cancer—A Message of Hope, Silverman Communications, Inc.

• Author and publisher of Fine Black Lines: Reflections on Facing Cancer,
  Fear and Loneliness and The Last Violet: Mourning My Mother
• Director of marketing and production
• Developer of marketing strategies

• Presenter of workshops on Writing as a Way of Healing (World Conference
  on Breast Cancer), Musical Creativity (Colorado State Music Teachers
  Association), as well as various seminars providing CEU and CME
• Music teacher for 40 years; developed nine-year curriculum
• Co-teacher, self-publishing classes at Colorado Free University
• Certified Pace Teacher (International Piano Teaching Foundation)
• Certified Teacher of Music (Colorado State Music Teachers Association)

• American Medical News, April 1994
• Administrative Radiology Journal, September 1994
• Health Progress Magazine, May 1995
• Your Health, October 1995
• PARENTGUIDE, October 1997
• Art.Rage.Us, 1998
• Living in Balance, 2002

• 2005 Recipient of the Sue Miller Award, Day of Caring, Denver, Colorado
• Colorado Independent Publishers Association 2003 Spiritual/Inspiration Award
• Natural Death Centre, London, 1996 Best Book Award
• Colorado Independent Publishers Association 1994 Best Non-fiction
• Mother of the Year, Englewood Independent (1979)

• Colorado Music Teachers Association, First Mennonite Church, Colorado Independent Publishers Association, SPAN, Publishers Marketing Association, National Breast Cancer Coalition, The Breast Cancer Fund, NABCO

2710 S. Washington St.
Englewood, CO 80113
email: hjelmstd@csd.net