Everyone has a story to tell, including the teacher of the memoir class at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Learn how Cindy Beer-Fouhy ended up at Sarah Lawrence and discover who some of her students are. Cindy Beer-Fouhy is a freelance writer, arts consultant and writing teacher. Cindy earned at BA in English and an MS in education and is certified as a NY State teacher from pre-k through high school. She is former Director of Literary Arts at Northern Westchester Center for the Arts where she founded the award winning weekly poetry series “The Creative Arts Café.” She studied poetry writing with Billy Collins, Patricia Spears Jones and Molly Peacock. She has been a panel judge for the National Jewish Book Awards Poetry Competition and Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Cindy’s poetry and essays have been published widely in literary journals, magazines and anthologies including Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough (Rutgers University Press) and her articles and interviews have appeared in Westchester Arts Council’s Arts News, Westchester Family and Roll Magazine. Three of her poems have been winners of the Greenburgh Poetry Competition, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Cindy facilitates “Life Stories,” a writing workshop she created for senior residents at various senior living facilities and special needs organizations. She is a Teaching Artist through ArtsWestchester and BOCES and she currently teaches writing at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.