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WESLEY USHER

BIOGRAPHY

Wesley Usher is a writer and visual artist who lives in Manhattan. In 2003 she moved from Atlanta to attend graduate school in applied psychology at New York University. During her last year at NYU, she studied independently with noted gender and trauma specialist, Dr. Judith Alpert. The result of that independent study has been an on-going interest in the connections between gender bias, mythology and the emergence of the Self. Since graduating in 2006, she has focused on applying that research to her writing and art. One result has been the creation and launch of Life As Myth as a vehicle to explore mythology and the written, visual and spoken arts. For the past year, Ms. Usher has been workshopping a novel at Columbia University. This winter and spring she continued that work in Europe under the supervision of David Plante, a novelist and professor in Columbia's creative writing program. Her other current projects include a series of murals for the Emergency Services Department of Mount Sinai Medical Center, the offices of the Mount Sinai Medical Center SAVI program, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Before moving to New York, Ms. Usher spent fifteen years in professional theatre, working as both an actor and an independent producer. Her freelance projects centered around classic literature and were often collaborative ventures with local nonprofit, religious or educational organizations. EDUCATION Postgraduate special studies (Creative Writing), Columbia University; MA (Applied Psychology), New York University; MA (Theatre), University of South Carolina; ABJ (Radio-Television-Film), University of Georgia PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Art Therapy Association, Louvre Professionels, C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytic Psychology, Mount Sinai Medical Center SAVI