Meet Angela Lam Turpin
Angela Lam Turpin has worked in the real estate industry for over 15 years. As a Realtor, she specializes in residential real estate and land sales in Northern California. She publishes a monthly E-newsletter on the real estate and mortgage industry.
Prior to her real estate career, Angela worked for the San Jose Mercury News as a reporter and a top-selling sales associate in the girls department of Macy’s.
Angela studied journalism at Northwestern University as a Cherub scholar. She received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from California State University, Sonoma. Her short stories, essays, and poetry are published in a number of magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, including Abundance Press, At-Home Mothering, Blithe House Quarterly, The Dickens, The Dollar Stretcher, Foliate Oak, George and Mertie’s Place, Kenwood Press, Liquid Ohio, Lynx Eye, The Phoenix, Potpourri, Pudding Magazine, Redwood Crozier, The Phoenix, The Sun, The Writer, and Women’s Voices. Her book-length memoir, Red Eggs and Good Luck, won the 2003 Mary Tanenbaum Award for creative nonfiction. Her essay, “Strange and Wonderful,” appeared in Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture (Seal Press, 1999).
Additionally, Angela has been awarded writing residences from Hedgebrook and The Vermont Studio Center.
Angela has taught writing workshops through the Finley Community Center, Santa Rosa, and is available for future workshops in both fiction and nonfiction writing techniques.
A lifelong visual artist, Angela founded Artmommy.com, where she sells her original acrylic paintings and greeting cards.
A fitness-enthusiast, Angela has appeared in the Buff Moms issue of Oxygen magazine (June 2005).
She lives in Northern California with her computer wizard husband and their two children.