Tikvah Feinsteinisfounder and director of nonprofit Taproot Writer’s Workshop Inc. and editor of Taproot Literary Review for 25 editions. She has been widely published in poetry and fiction, earning awards in both. Tikvah has coordinated 23 international creative writing contests and award ceremonies. She worked as staff reporter on a daily newspaper. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s Writing Program, she has repeatedly been listed in Marquis Who’s Who Registry of Outstanding Professionals in America, and is included in Who’s Who in American Women since 2011. She is recipient of a Jefferson Award for 2010 for volunteers for 30 years of helping other writers.