<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Maryellen Burns is Education Director of MatrixArts, a non-profit arts organization that bridges the literary, visual, performing and culinary arts. She is also owner of After the Fact, an editorial, design, and public relations firm that works with artists, authors, publishers, libraries and others in the book trade. She is a member of the Sacramento County Historical Society and is working her fingers to the bone to get this display ready. When she has time she writes memoir, non-fiction, food and travel essays, plus teaches an improvisational approach to cooking, writing, and art.</span><br>