Annual Spring Benefit
Breakfast with Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild
8:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club Ballroom, Menlo Park [map]
We thank our event sponsors, guests, speakers, and volunteers who helped make the 5th Annual Spring Benefit a huge success. For those who attended, we hope that you were touched by the personal journeys described by Liz Kniss, Brandi McWade, and our speaker Cheryl Strayed. It was truly compelling when the entire room fell silent and 350 people listened with compassion. Each woman spoke from her heart, and we as an audience responded with the caring support for which BCC is known.
Thanks to our generous supporters, the event raised over $220,000 to help people touched by breast cancer in our community.
About the Speaker
Cheryl Strayed is the author of #1 New York Times bestseller WILD, the New York Times bestseller TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, and the novel TORCH. WILD was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. It has been optioned for film by Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Pacific Standard. IndieBound selected WILD as their #1 Indie Next pick for April, Barnes and Noble named it a “Discover Great New Writers” pick on their Summer 2012 list, and Amazon named it a “best of March” pick. Strayed’s debut novel, TORCH was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and was selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of the year by writers from the Pacific Northwest.
Strayed has written the “Dear Sugar” column on TheRumpus.net since March 2010. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Allure, Self, The Missouri Review, Brain, Child, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun and elsewhere. The winner of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, her essays and stories have been published in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, THE BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES, and other anthologies.
She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She’s a founding member of VIDA: Women In Literary Arts, and serves on their board of directors.