A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z

Charles LaBelle, BA, UCLA; studied filmmaking at UCLA; recent exhibitions include Roberts and Tilton (Los Angeles), Traywick Contemporary (San Francisco), and I-20 Gallery (New York), among others; instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Judith A. Lakin, studied at American Center for the Alexander Technique, where she is currently a member of the Senior Faculty; has taught at 63rd Street Y, Rutgers U., and the Penland School.

Ilene Lander, owner of Table of Contents, a professional party-planning and catering business.

Judith Landsman, MA, NYU; artist, curator, and lecturer; exhibitions include a multimedia installation at Pleiades Gallery Invitational and a solo show at Newark Academy; curatorial credits include Lines of Direction at the Ben Shahn Gallery and The Curator as Artist: The Artist as Curator at the Bergen Museum of Art and Science.

Missy Chase Lapine, of the Hudson Marketing Group, is author of The Sneaky Chef: Clever Cooking for Happy Families and Healthy Kids; former publisher of Eating Well magazine.

Tricia Laughlin, PhD, Rutgers U.; dissertation: Dressing Up Modernity as Strategy in Art Deco Images of Women; has taught at Rutgers and Kean U.; has worked in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Morgan Library, and the Mishkin Gallery; published articles include "Lee Krasner and the Decorative Impulse of Modern Art."

Deborah M. Lawrence, PhD, Columbia U.; has taught at Barnard College; worked for IBM, Bell Atlantic, and Citibank to apply cognitive research to elicit tacit knowledge for information management and design of interactive systems.

Paula Kay Lazrus, PhD, Boston U.; has excavated in Rome, Israel, and New England, and conducted field survey on Sardinia; author of Discovering the Etruscans; Research Fellow, Boston U.

Charles Leary, PhD candidate in Cinema Studies, NYU; currently completing a dissertation on filmmaker John Cassavetes and writes regularly on Asian cinema for various publications.

Vincent Leary, BA, C.W. Post College; has taught audio engineering at the Center for the Media Arts and Inst. of Audio Research; has engineered for dozens of major artists, advertisers, and labels; currently a mastering engineer at Mediaforce Mastering, NYC.

Gerda Lederer, PhD, Columbia U., co-editor of Strength and Weakness: The Authoritarian Personality Today, former editor of Political Psychology; has served as VP of ISPP and received its Erik Erikson Award; has taught in Germany at U. of Hamburg and Teknische U. in Berlin; extensive research in ethnocentrism.

Harriet Lembeck, CWE; director, Wine & Spirits Program; author of 6th and 7th eds. of Grossman's Guide to Wines, Beers, & Spirits; charter director, Society of Wine Educators; chair, NY Wine Press; Outstanding Wine Writing Award, Wines & Vines Magazine; Golden Vine Award, Knights of the Vine.

Felicia Luna Lemus, MFA, California Institute of the Arts; author of two novels, Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties and the forthcoming Like Son; her fiction has appeared in BOMB, Small Spiral Notebook, and the anthologies Bottoms Up and A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing; has taught writing at Cornell University and UCLA; has been a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fiction Fellow.

Philip Lerman, PhD, CUNY; professor of Dramatic Arts, LaGuardia Community College; director and designer for off-Broadway and regional theater; writes and stages adaptations of drama classics; member, Dramatists Guild of America.

Suzannah Lessard, staff writer for the New Yorker from 1975-95; author of The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family winner of the Whiting Award in 1996; has taught at Columbia School of the Arts, George Mason U., George Washington U., Wesleyan U., Goucher College, and Queens University, Charlotte, N.C.

Todd Lester, MA, Rutgers U., doctoral candidate, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy; served as information and advocacy manager for the International Rescue Committee in Sudan; member of the 21st Century Trust and Think Tank 30 of the Club of Rome; works as a consultant in film and media design to universities and community organizations.

Margrit Lewczuk, fine artist; NEA Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; solo exhibitions at Pamela Auchincloss Gallery (New York), and Thorden Wetterling (Stockholm); teaches at Princeton.

Jeanne Liotta, experimental filmmaker and artist; work shown at NY Film Festival, MoMA, Whitney Museum, Exit Art, and Rotterdam and London Film Festivals; archivist, Joseph Cornell Collection at Anthology Film Archives; founder, Firefly Cinema, (public outdoor screenings); has taught at SUNY-Binghamton and Pratt Inst.

Tsaurah Litzky, BA, Brooklyn College; poet, fiction writer, essayist, author of The Motion of the Ocean, Baby on the Water, and Goodbye Beautiful Mother; her work has also appeared in Urban Bizarre, Penthouse, Longshot, Best American Erotica, Blacklisted Journalist, Rattapallax, Paramour, Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and Crimes of the Beats.

Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, cooking teacher and award-winning author; articles in New York Times, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, and Food Arts; author of eight cookbooks, including The Dim Sum Book: Classic Recipes from the Chinese Teahouse and The Chinese Kitchen.

Mark B. Lonergan, recording/touring member of seminal alternative rock group Band of Susans; touring member of Bobby Radcliff Group; author of three guitar instruction books for Mel Bay Publications.

Robert Lopez, MFA, The New School; his fiction has appeared in several journals, including BOMB Magazine, New Orleans Review, American Letters & Commentary, Post Road, and Confrontation.

Richard Luna, BA, CCNY; medical and technical writer-editor, advertising proofreader, and typeshop manager; operates LunaGraphics, an electronic publishing consultancy; instructor and member, Assn. of Graphic Communications, part of Printing Industries of America; adj. professor, Pratt Inst.