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Naomi Stephan
Author, educator, writer, singer and composer Naomi Stephan was born in Bloomington, Indiana, where she grew up in a parsonage with her pastor father and musician mother. Holder of...view moreAuthor, educator, writer, singer and composer Naomi Stephan was born in Bloomington, Indiana, where she grew up in a parsonage with her pastor father and musician mother. Holder of grants, scholarships, commissions and awards, Naomi earned a PhD in German and Music from Indiana University and second BA in Voice as a Fulbright scholar in Berlin. During her studies there, she performed as a soloist in sacred and secular venues, period not comma She traveled from West to East Berlin for concerts and cultural events, as well as to other East German cities to research the lives of her ancestors.
Naomi has held professorships at Luther College, Valparaiso University, and UNCA Ashville, where she focused on German culture and music history. In her professional activities, Naomi co-founded Women in German (WIG), an organization dedicated to the advancement of professional women Germanists worldwide. Naomi is also a member of the American Composer Forum (ACF), the International Association of Women in Music (IAWM) and the American Society of Composers and Poets (ASCAP).
After leaving academia, Naomi launched Life Mission Associates, a consulting firm in California that specializes in helping people find a purposeful life, with her partner, psychotherapist Sue Carroll Moore. To provide self-help materials for clients and the public, she authored Finding Your Life Mission and Fulfill Your Soul’s Purpose, and co-authored a workbook of the same name. Naomi has also authored books and articles on German feminism, women in choral music and Hildegard of Bingen.
Another of Naomi's passions is composing and conducting choral music. To date, she has organized and directed four women’s choruses and one mixed chorus in California, North Carolina and Germany, using her own as well as other women's compositions and lyrics as the central focus.
As this her first novel, Duplicity’s Daughter expands Naomi’s literary and creative efforts by drawing on her interest in the German novella, lyrics, romantic poetry and Lieder, her experiences in Cold War Berlin and lesbian liaisons.
Currently, she resides north of Berlin, Germany in a rural village near the Polish border with her British partner Julie, and their two dogs Diesel and Brandy-Bandit. She continues to craft words and music, and is working on a new novel and a book with Sue Moore.view less