Geraldine Birch

Geraldine Birch has been writing since the age of ten, pecking away on an old Remington typewriter in the cozy kitchen nook of her grandmother’s house in Los Angeles. A glutton for punishment, she served as the editor-in-chief of her junior high, high school and college newspaper.

After graduation from Los Angeles Pierce College, she worked as a reporter and editor for various newspapers in the Los Angeles area: the Simi Valley Enterprise, The Tolucan, the Moorpark Mirror, and as a freelance writer for the Ventura County Bureau of the Los Angeles Times. All of those entities, including the Ventura County Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, sadly, are no longer in existence.

After receiving her B.A. degree in political science from California Lutheran University in 1990, she moved to northern Arizona, where she worked as a reporter, editor, and political columnist for the Sedona Red Rock News. Birch’s column, “Gerrymandering,” was awarded first place nationally by the National Newspaper Association. After a stint as the public information officer for the City of Sedona, she became executive director for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern Arizona, retiring recently from that position.