When I was in Atlanta in October of 2007 for a workshop with Marice Tobias, among the talented people with whom I got to work was Liz Raphael Helgesen. Liz is featured in a recent interview on Vox Daily, so click through and learn a bit more about this lady who is as nice as she is talented. (In other words, very nice and very talented.)
(Update: edited to fix typo)