Ramona Reeves
Ramona Reeves has received a writer’s residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Art, has been a finalist in the Austin Chronicle Short Story contest, and recently completed her M.F.A. in fiction at New Mexico State University. She has presented at AWP conferences, led workshops as a writer in residence for Writers in the Schools (WITS) and acted as an assistant editor for Puerto del Sol. Her publications include...
Kate Reuther
Kate Reuther’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Madison Review, Brain Child, Salamander, and The Ledge. She is a graduate of Yale and the Vermont College MFA in Fiction program. A life-long New Yorker, she lives in Washington Heights with her husband and two boys.
Kristen Ringman
Kristen L. Ringman is a deaf writer from Rhode Island. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have been published in Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology, The Poet’s Place: A Collection of Works, eyes of desire 2: a deaf glbt reader, and Pitkin Review. She graduated from Goddard College with an MFA in Creative Writing in 2008. In addition to creative writing classes, Kristen teaches kids yoga, runs ultra-marathons nearly barefoot, and has...
Lisa Rizzo
Lisa Rizzo is a poet and middle school language arts teacher who manages to combine her love of words and poetry with her day job. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Lucid Stone, 13th Moon,Writing for Our Lives, Earth’s Daughters,Bellowing Ark and Calyx Journal. Her chapbook titled In the Poem an Ocean has just been published by Big Table Publishing Co.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel,Home, a companion to Gilead, won the 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize for fiction and the 2009 Orange Prize for fiction. Robinson is also the author of the modern classic Housekeeping (available in paperback from Picador), which won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award for...
Barbara Rockman
Barbara Rockman teaches poetry at Santa Fe Community College and in private workshops in Santa Fe, NM Her poems appear in Bellingham Review, Calyx,Cimarron Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. She is editor of the anthology,Women Becoming Poems and founder of “Community of Voices,” a reading and music series for emerging artists. She has received the Southwest Writers Prize, The MacGuffin Poetry Award and Baskerville Publishers’...
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus spent thirty-four years teaching public high school in Philadelphia. Her students won national recognition along with off-Broadway productions for their original plays and her teaching was the subject of an award winning documentary, I Used to Teach English. Her writing about education has appeared in several anthologies includingGoing Public with Our Teaching. Most recently, she won an award for Community...
Marlene Samuels
Marlene Samuels earned her Ph.D. and M.A., from the University of Chicago in the Social Sciences, and a B.S. in Clinical Psychology at Northern Illinois University. Now a research sociologist and writer, she writes creative non-fiction and memoir, and teaches research methodology. Co-author, editor, and publisher of her mother’s Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress, she has published several non-fiction short stories, and an academic book...
Andrea Scarpino
Andrea Scarpino is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press). She received an MFA in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and teaches with Union Institute and University’s Cohort Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is a weekly contributor for the blog Planet of the Blind. Desert Delight Contributor.
Jane Schulman
Jane Schulman is a poet and short story writer and teaches senior citizens to write about their lives in poetry, fiction, and memoir. She lives in Jamaica, Queens, and is the mother of four amazing sons and two new daughters-in-law. Finally, more female energy in the family! Jane works as a speech pathologist in a Brooklyn, New York public school, helping autistic and emotionally-disturbed students find and hone their voices. She...
Debra Schultz
Dr. Debra Schultz is a historian and the author of “Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement” (New York University Press). She is a founder of the Soros Foundation’s International Women’s Program and served for ten years as its Director of Programs. She has taught history and women’s studies at the New School, Rutgers University, and Laguardia Community College, and was a CUNY Graduate Center Writing Fellow...
Ruth L. Schwartz
Ruth L. Schwartz has published four award-winning books of poems, includingDear Good Naked Morning, selected by Alicia Ostriker for the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize, and Edgewater, a 2001 National Poetry Series winner chosen by Jane Hirshfield. Ruth is also the author of a memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story(Michigan State University Press, 2004). Recipient of over a dozen national writing awards, including fellowships from...
Joy Shayne Laughter
Joy Shayne Laughter is a graduate of Indiana University. She has lived in Seattle and New York City, as a journalist, editor, screenwriter, performance artist, office worker and house cleaner. She wrote her first novel, Yu: A Ross Lamos Mystery, while housesitting in elegant homelessness. Yu went on to win second place in a 2006 national literary contest, and was published in 2010 by Open Books Press. Her short story “The...
Catherine Shubert
Catherine Shubert is currently a high school teacher of Spanish in Philadelphia as part of Teach For America. She has, according to her students, “got swagger.” She graduated this spring from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master’s degree in Urban Education and graduated in 2009 from the University of Michigan with a B.A. with honors in English. She has attended Oxford University as a study abroad student (an experience which...
Susa Silvermarie
Susa Silvermarie is the author of Tales From My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit, three chapbooks of poetry, and hundreds of poems published in periodicals over the last forty years, as well as recent children’s stories. She has edited six anthologies of poetry composed in her nursing home workshops, and her freelance credits include features, columns and essays. She recently taught storytelling to kindergarteners in public school and...
Jennifer Simpson
Jennifer Simpson is in the final stretch of the MFA program at the University of New Mexico– working on her dissertation, “Reconstructing My Mother,” a memoir. She is the founder and co-host of Duke City DimeStories, a monthy open mic for prose, and serves as managing editor for Blue Mesa Review. Her work has been published in Bartleby Snopes, Creative Human, and welding industry trade magazines likePractical...
Amy Siskind
Amy Siskind is the President and Co-Founder of The New Agenda, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls.Ms. Siskind has appeared as an expert on women’s issues and teen dating violence on CNN, FOX News, CNBC, PBS, NPRand Marketplace Radio; and has been quoted in The LA Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO,U.S. News & World Report, Guardian UK,The Boston...
Christy Stevens
Christy Lea Stevens is a public relations professional who co-owns her own public relations firm with husband Al Stevens. She holds a B.A. in English literature and a M.Ed. in English. In her early career, she worked as a journalist and has taught English and creative writing. A short story writer, she is moving out of her comfort zone to work on a novel inspired by her experiences teaching high school.
Lisa Sukenic
Lisa Sukenic has been a progressive educator for the last 25 years having taught kindergarten through college. She currently teaches at The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools working with 3rd and 4th graders. As a writing teacher, she supports students with the writing process as well as an annual poetry publication. She has had extensive training in Conflict Resolution and integrates Social Justice and Thematic Arts into her...
Ruth Thompson
I grew up near Berkeley, California; went to Stanford and then to Indiana University for a PhD in American literature. I was a university professor, librarian, editor, yoga teacher, and college dean in Los Angeles. After a long hiatus I began writing poetry again in 2001. Today I write and teach yoga and meditation near Buffalo, New York and in Hilo, Hawaii, where I live with writer-anthropologist Don MItchell. My book manuscript,...
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