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Yes, this is it. No water cooler, no brick-and-mortar office building, no time clock. We, like so many women writers and artists, work in the in-between spaces and oddest hours to provide gifted women with the opportunity to create “a room of their own.”

Your success is our reward.

Tracey Cravens-Gras & Jennifer Schneider

Associate Director: Tracey Cravens-Gras
tracey@aroomofherownfoundation.org

Retreat Director: Kim Ponders
retreats@aroomofherownfoundation.org

Administrative Assistant: Terina Salazar
info@aroomofherownfoundation.org

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A Room of Her Own Foundation
P.O. Box 778
Placitas, NM 87043

Kim Ponders, 2009 AROHO Writers’ Retreat Director

“When Mary Johnson asked me to direct the AROHO retreat in her absence, she told me one thing that has stuck with me. She said, ‘It’s all about community.’ AROHO stands out, I think, for two reasons. First, because of our outstanding faculty. Second, because the environment at AROHO is not about who-knows-who or who-does-what but about how we can use the collective spirit of AROHO to nurture our own individuality. There’s power in numbers. AROHO will feed your soul—that’s a promise. It’s all about community.”

Kim Ponders (fiction), is the author of The Art of Uncontrolled Flight (HarperCollins, 2005), a BookSense pick, and The Last Blue Mile (HarperCollins 2007). Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Story Quarterly, and the Chattahoochee Review. Her screenplay, The Art of Uncontrolled Flight, based on her first novel, is now in production. A lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve, she is a former crewmember on the E-3 AWACS and now works as a speechwriter for the Commander, Air Force Reserve. She holds an MFA degree from the Warren Wilson MFA program for writers and teaches creative writing in the Southern New Hampshire University MFA program. She has recently completed a screenplay based on her first novel and is currently at work on a memoir. Kim lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two boys.

Retired Staff

Jenn Schneider
Making the future brighter as an inspired teacher. We wish you all the best!