Li Yun Alvarado
Li Yun Alvarado is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, and educator. Her work has been published in several journals and anthologies including Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, PMS Poemmemoirstory, The Acentos Review, PALABRA, and Modern Haiku. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English at Fordham University and she teaches at Long Beach City College. Li Yun has had the pleasure of teaching middle school, high school, and...
Laura Alvarez
I’m a writer, poet, traveler, seeker, and sustainability advocate, whose preferred method of communication has always been to write. For a few years I spent some time writing as an academic and completed an M.A. in Human Geography from Indiana University. As part of my Master’s, I wrote the thesis Space, Place, and Hegemony among Young Adults in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, which addresses the role socio-economic identity...
Jessica Ankeny
Jessica Ankeny’s chapbook, One Simple Step to Keeping a Clean Gun, can be found at Dancing Girl Press, and individual poems found in Broke, Spillway, Menacing Hedge, The Boiler and elsewhere. Her work was Editor’s Choice in Relief Magazine 7.1 and appeared in the Menacing Hedge Anthology for AWP 2014. Originally from Albuquerque, Jessica currently lives in Brooklyn with her cat Joni Mitchell, and is working on a collection...
Laura Austin
Laura Austin experienced her first taste of writing in elementary school when her story The Giant Mouse, a tragic tale about a rodent who ate too much cheese, lost a second-grade writing contest. She recently completed her first middle grade novel while enrolled in StoryStudio’s Kid Lit in a Year program with fellow 2015 AROHO participant, Lisa Sukenic. Under the tutelage of Juliet Bond, Laura discovered her passion for witty dialogue...
Lauren Baldwin
Lauren Baldwin completed her MFA in Fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010 and her JD at the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1992. She is a Judicial Hearing Officer in the Family Court division of the Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lauren is the author of Pull the Lever, AROHO’s theme poem (alternative to a theme song), written in the middle of the night at Ghost Ranch during an...
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