Gillian Barlow
Sep30

Gillian Barlow

Gillian Barlow ‘s writing self is gathering strength, but she continues to work as an architect specialising in housing in Aboriginal communities and for people with disability. Since attending the AROHO Retreat in 2013, she has been awarded her PhD through the University of Western Sydney’s Writing and Society Group. Her exegesis is to be published by Saddle Road Press. She completed The Haiku Room’s challenge of a haiku a day, had...

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Liz Bedell
Sep30

Liz Bedell

Liz Bedell is a writer, teacher and editor living in Western Massachusetts. She spent 20 satisfying years teaching literature and writing in an artsy, rigorous secondary school and doing her own writing in the margins. An intangible “what’s next, Mrs. Landingham?” prompted her to uproot that settled existence, and the past several years have been fruitful and terrifying as she’s put writing at the center of her life. She...

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Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts
Sep30

Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts

Literary agent Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts  (Writers House LLC) began her career at an independent literary publishing house, where she fell in love with the editorial process and developed a lifelong commitment to shepherding quality fiction and nonfiction to publication. After a short and very fun stint as a literary scout for foreign publishing houses, she was the director of foreign rights at the Susan Golomb Literary Agency, where...

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Michele Berger
Sep30

Michele Berger

Michele Tracy Berger is a professor, a blogger, a creativity expert and a pug-lover. She’s passionate about all of these ways of being in the world and plays with the order that she avidly pursues them. She is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has several academic books on subjects that range from HIV/AIDS activism to the value of a women’s...

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Rachel Bergman
Sep30

Rachel Bergman

Rachel Bergman is a writer and editor for New Haven Magazine, a blogger whose blog, Blogaholics Anonyblog, is mostly to make fun of her husband and family, and has also written two books and many short stories. She taught Developmental Writing at The University of Bridgeport, a writer’s workshop at The Program for Torture Victims while receiving her MFA in Creative Writing and is running a writer’s workshop at the VA hospital in West...

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