Kathryne Carey
Kathryne Carey got writer’s block writing this bio. If that doesn’t speak volumes… Kate is a lost 24 year old trying to figure out what exactly she wants in life. All she knows is she wants a job she doesn’t entirely hate, one that vaguely pays enough bills. Also she wants to write. Even if it never gets published (although that would be the coolest). She wants to mold her eclectic pieces into a whole person. She wants to write...
Ann Carter
Ann Carter lives on a small farm in the Flint Hills of north central Kansas. Her first (and hopefully not last) book, Spiders from Heaven, recounts through journal entries, emails, and poetry the adoption and single parenting of her two daughters. Her favorite writing exercise is blogging a monthly essay. Among many possible future projects, she wants to finish a children’s book featuring Frannie, a girls who dreams of riding a pinto...
Joy Castro
Joy Castro’s memoirs include Island of Bones (U of Nebraska, 2012) and The Truth Book (2005; U of Nebraska, 2012). Her other works include the literary thrillers Hell or High Water (St.Martin’s, 2012) and Nearer Home (St. Martin’s, 2013) as well as the short story collection How Winter Began (U of Nebraska, forthcoming). Joy was the winner of a Nebraska Book Award and an International Latino Book Award and a...
Breena Clarke
Breena Clarke, currently a resident of Jersey City, has written three historical novels. She has recently completed Angels Make Their Hope Here, set in an imagined mixed-race community in 19th century New Jersey. Breena’s debut novel, River, Cross My Heart (1999) was an Oprah Book Club selection and her critically reviewed second novel, Stand The Storm, set in mid-19th century Washington, D.C., was chosen by the Washington Post Book...
Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke is the author of four books of poetry, Narratives: poems in the tradition of black women (1982); Living as a Lesbian (1986), Humid Pitch (1989), Experimental Love (1993), the critical study, After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (2005), and her collected works The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry 1980-2005 (2006). She self-published a mini-chapbook entitled, Your Own Lovely Bosom, in 2013 and 2014; and...
Art is my taste for freedom. I drown day and day until I pick up my paintbrush once again. So, somehow, I can tell myself that you’re not stuck in this room and that the canvas is the key.
Nina Salvadoré
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