Thelma de Castro
Thelma Virata de Castro is a Filipino American playwright and mom. Her work is included in the Asian American Women Playwrights Archive at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She received a residency at Hedgebrook and attended the 25th Anniversary Alumnae Reunion Celebration. Her work was featured in Guerilla Girls on Tour’s WE ARE THEATRE, and she is a proud supporter of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative. She is...
Peggy Dobreer
Peggy Dobreer came to poetry through dance and experimental theatre. She has one full-length collection, In The Lake of Your Bones, released in March 2012 by Moon Tide Press. She is a long time educator, offering her unique approach to kinesthetically generated poetry and performance, THE E=Mc2BODIED WORD. She also curates The RwIrGiHtTe READ at Stories Books in Los Angeles and FIRST FRIDAYS at The Rapp Salo(o)n in Santa...
Martha Donovan
Martha Andrews Donovan, author of the chapbook Dress Her in Silk (Finishing Line Press 2009), has been teaching at the secondary and college level for over thirty years. Her poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction have been published in varied venues. Her essay “Dangerous Archaeology: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother (and Others)” (with photographer Autumn E. Monsees) was named a “Notable Essay” by The Best American Essays 2013. Her...
Jeanette Eberhardy
Jeanette Luise Eberhardy is a teacher, writer, and storyteller. She serves as the Program Director for 1st Year Writing, and Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In October, 2014, at the 17th Global WIN Conference in Berlin, Eberhardy gave the opening address to 1,000 women leaders: “Your Story Matters.” Eberhardy has taught storytelling skills to emerging leaders, including youth, women in business, global...
Camille Endacaott
Camille was first involved with AROHO as a public relations intern in 2013 and is thrilled to return as a supporting intern for the 2015 Retreat. Originally from South Pasadena, Camille recently graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a degree in communication. She often strayed, however, into creative nonfiction writing, public affairs reporting, and studying the literature of Flannery O’Connor. She reads more than she...
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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