Lisa Estus
Lisa Estus is a fiction writer and poet. Her work appears in Puerto del Sol, Rain City Review, Reed Magazine and other literary journals. An entrepreneur from an early age, Estus has owned and operated a natural candle, soap and toiletries company, marketing consulting practice, jewelry design business and snow shoveling service. She briefly considered starting a vintage hosiery e-business but opted instead to consolidate interests...
Kristine S. Ervin
Kristine S. Ervin grew up in a small suburb of Oklahoma City and now teaches creative writing at West Chester University, outside of Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature, with a focus in nonfiction, from the University of Houston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Brevity, and Passages North, and her essay “Cleaving...
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah’s Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. Her third novel, Paint It Black (named after the Rolling Stones song of the same name), was published in September 2006 and is also set for production as a feature film. As an undergraduate at Reed College studying history, Janet was awarded with a student exchange opportunity to Keele University in England to...
Amanda Fletcher
Amanda Fletcher, a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow, is a Canadian writer who has resided in Los Angeles for over ten years. A breast cancer survivor and a pranayama breath work practitioner, Amanda teaches writing in the recovery community. She was a flash fiction finalist for the Orlando Prize and has performed for the Dirty Laundry Lit and Roar Shack reading series. Amanda’s writing has appeared in The Writer’s Tribe...
Gabriela Frank
Gabriela Denise Frank is the author of CivitaVeritas: An Italian Fellowship Journey, a collection of linked essays and prose poems. The book documents her investigation into the palimpsest of history, architecture and human connection within a unique Italian hill town while on a fellowship sponsored by the Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy. An alumna of the Jack Straw Writers Program and Artist Trust’s...
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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