Mona Alvarado Frazier
Mona Alvarado Frazier is a writer who had a 28 year career with the California Department of Corrections. A single mom of three, two ‘starving artists’ sons and a daughter in Denver, she stays busy chauffeuring her 87 year old mom, and number one role model, all over unless she’s doing Latino outreach for her county museum. Her pen name, Mona Alvarado Frazier, is her mother’s maiden name. Her novels feature Latina protagonists...
Kate Gale
Kate Gale is the Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, which she founded along with her husband Mark Cull. Rather than mourn the lack of literary community in her adopted city of Los Angeles, Kate decided to create that community herself through the creation of the ever-growing press as well as the literary magazine The Los Angeles Review, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, the Geffen reading series, and a Writers in the Schools...
Marni Gauthier
Marni Gauthier, PhD is a published author, master facilitator, and certified professional coach. She is also a yogini of 20 years, yoga instructor, triathlete, wilderness-lover and mother who brings passion and devotion to all her practices. From 2002-2012, Marni was professor of literature and film at the State University of New York, where she was granted tenure by unanimous vote at every level of the College. Her company, Four...
Diane Gilliam
Poet Diane Gilliam was the winner of A Room of Her Own’s 6th Gift of Freedom Award. She has been widely recognized for the voice of honesty, beauty, and resilience that she has given to Appalachian culture and history–among the many other subjects of her writing. Her second book, Kettle Bottom, is a collection of poems written in the voices of people living in the coal camps at the time of the 1920-21 West Virginia Mine Wars....
Mai Lon Gittelsohn
Mai Lon Gittelsohn teaches memoir writing to seniors in Del Mar and Encinitas. A native Californian, she grew up in Berkeley and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1956. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon’s Pacific University with a focus on poetry in June, 2012. Her poems have appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annual, the Patterson Literary Review, the Hummingbird Review, the Magee Park Poets...
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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