Marni Gauthier
Sep30

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...

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Diane Gilliam
Sep30

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....

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Mai Lon Gittelsohn
Sep30

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...

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Felicia González
Sep30

Felicia González

Felicia Gonzalez was born in Cuba. She believes that language and the act of speaking are not only physical, but also have a geographic presence. An alumna of the Hedgebrook Writers Retreat and the curator for the 2014 Jack Straw Writers Program, her writing has received numerous awards including an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. A poet and short fiction writer, she was awarded an individual artists grant...

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Vero González
Sep30

Vero González

Vero González was a Dean’s Graduate Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned an MFA in Poetry. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vero received a BFA from Pratt Institute, where she earned the Thesis Prize in Fiction. Vero teaches English Language Arts and Humanities to amazing high school students in Holyoke, MA, and is currently working on a novel-in-verse. Touching Lives Fellow 

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