Darlene Chandler-Bassett
Darlene Chandler Bassett spent two decades as a corporate executive with famed entrepreneur and arts patron, Eli Broad. Concurrent with her corporate management positions, Bassett was also Board Chair of The California Abortion Rights Action League-South, from 1984 to 1991. Bringing her unique combination of corporate and non-profit management experience to the arts, Bassett now focuses her efforts on women writers and artists. She...
Shari Crane
Dr. Shari Crane is a speaker and medical author with a holistic psychiatry practice on Coronado Island. Dr. Crane attended medical school at the Mayo Clinic, where she served on the Mayo Foundation Equal Opportunities Committee and was President of the Mayo Senior Class. She completed Internship at Stanford University, a Research Fellowship at Wake Forrest University, Diagnostic Radiology at UCSD, and Psychiatry Residency and...
Teri Crane
Dr. Teri Crane is a writer, educator, and marriage and family therapist. Besides her own writing, (including a memoir, We Never Used the F Word, a novel, Base Ball: Coming to the Show, a recently completed historical novel, What the Women Carried West), and the completion of the haiku a day for a year challenge, Teri teaches creative writing. She volunteers this at a local Senior Center and teaches creative writing at the district...
Tracey Cravens-Gras
A life-long lover of the written word, I studied English at the University of Cincinnati, and graduated with honors from the Ohio State University in 1997. After a miraculous decade raising two kids, and a family relocation to the desert southwest, I began working for A Room of Her Own as Darlene Chandler Bassett’s personal assistant in 2008. Author of thousands of emails and the rare and wildly-scrawled thank you note, I savor the...
Kristi Crutchfield Cox
Kristi Crutchfield Cox lives in Southern Oklahoma with her husband of thirteen years and their three dogs. By day, she navigates the minds of women and teens, helping them find their own definitions of peace and resolution, hope and new paths. During eves, her home resounds with a tango, as she sits on her bouncy ball weaving tales which reflect women’s experiences. Pieces of her soul linger in each line. She travels to Taos as...
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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