Caroline Kessler
Caroline Kessler is a freelance writer and editor living in south Berkeley. Originally from outside Baltimore, she holds a BA with honors in creative writing and a minor in religious studies from Carnegie Mellon University. Her poetry and prose has been published in The Susquehanna Review, Sundog Lit, Anderbo, Superstition Review, Up the Staircase, Treehouse, and PresenTense, among others. An alumna of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger...
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is an internationally acclaimed Chinese American author spearheading conversations about peace, feminism, and race relations. Born in Stockton, California, Maxine earned her bachelor’s degree from U.C. Berkeley, where she currently teaches as Professor Emerita. She has written three novels and several works of nonfiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the US. Her first book, The Woman...
Tanya Ko
Tanya Ko, poet and translator who was born and raised in South Korea, and received her MFA at Antioch University Los Angeles. Author of Generation One Point Five, her work has appeared in Beloit, Two Hawks Quarterly, Rattle, Writers at Work, and elsewhere. She writes in English and Korean and currently translates the work of Arthur Sze into Korean. Living and writing from two cultures, hers is a unique, authentic, and courageous...
Cassandra Lane
Cassandra Lane has worked as a newspaper reporter, high school teacher and college advisor. She currently serves as the senior writer for a nonprofit that funds quality preschool for 11,000 children a year in Los Angeles County. Cassandra’s essays, stories and articles have been published in The Bellingham Review, TheScreamOnline, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Times-Picayune, Everything but the Burden, The Source and more. She...
Caroline LeBlanc
Caroline LeBlanc, former Army Nurse and civilian nurse psychotherapist, has had her poetry and essays published in the US and abroad. In 2010, Oiseau Press published Smokey Ink and a Touch of Honeysuckle, her chapbook about life as an Army wife, and the descendent of 17th Century Acadian/French Canadian settlers in North America. She regularly contributes to Poetry Matters, a group book review and poet interview blog. As Writer in...
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.
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