Maura MacNeil
Maura MacNeil, MFA, is the founder of off the margins, a website that features writing and reflection on the life of an artist from women who “fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience.” She earned her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College and her poetry, prose, and critical writing has been published and anthologized in numerous publications over the past three decades. Current projects include a...
Ellen McLaughlin
Ellen McLaughlin is an award-winning writer and playwright whose plays have received numerous national and international productions, including Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians and Oedipus, and most recently, the critically acclaimed Septimus and Clarissa. Ellen is also an actor and has worked on and off Broadway as well...
Carrie Nassif
Carrie Nassif is a clinical psychologist who is prone to binge writing episodes and obsessive-compulsive photographic behaviors. She has an affinity for the minimalist landscapes of the rural Midwest where she lives with her wife and son; where there’s room in her head to patch words into poetry quilts and yarn enough to mend her memoir comforters. Several of her poems have been published in journals and anthologies, and she keeps a...
Shauna Osborn
Shauna Osborn is a Comanche/German mestiza who works as an artist, wordsmith, and community organizer. In 2013, she received a National Poetry Award from the New York Public Library. She is forever indebted to their social media coordinator for placing one of her winning poetry entries on their blog feed between a photo of David Tennant reading and an announcement for a William Gibson event, which simultaneously fueled her sense of...
Angelique Palmer
Angelique Palmer is a writer, teacher and performer from Miami by way of New Orleans; she now calls Northern Virginia home. A Creative Writing graduate from Florida State University, she found slam poetry through Will “Da Real One” Bell and was born and raised on the Literary Café and Poetry Lounge stage, becoming a “Café Baby.” As an Elementary School Creative Writing Instructor at the American Poetry Museum in Washington, DC, she...
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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