Camille Endacaott
Camille was first involved with AROHO as a public relations intern in 2013 and is thrilled to return as a supporting intern for the 2015 Retreat. Originally from South Pasadena, Camille recently graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a degree in communication. She often strayed, however, into creative nonfiction writing, public affairs reporting, and studying the literature of Flannery O’Connor. She reads more than she...
Lisa Estus
Lisa Estus is a fiction writer and poet. Her work appears in Puerto del Sol, Rain City Review, Reed Magazine and other literary journals. An entrepreneur from an early age, Estus has owned and operated a natural candle, soap and toiletries company, marketing consulting practice, jewelry design business and snow shoveling service. She briefly considered starting a vintage hosiery e-business but opted instead to consolidate interests...
Kristine S. Ervin
Kristine S. Ervin grew up in a small suburb of Oklahoma City and now teaches creative writing at West Chester University, outside of Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature, with a focus in nonfiction, from the University of Houston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Brevity, and Passages North, and her essay “Cleaving...
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah’s Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. Her third novel, Paint It Black (named after the Rolling Stones song of the same name), was published in September 2006 and is also set for production as a feature film. As an undergraduate at Reed College studying history, Janet was awarded with a student exchange opportunity to Keele University in England to...
Amanda Fletcher
Amanda Fletcher, a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow, is a Canadian writer who has resided in Los Angeles for over ten years. A breast cancer survivor and a pranayama breath work practitioner, Amanda teaches writing in the recovery community. She was a flash fiction finalist for the Orlando Prize and has performed for the Dirty Laundry Lit and Roar Shack reading series. Amanda’s writing has appeared in The Writer’s Tribe...
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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