Tanya Ko
Sep30

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...

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Cassandra Lane
Sep30

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...

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Caroline LeBlanc
Sep30

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...

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Christina Lee
Sep30

Christina Lee

Christina Lee is a poet, musician and teacher who hails from Sierra Madre, a tiny foothill town just east of Los Angeles, CA. She teaches 7th grade English at a nearby public school. Christina holds an MFA in Poetry from Seattle Pacific University, and her poems have recently been featured in Ruminate Magazine and Relief Journal. When not writing or grading, she spends her time hiking, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and staging...

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Cynthia Leitich Smith
Sep30

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Cynthia Leitich Smith is the New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-selling author of the Feral series, which includes Feral Nights, Feral Curse and Feral Pride, as well as the Tantalize series, which includes Tantalize, Eternal, Blessed and Diabolical. Cynthia is also the author of several highly acclaimed children’s books, including Jingle Dancer, Rain Is Not My Indian Name, and Indian Shoes. Cynthia was named a Writer of...

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