Melissa Coss Aquino
Melissa Coss Aquino is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Language and Literature in the English department at Bronx Community College where she serves as the co-faculty advisor for Thesis, the Literary Journal of BCC. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at City College and is currently pursuing her PhD in English at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her personal essay “Una Sinverguenza” (Shameless) was published in Callaloo, and...
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...
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