Tisha Reichle
Tisha Marie Reichle is a Chicana, Feminist, Reader, Writer, Teacher, Student, and former Rodeo Queen. Currently, she spends her weekdays engaging high school students with socially conscious literature. On weekends, she writes. Her stories have appeared in 34th Parallel, Inlandia Journal, Muse Literary Journal, Santa Fe Writers Project, and The Acentos Review. For the past 24 years, she has been living in Los Angeles and earned an MFA...
Kristen Ringman
Kristen Ringman is a deaf writer, traveler, sailor, and mother. She is the author of Makara (Handtype Press, 2012), a Lambda Literary Finalist in Debut Fiction. Her fiction and poetry have been published in: American Deaf Prose Anthology, Deaf Lit Extravaganza, Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology, amongst others. She received her MFA from Goddard College in 2008. She is currently writing a YA science fiction trilogy with androids and...
Marguerite Maria Rivas
Marguerite María Rivas’s essays, articles, book reviews, and poems have been published in journals and periodicals, both nationally and internationally. She has garnered numerous grants and awards, including the first Marg Chandler Memorial Award from AROHO. Cited by the New York State Legislature for her contribution to the literary arts, she is widely regarded as the de facto Poet Laureate of Staten Island. Her first full-length...
Barbara Rockman
Barbara Rockman came to poetry after careers as a director, stage manager, dramatic arts teacher, arts education consultant and curriculum designer. Mother of two grown daughters, her poems honor the gritty tales of motherhood, marriage and family. Her lyric essays intersect the political, personal, and natural worlds. Her work appears in Bellingham Review, Calyx, Cimarron Review, Louisville Review, and Nimrod among others and has...
Jamie Rose
Jamie Rose is a writer, performance coach, and actor and has worked in TV, Film, and Theater for over 40 years. Her first book, Shut Up and Dance! was published by Tarcher/Penguin and she is currently at work on a memoir about the legacy of alcoholism among the women in her family. She has taught acting seminars at the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina School of the Arts, and created online courses in Dramatic...
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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