Lauren Rusk
Lauren Rusk is a poet and Virginia Woolf scholar whose work includes The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson (a study of autobiographical prose) and the poetry collection Pictures in the Firestorm. In her writing and teaching, Lauren focuses on the poetry of engagement–poems that arise from place, social history, science, and visual art. Her focus on outward-looking poetry prompted an essay...
Marlene Samuels
By training and career, Marlene Samuels is a research sociologist. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in sociology from University of Chicago, where she worked as a researcher with the National Opinion Research Center, followed by a position as Research Director for an international public relations firm. While she conducted the research needed to rewrite and publish her mother’s Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival, she...
Charu Saxena
Charu Saxena combines her eastern and western experiences to create Global Competency Projects for schools (https://4esolutions.org). Her news articles and other written works bridge the cultures of the two countries that she spans: India, where she was born, and America where she now resides with her husband and two children. Some of her writing and non-fiction work can be seen at her website, https://worldviewpoints.com. However, it...
Jane Schulman
Jane Schulman writes poetry and short stories. She works as a speech pathologist in a Brooklyn public school with autistic and emotionally-disturbed young children. Jane has participated in numerous writing workshops including Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Frost Place Poetry Seminar, and three previous AROHO Retreats. She’s been a featured poet in local venues and taught senior citizens to write their lives in poetry, fiction,...
Rachel Schwerin
Rachel Schwerin is earning her MFA in Fiction Writing at Columbia University and is currently an Instructor of Undergraduate Writing there. She is working on her first novel, set in New Mexico. In addition to writing, Rachel illustrates her own work and has a background in woodblock printmaking.
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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