Amanda Hollander
Amanda Hollander is the author of Petra, forthcoming from Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She was the recipient of the inaugural Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Student Writer Scholarship and the 2014 SCBWI-LA Sue Alexander Grant. The manuscript for her first novel, Kudzu, won the Shirley Collier Prize for Fiction in 2012. Amanda lives and works in Los Angeles where, in addition to...
Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist, writer, and the bestselling author of five books, including the New York Times Bestseller Madness, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Wasted, and the New York Times Editor’s Choice The Center of Winter. Her work is published in eighteen languages and taught in universities around the world. The recipient of a host of awards and fellowships for her writing and research, Hornbacher’s essays,...
Molly Howes
Molly Howes is a nonfiction writer living in the Boston area. Thirty years of experience as a psychologist have crucially influenced and informed her sensibilities, but rearing four children has taught her even more. Her work has appeared in the New York Times “Modern Love” column, the Boston Globe Magazine, WBUR Cognoscenti (also read on NPR’s “Morning Edition”), Bellingham Review, The Tampa Review, Passages North, and...
Brianna Johnson
Brianna Johnson is the author of Fire Sale, an experimental prose manifesto detailing the economic decline of love, the body, and America in 18 movements, forthcoming from somewhere. As a result of her participation in the 2013 AROHO retreat, Brianna founded the Agua Viva Fellowship for a gifted and bold woman writer in recovery from alcohol and/or chemical dependency. She has earned her BFA and MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard...
Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is author of the memoir An Unquenchable Thirst, named one of 2011′s best books by Kirkus Review. Her courage to tell her story was the catalyst for the founding of A Room of Her Own Foundation (AROHO). Mary is AROHO’s Creative Director of Retreats and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been widely published in places such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg View,...
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