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...
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...
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