Olga García Echeverría
Aug01

Olga García Echeverría

Olga García Echeverría: Born and raised in East Los Angeles. Ultra Libra in love with the ocean and the clouds and the birds and the trees and the disappearing bees. Author of Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas (Calaca Press and Chibcha Press 2008). Teacher of English. Creator and destroyer of language. Splendid Spinster of the New Millennium who plans to joyfully spin words until her fingers turn to dust.  Touching Lives...

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Diane Gilliam
Aug01

Diane Gilliam

Diane Gilliam lives in Akron, Ohio, where she works as both poet and quilter. She has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Ohio State University, and an MFA from Warren Wilson.  $50,000 Gift of Freedom Winner, Poetry; Mind Stretch Contributor.

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Toni Guy
Aug01

Toni Guy

Toni Guy is currently querying her first midgrade novel, Jello Jamieson and the Sister Recycling Machine while working on her second manuscript about growing up as a zombie in a normal family. She is an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the winner of the SCBWI CenCal 2013 Summer Conference Grant Contest. Since 2008 she has been a member of a writing group called Women Who Write...

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Jane Hammons
Aug01

Jane Hammons

Originally from Roswell, New Mexico, Jane Hammons has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley where she is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award. Her writing appears in several anthologies including Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (W. W. Norton) and The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change (Seal...

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Robbie Harold
Aug01

Robbie Harold

Robbie Harold writes fiction, plays, essays, and poetry and has attended all the AROHO retreats at Ghost Ranch since their inception. She is finalizing work on Murdered Sleep, a sequel to Heron Island, a historical mystery. She created “Vermonter in Brooklyn,” a blog featuring essays about life in Vermont and New York City, and writes features for the Montpelier Bridge community newspaper. She received a Master’s degree in...

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