Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is author of the memoir An Unquenchable Thirst, named one of 2011’s best books by Kirkus Review. Her need for support while writing was the catalyst for the founding of A Room of Her Own Foundation. Johnson is AROHO’s Creative Director of Retreats, and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been widely published, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Poets &...
Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil is a multi-genre and multi-talented writer writing at the intersection of poetry, prose, and non-fiction. As a teacher, Bhanu focuses on generative, experimental writing practice, with a focus on returning to works or parts of works that were discarded, inert, or tossed aside. Bhanu has written The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Leon Works, 2006/Kelsey...
Page Lambert
Winner of AROHO’s 2009 Orlando Nonfiction Award and a 2003 Literary Fellowship in Poetry from the Wyoming Arts Council, Page Lambert’s books include the memoir In Search of Kinship (Fulcrum) and the novel Shifting Stars(Forge/Tor). Her essays and poems appear in dozens of anthologies, including Orion, Pilgrimage, Santa Fe Literary Review and West of 98: Living and Writing the American West. Page has presented at over 200 seminars and...
Jan La Roche
Jan La Roche is the editor of Oberon Poetry magazine. She is represented online at poetryvlog.com reading five of her poems and on the writing blog Feral Writer, Feral Mom in an interview “AROHO Speaks, Writer to Writer.” Her poems have appeared in Oberon, Mobius and Paumanok, Poems and Pictures of Long Island and will appear in the forthcomingPaumanok II. She co-authored 25 years poems drawings with her husband, Jef...
Jillian Lauren
Jillian Lauren is a writer and performer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She is the author of the memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel Pretty, both from Plume/Penguin. Her writing has also appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times,Los Angeles Magazine, Vanity Fair and Flaunt Magazine, among others. Jillian has appeared at spoken word and storytelling events across the country. She lives...
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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