Jana Branch
Jana Branch writes poetry, short stories, essays and screenplays. To keep a roof over her head, she consults in brand and sustainability communications. She previously worked as a typographer, editor, ghostwriter and cultural trends analyst. She’s old enough to remember the world before computers and isn’t nostalgic for typewriters. She believes in “and” (not “either-or”), seeks variety (not balance) and prefers being seen without...
Mandy Brown
After finishing an undergraduate fiction thesis, Mandy Brown graduated summa cum laude from Texas State University with a BA in Professional Writing. She leapt into motherhood and her writing and found that grafting the two is extremely challenging but well worth the rewards. Mandy currently works from home as a writer, freelance book editor, and the Managing Editor for eSteampunk, an e-magazine and Amazon bestseller. Internationally...
Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz
Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz is a cultural worker and documentary artist in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As an independent community radio producer and host, she works in artistic and Native communities using the power of narrative as a transformative tool for social change. New Mexico Woman Writer Fellow; Desert Delight Contributor.
Darlene Chandler Bassett
Darlene Chandler Bassett spent two decades as a corporate executive with famed entrepreneur and arts patron, Eli Broad. Concurrent with her corporate management positions, Bassett was also Board Chair of The California Abortion Rights Action League-South, from 1984 to 1991. Bringing her unique combination of corporate and non-profit management experience to the arts, Bassett now focuses her efforts on women writers and artists. She...
Anita Clearfield
Anita Clearfield is an artist, writer and filmmaker. Her credits include several documentaries on PBS, including “Olivia Records: More Than Music,” (Producer/Director) and “Angela Davis: Walls Into Bridges,” (Assoc. Producer/Editor). She produced/directed “Vacation Nicaragua,” garnering a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, Best Documentary at the San Antonio Film Festival and Latin American Film Festival,...
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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