Nikki Loftin
Nikki Loftin is the author of THE SINISTER SWEETNESS OF SPLENDID ACADEMY (Razorbill, 2012), and NIGHTINGALE’S NEST (coming 2/20/14), both novels for young readers. Nikki’s short children’s fiction has appeared in Boy’s Life and Pockets magazines. Last year, she was also a featured author in Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves (Zest books). This year, Nikki is experimenting with exactly how close to the edge of...
Lisa Lutwyche
Lisa Lutwyche has been a published poet since she was seventeen, nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2000. At night, for the last two decades, she has taught creative writing (and watercolor) at community arts centers. She teaches special needs groups in the Fine and Performing Arts department of Cecil College in Maryland, proudly writing and producing an annual play with one of the groups since early 2008. Lisa also teaches creative...
Maura MacNeil
Maura MacNeil is the author of the poetry collection A History of Water (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry and prose has been published in numerous journals over three decades and anthologized in The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Frost Place, Volume II, Shadow and Light: A Literary Anthology on Memory, and On Our Own. Maura is committed to community-based creative collaboration, and her work in this area includes involvement...
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is a current Development Intern and part-time Development Associate at A Room of Her Own. She will be starting an MFA program with a concentration in poetry at Vermont College of Fine Arts this June while continuing her work with AROHO. She lives in Pasadena and spends time writing poetry, running around the Huntington Gardens in search of peacocks, hiking and backpacking, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and trying her...
Marti Mattox
Marti Mattox worked as a commercial copywriter in the independent film world for 15 years. She recently turned her energies toward fiction, essay and screenplay writing and was published in Salon. Her current work includes essays, a screenplay and the beginnings of a novel
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