Lisa Estus
Lisa Estus is a fiction writer and poet. Her work appears in Puerto del Sol, Rain City Review, Reed Magazine and other literary journals. An entrepreneur from an early age, Estus has owned and operated a natural candle, soap and toiletries company, marketing consulting practice, jewelry design business and snow shoveling service. She briefly considered starting a vintage hosiery e-business but opted instead to consolidate interests...
Gabrielle Falco
Gabrielle (Gaby) Falco grew up in Fanwood, New Jersey, and wrote her first poem when she was nine; she’s been writing ever since. Gaby earned her B.A. from Hampshire College in 2010. At Hampshire, Gaby combined her two main interests with a concentration in gender studies and creative writing. Gaby’s senior thesis project was a collection of poems exploring gender construction and sexual violence. She’s passionate about girls’...
Meander W. Fiadhiglas
Mea is a fiber artist, photographer, and poet. She began blogging in 2009. Her one published article appeared in Tapestry Topics, the newsletter of the American Tapestry Alliance, Summer 2011. Native to Chicagoland, Mea now lives in Maryland. Her bachelor’s degree is in geography. Most of her jobs were clerical; four years as an environmental scientist changed everything. Now she’s exploring the idea of partnering with water:...
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah’s Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian… But when she won a student exchange to Keele University in England, where her passion for Russian history led her, she awoke in the middle of the night on her...
Kate Gale
Kate Gale was the 2005-2006 President of PEN USA, and president of American Composers Forum/LA. Rather than mourn the lack of literary community in her adopted city of Los Angeles, Kate decided to create one in the form of Red Hen Press, Los Angeles’ literary jewel, The Los Angeles Review, a literary magazine, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, the Geffen reading series, and a Writers in the Schools program for underserved...
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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