Karina Puente
Karina Puente started her journey as a professional artist when she exhibited her work for the first time at age fourteen and can’t remember when art didn’t exist in her life. Surprisingly as an adult, she has managed to retain the distinct, and enviable, child-like quality of being inspired. She is kin to the creative process and offers insight on inspiration through teachings and speaking engagements. A word Puente...
Florencia Ramirez
Florencia Ramirez writes from Oxnard, California, an agricultural town on the Pacific coast that smells of celery, strawberries and fertilizers. Its abundant farms drew her family to California from Mexico three generations ago as migrant farm workers. She now lives there between the ocean and the fields with her husband and three young children.$5,000 Gift of Freedom Genre Finalist, Creative Nonfiction; Mind Stretch...
Ramona Reeves
Ramona Reeves is a kindergarten dropout who had her hands slapped one too many times for “drawing outside the lines.” Her heroes are Chicken Little, Flannery O’Connor, Maya Angelou, Dolly Parton, Sonia Sotomayor and many other draw-it-how-you-like-it types. Her work has appeared in journals and magazines that were kind enough to read her work and publish it. These include The Ledge, Deep South Magazine, Mobile Bay Monthly, Puerto del...
Carol Reid
Carol Reid–In the spring of 2013 I’ll be spending five weeks at the Banff Arts Centre Writing Studio, working on a collection of stories set on the coast of British Columbia, where I’ve lived most of my life. I come from a green, wet place but I am equally in love with the desert and vast sky of New Mexico. Very happy and excited to come to the AROHO Ghost Ranch Retreat.
Kristen Ringman
Kristen Ringman is a deaf writer, sailor, traveler, and new mother. She is the author of Makara (Handtype Press, 2012), a literary lyrical novel about the deaf daughter of an Irish selchie who falls in love with a girl in South India. She received her MFA from Goddard College in 2008. Between her undergrad and MFA programs, she lived and volunteered in India, Kenya, and Ireland. From 2009-2011, she lived with her partner on...
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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