Marguerite María Rivas
Marguerite María Rivas’s essays, articles, book reviews, and poems have been published in journals and periodicals, both nationally and internationally. She has garnered numerous grants and awards, including the first Marg Chandler Memorial Award from AROHO. Cited by the New York State Legislature for her contribution to the literary arts, she is widely regarded as the de facto Poet Laureate of Staten Island. Her first full-length...
Lilliam Rivera
Lilliam Rivera grew up in the Bronx, New York. An entertainment journalist, she’s worked for E! Online, Angeleno, Latina, and was the editorial director for the lifestyle site Mondette.com. She’s a PEN Center USA 2013 Emerging Voices Fellow and is currently writing her first contemporary young adult novel, My Shelf Life, a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles and can be found online...
Lisa Rizzo
Lisa Rizzo is a poet and middle school language arts teacher who manages to combine her love of words and poetry with her day job. Born in Texas, she grew up in Chicago and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area 32 years ago. She now lives in San Carlos, CA. She is the author of In the Poem an Ocean(Big Table Publishing, 2011). Her work also has appeared in such journals as The Lucid Stone, 13th Moon, Writing for Our Lives, Earth’s...
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus
As a teacher for 34 years, I spent my life nurturing writers. Since retiring in 2008, I have been rediscovering the things I loved to do as a girl. Today, I draw, make mosaics and create mixed media collage. And I write. I write. I have a blog entitled “Her Own Terms: A Post Mid- Life Woman Writing for Her Life,” I have published my first stories and poems and I am finishing up a screenplay about a teenage girl...
Marlene Samuels
Marlene Samuels is an independent sociologist, writer and instructor, earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from University of Chicago, and worked at the National Opinion Research Center there. She serves on the Visiting Committee of the Graduate School, University of Chicago, is a member of Story Circle Network, serves on its Board of Directors, and is a presenter and workshop facilitator. She teaches research methodology for writers and...
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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