Robbie Harold
Robbie Harold writes fiction, plays, essays, and poetry and has attended all the AROHO retreats at Ghost Ranch since their inception. She is finalizing work on Murdered Sleep, a sequel to Heron Island, a historical mystery. She created “Vermonter in Brooklyn,” a blog featuring essays about life in Vermont and New York City, and writes features for the Montpelier Bridge community newspaper. She received a Master’s degree in...
Joy Harris
In 1990, Joy Harris established The Joy Harris Literary Agency selling all rights pertaining to works of fiction and non-fiction. Her interest is in working directly with writers to help guide their careers, negotiate on their behalf, and protect their work; she takes great pleasure in finding new authors and, of course, in reading. Ms. Harris has worked with numerous reputable authors, many of whom she has represented since their...
Pamela Helberg
Pamela Helberg was recently published in Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions and is something of an expert at living two lives: Fundamentalist Christian/closeted lesbian; Catholic school employee/mostly-out lesbian; writer/computer geek; lesbian mom in the not-so-gay nineties. She received her MA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University where she studied under award-winning novelist Laura...
Mary Ann Henry
Mary Ann Henry was born in West Virginia but has lived for the last thirteen years on a barrier island in South Carolina’s Lowcountry where she runs a small business or two, one of which is a retreat for writers. Combining a long interest in spiritual studies and practices with her passion for writing, she often leads workshops that examine the link between creativity and the journey of the soul. A former Creative Writing...
Molly Howes
At AWP this year, I fell in love with AROHO and am thrilled to be part of the retreat! I am a relatively seasoned person but a relatively new serious writer. I returned to disciplined writing when my children went to college and am an active member of the Grub Street, Inc., writers’ center in Boston. I will begin their Memoir Incubator Program, a yearlong intensive course, in June, 2013. My memoir is a story about the lessons I...
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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