Jan Smith
Jan M. Smith retired from a thirty-year career in social work and moved to Taos, New Mexico to pursue writing. Since then she has enrolled in Goddard’s MFAW program (’14), been the curator for SOMOS (literary organization in Taos) since 2009, has won an award from the 2012 SouthWest Writers for a short story, and been published in the Pitkin Review, Howl, andChokecherries.
Jennifer Steil
Jennifer Steil is the author of The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, An American Woman’s Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth (2010, Broadway Books/RandomHouse), a memoir of the year she spent as editor of the Yemen Observer newspaper in Sana¹a, Yemen. The book received accolades in The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Sydney Morning Herald among other publications. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune chose it as one of their best...
Lisa Sukenic
Lisa Sukenic has been a progressive educator for 28 years. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, working with 3rd and 4th graders. She teaches using an integrated Thematic Arts approach with an emphasis on Social Justice. As a writing teacher she works with young authors to help them develop their authentic voices in all genres. She helps to sponsor the Global Reading Challenge that encourages teamwork...
Shanti Thirumalai
Shanti spends more time not-writing than writing. She has finished a YA/ crossover novel and cannot understand why every agent she has sent it to is not in love with it. She is plodding along with her other novel set in India. It might take 17 years to complete but will be more comprehensible than Finnegans Wake. You can ask her about her experience reading the Wake only if you are prepared to listen to a long answer that might not...
Ruth Thompson
Ruth Thompson’s second book of poems, Woman with Crows, was published by Word Press Books in 2012. It was a finalist for the AROHO To The Lighthouse Prize in 2010. Her 2011 chapbook Here Along Cazenovia Creek was the basis for a collaborative performance of poetry and dance with dancer Shizuno Nasu last year. Ruth was an English professor, librarian, editor and college dean in California, and now lives mostly in Hilo, Hawai’i with...
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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