Melissa Tomlinson Newell
Currently an Art Instructor at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, Washington, I have found a new form of creative expression in writing. In addition to making art and serving as co-chair in the Visual Arts, my work includes community art advocacy projects focused on art education. I have served as a juror for numerous exhibits and public works projects and led workshops for adults and children since 1984. When I begin the...
Tammi J. Truax
Writing is Tammi Truax’s second career, after twenty years working with children and families, primarily in promoting literacy. She is a newspaper columnist, blogger and novelist, who dabbles in poetry, primarily narrative. Overall she considers herself a storyteller and loves nothing more than to hear, read or share a good tale. She lives in a New England harbor town, where she practices the arts of mothering, cooking,...
Leslie Ullman
Leslie Ullman teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts and has published three poetry collecions. Her fourth, “Progress on the Subject of Immensity,” is due out from University of New Mexico Press just before the August conference. She has extensive experience working with poetry manuscripts, both in her teaching job and freelance, and enjoys dialogues about craft. Awards include the...
Susie Verkamp
At age 65, I am a writer emerging from creative isolation, committed to getting my work out into the world. I have written journals for much of my life, and found community in writing workshops whenever time, finances and circumstances allowed. My intention moving forward from the 2011 AROHO retreat was to cultivate my identity as a writer. My goal was to continue writing new and revised poems for submission and to create structure...
Robin Vidimos
Robin Vidimos is a mechanical engineer by profession and a book reviewer by passion. Her engineering career has taken her to construction sites; her reading has transported her to far more exotic locales. Long an avid reader, Robin cut her teeth on book reviews for Moms Online, an early forum on America Online and wrote her first review for the Denver Post in 1997. Since then, the Post has run more than 400 reviews and author...
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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