Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah’s Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian… But when she won a student exchange to Keele University in England, where her passion for Russian history led her, she awoke in the middle of the night on her...
Kate Gale
Kate Gale was the 2005-2006 President of PEN USA, and president of American Composers Forum/LA. Rather than mourn the lack of literary community in her adopted city of Los Angeles, Kate decided to create one in the form of Red Hen Press, Los Angeles’ literary jewel, The Los Angeles Review, a literary magazine, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, the Geffen reading series, and a Writers in the Schools program for underserved...
Nicole Galland
Nicole Galland see-saws between writing and theatre. She is the author of 5 historical novels (most recently Godiva) and a proud drop-out of the PhD Scholar/Director program at UC Berkeley, where she almost succumbed to postmodern performance art. As co-founder of Shakespeare for the Masses at the Vineyard Playhouse, she has adapted and staged 22 of Shakespeare’s plays, making even Troilus & Cressida a jolly experience. She is...
Olga García Echeverría
Olga García Echeverría: Born and raised in East Los Angeles. Ultra Libra in love with the ocean and the clouds and the birds and the trees and the disappearing bees. Author of Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas (Calaca Press and Chibcha Press 2008). Teacher of English. Creator and destroyer of language. Splendid Spinster of the New Millennium who plans to joyfully spin words until her fingers turn to dust. Touching Lives...
Diane Gilliam
Diane Gilliam lives in Akron, Ohio, where she works as both poet and quilter. She has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Ohio State University, and an MFA from Warren Wilson. $50,000 Gift of Freedom Winner, Poetry; Mind Stretch Contributor.
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