Liz Murata
Liz Murata–Reading was my first passion and love. I tried to write in my youth, but left it behind to pursue what I thought were more practical endeavors. Now I have found my way back to writing and I write for the same love and joy that reading gives me. Reading and writing provide opportunities for exquisite adventures that take me away and bring me back to a different place than where I started. I have created a writing...
Charlotte Muse
Charlotte Muse lives, teaches, and writes poetry in Menlo Park, California. She’s published two chapbooks: A Story Also Grows (a 2009 Main Street Rag Editor’s Choice selection. A handmade letterpress edition was also made by the Chester Creek Press and is now in both the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Rare Book Collections), and The Comfort Teacher (The Heyeck Press). She is also co-author of Trio, a collection...
Carrie Nassif
My story is a sort of patchwork quilt, and how I came to be on this list of participating writers is, like most things, readiness met with random chance. As a child I always knew I would grow up to be an artist. Twenty-three addresses and twelve years of college later, I ended up becoming a clinical psychologist which turned out to be exactly what I needed. A single mom for many years, I am now happily married but just as busy, I seem...
Alexandria Niewijk
Alexandria Niewijk is a nonfiction writer from Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Yale School of Medicine (MPH), Palo Alto University (M.S. Psychology) and the School for International Training. is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and USAID/U.S. Foreign Service. She was the Lucy Grealy award recipient for the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars 2011 and a scholarship recipient for Port Townsend Writers Conference and Squaw Valley...
Francie Noyes
I have been a writer all my life, both professionally and poetically. My career included time as a political reporter, business editor and movie critic. I served five years as press secretary for Arizona Governor Jane Hull and won Columnist of the Year from the Arizona Press Club. I facilitated discussions at the annual Scottsdale International Film Festival for eight years. After three decades in Arizona, I now live in Boulder,...
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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