Lesley Poling-Kempes
Lesley Poling-Kempes is the award-winning author of five books about the American Southwest, including The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West; Valley of Shining Stone: The Story of Abiquiu; Georgia O’Keeffe & New Mexico, and Ghost Ranch. Her work has won the Zia Award for Excellence, and her first novel, Canyon of Remembering, was a Western Writers of America Spur Award finalist. She lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Special...
Tania Pryputniewicz
Poet by night, writing instructor by day, incessant blogger during moments between, Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduateTania Pryputniewicz teaches Transformative Blogging and is writing a book based on her courses and offering blogging tips on her website. Co-founder of Mother, Writer, Mentor, she also teaches Poetry of Motherhood and Fatherhood. Her photo poem montages (with Robyn Beattie) took Juror’s Best of Show for the 2012 2D3D...
Karina Puente
Karina Puente started her journey as a professional artist when she exhibited her work for the first time at age fourteen and can’t remember when art didn’t exist in her life. Surprisingly as an adult, she has managed to retain the distinct, and enviable, child-like quality of being inspired. She is kin to the creative process and offers insight on inspiration through teachings and speaking engagements. A word Puente...
Florencia Ramirez
Florencia Ramirez writes from Oxnard, California, an agricultural town on the Pacific coast that smells of celery, strawberries and fertilizers. Its abundant farms drew her family to California from Mexico three generations ago as migrant farm workers. She now lives there between the ocean and the fields with her husband and three young children.$5,000 Gift of Freedom Genre Finalist, Creative Nonfiction; Mind Stretch...
Ramona Reeves
Ramona Reeves is a kindergarten dropout who had her hands slapped one too many times for “drawing outside the lines.” Her heroes are Chicken Little, Flannery O’Connor, Maya Angelou, Dolly Parton, Sonia Sotomayor and many other draw-it-how-you-like-it types. Her work has appeared in journals and magazines that were kind enough to read her work and publish it. These include The Ledge, Deep South Magazine, Mobile Bay Monthly, Puerto del...
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