Carol Reid
Aug01

Carol Reid

Carol Reid–In the spring of 2013 I’ll be spending five weeks at the Banff Arts Centre Writing Studio, working on a collection of stories set on the coast of British Columbia, where I’ve lived most of my life. I come from a green, wet place but I am equally in love with the desert and vast sky of New Mexico. Very happy and excited to come to the AROHO Ghost Ranch Retreat.

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Kristen Ringman
Aug01

Kristen Ringman

Kristen Ringman is a deaf writer, sailor, traveler, and new mother.  She is the author of Makara (Handtype Press, 2012), a literary lyrical novel about the deaf daughter of an Irish selchie who falls in love with a girl in South India.  She received her MFA from Goddard College in 2008.  Between her undergrad and MFA programs, she lived and volunteered in India, Kenya, and Ireland.  From 2009-2011, she lived with her partner on...

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Marguerite María Rivas
Aug01

Marguerite María Rivas

Marguerite María Rivas’s essays, articles, book reviews, and poems have been published in journals and periodicals, both nationally and internationally.  She has garnered numerous grants and awards, including the first Marg Chandler Memorial Award from AROHO. Cited by the New York State Legislature for her contribution to the literary arts, she is widely regarded as the de facto Poet Laureate of Staten Island. Her first full-length...

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Lilliam Rivera
Aug01

Lilliam Rivera

Lilliam Rivera grew up in the Bronx, New York. An entertainment journalist, she’s worked for E! Online, Angeleno, Latina, and was the editorial director for the lifestyle site Mondette.com. She’s a PEN Center USA 2013 Emerging Voices Fellow and is currently writing her first contemporary young adult novel, My Shelf Life, a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles and can be found online...

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Lisa Rizzo
Aug01

Lisa Rizzo

Lisa Rizzo is a poet and middle school language arts teacher who manages to combine her love of words and poetry with her day job. Born in Texas, she grew up in Chicago and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area 32 years ago.  She now lives in San Carlos, CA. She is the author of In the Poem an Ocean(Big Table Publishing, 2011). Her work also has appeared in such journals as The Lucid Stone, 13th Moon, Writing for Our Lives, Earth’s...

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