Shanti Thirumalai
Shanti spends more time not-writing than writing. She has finished a YA/ crossover novel and cannot understand why every agent she has sent it to is not in love with it. She is plodding along with her other novel set in India. It might take 17 years to complete but will be more comprehensible than Finnegans Wake. You can ask her about her experience reading the Wake only if you are prepared to listen to a long answer that might not...
Ruth Thompson
Ruth Thompson’s second book of poems, Woman with Crows, was published by Word Press Books in 2012. It was a finalist for the AROHO To The Lighthouse Prize in 2010. Her 2011 chapbook Here Along Cazenovia Creek was the basis for a collaborative performance of poetry and dance with dancer Shizuno Nasu last year. Ruth was an English professor, librarian, editor and college dean in California, and now lives mostly in Hilo, Hawai’i with...
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...
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