Betsy Fogelman Tighe
Betsy Fogelman Tighe has poems published in over a dozen literary magazines, including The Seneca Review, the Louisville Review, and TriQuarterly 74, for which she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. She was the third place winner of the Oregon State Poetry Association New Poets Prize in 2010 and was the winner of the first Recoursos/Discovery Award, 1995. She has received an NEH Institute Grant and Florida Humanities...
Patricia Fowler
My name is Patricia Fowler and I am a wife, mom and occupational therapist, living in southern New Hampshire. And there are days, here and there, when I truly believe that I may be a writer. I still feel like a bit of a charlatan, though, when I say it aloud, my voice dropping and getting small at the end, as I say, “Oh. And I am also a …writer.” Upon reading the bios above, I nearly chickened out of the AROHO retreat. I have no...
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...
Renny Golden
Renny Golden is a writer and activist and she teaches Peace Studies at the University of New Mexico. Golden’s poetry book Blood Desert: Witnesses 1820-1880 was published by the University of New Mexico Press in December 2010. Her book of poetry The Hour of the Furnaces, about the war years in El Salvador, was nominated for a National Book Award in 2000. Her book War on the Family: Imprisoned Mothers and the Families They Leave...
Aine Greaney
Irish-born writer Aine Greaney now lives on the Massachusetts seacoast. She has published two novels, “The Big House” (Simon & Schuster, U.K.) and “Dance Lessons” (Syracuse U.P), and a chapbook collection of short stories, “The Sheepbreeders Dance.” Her how-to writing book, “Writer with a Day Job” has just been released from Writers Digest Books. Her creative non-fiction essays have...
Art is my taste for freedom. I drown day and day until I pick up my paintbrush once again. So, somehow, I can tell myself that you’re not stuck in this room and that the canvas is the key.
Nina Salvadoré
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