Breena Clarke
Breena Clarke is the author of two historical novels set in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Her debut novel, RIVER, CROSS MY HEART was an October 1999 Oprah Book Club selection. Clarke was the recipient of the 1999 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association award for fiction and the Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association. Her critically reviewed second novel STAND THE STORM was chosen by the...
Jamie Clifford
Photography to me is a form of poetry. A way to express and share the beauty that I see around us. Beauty within and shared between people. In nature. In color, shape and texture. I began playing with a camera at an early age, capturing moments and communicating what I felt through imagery. This love flourished in a black and white darkroom, and has continued to deepen and evolve in the digital realm. My approach is a very...
Esther Cohen
Esther Cohen collects good stories, teaches them, and tries to write them in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She published 5 books, and ran Bread and Roses, a cultural non-profit for working people. She lives in New York, where she is often a book doctor.https://www.esthercohen.com/ AROHO Advisory Council Member; Desert Delight Contributor.
Teri Crane
Teri Crane, a retired educator and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, recently earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She is revising her thesis,We Never Used the F Word, a memoir of growing up in her native Southern California and the impact of her father’s death when she was seven years old. Her current writing project is a story about the travels of two women over the Oregon Trail by wagon train.
Tracey Cravens-Gras
A life-long lover of the written word, I studied English at the University of Cincinnati, and graduated with honors from the Ohio State University in 1997. After a miraculous decade raising two kids, and a family relocation to the desert southwest, I began working for A Room of Her Own as Darlene Chandler Bassett’s personal assistant in 2008. Author of thousands of emails and the rare and wildly-scrawled thank you note, I savor the...

