Cinny Green
Aug01

Cinny Green

Cinny Green, Santa Fe writer and editor, is the author of the award-winning Trail Writer’s Guide (Western Edge Press 2010). She is an accomplished backpacker who completed a 100-mile hike from Santa Fe to Taos, a 200-mile walk through the Scottish Highlands and a 70-mile solo on the Colorado Trail. Cinny is also the second-place winner of the 2009 LAURA Award, a short story contest sponsored by Women Writing the West. Mind Stretch and...

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Robbie Harold
Aug01

Robbie Harold

Robbie Harold is working on her third novel, a re-imagining of the life of a Civil War widow. Her first two books, Heron Island andMortal Knowledge, mysteries set in the early 1900s and published under her pen name of R.A. Harold, feature security agent and sometime Shakespearean actor Dade Wyatt. A 2001 graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, she studied fiction writing with novelist Jonathan Strong and...

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Regina Hastings
Aug01

Regina Hastings

Early in life, Regina Hastings discovered that the written word helped to deal with difficult emotions. Throughout the school year, she uses pen and paper to teach 7th grade the same power of writing by sharing vignettes taken from her own life story. As life continues to provide a multitude of unique experience, she writes, weaving together these stories in a personal narrative. The memoir’s name is yet to be found.

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Jane Hertenstein
Aug01

Jane Hertenstein

Jane Hertenstein lives in Chicago where she cooks, writes, and facilitates several creative writing groups at a local homeless shelter and Friendly Towers retirement community.  A number of years ago Jane visited Ghost Ranch in December (her sister worked there under the ranch manager), where they snowshoed back in the canyons. Her published work includes a YA novel, Beyond Paradise, and a memoir about a Chicago bag lady called Orphan...

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Sandra Hunter
Aug01

Sandra Hunter

When Sandra Hunter isn’t teaching or running the poetry and workshop series at Moorpark College, California, she likes to dance on the beach with her daughter, double the garlic in most non-dessert recipes, and toil up hills in Malibu where it is still possible to fly-by-bike above the clouds. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines. She is a 2010 Pushcart Prize nominee. Mind Stretch Contributor.

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