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...
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...

