Lauren Baldwin
Lauren Baldwin earned her MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010. She also completed a law degree at the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1992, worked as a Public Defender and in private practice as an attorney for nearly eighteen years, is now a Judicial Officer at the Second Judicial District Court, Family Court Division, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and also serves as a mediator and settlement facilitator...
Mary Beath
Mary Beath works at the confluence of science, art, and nature. After earning degrees in zoology (Duke) and printmaking (Rhode Island School of Design), she lived for ten years in New York’s East Village before moving to Albuquerque in 1989. She is the proprietor of an award-winning illustration/design/writing studio focused on projects concerning the natural world. She began writing seriously in the early 1990s. Her poetry...
Anne Beaufort
Anne Beaufort is a professor at University of Washington Tacoma, where she teaches creative nonfiction, among other courses, and professional development seminars for faculty who want to use writing effectively in their courses. Following ten years working in corporate communications, Anne did doctoral research on the issue of writers developing expertise in multiple genres. This led to two academic publications, Writing in the Real...
Liz Bedell
During the school year, Liz Bedell strives to balance writing and teaching English full-time, something of a juggling act. She has nearly completed a nonfiction manuscript about a course that integrates experiential service learning, literature and creative nonfiction writing. Currently at work on a novel set during and after World War I, she has taught writing to both adolescents and adults for nearly twenty years. AROHO Community...
Elana Bell
Elana Bell was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 2011. Her first collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2012. Elana is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Drisha Institute. Her work has recently appeared in Harvard Review, CALYX Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, and Storyscape....
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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