Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a writing instructor and spiritual director living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the author of Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir (Skinner House Books),Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir (Skinner House Books), and On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness (Westview Press). Her essays and short memoirs have been published in The Christian...
Barb Johnson
Barb Johnson’s fiction has appeared in such magazines as Glimmer Train; Washington Square; The Greensboro Review; 52 Stories; Guernica; and Oxford American. Her nonfiction can be found in a number of anthologies, most recently in Voices Rising II: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project; 2011 Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market; and the soon-to-be released, Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Jobs They Quit....
Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is the author of the upcoming memoir An Unquenchable Thirst, about her twenty years as a nun in the congregation founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Her need for support while writing was the catalyst for the founding of A Room of Her Own Foundation. Johnson is AROHO’s Creative Director of Retreats, and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Pulse, Texas Review, and NPR....
Joy Jones
Joy Jones is a native of Washington, DC, and a playwright, actress and instructor. As a playwright, Joy has been mentored by Mark Perry (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Gary Garrison and Gregg Henry (Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive). As an actress, Joy has performed in theaters across the United States and in Great Britain, including The Royal Shakespeare Company, PlayMakers Repertory Company and many others. Her...
Deonne Kahler
Deonne Kahler received her MFA in creative writing from Queens College, City University of New York, where she also taught creative writing and was editor-in-chief of literary journal Ozone Park. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and online, and most recently in WSQ. Before she turned to prose she was a singer-songwriter, with songs featured in movies and television. She loves to hit the road with Sadie, her...

