Carolyn Mikulencak
Carolyn Mikulencak is still working on her MFA in fiction at the University of New Orleans. She has three young sons and story forthcoming in the fall issue of Yemassee.
Sarah Nichols
Sarah Nichols is new to writing outside of academia- still in the early stages of wandering around with a fistful of wildflowers and a half eaten box of chocolates trying to find and woo her muse. With gratitude to the teachers who praised her truly unfortunate rhymes in middle school, Sarah writes poetry and creative non-fiction. She won the Jeanne McFarland prize as an undergraduate at Smith College, where she studied Gender Studies...
Mil Norman-Risch
Mil Norman-Risch was a 2009 Pushcart nominee, and recipient of the American Poetry Journal’s 2007 American Poet’s Prize. Most recently, her poetry has appeared or will appear in Willow Springs,Dogwood, Opium, White Pelican Review, Valparaiso Review, New York Quarterly,and Tipton Poetry Journal. She has co-authored several textbooks, led workshops for teachers, and designed art/English classes. Her current project is a novel set in...
Peggy O’Boyle
Peggy O’Boyle: For the past twenty years I have written children’s books as Peggy Christian and traveled the country doing “writer in the schools” workshops. I have also taught writing, journaling and creativity classes and for many years I taught ESL to foreign students at the University of Montana, focusing particularly on Muslim cultures. In addition I have worked in local adult literacy programs, the...
Lucia Orth
Lucia Orth’s first novel, Baby Jesus Pawn Shop (The Permanent Press, 2008) received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. Kirkus called it “a graceful . . . elegant debut.” NPR said, “What first-time novelist Lucia Orth has pulled off is really impressive: a haunting, suspenseful, beautifully written love story. . . Think Dr. Zhivago in Southeast Asia.” An excerpt from her second novel appeared in the Asia Literary Review, Hong...
Art is my taste for freedom. I drown day and day until I pick up my paintbrush once again. So, somehow, I can tell myself that you’re not stuck in this room and that the canvas is the key.
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