Kristen Ringman
Aug01

Kristen Ringman

Kristen L. Ringman is a deaf writer from Rhode Island. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have been published in Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology, The Poet’s Place: A Collection of Works, eyes of desire 2: a deaf glbt reader, and Pitkin Review. She graduated from Goddard College with an MFA in Creative Writing in 2008. In addition to creative writing classes, Kristen teaches kids yoga, runs ultra-marathons nearly barefoot, and has...

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Lisa Rizzo
Aug01

Lisa Rizzo

Lisa Rizzo is a poet and middle school language arts teacher who manages to combine her love of words and poetry with her day job. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Lucid Stone, 13th Moon,Writing for Our Lives, Earth’s Daughters,Bellowing Ark and Calyx Journal.  Her chapbook titled In the Poem an Ocean has just been published by Big Table Publishing Co.

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Marilynne Robinson
Aug01

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel,Home, a companion to Gilead, won the 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize for fiction and the 2009 Orange Prize for fiction.  Robinson is also the author of the modern classic Housekeeping (available in paperback from Picador), which won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award for...

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Barbara Rockman
Aug01

Barbara Rockman

Barbara Rockman teaches poetry at Santa Fe Community College and in private workshops in Santa Fe, NM Her poems appear in Bellingham Review, Calyx,Cimarron Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. She is editor of the anthology,Women Becoming Poems and founder of “Community of Voices,” a reading and music series for emerging artists. She has received the Southwest Writers Prize, The MacGuffin Poetry Award and Baskerville Publishers’...

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Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus
Aug01

Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus

Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus spent thirty-four years teaching public high school in Philadelphia. Her students won national recognition along with off-Broadway productions for their original plays and her teaching was the subject of an award winning documentary, I Used to Teach English.  Her writing about education has appeared in several anthologies includingGoing Public with Our Teaching. Most recently, she won an award for Community...

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