Bridget Birdsall
Aug01

Bridget Birdsall

Mary Rose Betten—Poet, playwright, essaist, retired character actress of stage, screen, and television—three-time Clio award winner. Her plays are produced in New York, Hollywood and The National Theatre, London. Her  book of meditation drama: “People Of The Passion,” Sheed & Ward, 1985 is still being performed throughout the US. and used in meditation sevices by our troops in Iraq.  . Her first chapbook, “Hanging Out...

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Ginny Bitting
Aug01

Ginny Bitting

Ginny Bitting writes and sails out of Mystic, Connecticut, having left the country early in her life for England and Austria. She is at work on a memoir, Through the Cut, that illuminates her discoveries about love and truth during a year long sailing trip to the Bahamas with her husband and daughter. She teaches Language Arts to Eight graders in Stonington, CT and is excited to return to the AROHO retreat for a second time. AROHO...

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Sandra Jean Ceas
Aug01

Sandra Jean Ceas

Sandra Jean Ceas left a thirty year career in Fashion Design when she turned fifty years old to pursue her heart’s desire as a practicing fine artist. Within ten years she obtained a BFA in sculpture, an MFA in new genres, and is currently working on an MA in religious studies. Sandra is a person with dyslexia and finds writing extremely difficult yet her yearnings to communicate do not inhibit her expressing through the arts with...

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Darlene Chandler Bassett
Aug01

Darlene Chandler Bassett

Darlene Chandler Bassett spent two decades as a corporate executive with famed entrepreneur and arts patron, Eli Broad.  Concurrent with her corporate management positions, Bassett was also Board Chair of The California Abortion Rights Action League-South, from 1984 to 1991. Bringing her unique combination of corporate and non-profit management experience to the arts, Bassett now focuses her efforts on women writers and artists.  She...

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Breena Clarke
Aug01

Breena Clarke

Breena Clarke is the author of two historical novels set in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Her debut novel, RIVER, CROSS MY HEART was an October 1999 Oprah Book Club selection. Clarke was the recipient of the 1999 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association award for fiction and the Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association. Her critically reviewed second novel STAND THE STORM was chosen by the...

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