Joy Shayne Laughter
Joy Shayne Laughter is a graduate of Indiana University. She has lived in Seattle and New York City, as a journalist, editor, screenwriter, performance artist, office worker and house cleaner. She wrote her first novel, Yu: A Ross Lamos Mystery, while housesitting in elegant homelessness. Yu went on to win second place in a 2006 national literary contest, and was published in 2010 by Open Books Press. Her short story “The...
Catherine Shubert
Catherine Shubert is currently a high school teacher of Spanish in Philadelphia as part of Teach For America. She has, according to her students, “got swagger.” She graduated this spring from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master’s degree in Urban Education and graduated in 2009 from the University of Michigan with a B.A. with honors in English. She has attended Oxford University as a study abroad student (an experience which...
Susa Silvermarie
Susa Silvermarie is the author of Tales From My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit, three chapbooks of poetry, and hundreds of poems published in periodicals over the last forty years, as well as recent children’s stories. She has edited six anthologies of poetry composed in her nursing home workshops, and her freelance credits include features, columns and essays. She recently taught storytelling to kindergarteners in public school and...
Jennifer Simpson
Jennifer Simpson is in the final stretch of the MFA program at the University of New Mexico– working on her dissertation, “Reconstructing My Mother,” a memoir. She is the founder and co-host of Duke City DimeStories, a monthy open mic for prose, and serves as managing editor for Blue Mesa Review. Her work has been published in Bartleby Snopes, Creative Human, and welding industry trade magazines likePractical...
Amy Siskind
Amy Siskind is the President and Co-Founder of The New Agenda, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls.Ms. Siskind has appeared as an expert on women’s issues and teen dating violence on CNN, FOX News, CNBC, PBS, NPRand Marketplace Radio; and has been quoted in The LA Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO,U.S. News & World Report, Guardian UK,The Boston...
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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