Christy Stevens
Christy Lea Stevens is a public relations professional who co-owns her own public relations firm with husband Al Stevens. She holds a B.A. in English literature and a M.Ed. in English. In her early career, she worked as a journalist and has taught English and creative writing. A short story writer, she is moving out of her comfort zone to work on a novel inspired by her experiences teaching high school.
Lisa Sukenic
Lisa Sukenic has been a progressive educator for the last 25 years having taught kindergarten through college. She currently teaches at The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools working with 3rd and 4th graders. As a writing teacher, she supports students with the writing process as well as an annual poetry publication. She has had extensive training in Conflict Resolution and integrates Social Justice and Thematic Arts into her...
Ruth Thompson
I grew up near Berkeley, California; went to Stanford and then to Indiana University for a PhD in American literature. I was a university professor, librarian, editor, yoga teacher, and college dean in Los Angeles. After a long hiatus I began writing poetry again in 2001. Today I write and teach yoga and meditation near Buffalo, New York and in Hilo, Hawaii, where I live with writer-anthropologist Don MItchell. My book manuscript,...
Leslie Ullman
Leslie Ullman is the author of three poetry collections, and her awards include The Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, The Iowa Poetry Prize, and two NEA Fellowships. She has taught in the low-residency MFA Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts since 1981, and for 27 years she also taught in and directed the Creative Writing Program at University of Texas-El Paso. Now, in addition to her Vermont teaching, she works as a...
Bethany Vaccaro
A Rhode Island native, Bethany Vaccarospends her days juggling roles as a philosophy instructor at the University of Rhode Island, a residential counselor at a women’s homeless shelter, and a potter crafting ceramic flower pots and vases to sell at local farmers markets. With a wide pool of inspiration to draw from, Bethany writes primarily creative nonfiction essays and short magazine pieces. Her publications run an unusual...
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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