Kat Duff
Aug01

Kat Duff

Kat Duff is the author of The Alchemy of Illness.  Her essays have appeared in Parabola Magazine, The Taos Review and Ink and Ashes.  She makes her living as a counselor and a child forensic interviewer in northern New Mexico. She is currently at work on a book about sleep and loves to hear from people about their experiences with sleep.

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Liz Falvey
Aug01

Liz Falvey

Growing up on the water immersed me in nature, imagination and solitude-a barefoot loner cycling between autonomy and connection. Following, always following my heart led to a collage of careers exploring passion in its various guises. I began with coaching, then photojournalism. Exploring human being through interviews, research and reporting proved intriguing but far too remote. Fear and fascination eventually drew me to graduate...

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Betsy Fogelman Tighe
Aug01

Betsy Fogelman Tighe

Betsy Fogelman Tighe has poems published in over a dozen literary magazines, including The Seneca Review, the Louisville Review, and TriQuarterly 74, for which she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize.  She was the third place winner of the Oregon State Poetry Association New Poets Prize in 2010 and was the winner of the first Recoursos/Discovery Award, 1995.  She has received an NEH Institute Grant and Florida Humanities...

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Patricia Fowler

My name is Patricia Fowler and I am a wife, mom and occupational therapist, living in southern New Hampshire. And there are days, here and there, when I truly believe that I may be a writer.  I still feel like a bit of a charlatan, though, when I say it aloud, my voice dropping and getting small at the end, as I say, “Oh. And I am also a …writer.” Upon reading the bios above, I nearly chickened out of the AROHO retreat. I have no...

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Kate Gale
Aug01

Kate Gale

Kate Gale was the 2005-2006 President of PEN USA, and president of American Composers Forum/LA. Rather than mourn the lack of literary community in her adopted city of Los Angeles, Kate decided to create one in the form of Red Hen Press, Los Angeles’ literary jewel, The Los Angeles Review, a literary magazine, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, the Geffen reading series, and a Writers in the Schools program for underserved...

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