Jane Hertenstein
Aug01

Jane Hertenstein

Jane Hertenstein lives in Chicago where she cooks, writes, and facilitates several creative writing groups at a local homeless shelter and Friendly Towers retirement community.  A number of years ago Jane visited Ghost Ranch in December (her sister worked there under the ranch manager), where they snowshoed back in the canyons. Her published work includes a YA novel, Beyond Paradise, and a memoir about a Chicago bag lady called Orphan...

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Sandra Hunter
Aug01

Sandra Hunter

When Sandra Hunter isn’t teaching or running the poetry and workshop series at Moorpark College, California, she likes to dance on the beach with her daughter, double the garlic in most non-dessert recipes, and toil up hills in Malibu where it is still possible to fly-by-bike above the clouds. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines. She is a 2010 Pushcart Prize nominee. Mind Stretch Contributor.

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Lindsay Jaeger
Aug01

Lindsay Jaeger

Lindsay Jaeger is Jonathan Demme’s producing partner at Clinica Estetico. She is currently producing a television pilot,Vital Signs, for CBS (directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Susannah Grant). Lindsay recently produced a portrait documentary (directed by Jonathan Demme), entitled I’m Carolyn Parker, which traced five years in the life of a woman who returned to rebuild her home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans following...

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Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Aug01

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a writing instructor and spiritual director living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  She is the author of Swinging on the Garden Gate:  A Spiritual Memoir (Skinner House Books),Writing the Sacred Journey:  The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir (Skinner House Books), and On the Threshold:  Home, Hardwood, and Holiness (Westview Press).  Her essays and short memoirs have been published in The Christian...

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Barb Johnson
Aug01

Barb Johnson

Barb Johnson’s fiction has appeared in such magazines as Glimmer Train; Washington Square; The Greensboro Review; 52 Stories; Guernica; and Oxford American. Her nonfiction can be found in a number of anthologies, most recently in Voices Rising II: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project; 2011 Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market; and the soon-to-be released, Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Jobs They Quit....

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