Marcia Meier
Marcia Meier is an author, award-winning journalist, writing coach and developmental manuscript editor. Her book, Navigating the Rough Waters of Today’s Publishing World: Critical Advice for Writers from Industry Insiders (Quill Driver Books, 2010), was recently named one of “10 Great Books on Writing from 2010” by The Writer magazine. She writes for numerous publications, including The Writer, Miller-McCune Magazine online, and...
Carolyn Mikulencak
Carolyn Mikulencak is still working on her MFA in fiction at the University of New Orleans. She has three young sons and story forthcoming in the fall issue of Yemassee.
Sarah Nichols
Sarah Nichols is new to writing outside of academia- still in the early stages of wandering around with a fistful of wildflowers and a half eaten box of chocolates trying to find and woo her muse. With gratitude to the teachers who praised her truly unfortunate rhymes in middle school, Sarah writes poetry and creative non-fiction. She won the Jeanne McFarland prize as an undergraduate at Smith College, where she studied Gender Studies...
Mil Norman-Risch
Mil Norman-Risch was a 2009 Pushcart nominee, and recipient of the American Poetry Journal’s 2007 American Poet’s Prize. Most recently, her poetry has appeared or will appear in Willow Springs,Dogwood, Opium, White Pelican Review, Valparaiso Review, New York Quarterly,and Tipton Poetry Journal. She has co-authored several textbooks, led workshops for teachers, and designed art/English classes. Her current project is a novel set in...
Peggy O’Boyle
Peggy O’Boyle: For the past twenty years I have written children’s books as Peggy Christian and traveled the country doing “writer in the schools” workshops. I have also taught writing, journaling and creativity classes and for many years I taught ESL to foreign students at the University of Montana, focusing particularly on Muslim cultures. In addition I have worked in local adult literacy programs, the...
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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