Lucia Orth
Lucia Orth’s first novel, Baby Jesus Pawn Shop (The Permanent Press, 2008) received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. Kirkus called it “a graceful . . . elegant debut.” NPR said, “What first-time novelist Lucia Orth has pulled off is really impressive: a haunting, suspenseful, beautifully written love story. . . Think Dr. Zhivago in Southeast Asia.” An excerpt from her second novel appeared in the Asia Literary Review, Hong...
Kumkum Pareek Malik
Kumkum Pareek Malik is a clinical psychologist who takes a Mind Body approach to her work, believing that motherhood is an immersion experience that affects a woman’s mind, body and soul. Presently Kumkum is immersed in writing, and designing and offering workshops for mothers who wish to mother from their strengths. Presently, Kumkum is working on a piece about Marriage and Motherhood. Kumkum grew up in India, and came to the United...
Tania Pryputniewicz
Tania Pryputniewicz’ recent poetry has appeared on-line at Autumn Sky, The Blood Orange Review, Connotation Press, andLinebreak. Her debut photo/poem montage “She Dressed in a Hurry, for Lady Di” (set to the music of Scriabin) was hosted by The Mom Egg this spring. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the poetry editor atThe Fertile Source and documents the process of mothering while writing at Feral Mom, Feral Writer. She...
Florencia Ramirez
Florencia Ramirez holds a master’s in public policy from the University of Chicago and is owner of Azul Conservation Products, a water conservation business. She currently writes a book entitled “Eat Less Water,” and maintains a blog www.Eatlesswater.com which brings water conservation to the kitchen table. She writes for award- winning Edible Communities Magazine. Current articles include “Pasta and Water”, “Tequila...
Ramona Reeves
Ramona Reeves has received a writer’s residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Art, has been a finalist in the Austin Chronicle Short Story contest, and recently completed her M.F.A. in fiction at New Mexico State University. She has presented at AWP conferences, led workshops as a writer in residence for Writers in the Schools (WITS) and acted as an assistant editor for Puerto del Sol. Her publications include...
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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