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...
Susie Verkamp
I am a 63 year old lesbian grandmother who has lived in Northern New Mexico for 22 years. I was born and raised on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, a circumstance that has marked me for life. I have a BA in English Literature and another in Environmental Science. I have done many things to earn my living, but music and writing have keep me alive. I have written a journal for much of my life, and have participated in writing...
Carolyne Whelan
Carolyne Whelan received her MFA in cross-genre at Chatham University, where she won first finalist for Best Thesis. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Sacramento Poetry Center Prize for a Single Poem, and a partial scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. Her first chapbook, The Glossary of Tania Aebi, will be published by Finishing Line Press in August, 2011. Her work has appeared or is forth-coming in Eclectica, Poetry...
Michelle Wing
Michelle Wing is a poet and fiction writer, who brings in a paycheck working as a journalist at a small town weekly newspaper, the Calistoga Tribune. She also writes a blog on life from a Zen perspective, found at www.rrzbeginnersmind.blogspot.com. She lives with her partner Sabrina in Sonoma County, California, on an acre and a half, with three dogs and eight cats. Her home office is painted lime green and citrus yellow, and the...
Summer Wood
Summer Wood, 4th Gift of Freedom recipient, is the author of the novels Arroyo(Chronicle Books) and the forthcomingWrecker (Bloomsbury, 2011). Her non-fiction work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler and other venues. Wood teaches for the University of New Mexico at the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, and offers workshops, in Taos and elsewhere, on the craft of narrative.www.summerwoodwrites.com. 4th Gift of Freedom...
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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