Debra Schultz
Dr. Debra Schultz is a historian and the author of “Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement” (New York University Press). She is a founder of the Soros Foundation’s International Women’s Program and served for ten years as its Director of Programs. She has taught history and women’s studies at the New School, Rutgers University, and Laguardia Community College, and was a CUNY Graduate Center Writing Fellow...
Ruth L. Schwartz
Ruth L. Schwartz has published four award-winning books of poems, includingDear Good Naked Morning, selected by Alicia Ostriker for the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize, and Edgewater, a 2001 National Poetry Series winner chosen by Jane Hirshfield. Ruth is also the author of a memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story(Michigan State University Press, 2004). Recipient of over a dozen national writing awards, including fellowships from...
Joy Shayne Laughter
Joy Shayne Laughter is a graduate of Indiana University. She has lived in Seattle and New York City, as a journalist, editor, screenwriter, performance artist, office worker and house cleaner. She wrote her first novel, Yu: A Ross Lamos Mystery, while housesitting in elegant homelessness. Yu went on to win second place in a 2006 national literary contest, and was published in 2010 by Open Books Press. Her short story “The...
Catherine Shubert
Catherine Shubert is currently a high school teacher of Spanish in Philadelphia as part of Teach For America. She has, according to her students, “got swagger.” She graduated this spring from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master’s degree in Urban Education and graduated in 2009 from the University of Michigan with a B.A. with honors in English. She has attended Oxford University as a study abroad student (an experience which...
Susa Silvermarie
Susa Silvermarie is the author of Tales From My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit, three chapbooks of poetry, and hundreds of poems published in periodicals over the last forty years, as well as recent children’s stories. She has edited six anthologies of poetry composed in her nursing home workshops, and her freelance credits include features, columns and essays. She recently taught storytelling to kindergarteners in public school and...
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