2015 Retreat Program Sampler
2015 Retreat & Waves Discussion Series: Writing Against the Current Following is a sample of the 2015 Retreat Program, still a work in progress. In abundance but unlisted are the echoing canyons, laughter, inspiration, and galaxies of fearless words and stories. The application deadline is January 15, so apply today! Learn more about AROHO Retreats here. Our intention is to make room for women’s creative, unguarded...
Accepting General Applications for the 2015 Retreat
Now Open between October 31st, 2014, and January 15, 2015 CLICK TO SUBMIT ONLINE Join our growing assembly of women writers! Not simply a retreat, and much more than a writer’s conference, AROHO’s Retreat & Waves Discussion Series at Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu, NM) is a week-long interdisciplinary experience shaped by our transformative and generous history. In the words of participants, it is “a tapestry of women who, together, create...
Tara C. Allred
Tara C. Allred is an award-winning author, instructional designer, and educator. She has been recognized as a California Scholar of the Arts for Creative Writing and is a recipient of the Howey awards for Best Adult Book and Best Adult Author. Her published works include Sanders’ Starfish, Unauthored Letters, and The Other Side of Quiet. She is also the founder of the Other Side of Quiet online creative writing group at...
Li Yun Alvarado
Li Yun Alvarado is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, and educator. Her work has been published in several journals and anthologies including Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, PMS Poemmemoirstory, The Acentos Review, PALABRA, and Modern Haiku. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English at Fordham University and she teaches at Long Beach City College. Li Yun has had the pleasure of teaching middle school, high school, and...
Laura Alvarez
I’m a writer, poet, traveler, seeker, and sustainability advocate, whose preferred method of communication has always been to write. For a few years I spent some time writing as an academic and completed an M.A. in Human Geography from Indiana University. As part of my Master’s, I wrote the thesis Space, Place, and Hegemony among Young Adults in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, which addresses the role socio-economic identity...
Jessica Ankeny
Jessica Ankeny’s chapbook, One Simple Step to Keeping a Clean Gun, can be found at Dancing Girl Press, and individual poems found in Broke, Spillway, Menacing Hedge, The Boiler and elsewhere. Her work was Editor’s Choice in Relief Magazine 7.1 and appeared in the Menacing Hedge Anthology for AWP 2014. Originally from Albuquerque, Jessica currently lives in Brooklyn with her cat Joni Mitchell, and is working on a collection...
Laura Austin
Laura Austin experienced her first taste of writing in elementary school when her story The Giant Mouse, a tragic tale about a rodent who ate too much cheese, lost a second-grade writing contest. She recently completed her first middle grade novel while enrolled in StoryStudio’s Kid Lit in a Year program with fellow 2015 AROHO participant, Lisa Sukenic. Under the tutelage of Juliet Bond, Laura discovered her passion for witty dialogue...
Lauren Baldwin
Lauren Baldwin completed her MFA in Fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010 and her JD at the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1992. She is a Judicial Hearing Officer in the Family Court division of the Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lauren is the author of Pull the Lever, AROHO’s theme poem (alternative to a theme song), written in the middle of the night at Ghost Ranch during an...
Gillian Barlow
Gillian Barlow ‘s writing self is gathering strength, but she continues to work as an architect specialising in housing in Aboriginal communities and for people with disability. Since attending the AROHO Retreat in 2013, she has been awarded her PhD through the University of Western Sydney’s Writing and Society Group. Her exegesis is to be published by Saddle Road Press. She completed The Haiku Room’s challenge of a haiku a day, had...
Liz Bedell
Liz Bedell is a writer, teacher and editor living in Western Massachusetts. She spent 20 satisfying years teaching literature and writing in an artsy, rigorous secondary school and doing her own writing in the margins. An intangible “what’s next, Mrs. Landingham?” prompted her to uproot that settled existence, and the past several years have been fruitful and terrifying as she’s put writing at the center of her life. She...
Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts
Literary agent Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts (Writers House LLC) began her career at an independent literary publishing house, where she fell in love with the editorial process and developed a lifelong commitment to shepherding quality fiction and nonfiction to publication. After a short and very fun stint as a literary scout for foreign publishing houses, she was the director of foreign rights at the Susan Golomb Literary Agency, where...
Michele Berger
Michele Tracy Berger is a professor, a blogger, a creativity expert and a pug-lover. She’s passionate about all of these ways of being in the world and plays with the order that she avidly pursues them. She is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has several academic books on subjects that range from HIV/AIDS activism to the value of a women’s...
Rachel Bergman
Rachel Bergman is a writer and editor for New Haven Magazine, a blogger whose blog, Blogaholics Anonyblog, is mostly to make fun of her husband and family, and has also written two books and many short stories. She taught Developmental Writing at The University of Bridgeport, a writer’s workshop at The Program for Torture Victims while receiving her MFA in Creative Writing and is running a writer’s workshop at the VA hospital in West...
Ginny Bitting
A three-time veteran of AROHO at Ghost Ranch, Ginny Bitting has always loved both music and the written word. A singer, sailor, mother, and retired teacher, she is currently thrashing out her memoir, Through the Cut, a story of navigation on the water and through the soul. She fell in love with her husband and the sea on a weekend sail to Long Island on his 20-foot boat. Over the next ten years, on bigger boats with their daughter...
Alaina Bixon
Alaina Bixon is a freelance writer, editor and teacher who leads writing workshops and helps clients take their work from first draft to book. She is publishing a client’s book of his grandfather’s journals from WWI, Irish Yankee: An Irish Immigrant’s Journals of Service in the U.S. Military, 1916-1919. She has written essays on pseudoscience, travel, food history, and hippie-era San Francisco gurus. Currently she is writing about her...
Luke Dani Blue
Luke Dani Blue’s short stories have appeared in a variety of digital venues, including Midnight Breakfast, Slush Pile Magazine, Bluestem Magazine and The Tusk, where she is a regular contributor. She has received Honorable Mentions from the Fourteen Hills Michael Rubin Book Award and the Academy of American Poets’ Harold C. Taylor Award. She currently lives in Oakland, CA where she leads private writing workshops and astrologizes...
Lois Bradley
Lois is an author, illustrator, and visual artist, holding a BFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico. An active member of SCBWI (The Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators), her writing and photography has been published in Highlights for Children Magazine as well as serving as the illustrator for Blind Tom: The Horse Who Helped Build the Great Railroad, by Shirley Raye Redmond (Mountain Press...
Lynn S. Brandon
Lynn S. Brandon received her MFA in Playwriting and has trained with Ellen McLaughlin, Stephen Adly Gurgis, Sarah Ruhl, Arthur Giron, Sinan Ünel, Shirley Kaplan, Kate Aspengren. Full-length play include: Bare Chested, At the Line (semi-finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2014), Mad Cow, Tops (semi-finalist, O’Neill NPC 2012), The Naked C Prompt. Short plays: Isosceles, A Grand Bargain, Sexism in Theatre, Not So Simple....
Sarah Hahn Brooks
Sarah Hahn Brooks is a lesbian writer, a middle school social studies teacher, and a single mother who lives in Boulder. She’s almost finished with her MFA at Naropa University. Her essays and stories have been published in Room, Sinister Wisdom, The Iris Brown Lit Mag, Adoptive Families, The Juneau Empire, notenoughnight, and The New Mexico Mercury. Her one-woman play, “Translation”, was produced at Juneau, Alaska’s Phoenix Theater...
Cindy Lynn Brown
Cindy Lynn Brown (1973) is Danish poet and novelist. She has published five collections of poetry and one novel. The novel is co-written with Anders Vægter Nielsen. She holds a degree in Litterature and creative writing from the University of Southern Denmark. She is translated into English, French and Croatian. In 2013 she received a literary award from the Danish Agricultural-Cultural Foundation. She is the organizer of an...
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