Liz Murata
Liz Murata–Reading was my first passion and love. I tried to write in my youth, but left it behind to pursue what I thought were more practical endeavors. Now I have found my way back to writing and I write for the same love and joy that reading gives me. Reading and writing provide opportunities for exquisite adventures that take me away and bring me back to a different place than where I started. I have created a writing...
Charlotte Muse
Charlotte Muse lives, teaches, and writes poetry in Menlo Park, California. She’s published two chapbooks: A Story Also Grows (a 2009 Main Street Rag Editor’s Choice selection. A handmade letterpress edition was also made by the Chester Creek Press and is now in both the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Rare Book Collections), and The Comfort Teacher (The Heyeck Press). She is also co-author of Trio, a collection...
Carrie Nassif
My story is a sort of patchwork quilt, and how I came to be on this list of participating writers is, like most things, readiness met with random chance. As a child I always knew I would grow up to be an artist. Twenty-three addresses and twelve years of college later, I ended up becoming a clinical psychologist which turned out to be exactly what I needed. A single mom for many years, I am now happily married but just as busy, I seem...
Alexandria Niewijk
Alexandria Niewijk is a nonfiction writer from Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Yale School of Medicine (MPH), Palo Alto University (M.S. Psychology) and the School for International Training. is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and USAID/U.S. Foreign Service. She was the Lucy Grealy award recipient for the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars 2011 and a scholarship recipient for Port Townsend Writers Conference and Squaw Valley...
Francie Noyes
I have been a writer all my life, both professionally and poetically. My career included time as a political reporter, business editor and movie critic. I served five years as press secretary for Arizona Governor Jane Hull and won Columnist of the Year from the Arizona Press Club. I facilitated discussions at the annual Scottsdale International Film Festival for eight years. After three decades in Arizona, I now live in Boulder,...
Jane O’Keeffe
Jane O’Keeffe is a writer from Adel Oregon. She holds an MFA from Antioch University. O’Keeffe’s work has appeared in The Sun, The Sylvan Echo, and The High Desert Journal. Her first novel, The Last Word, is currently available for representation and she is working on her second – Conflict Resolution. Jane O’Keeffe and her husband John, live and work on a 4 generation cattle ranch. She is an almost...
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 in-progress novel appeared in the Asia...
Amelia Perkins
Amelia Perkins worked for many years in the inter-religious movement, beginning with the Museum of World Religions in Taiwan, then putting on art shows with Buddhist nuns in New York, then for the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago and Melbourne. Now she’s transforming her livelihood, studying with some wise teachers, and giving one-on-one sessions and convening workshops on embodied writing, transformative...
Aimee Perkins
Aimee Perkins is a Chicago writer. Active in the local live literature scene, she has written and performed with RUI: Reading Under the Influence, The Paper Machete and the MCA’s Literary Gangs of Chicago but her heart belongs to 2nd Story, Chicago’s premier storytelling organization. Working with musicians and directors, 2nd Story works with writers to craft a personal narrative they are able to confidently perform...
Lesley Poling-Kempes
Lesley Poling-Kempes is the award-winning author of five books about the American Southwest, including The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West; Valley of Shining Stone: The Story of Abiquiu; Georgia O’Keeffe & New Mexico, and Ghost Ranch. Her work has won the Zia Award for Excellence, and her first novel, Canyon of Remembering, was a Western Writers of America Spur Award finalist. She lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Special...
Tania Pryputniewicz
Poet by night, writing instructor by day, incessant blogger during moments between, Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduateTania Pryputniewicz teaches Transformative Blogging and is writing a book based on her courses and offering blogging tips on her website. Co-founder of Mother, Writer, Mentor, she also teaches Poetry of Motherhood and Fatherhood. Her photo poem montages (with Robyn Beattie) took Juror’s Best of Show for the 2012 2D3D...
Karina Puente
Karina Puente started her journey as a professional artist when she exhibited her work for the first time at age fourteen and can’t remember when art didn’t exist in her life. Surprisingly as an adult, she has managed to retain the distinct, and enviable, child-like quality of being inspired. She is kin to the creative process and offers insight on inspiration through teachings and speaking engagements. A word Puente...
Florencia Ramirez
Florencia Ramirez writes from Oxnard, California, an agricultural town on the Pacific coast that smells of celery, strawberries and fertilizers. Its abundant farms drew her family to California from Mexico three generations ago as migrant farm workers. She now lives there between the ocean and the fields with her husband and three young children.$5,000 Gift of Freedom Genre Finalist, Creative Nonfiction; Mind Stretch...
Ramona Reeves
Ramona Reeves is a kindergarten dropout who had her hands slapped one too many times for “drawing outside the lines.” Her heroes are Chicken Little, Flannery O’Connor, Maya Angelou, Dolly Parton, Sonia Sotomayor and many other draw-it-how-you-like-it types. Her work has appeared in journals and magazines that were kind enough to read her work and publish it. These include The Ledge, Deep South Magazine, Mobile Bay Monthly, Puerto del...
Carol Reid
Carol Reid–In the spring of 2013 I’ll be spending five weeks at the Banff Arts Centre Writing Studio, working on a collection of stories set on the coast of British Columbia, where I’ve lived most of my life. I come from a green, wet place but I am equally in love with the desert and vast sky of New Mexico. Very happy and excited to come to the AROHO Ghost Ranch Retreat.
Kristen Ringman
Kristen Ringman is a deaf writer, sailor, traveler, and new mother. She is the author of Makara (Handtype Press, 2012), a literary lyrical novel about the deaf daughter of an Irish selchie who falls in love with a girl in South India. She received her MFA from Goddard College in 2008. Between her undergrad and MFA programs, she lived and volunteered in India, Kenya, and Ireland. From 2009-2011, she lived with her partner on...
Marguerite María Rivas
Marguerite María Rivas’s essays, articles, book reviews, and poems have been published in journals and periodicals, both nationally and internationally. She has garnered numerous grants and awards, including the first Marg Chandler Memorial Award from AROHO. Cited by the New York State Legislature for her contribution to the literary arts, she is widely regarded as the de facto Poet Laureate of Staten Island. Her first full-length...
Lilliam Rivera
Lilliam Rivera grew up in the Bronx, New York. An entertainment journalist, she’s worked for E! Online, Angeleno, Latina, and was the editorial director for the lifestyle site Mondette.com. She’s a PEN Center USA 2013 Emerging Voices Fellow and is currently writing her first contemporary young adult novel, My Shelf Life, a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles and can be found online...
Lisa Rizzo
Lisa Rizzo is a poet and middle school language arts teacher who manages to combine her love of words and poetry with her day job. Born in Texas, she grew up in Chicago and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area 32 years ago. She now lives in San Carlos, CA. She is the author of In the Poem an Ocean(Big Table Publishing, 2011). Her work also has appeared in such journals as The Lucid Stone, 13th Moon, Writing for Our Lives, Earth’s...
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus
As a teacher for 34 years, I spent my life nurturing writers. Since retiring in 2008, I have been rediscovering the things I loved to do as a girl. Today, I draw, make mosaics and create mixed media collage. And I write. I write. I have a blog entitled “Her Own Terms: A Post Mid- Life Woman Writing for Her Life,” I have published my first stories and poems and I am finishing up a screenplay about a teenage girl...
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