Joy Jones
Joy Jones is a native of Washington, DC, and a playwright, actress and instructor. As a playwright, Joy has been mentored by Mark Perry (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Gary Garrison and Gregg Henry (Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive). As an actress, Joy has performed in theaters across the United States and in Great Britain, including The Royal Shakespeare Company, PlayMakers Repertory Company and many others. Her...
Deonne Kahler
Deonne Kahler received her MFA in creative writing from Queens College, City University of New York, where she also taught creative writing and was editor-in-chief of literary journal Ozone Park. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and online, and most recently in WSQ. Before she turned to prose she was a singer-songwriter, with songs featured in movies and television. She loves to hit the road with Sadie, her...
Mary Kancewick
Mary Kancewick has degrees in journalism (Medill) and law (University of Chicago) and has written about and worked on Alaska Native issues for thirty years, as well as teaching as an adjunct for the University of Alaska at its Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Dillingham campuses, and raising two sons and a daughter. She has co-authored two still-cited law review articles on Alaska Native sovereignty and subsistence, and has published poetry...
Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil is a multi-genre and multi-talented writer writing at the intersection of poetry, prose, and non-fiction. As a teacher, Bhanu focuses on generative, experimental writing practice, with a focus on returning to works or parts of works that were discarded, inert, or tossed aside. Bhanu has written The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Leon Works, 2006/Kelsey...
Susan Kelly
Susan Kelly currently teaches English in Asia and writes fiction and screenplays focusing on the ups and downs cross-cultural living. She has lived and taught in California, Texas, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and China. She’s honed her writing at the Breadloaf Writers’ Workshop, Clothesline Workshop and Act One Writing for Hollywood. She’s currently working on a series of Young Adult fiction entitled Maiden...
Elizabeth Kenneday
Elizabeth Kenneday, an internationally collected and exhibited artist, is an Emeritá Professor of Art at the California State University in Long Beach, with a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Photography and a Doctor of Philosophy in Art Educational Theory from The Claremont Graduate University. Her activities in international education led to a Traditional Fulbright Scholar award in Iceland and lectures across the globe.Desert...
Susan E. King
Susan E. King is an artist and writer who is known for her artist’s books. She was part of the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building, and studio director of the Women’s Graphic Center there. She teaches workshops around the country and publishes through her Paradise Press imprint. She recently moved from Los Angeles to rural Kentucky, to be closer to her roots. Her work can be seen online...
Jan La Roche
Jan LaRoche is a poet and artist whose recent book 25 Years, Poems & Drawings, (Tide Mill Press 2007), was co-authored with her husband as a tribute to their enduring, collaborative marriage. It contains twenty-five of Jan’s poems mixed with twenty-five of his gestural drawings. Jan has also been published in Oberon (2005), Mobius (2008), and in the anthology, Paumanok: Poems and Pictures of Long Island (2009) where several of her...
Caroline LeBlanc
Caroline LeBlanc left a thirty year career in psychotherapy in 2006 to create art and write. In 2011 she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University. Her poetry and essays have been published in the US and abroad. Smokey Ink and a Touch of Honeysuckle, her first chapbook, was published in 2010. She is currently working on a poem series about the Acadian Deportation Saga and the 19th – 20th century...
Nikki Loftin
Nikki Loftin writes in the Texas Hill Country, surrounded by dogs, chickens, and small boys. She studied fiction writing at the University of Texas at Austin (MA, ’98), and her work has been included inFront Range Review, Boy’s Life, and Skirtmagazine. She also writes humorous/dark middle-grade novels which are represented by Suzie Townsend at Fineprint Literary.www.nikkiloftin.com. Desert Delight Contributor.
Christina Lovin
Christina Lovin is the author of What We Burned for Warmth and Little Fires. A two-time Pushcart nominee and multi-award winner, her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Southern Women Writers named Lovin 2007 Emerging Poet. Having served as Writer-in-Residence at Devil’s Tower National Monument and the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Central Oregon, in 2010, she served as inaugural Writer-in-Residence at...
Lisa Lutwyche
Lisa Lutwyche has been a lover of words for as long as she can remember. As a child, Lisa used the words in her books as a way to escape and a way to find company. As a teenager, she learned that she had words of her own to share. Lisa has been a published poet since she was seventeen, publishing in Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and in the United Kingdom. She has taught creative writing and watercolor since...
Maura MacNeil
Maura MacNeil is the author of A History of Water (Finishing Line Press, 2007). She holds a MFA from Vermont College, and her poetry and prose has appeared in numerous publications and anthologized inThe Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Frost Place, Volume II. Maura is co-founder and editor of Entelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas and co-founder of the Stone Bridge Poetry Project in Henniker, NH. An Associate...
Dora McQuaid
Dora E. McQuaid is an award-winning poet, activist, speaker, and teacher, whose blend of art, emotion and service has earned her multiple awards, including the PA Governor’s Pathfinder Award, recognition by the PA Senate and a Vagina Warrior Honor. Dora performs, speaks and teachers internationally, in venues as varied as men’s and women’s prisons, justice and outreach programs, churches, universities and professional and academic...
Marianela Medrano
Marianela Medrano is a Dominican writer and professional counselor with a PhD in psychology. She offers workshops and readings in various venues in Connecticut and other parts of the country. In her workshops, she combines literature, psychology, and her research on the Sacred Feminine to help others find new ways of knowing the wholeness of being human. She has published the following poetry books: Oficio de Vivir (1986), Los...
Marcia Meier
Marcia Meier is an author, award-winning journalist, writing coach and developmental manuscript editor. Her book, Navigating the Rough Waters of Today’s Publishing World: Critical Advice for Writers from Industry Insiders (Quill Driver Books, 2010), was recently named one of “10 Great Books on Writing from 2010” by The Writer magazine. She writes for numerous publications, including The Writer, Miller-McCune Magazine online, and...
Carolyn Mikulencak
Carolyn Mikulencak is still working on her MFA in fiction at the University of New Orleans. She has three young sons and story forthcoming in the fall issue of Yemassee.
Sarah Nichols
Sarah Nichols is new to writing outside of academia- still in the early stages of wandering around with a fistful of wildflowers and a half eaten box of chocolates trying to find and woo her muse. With gratitude to the teachers who praised her truly unfortunate rhymes in middle school, Sarah writes poetry and creative non-fiction. She won the Jeanne McFarland prize as an undergraduate at Smith College, where she studied Gender Studies...
Mil Norman-Risch
Mil Norman-Risch was a 2009 Pushcart nominee, and recipient of the American Poetry Journal’s 2007 American Poet’s Prize. Most recently, her poetry has appeared or will appear in Willow Springs,Dogwood, Opium, White Pelican Review, Valparaiso Review, New York Quarterly,and Tipton Poetry Journal. She has co-authored several textbooks, led workshops for teachers, and designed art/English classes. Her current project is a novel set in...
Peggy O’Boyle
Peggy O’Boyle: For the past twenty years I have written children’s books as Peggy Christian and traveled the country doing “writer in the schools” workshops. I have also taught writing, journaling and creativity classes and for many years I taught ESL to foreign students at the University of Montana, focusing particularly on Muslim cultures. In addition I have worked in local adult literacy programs, the...
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