Jamie Clifford
Jamie Clifford is a photographer specializing in commissioned candid, documentary-style Portraiture & Event Coverage. Her approach is graceful :: unobtrusive :: instinctual. She has a keen understanding of light and composition. Her Art Collections have themes simplicity, spirituality, sensuality, abstraction, space and satire. She lives in Cedar Crest, New Mexico. AROHO Media Coordinator; Retreat Photographer;...
Judith Speizer Crandell
I have recently lost my writing mentor and close friend, Suzanne Byerley. I am taking her spirit – along with those of Georgia O’Keeffe and Virginia Woolf – with me as inspiration for this conference. As for my background, I am a seasoned, award-winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. I’ve received a residency at Yaddo and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Recently, I won two Raymond Carver Short...
Teri Crane
Teri Crane lives and writes in her native California where she retired from a 35 year career in teaching, and also a career as a Marriage and Family therapist. Her 2010 MFA thesis, We Never Used the F Word, awaits publication. Teri’s current project is an historical novel about two women who come West on wagon trains in 1865. Teri continues to instruct teachers in online courses for LA County Office of Education. She counts...
Tracey Cravens-Gras
A life-long lover of the written word, I studied English at the University of Cincinnati, and graduated with honors from the Ohio State University in 1997. After a miraculous decade raising two kids, and a family relocation to the desert southwest, I began working for A Room of Her Own as Darlene Chandler Bassett’s personal assistant in 2008. Author of thousands of emails and the rare and wildly-scrawled thank you note, I savor the...
Nicelle Davis
Originally from Utah, Nicelle Davis now resides in Lancaster, California, with her son J.J. She has taught poetry at Youth for Positive Change, an organization that promotes success for youth in secondary schools, and with Volunteers of America in their Homeless Youth Center. She currently teaches at Antelope Valley College and for the Writing in the Schools Program. Her second book, Becoming Judas, is scheduled to be released from...
Lane Devereux
Lane Devereux: I am a memoirist who works in many different media, including words, images, and constructions. I have a passion for making anything from dessert to altered books, from plays to photographs. I am working on too many projects to probably to ever finish, but I am having a great time doing it all. I am currently completing a full length memoir about adopting and raising a special needs child while gravely ill myself. I...
Jenny Douglas
Jenny Douglas is the founder of The Brooklyn Cottage, an arts salon that champions creativity, generosity and unleashing–through storytelling evenings, meditation gatherings, cooking classes, artist receptions, and workshops of all kinds–our most unafraid selves in the presence of each other. A Canadian raised in Tokyo, Jenny traveled to India this past spring to co-produce The Untouchables, a documentary-in-progress...
Kim Dower
Kim Dower grew up in New York City and received a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, where she also taught. Her company, Kim-from-L.A., Literary & Media Services, has been helping publishers and writers promote and publicize their books for over twenty-five years. A media trainer as well, Kim helps her clients – from bestselling commercial fiction writers to literary fiction and non-fictions writers — prepare...
Patricia Dreyfus
Patricia Dreyfus is too old to be eulogized as so young and so gifted. Born in North Dakota, she grew up in Compton, California. Her mother was a Viking with their strength and organization, and her father had the discipline of his German father and the Irish fey of his mother. She inherited all of it with varying difficulties and benefits. She has traveled the world, speaks very poor Spanish and is married to her first and favorite...
Andrea Ellickson
Andrea Ellickson earned her B.A. in English Literature and Psychology from UC Santa Barbara. In 2009, her essay titled “Becoming a Burner” won the Fahrenheit 451 SBCC Student Symposium, sponsored by The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, she writes and interns for the Office of Letters and Light, a literary nonprofit that supports over 300,000 writers worldwide for National Novel Writing Month...
Lisa Estus
Lisa Estus is a fiction writer and poet. Her work appears in Puerto del Sol, Rain City Review, Reed Magazine and other literary journals. An entrepreneur from an early age, Estus has owned and operated a natural candle, soap and toiletries company, marketing consulting practice, jewelry design business and snow shoveling service. She briefly considered starting a vintage hosiery e-business but opted instead to consolidate interests...
Gabrielle Falco
Gabrielle (Gaby) Falco grew up in Fanwood, New Jersey, and wrote her first poem when she was nine; she’s been writing ever since. Gaby earned her B.A. from Hampshire College in 2010. At Hampshire, Gaby combined her two main interests with a concentration in gender studies and creative writing. Gaby’s senior thesis project was a collection of poems exploring gender construction and sexual violence. She’s passionate about girls’...
Meander W. Fiadhiglas
Mea is a fiber artist, photographer, and poet. She began blogging in 2009. Her one published article appeared in Tapestry Topics, the newsletter of the American Tapestry Alliance, Summer 2011. Native to Chicagoland, Mea now lives in Maryland. Her bachelor’s degree is in geography. Most of her jobs were clerical; four years as an environmental scientist changed everything. Now she’s exploring the idea of partnering with water:...
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah’s Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian… But when she won a student exchange to Keele University in England, where her passion for Russian history led her, she awoke in the middle of the night on her...
Kate Gale
Kate Gale was the 2005-2006 President of PEN USA, and president of American Composers Forum/LA. Rather than mourn the lack of literary community in her adopted city of Los Angeles, Kate decided to create one in the form of Red Hen Press, Los Angeles’ literary jewel, The Los Angeles Review, a literary magazine, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, the Geffen reading series, and a Writers in the Schools program for underserved...
Nicole Galland
Nicole Galland see-saws between writing and theatre. She is the author of 5 historical novels (most recently Godiva) and a proud drop-out of the PhD Scholar/Director program at UC Berkeley, where she almost succumbed to postmodern performance art. As co-founder of Shakespeare for the Masses at the Vineyard Playhouse, she has adapted and staged 22 of Shakespeare’s plays, making even Troilus & Cressida a jolly experience. She is...
Olga García Echeverría
Olga García Echeverría: Born and raised in East Los Angeles. Ultra Libra in love with the ocean and the clouds and the birds and the trees and the disappearing bees. Author of Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas (Calaca Press and Chibcha Press 2008). Teacher of English. Creator and destroyer of language. Splendid Spinster of the New Millennium who plans to joyfully spin words until her fingers turn to dust. Touching Lives...
Diane Gilliam
Diane Gilliam lives in Akron, Ohio, where she works as both poet and quilter. She has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Ohio State University, and an MFA from Warren Wilson. $50,000 Gift of Freedom Winner, Poetry; Mind Stretch Contributor.
Toni Guy
Toni Guy is currently querying her first midgrade novel, Jello Jamieson and the Sister Recycling Machine while working on her second manuscript about growing up as a zombie in a normal family. She is an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the winner of the SCBWI CenCal 2013 Summer Conference Grant Contest. Since 2008 she has been a member of a writing group called Women Who Write...
Jane Hammons
Originally from Roswell, New Mexico, Jane Hammons has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley where she is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award. Her writing appears in several anthologies including Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (W. W. Norton) and The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change (Seal...
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