Jocelyn Cullity
Jocelyn Cullity is the recipient of a Writers’ Reserve grant from the Ontario Arts Council for her novel-in-progress set in 1857 India. She has published short stories, creative nonfiction (which includes a documentary film), and feminist scholarship. Her most recent story, “Mutiny,” published by Blackbird, received a nomination for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Florida State University...
Jenny Douglas
Jenny Douglas is a Brooklyn-based writer, artist, mom, meditator and event curator who’s passionate about the sweet spot where ideas and spirit meet. A former television and radio producer, she is the author of “Culture Clash: Notes on a Tokyo Prom,” (which appeared in the 2008 anthology The Time of My Life, published by Doubleday), a co-creator or Karmatube.org, and the founder and host of “Sit/Still,” monthly meditation evenings...
Kat Duff
Kat Duff is the author of The Alchemy of Illness. Her essays have appeared in Parabola Magazine, The Taos Review and Ink and Ashes. She makes her living as a counselor and a child forensic interviewer in northern New Mexico. She is currently at work on a book about sleep and loves to hear from people about their experiences with sleep.
Liz Falvey
Growing up on the water immersed me in nature, imagination and solitude-a barefoot loner cycling between autonomy and connection. Following, always following my heart led to a collage of careers exploring passion in its various guises. I began with coaching, then photojournalism. Exploring human being through interviews, research and reporting proved intriguing but far too remote. Fear and fascination eventually drew me to graduate...
Betsy Fogelman Tighe
Betsy Fogelman Tighe has poems published in over a dozen literary magazines, including The Seneca Review, the Louisville Review, and TriQuarterly 74, for which she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. She was the third place winner of the Oregon State Poetry Association New Poets Prize in 2010 and was the winner of the first Recoursos/Discovery Award, 1995. She has received an NEH Institute Grant and Florida Humanities...
Patricia Fowler
My name is Patricia Fowler and I am a wife, mom and occupational therapist, living in southern New Hampshire. And there are days, here and there, when I truly believe that I may be a writer. I still feel like a bit of a charlatan, though, when I say it aloud, my voice dropping and getting small at the end, as I say, “Oh. And I am also a …writer.” Upon reading the bios above, I nearly chickened out of the AROHO retreat. I have no...
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...
Renny Golden
Renny Golden is a writer and activist and she teaches Peace Studies at the University of New Mexico. Golden’s poetry book Blood Desert: Witnesses 1820-1880 was published by the University of New Mexico Press in December 2010. Her book of poetry The Hour of the Furnaces, about the war years in El Salvador, was nominated for a National Book Award in 2000. Her book War on the Family: Imprisoned Mothers and the Families They Leave...
Aine Greaney
Irish-born writer Aine Greaney now lives on the Massachusetts seacoast. She has published two novels, “The Big House” (Simon & Schuster, U.K.) and “Dance Lessons” (Syracuse U.P), and a chapbook collection of short stories, “The Sheepbreeders Dance.” Her how-to writing book, “Writer with a Day Job” has just been released from Writers Digest Books. Her creative non-fiction essays have...
Cinny Green
Cinny Green, Santa Fe writer and editor, is the author of the award-winning Trail Writer’s Guide (Western Edge Press 2010). She is an accomplished backpacker who completed a 100-mile hike from Santa Fe to Taos, a 200-mile walk through the Scottish Highlands and a 70-mile solo on the Colorado Trail. Cinny is also the second-place winner of the 2009 LAURA Award, a short story contest sponsored by Women Writing the West. Mind Stretch and...
Robbie Harold
Robbie Harold is working on her third novel, a re-imagining of the life of a Civil War widow. Her first two books, Heron Island andMortal Knowledge, mysteries set in the early 1900s and published under her pen name of R.A. Harold, feature security agent and sometime Shakespearean actor Dade Wyatt. A 2001 graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, she studied fiction writing with novelist Jonathan Strong and...
Regina Hastings
Early in life, Regina Hastings discovered that the written word helped to deal with difficult emotions. Throughout the school year, she uses pen and paper to teach 7th grade the same power of writing by sharing vignettes taken from her own life story. As life continues to provide a multitude of unique experience, she writes, weaving together these stories in a personal narrative. The memoir’s name is yet to be found.
Jane Hertenstein
Jane Hertenstein lives in Chicago where she cooks, writes, and facilitates several creative writing groups at a local homeless shelter and Friendly Towers retirement community. A number of years ago Jane visited Ghost Ranch in December (her sister worked there under the ranch manager), where they snowshoed back in the canyons. Her published work includes a YA novel, Beyond Paradise, and a memoir about a Chicago bag lady called Orphan...
Sandra Hunter
When Sandra Hunter isn’t teaching or running the poetry and workshop series at Moorpark College, California, she likes to dance on the beach with her daughter, double the garlic in most non-dessert recipes, and toil up hills in Malibu where it is still possible to fly-by-bike above the clouds. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines. She is a 2010 Pushcart Prize nominee. Mind Stretch Contributor.
Lindsay Jaeger
Lindsay Jaeger is Jonathan Demme’s producing partner at Clinica Estetico. She is currently producing a television pilot,Vital Signs, for CBS (directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Susannah Grant). Lindsay recently produced a portrait documentary (directed by Jonathan Demme), entitled I’m Carolyn Parker, which traced five years in the life of a woman who returned to rebuild her home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans following...
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a writing instructor and spiritual director living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the author of Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir (Skinner House Books),Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir (Skinner House Books), and On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness (Westview Press). Her essays and short memoirs have been published in The Christian...
Barb Johnson
Barb Johnson’s fiction has appeared in such magazines as Glimmer Train; Washington Square; The Greensboro Review; 52 Stories; Guernica; and Oxford American. Her nonfiction can be found in a number of anthologies, most recently in Voices Rising II: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project; 2011 Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market; and the soon-to-be released, Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Jobs They Quit....
Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is the author of the upcoming memoir An Unquenchable Thirst, about her twenty years as a nun in the congregation founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Her need for support while writing was the catalyst for the founding of A Room of Her Own Foundation. Johnson is AROHO’s Creative Director of Retreats, and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Pulse, Texas Review, and NPR....
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...
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