Anne Pedersen
During her life, Anne Pedersen has been: a film editor; camerawoman; documentary film producer and writer; journalist; and development executive for a major Hollywood studio. She is also the author of several books for children and young adults, one of which, Kidding Around Washington, D.C., won the Benjamin Franklin Award of Publishers Marketing Association in 1990. Presently, she is working on a collection of short fiction (for...
Marsha Pincus
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus is a post mid-life, post-career woman writing for her life. After more than three decades of teaching in a public high school and at the University of Pennsylvania, Marsha retired in 2011 to write full time. A Carnegie Fellow and Philadelphia Teacher of the Year in 1989 and 2005, she’s published essays on teaching in several anthologies. Four of Marsha’s playwriting students had their plays produced...
Deborah Polikoff
Deborah Polikoff played a piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony as a teenager, was awarded the Radcliffe Poetry Prize in her twenties, and co-founded a community arts center in Silver City, NM, in her thirties. In her forties, she became Eve Kodiak – mother, practitioner specializing in developmental movement and personal growth, writer and composer for children, and improvisational recording artist with cellist David...
Tina Pocha
Born and raised in Bombay, India, to a Hindu mother and a Zoroastrian father, Tina Pocha is the quintessential outsider—neither of nor from any single place or culture, not mainstream nor maverick, ever feeling her way around people and situations that seem, at once, vaguely (impalpably) familiar yet never quite home. “Pick one!” they said, “You can’t be both.” Not grown up and child. Not scientist and artist. Not tender and...
Dianca Potts
Dianca London Potts is the prose editor of LIT Magazine and is currently earning her MFA in Fiction from The New School. Her work has been featured in Kweli Journal, The Village Voice, The Toast, and elsewhere. She is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and a VONA Voices alumna. She tweets at @diancalondon.
Tania Pryputniewicz
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Tania Pryputniewicz is the Managing Poetry Editor of The Fertile Source (on hiatus for anthology production). Her debut poetry collection, November Butterfly, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press, 2014. Recent poems appeared in print or online at Chaparral, NonBinary Review, Poetry Flash, Snow Jewel, and Soundings East. Co-founding blogger for Mother, Writer, Mentor, Pryputniewicz teaches...
Mary Purdy
Mary Purdy is a registered dietitian nutritionist in private practice with a food as medicine and whole foods approach to nutritional counseling. She has a master’s degree in clinical nutrition from Bastyr University in Seattle where she is an adjunct professor and clinical supervisor for their teaching clinic. Prior to her career in nutrition, she was a professional actor and writer whose solo shows were produced in New York...
Jaime Rae
Jaime Rae is a young adult fiction writer who weaves the fabric of strong and independent goddess archetypes into the backbones of her modern-day heroines. Whether they are on the warrior’s path or on a path of self-discovery, her characters encourage readers, both young and old, to delve deeper into who they are to embrace their own strength, courage, and divine nature. She recently completed one such story set in Oriabi, Arizona,...
Abbie Reese
Abbie Reese is an independent scholar and interdisciplinary artist. She is author of Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns (Oxford University Press) and filmmaker of the collaborative ethnographic and documentary work-in-progress, Chosen (Custody of the Eyes). In her relationship- and research-based practice, Abbie utilizes oral history and ethnographic methodologies to explore individual and cultural identity, public...
Tisha Reichle
Tisha Marie Reichle is a Chicana, Feminist, Reader, Writer, Teacher, Student, and former Rodeo Queen. Currently, she spends her weekdays engaging high school students with socially conscious literature. On weekends, she writes. Her stories have appeared in 34th Parallel, Inlandia Journal, Muse Literary Journal, Santa Fe Writers Project, and The Acentos Review. For the past 24 years, she has been living in Los Angeles and earned an MFA...
Kristen Ringman
Kristen Ringman is a deaf writer, traveler, sailor, and mother. She is the author of Makara (Handtype Press, 2012), a Lambda Literary Finalist in Debut Fiction. Her fiction and poetry have been published in: American Deaf Prose Anthology, Deaf Lit Extravaganza, Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology, amongst others. She received her MFA from Goddard College in 2008. She is currently writing a YA science fiction trilogy with androids and...
Marguerite Maria 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...
Barbara Rockman
Barbara Rockman came to poetry after careers as a director, stage manager, dramatic arts teacher, arts education consultant and curriculum designer. Mother of two grown daughters, her poems honor the gritty tales of motherhood, marriage and family. Her lyric essays intersect the political, personal, and natural worlds. Her work appears in Bellingham Review, Calyx, Cimarron Review, Louisville Review, and Nimrod among others and has...
Jamie Rose
Jamie Rose is a writer, performance coach, and actor and has worked in TV, Film, and Theater for over 40 years. Her first book, Shut Up and Dance! was published by Tarcher/Penguin and she is currently at work on a memoir about the legacy of alcoholism among the women in her family. She has taught acting seminars at the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina School of the Arts, and created online courses in Dramatic...
Lauren Rusk
Lauren Rusk is a poet and Virginia Woolf scholar whose work includes The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson (a study of autobiographical prose) and the poetry collection Pictures in the Firestorm. In her writing and teaching, Lauren focuses on the poetry of engagement–poems that arise from place, social history, science, and visual art. Her focus on outward-looking poetry prompted an essay...
Marlene Samuels
By training and career, Marlene Samuels is a research sociologist. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in sociology from University of Chicago, where she worked as a researcher with the National Opinion Research Center, followed by a position as Research Director for an international public relations firm. While she conducted the research needed to rewrite and publish her mother’s Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival, she...
Charu Saxena
Charu Saxena combines her eastern and western experiences to create Global Competency Projects for schools (https://4esolutions.org). Her news articles and other written works bridge the cultures of the two countries that she spans: India, where she was born, and America where she now resides with her husband and two children. Some of her writing and non-fiction work can be seen at her website, https://worldviewpoints.com. However, it...
Jane Schulman
Jane Schulman writes poetry and short stories. She works as a speech pathologist in a Brooklyn public school with autistic and emotionally-disturbed young children. Jane has participated in numerous writing workshops including Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Frost Place Poetry Seminar, and three previous AROHO Retreats. She’s been a featured poet in local venues and taught senior citizens to write their lives in poetry, fiction,...
Rachel Schwerin
Rachel Schwerin is earning her MFA in Fiction Writing at Columbia University and is currently an Instructor of Undergraduate Writing there. She is working on her first novel, set in New Mexico. In addition to writing, Rachel illustrates her own work and has a background in woodblock printmaking.
Elizabeth Silver
Elizabeth L. Silver is the author of the novel, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, which was the Amazon Best Debut of the Month, an Amazon Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Summer, Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year, Oprah “Ten Books to Pick up Now,” and selection for the Target Emerging Author Series. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton has been optioned for film by ImageMovers Production Company (Robert Zemeckis)...
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