Leslie Ullman
Leslie Ullman is the author of three poetry collections, and her awards include The Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, The Iowa Poetry Prize, and two NEA Fellowships. She has taught in the low-residency MFA Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts since 1981, and for 27 years she also taught in and directed the Creative Writing Program at University of Texas-El Paso. Now, in addition to her Vermont teaching, she works as a...
Bethany Vaccaro
A Rhode Island native, Bethany Vaccarospends her days juggling roles as a philosophy instructor at the University of Rhode Island, a residential counselor at a women’s homeless shelter, and a potter crafting ceramic flower pots and vases to sell at local farmers markets. With a wide pool of inspiration to draw from, Bethany writes primarily creative nonfiction essays and short magazine pieces. Her publications run an unusual...
Susie Verkamp
I am a 63 year old lesbian grandmother who has lived in Northern New Mexico for 22 years. I was born and raised on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, a circumstance that has marked me for life. I have a BA in English Literature and another in Environmental Science. I have done many things to earn my living, but music and writing have keep me alive. I have written a journal for much of my life, and have participated in writing...
Carolyne Whelan
Carolyne Whelan received her MFA in cross-genre at Chatham University, where she won first finalist for Best Thesis. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Sacramento Poetry Center Prize for a Single Poem, and a partial scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. Her first chapbook, The Glossary of Tania Aebi, will be published by Finishing Line Press in August, 2011. Her work has appeared or is forth-coming in Eclectica, Poetry...
Michelle Wing
Michelle Wing is a poet and fiction writer, who brings in a paycheck working as a journalist at a small town weekly newspaper, the Calistoga Tribune. She also writes a blog on life from a Zen perspective, found at www.rrzbeginnersmind.blogspot.com. She lives with her partner Sabrina in Sonoma County, California, on an acre and a half, with three dogs and eight cats. Her home office is painted lime green and citrus yellow, and the...
Summer Wood
Summer Wood, 4th Gift of Freedom recipient, is the author of the novels Arroyo(Chronicle Books) and the forthcomingWrecker (Bloomsbury, 2011). Her non-fiction work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler and other venues. Wood teaches for the University of New Mexico at the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, and offers workshops, in Taos and elsewhere, on the craft of narrative.www.summerwoodwrites.com. 4th Gift of Freedom...
Barbara Yoder
Barbara Yoder writes and edits fiction and nonfiction and leads writing groups for women. Currently she is writing a book of healing stories and exercises to help women writers connect with their personal imagery and midwife their creative pieces. Her fiction has appeared in Natural Bridge and The Worcester Review, and she is the author of The Recovery Resource Book (Simon and Schuster, 1990). Barbara has served as executive director...
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