Molly Howes
At AWP this year, I fell in love with AROHO and am thrilled to be part of the retreat! I am a relatively seasoned person but a relatively new serious writer. I returned to disciplined writing when my children went to college and am an active member of the Grub Street, Inc., writers’ center in Boston. I will begin their Memoir Incubator Program, a yearlong intensive course, in June, 2013. My memoir is a story about the lessons I...
Brianna Johnson
Brianna Johnson is the author of Fire Sale, an experimental prose manifesto detailing the economic decline of love, the body, and America in 18 movements. She has earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College where she was mentored by, among others, Rebecca Brown, Douglas Martin, Bhanu Kapil, and Darcey Steinke. Her work has been featured in Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, the HazMat Literary Review and Spout Magazine....
Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is author of the memoir An Unquenchable Thirst, named one of 2011’s best books by Kirkus Review. 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 been widely published, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Poets &...
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...
Page Lambert
Winner of AROHO’s 2009 Orlando Nonfiction Award and a 2003 Literary Fellowship in Poetry from the Wyoming Arts Council, Page Lambert’s books include the memoir In Search of Kinship (Fulcrum) and the novel Shifting Stars(Forge/Tor). Her essays and poems appear in dozens of anthologies, including Orion, Pilgrimage, Santa Fe Literary Review and West of 98: Living and Writing the American West. Page has presented at over 200 seminars and...
Jan La Roche
Jan La Roche is the editor of Oberon Poetry magazine. She is represented online at poetryvlog.com reading five of her poems and on the writing blog Feral Writer, Feral Mom in an interview “AROHO Speaks, Writer to Writer.” Her poems have appeared in Oberon, Mobius and Paumanok, Poems and Pictures of Long Island and will appear in the forthcomingPaumanok II. She co-authored 25 years poems drawings with her husband, Jef...
Jillian Lauren
Jillian Lauren is a writer and performer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She is the author of the memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel Pretty, both from Plume/Penguin. Her writing has also appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times,Los Angeles Magazine, Vanity Fair and Flaunt Magazine, among others. Jillian has appeared at spoken word and storytelling events across the country. She lives...
Stefanie Lipsey
Stefanie Lipsey is poet, librarian, and yoga instructor who holds an MFA in Creative Writing and NYS Teacher Certification in English Language Arts. She is the author of Sound Cliff: Twelve Words to a More Creative Life and curates two online writing sites, Sound Cliff Writing Spa and Writing Yoga. Her work has been published in several journals and in two anthologies. She was a founding editor of Ozone Park. Stefanie has been a...
Nikki Loftin
Nikki Loftin is the author of THE SINISTER SWEETNESS OF SPLENDID ACADEMY (Razorbill, 2012), and NIGHTINGALE’S NEST (coming 2/20/14), both novels for young readers. Nikki’s short children’s fiction has appeared in Boy’s Life and Pockets magazines. Last year, she was also a featured author in Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves (Zest books). This year, Nikki is experimenting with exactly how close to the edge of...
Lisa Lutwyche
Lisa Lutwyche has been a published poet since she was seventeen, nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2000. At night, for the last two decades, she has taught creative writing (and watercolor) at community arts centers. She teaches special needs groups in the Fine and Performing Arts department of Cecil College in Maryland, proudly writing and producing an annual play with one of the groups since early 2008. Lisa also teaches creative...
Maura MacNeil
Maura MacNeil is the author of the poetry collection A History of Water (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry and prose has been published in numerous journals over three decades and anthologized in The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Frost Place, Volume II, Shadow and Light: A Literary Anthology on Memory, and On Our Own. Maura is committed to community-based creative collaboration, and her work in this area includes involvement...
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is a current Development Intern and part-time Development Associate at A Room of Her Own. She will be starting an MFA program with a concentration in poetry at Vermont College of Fine Arts this June while continuing her work with AROHO. She lives in Pasadena and spends time writing poetry, running around the Huntington Gardens in search of peacocks, hiking and backpacking, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and trying her...
Marti Mattox
Marti Mattox worked as a commercial copywriter in the independent film world for 15 years. She recently turned her energies toward fiction, essay and screenplay writing and was published in Salon. Her current work includes essays, a screenplay and the beginnings of a novel
Sunny Maxwell
Sunny Maxwell graduated from Pacific University’s low residency MFA program in 2012 with an advanced degree in fiction. Having studied with Ann Randolph, Ellen Bass, and Phil Cosineau, Sunny is currently working on her first large-scale writing project: a novel about a girl who leaves the woods for the circus. Sunny is a cook in Big Sur, California, where there are enough strange characters to inspire a thousand books. Mind...
Ellen McLaughlin
Ellen McLaughlin is an award-winning writer and playwright whose plays have received numerous national and international productions, including Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians and Oedipus, and most recently, the critically acclaimed Septimus and Clarissa. McLaughlin is also an actor. She has worked on and Off Broadway...
C. Delia Mulrooney
C. Delia Mulrooney is a writer, editor, and teacher whose work has been published in a variety of online and print publications including Mothering Magazine, The We’Moon Anthology: Love, SageWoman Magazine, Literary Mama, The Apple Valley Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Roots of She, All Things Girl and more. She has been teaching writing at the college level since 2000 and has facilitated creativity workshops for schools,...
Liz Murata
Liz Murata–Reading was my first passion and love. I tried to write in my youth, but left it behind to pursue what I thought were more practical endeavors. Now I have found my way back to writing and I write for the same love and joy that reading gives me. Reading and writing provide opportunities for exquisite adventures that take me away and bring me back to a different place than where I started. I have created a writing...
Charlotte Muse
Charlotte Muse lives, teaches, and writes poetry in Menlo Park, California. She’s published two chapbooks: A Story Also Grows (a 2009 Main Street Rag Editor’s Choice selection. A handmade letterpress edition was also made by the Chester Creek Press and is now in both the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Rare Book Collections), and The Comfort Teacher (The Heyeck Press). She is also co-author of Trio, a collection...
Carrie Nassif
My story is a sort of patchwork quilt, and how I came to be on this list of participating writers is, like most things, readiness met with random chance. As a child I always knew I would grow up to be an artist. Twenty-three addresses and twelve years of college later, I ended up becoming a clinical psychologist which turned out to be exactly what I needed. A single mom for many years, I am now happily married but just as busy, I seem...
Alexandria Niewijk
Alexandria Niewijk is a nonfiction writer from Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Yale School of Medicine (MPH), Palo Alto University (M.S. Psychology) and the School for International Training. is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and USAID/U.S. Foreign Service. She was the Lucy Grealy award recipient for the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars 2011 and a scholarship recipient for Port Townsend Writers Conference and Squaw Valley...
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