Interrobang by Jessica Piazza
Interrobang, winner of the 2011 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize Judge: Eloise Klein Healy Interrobang is a collection of mostly sonnets that play with various clinical “phobias” and “philias.” Jessica’s stunning, playful, dark, and haunting poems illustrate how “even the worst-case scenario of these pathologies are, fundamentally, just extensions of the dark truths to which every one of...
Lauren K. Alleyne
Lauren K. Alleyne is an assistant professor of English and the Poet-in-Residence at the University of Dubuque. Her essays and poems have been published in several journals and anthologies including: The Crab Orchard Review, Black Arts Quarterly, The Caribbean Writer, The Cimarron Review, Growing Up Girl, and Gathering Ground, among others. Her work has been awarded numerous prizes and awards, including an Atlantic Monthly Student...
Mona Alvarado Frazier
Mona AlvaradoFrazier believes that a story isn’t only about a happy ending it’s about the journey. Strong women, self-identity, life challenges, and resiliency make their way into her three novels in progress. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mona began a career with the California Department of Corrections as a Counselor working with offenders ages 13-25 years of age and ended it as a Captain,...
Eunice Lee An
Eunice Lee An is a veteran of magazine and book publishing, having worked at the New York Times, Random House, Primedia, and Hearst. She discovered her love for writing short stories and flash fiction several years ago. For the past two years, she has been working on a piece of historical fiction, based on her father’s unfinished memoir.
Martha Andrews Donovan
Martha Andrews Donovan, author of Dress Her in Silk (Finishing Line Press), is a member of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, the New Hampshire Humanities Council “Humanities to Go” speakers bureau, and a regional group of AROHO women writers she first met at Ghost Ranch in 2011. Her writing has appeared recently in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Poets’ Touchstone (which awarded her First Place in their national contest), and Shadow and...
Dodici Azpadu
MFA Writer’s Workshop, University of Iowa, with José Donoso. PhD Pacific Western University. Taught at Gannon University, Erie PA. University of New Mexico Honors College. Central New Mexico Community College. UNM Continuing Education: Osher Lifelong Learning Fiction Publications include: Saturday Night in the Prime of Life and Goat Song (Aunt Lute/Spinsters Ink) and subsequently Onlywoman (London, England). Living Room (Neuma...
Lauren Baldwin
Lauren Baldwin completed her MFA in Fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010 and her JD at the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1992. She is a Judicial Hearing Officer in the Family Court division of the Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lauren is the author of Pull the Lever, AROHO’s theme poem (alternative to a theme song), written in the middle of the night at Ghost Ranch during an...
Gillian Barlow
Gillian Barlow: I am a writer and architect from Australia. As an architect I work with Aboriginal communities throughout Australia doing houses and health buildings. As a writer my work borrows from my architecture with a strong need for form but tends to be experimental – a play with memoir, theory and fiction. I recently completed a PhD in communications and Media. I live with my partner and 13 year old son in Sydney. I am...
Mary Beath
Mary Beath works at the confluence of science, art, and nature. After she earned degrees in zoology (Duke) and printmaking (Rhode Island School of Design), she lived for ten years in New York’s East Village. In 1989 she moved to Albuquerque where she is the proprietor of an award-winning illustration/design/writing studio focused on projects that concern the natural world. She began writing seriously in the early 1990s. Her poetry...
Liz Bedell
Liz Bedell lives in Northampton, MA. For the past twenty years, she has been a high school English teacher and administrator, immersing herself within a school community. But next September, if her courage holds, she will not be in a school but will instead be focusing on her writing, while tutoring/ teaching, writing coaching and editing in various guises to pay the bills. Clearing space for writing in this way feels tantamount to...
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