Tracey Cravens-Gras
Aug01

Tracey Cravens-Gras

A life-long lover of the written word, I studied English at the University of Cincinnati, and graduated with honors from the Ohio State University in 1997.  After a miraculous decade raising two kids, and a family relocation to the desert southwest, I began working for A Room of Her Own as Darlene Chandler Bassett’s personal assistant in 2008.  Author of thousands of emails and the rare and wildly-scrawled thank you note, I savor the...

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Nicelle Davis
Aug01

Nicelle Davis

Originally from Utah, Nicelle Davis now resides in Lancaster, California, with her son J.J. She has taught poetry at Youth for Positive Change, an organization that promotes success for youth in secondary schools, and with Volunteers of America in their Homeless Youth Center. She currently teaches at Antelope Valley College and for the Writing in the Schools Program. Her second book, Becoming Judas, is scheduled to be released from...

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Lane Devereux
Aug01

Lane Devereux

Lane Devereux:  I am a memoirist who works in many different media, including words, images, and constructions. I have a passion for making anything from dessert to altered books, from plays to photographs. I am working on too many projects to probably to ever finish, but I am having a great time doing it all. I am currently completing a full length memoir about adopting and raising a special needs child while gravely ill myself. I...

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Jenny Douglas
Aug01

Jenny Douglas

Jenny Douglas is the founder of The Brooklyn Cottage, an arts salon that champions creativity, generosity and unleashing–through storytelling evenings, meditation gatherings, cooking classes, artist receptions, and workshops of all kinds–our most unafraid selves in the presence of each other. A Canadian raised in Tokyo, Jenny traveled to India this past spring to co-produce The Untouchables, a documentary-in-progress...

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Kim Dower
Aug01

Kim Dower

Kim Dower grew up in New York City and received a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, where she also taught. Her company, Kim-from-L.A., Literary & Media Services, has been helping publishers and writers promote and publicize their books for over twenty-five years.  A media trainer as well, Kim helps her clients – from bestselling commercial fiction writers to literary fiction and non-fictions writers —  prepare...

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Patricia Dreyfus
Aug01

Patricia Dreyfus

Patricia Dreyfus is too old to be eulogized as so young and so gifted. Born in North Dakota, she grew up in Compton, California. Her mother was a Viking with their strength and organization, and her father had the discipline of his German father and the Irish fey of his mother. She inherited all of it with varying difficulties and benefits. She has traveled the world, speaks very poor Spanish and is married to her first and favorite...

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Andrea Ellickson
Aug01

Andrea Ellickson

Andrea Ellickson earned her B.A. in English Literature and Psychology from UC Santa Barbara. In 2009, her essay titled “Becoming a Burner” won the Fahrenheit 451 SBCC Student Symposium, sponsored by The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, she writes and interns for the Office of Letters and Light, a literary nonprofit that supports over 300,000 writers worldwide for National Novel Writing Month...

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Lisa Estus
Aug01

Lisa Estus

Lisa Estus is a fiction writer and poet. Her work appears in Puerto del Sol, Rain City Review, Reed Magazine and other literary journals. An entrepreneur from an early age, Estus has owned and operated a natural candle, soap and toiletries company,  marketing consulting practice, jewelry design business and snow shoveling service. She briefly considered starting a vintage hosiery e-business but opted instead to consolidate interests...

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Gabrielle Falco
Aug01

Gabrielle Falco

Gabrielle (Gaby) Falco grew up in Fanwood, New Jersey, and wrote her first poem when she was nine; she’s been writing ever since.  Gaby earned her B.A. from Hampshire College in 2010.  At Hampshire, Gaby combined her two main interests with a concentration in gender studies and creative writing.  Gaby’s senior thesis project was a collection of poems exploring gender construction and sexual violence.  She’s passionate about girls’...

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Meander W. Fiadhiglas
Aug01

Meander W. Fiadhiglas

Mea is a fiber artist, photographer, and poet. She began blogging in 2009. Her one published article appeared in Tapestry Topics, the newsletter of the American Tapestry Alliance, Summer 2011.   Native to Chicagoland, Mea now lives in Maryland. Her bachelor’s degree is in geography. Most of her jobs were clerical; four years as an environmental scientist changed everything. Now she’s exploring the idea of partnering with water:...

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