Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah’s Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian… But when she won a student exchange to Keele University in England, where her passion for Russian history led her, she awoke in the middle of the night on her...
Kate Gale
Kate Gale was the 2005-2006 President of PEN USA, and president of American Composers Forum/LA. Rather than mourn the lack of literary community in her adopted city of Los Angeles, Kate decided to create one in the form of Red Hen Press, Los Angeles’ literary jewel, The Los Angeles Review, a literary magazine, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, the Geffen reading series, and a Writers in the Schools program for underserved...
Nicole Galland
Nicole Galland see-saws between writing and theatre. She is the author of 5 historical novels (most recently Godiva) and a proud drop-out of the PhD Scholar/Director program at UC Berkeley, where she almost succumbed to postmodern performance art. As co-founder of Shakespeare for the Masses at the Vineyard Playhouse, she has adapted and staged 22 of Shakespeare’s plays, making even Troilus & Cressida a jolly experience. She is...
Olga García Echeverría
Olga García Echeverría: Born and raised in East Los Angeles. Ultra Libra in love with the ocean and the clouds and the birds and the trees and the disappearing bees. Author of Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas (Calaca Press and Chibcha Press 2008). Teacher of English. Creator and destroyer of language. Splendid Spinster of the New Millennium who plans to joyfully spin words until her fingers turn to dust. Touching Lives...
Diane Gilliam
Diane Gilliam lives in Akron, Ohio, where she works as both poet and quilter. She has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Ohio State University, and an MFA from Warren Wilson. $50,000 Gift of Freedom Winner, Poetry; Mind Stretch Contributor.
Toni Guy
Toni Guy is currently querying her first midgrade novel, Jello Jamieson and the Sister Recycling Machine while working on her second manuscript about growing up as a zombie in a normal family. She is an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the winner of the SCBWI CenCal 2013 Summer Conference Grant Contest. Since 2008 she has been a member of a writing group called Women Who Write...
Jane Hammons
Originally from Roswell, New Mexico, Jane Hammons has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley where she is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award. Her writing appears in several anthologies including Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (W. W. Norton) and The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change (Seal...
Robbie Harold
Robbie Harold writes fiction, plays, essays, and poetry and has attended all the AROHO retreats at Ghost Ranch since their inception. She is finalizing work on Murdered Sleep, a sequel to Heron Island, a historical mystery. She created “Vermonter in Brooklyn,” a blog featuring essays about life in Vermont and New York City, and writes features for the Montpelier Bridge community newspaper. She received a Master’s degree in...
Joy Harris
In 1990, Joy Harris established The Joy Harris Literary Agency selling all rights pertaining to works of fiction and non-fiction. Her interest is in working directly with writers to help guide their careers, negotiate on their behalf, and protect their work; she takes great pleasure in finding new authors and, of course, in reading. Ms. Harris has worked with numerous reputable authors, many of whom she has represented since their...
Pamela Helberg
Pamela Helberg was recently published in Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions and is something of an expert at living two lives: Fundamentalist Christian/closeted lesbian; Catholic school employee/mostly-out lesbian; writer/computer geek; lesbian mom in the not-so-gay nineties. She received her MA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University where she studied under award-winning novelist Laura...
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