Mary Ann Henry
Mary Ann Henry was born in West Virginia but has lived for the last thirteen years on a barrier island in South Carolina’s Lowcountry where she runs a small business or two, one of which is a retreat for writers. Combining a long interest in spiritual studies and practices with her passion for writing, she often leads workshops that examine the link between creativity and the journey of the soul. A former Creative Writing...
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...
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