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...
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