Alexandria Niewijk
Alexandria Niewijk is a nonfiction writer from Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Yale School of Medicine (MPH), Palo Alto University (M.S. Psychology) and the School for International Training. is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and USAID/U.S. Foreign Service. She was the Lucy Grealy award recipient for the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars 2011 and a scholarship recipient for Port Townsend Writers Conference and Squaw Valley...
Francie Noyes
I have been a writer all my life, both professionally and poetically. My career included time as a political reporter, business editor and movie critic. I served five years as press secretary for Arizona Governor Jane Hull and won Columnist of the Year from the Arizona Press Club. I facilitated discussions at the annual Scottsdale International Film Festival for eight years. After three decades in Arizona, I now live in Boulder,...
Jane O’Keeffe
Jane O’Keeffe is a writer from Adel Oregon. She holds an MFA from Antioch University. O’Keeffe’s work has appeared in The Sun, The Sylvan Echo, and The High Desert Journal. Her first novel, The Last Word, is currently available for representation and she is working on her second – Conflict Resolution. Jane O’Keeffe and her husband John, live and work on a 4 generation cattle ranch. She is an almost...
Lucia Orth
Lucia Orth’s first novel, Baby Jesus Pawn Shop (The Permanent Press, 2008) received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. Kirkus called it “a graceful . . . elegant debut.” NPR said, “What first-time novelist Lucia Orth has pulled off is really impressive: a haunting, suspenseful, beautifully written love story. . . Think Dr. Zhivago in Southeast Asia.” An excerpt from her second in-progress novel appeared in the Asia...
Amelia Perkins
Amelia Perkins worked for many years in the inter-religious movement, beginning with the Museum of World Religions in Taiwan, then putting on art shows with Buddhist nuns in New York, then for the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago and Melbourne. Now she’s transforming her livelihood, studying with some wise teachers, and giving one-on-one sessions and convening workshops on embodied writing, transformative...
Aimee Perkins
Aimee Perkins is a Chicago writer. Active in the local live literature scene, she has written and performed with RUI: Reading Under the Influence, The Paper Machete and the MCA’s Literary Gangs of Chicago but her heart belongs to 2nd Story, Chicago’s premier storytelling organization. Working with musicians and directors, 2nd Story works with writers to craft a personal narrative they are able to confidently perform...
Lesley Poling-Kempes
Lesley Poling-Kempes is the award-winning author of five books about the American Southwest, including The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West; Valley of Shining Stone: The Story of Abiquiu; Georgia O’Keeffe & New Mexico, and Ghost Ranch. Her work has won the Zia Award for Excellence, and her first novel, Canyon of Remembering, was a Western Writers of America Spur Award finalist. She lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Special...
Tania Pryputniewicz
Poet by night, writing instructor by day, incessant blogger during moments between, Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduateTania Pryputniewicz teaches Transformative Blogging and is writing a book based on her courses and offering blogging tips on her website. Co-founder of Mother, Writer, Mentor, she also teaches Poetry of Motherhood and Fatherhood. Her photo poem montages (with Robyn Beattie) took Juror’s Best of Show for the 2012 2D3D...
Karina Puente
Karina Puente started her journey as a professional artist when she exhibited her work for the first time at age fourteen and can’t remember when art didn’t exist in her life. Surprisingly as an adult, she has managed to retain the distinct, and enviable, child-like quality of being inspired. She is kin to the creative process and offers insight on inspiration through teachings and speaking engagements. A word Puente...
Florencia Ramirez
Florencia Ramirez writes from Oxnard, California, an agricultural town on the Pacific coast that smells of celery, strawberries and fertilizers. Its abundant farms drew her family to California from Mexico three generations ago as migrant farm workers. She now lives there between the ocean and the fields with her husband and three young children.$5,000 Gift of Freedom Genre Finalist, Creative Nonfiction; Mind Stretch...
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