Rachel Schwerin
Rachel Schwerin is a writer and visual artist living in New York City. She is currently earning her MFA in fiction writing at Columbia University.
Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley’s most recent book of poetry,the new black (Wesleyan), won the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry. She is also the author of a half-red sea (Carolina Wren P), two chapbooks, and a critical study,Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry(Iowa). From 2007-2011, she co-edited the poetry journal jubilat. Recipient of the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize, Shockley is...
Catherine Shubert
Catherine Shubert is a teacher, poet, and activist hailing from outside of Detroit, MI. She holds a BA in English with honors from the University of Michigan, a Master’s in Urban Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and last year she taught ESL abroad in Andorra through the Fulbright Program’s ETA grant. She currently works as a writer-in-residence in several Detroit district and charter schools, helping to...
Jan Smith
Jan M. Smith retired from a thirty-year career in social work and moved to Taos, New Mexico to pursue writing. Since then she has enrolled in Goddard’s MFAW program (’14), been the curator for SOMOS (literary organization in Taos) since 2009, has won an award from the 2012 SouthWest Writers for a short story, and been published in the Pitkin Review, Howl, andChokecherries.
Jennifer Steil
Jennifer Steil is the author of The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, An American Woman’s Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth (2010, Broadway Books/RandomHouse), a memoir of the year she spent as editor of the Yemen Observer newspaper in Sana¹a, Yemen. The book received accolades in The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Sydney Morning Herald among other publications. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune chose it as one of their best...
Lisa Sukenic
Lisa Sukenic has been a progressive educator for 28 years. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, working with 3rd and 4th graders. She teaches using an integrated Thematic Arts approach with an emphasis on Social Justice. As a writing teacher she works with young authors to help them develop their authentic voices in all genres. She helps to sponsor the Global Reading Challenge that encourages teamwork...
Shanti Thirumalai
Shanti spends more time not-writing than writing. She has finished a YA/ crossover novel and cannot understand why every agent she has sent it to is not in love with it. She is plodding along with her other novel set in India. It might take 17 years to complete but will be more comprehensible than Finnegans Wake. You can ask her about her experience reading the Wake only if you are prepared to listen to a long answer that might not...
Ruth Thompson
Ruth Thompson’s second book of poems, Woman with Crows, was published by Word Press Books in 2012. It was a finalist for the AROHO To The Lighthouse Prize in 2010. Her 2011 chapbook Here Along Cazenovia Creek was the basis for a collaborative performance of poetry and dance with dancer Shizuno Nasu last year. Ruth was an English professor, librarian, editor and college dean in California, and now lives mostly in Hilo, Hawai’i with...
Melissa Tomlinson Newell
Currently an Art Instructor at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, Washington, I have found a new form of creative expression in writing. In addition to making art and serving as co-chair in the Visual Arts, my work includes community art advocacy projects focused on art education. I have served as a juror for numerous exhibits and public works projects and led workshops for adults and children since 1984. When I begin the...
Tammi J. Truax
Writing is Tammi Truax’s second career, after twenty years working with children and families, primarily in promoting literacy. She is a newspaper columnist, blogger and novelist, who dabbles in poetry, primarily narrative. Overall she considers herself a storyteller and loves nothing more than to hear, read or share a good tale. She lives in a New England harbor town, where she practices the arts of mothering, cooking,...
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