Leslie Ullman
Leslie Ullman teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts and has published three poetry collecions. Her fourth, “Progress on the Subject of Immensity,” is due out from University of New Mexico Press just before the August conference. She has extensive experience working with poetry manuscripts, both in her teaching job and freelance, and enjoys dialogues about craft. Awards include the...
Susie Verkamp
At age 65, I am a writer emerging from creative isolation, committed to getting my work out into the world. I have written journals for much of my life, and found community in writing workshops whenever time, finances and circumstances allowed. My intention moving forward from the 2011 AROHO retreat was to cultivate my identity as a writer. My goal was to continue writing new and revised poems for submission and to create structure...
Robin Vidimos
Robin Vidimos is a mechanical engineer by profession and a book reviewer by passion. Her engineering career has taken her to construction sites; her reading has transported her to far more exotic locales. Long an avid reader, Robin cut her teeth on book reviews for Moms Online, an early forum on America Online and wrote her first review for the Denver Post in 1997. Since then, the Post has run more than 400 reviews and author...
Janice Voshall
Janice Voshall holds a Development Project Management Certificate from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Besides her work in A Room of Her Own’s Development Department, she is involved with fundraising for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In 2010, she was involved in a local city council campaign in Laguna Hills, California where she searched public records for City Manager salary and...
Emily Wallis Hughes
Emily Wallis Hughes is a poet, teacher, and backpacker from Agua Caliente, California. Her poems have been published inGigantic Magazine, Sacramento News & Review, and by Ad Lumen Press. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from UC Davis, and teaches English at American River College. Emily currently lives in Davis, California, and enjoys taking trips to explore the Sierra Nevada, the Lost Coast, and Point...
Michelle Wing
Raised in Montana, Michelle Wing is a writer and poet who spent much of her adult life in the urban settings of Seattle, Osaka, Kyoto and San Francisco, but now lives in the country in northern California with her partner Sabrina, her faithful dog Ripley, and a houseful of other animals. She has been published in the Gay & Lesbian Review, Sinister Wisdom, and Vintage Voices, and works as the senior staff writer for a community...
Barbara Ann Yoder
Barbara Ann Yoder has worked as a writer and editor for more than thirty years. Since the early 1990s she has led many writing workshops and groups for women and is now completing work on a book for women who write—a guide to overcoming self-censorship that taps the power of myths, tales, memoirs, and dreams. Her first book was The Recovery Resource Book.Barbara has served as executive director of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project,...
Adina Zerwig
Originally from California, Adina Zerwig lives in Lake Tapps, Washington with her husband and toddler. She writes fiction and is currently working on a YA novel called The Wild Bird Child. When she’s not writing, she is chasing after her German Shepherd puppy, Charlie, and her fifteen-month-old son, Atticus, who just recently learned how to walk and, very recently, learned to climb. Adina has a B.A. in Journalism from California State...
Judith Zukerman
Judith Zukerman, Chicago native and long-time Madison, Wisconsin resident has recent work in Jewish Women’s Literary Annual Volume 9, N.Y.C., May 30, 2013, Midwest Prairie Review, April 2013, Wisconsin Poets Calendars 2013 and 2014, and Agora, vol. 2 & 3. Earlier work is in Grey Sparrow on line and in print and in Drash and Amsterdam Days, a journey through poetry. Music, sculpture, dance and being enriched by living with...
AROHO Presents the 5th Gift of Freedom Finalists
Bridget Birdsall is a healer, writer, poet, teacher and a visual artist. She has a degree in Marketing Management from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College in Montpelier, Vermont. She currently teaches classes in Creative Writing, Poetry, World Literature, and Marketing at Edgewood College and Madison Area Technical School. This summer Bridget will be...
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