Li Yun Alvarado
Li Yun Alvarado is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, and educator. Her work has been published in several journals and anthologies including Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, PMS Poemmemoirstory, The Acentos Review, PALABRA, and Modern Haiku. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English at Fordham University and she teaches at Long Beach City College. Li Yun has had the pleasure of teaching middle school, high school, and...
Laura Alvarez
I’m a writer, poet, traveler, seeker, and sustainability advocate, whose preferred method of communication has always been to write. For a few years I spent some time writing as an academic and completed an M.A. in Human Geography from Indiana University. As part of my Master’s, I wrote the thesis Space, Place, and Hegemony among Young Adults in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, which addresses the role socio-economic identity...
Jessica Ankeny
Jessica Ankeny’s chapbook, One Simple Step to Keeping a Clean Gun, can be found at Dancing Girl Press, and individual poems found in Broke, Spillway, Menacing Hedge, The Boiler and elsewhere. Her work was Editor’s Choice in Relief Magazine 7.1 and appeared in the Menacing Hedge Anthology for AWP 2014. Originally from Albuquerque, Jessica currently lives in Brooklyn with her cat Joni Mitchell, and is working on a collection...
Laura Austin
Laura Austin experienced her first taste of writing in elementary school when her story The Giant Mouse, a tragic tale about a rodent who ate too much cheese, lost a second-grade writing contest. She recently completed her first middle grade novel while enrolled in StoryStudio’s Kid Lit in a Year program with fellow 2015 AROHO participant, Lisa Sukenic. Under the tutelage of Juliet Bond, Laura discovered her passion for witty dialogue...
Lauren Baldwin
Lauren Baldwin completed her MFA in Fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010 and her JD at the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1992. She is a Judicial Hearing Officer in the Family Court division of the Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lauren is the author of Pull the Lever, AROHO’s theme poem (alternative to a theme song), written in the middle of the night at Ghost Ranch during an...
Gillian Barlow
Gillian Barlow ‘s writing self is gathering strength, but she continues to work as an architect specialising in housing in Aboriginal communities and for people with disability. Since attending the AROHO Retreat in 2013, she has been awarded her PhD through the University of Western Sydney’s Writing and Society Group. Her exegesis is to be published by Saddle Road Press. She completed The Haiku Room’s challenge of a haiku a day, had...
Liz Bedell
Liz Bedell is a writer, teacher and editor living in Western Massachusetts. She spent 20 satisfying years teaching literature and writing in an artsy, rigorous secondary school and doing her own writing in the margins. An intangible “what’s next, Mrs. Landingham?” prompted her to uproot that settled existence, and the past several years have been fruitful and terrifying as she’s put writing at the center of her life. She...
Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts
Literary agent Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts (Writers House LLC) began her career at an independent literary publishing house, where she fell in love with the editorial process and developed a lifelong commitment to shepherding quality fiction and nonfiction to publication. After a short and very fun stint as a literary scout for foreign publishing houses, she was the director of foreign rights at the Susan Golomb Literary Agency, where...
Michele Berger
Michele Tracy Berger is a professor, a blogger, a creativity expert and a pug-lover. She’s passionate about all of these ways of being in the world and plays with the order that she avidly pursues them. She is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has several academic books on subjects that range from HIV/AIDS activism to the value of a women’s...
Rachel Bergman
Rachel Bergman is a writer and editor for New Haven Magazine, a blogger whose blog, Blogaholics Anonyblog, is mostly to make fun of her husband and family, and has also written two books and many short stories. She taught Developmental Writing at The University of Bridgeport, a writer’s workshop at The Program for Torture Victims while receiving her MFA in Creative Writing and is running a writer’s workshop at the VA hospital in West...
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