Joy Castro
Joy Castro’s memoirs include Island of Bones (U of Nebraska, 2012) and The Truth Book (2005; U of Nebraska, 2012). Her other works include the literary thrillers Hell or High Water (St.Martin’s, 2012) and Nearer Home (St. Martin’s, 2013) as well as the short story collection How Winter Began (U of Nebraska, forthcoming). Joy was the winner of a Nebraska Book Award and an International Latino Book Award and a...
Breena Clarke
Breena Clarke, currently a resident of Jersey City, has written three historical novels. She has recently completed Angels Make Their Hope Here, set in an imagined mixed-race community in 19th century New Jersey. Breena’s debut novel, River, Cross My Heart (1999) was an Oprah Book Club selection and her critically reviewed second novel, Stand The Storm, set in mid-19th century Washington, D.C., was chosen by the Washington Post Book...
Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke is the author of four books of poetry, Narratives: poems in the tradition of black women (1982); Living as a Lesbian (1986), Humid Pitch (1989), Experimental Love (1993), the critical study, After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (2005), and her collected works The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry 1980-2005 (2006). She self-published a mini-chapbook entitled, Your Own Lovely Bosom, in 2013 and 2014; and...
Jamie Clifford
Jamie Clifford is a photographer specializing in commissioned candid, documentary-style Portraiture & Event Coverage. Her approach is graceful :: unobtrusive :: instinctual. She has a keen understanding of light and composition. Her Art Collections have themes simplicity, spirituality, sensuality, abstraction, space and satire. She lives in Cedar Crest, New Mexico. Retreat Photographer; Consultant.
Esther Cohen
Esther Cohen is a published novelist and poet. She is a book doctor, teacher, cultural activist, and lover of words. Words and good stories have always been part of her work. She’s taught writing at The New School and Manhattanville College, been a book publisher in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, a gallery curator, a labor union activist, and a creative director. As Executive Director of Bread and Roses, a national union cultural...
Sunny Cooper
Sunny Cooper is a writer, editor, and consultant with Follow the Buffalo, a nomadic studio designed to assist storytellers in reaching their publishing horizon. Sunny is a member of the San Diego Writers and Publishers Association, Certified Professional Writers and Editors, Project Eve, and the Editorial Freelancers Association. Her undergraduate studies were in English and Creative Writing, and she has lived in Budapest, a horse...
Melissa Coss Aquino
Melissa Coss Aquino is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Language and Literature in the English department at Bronx Community College where she serves as the co-faculty advisor for Thesis, the Literary Journal of BCC. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at City College and is currently pursuing her PhD in English at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her personal essay “Una Sinverguenza” (Shameless) was published in Callaloo, and...
Darlene Chandler-Bassett
Darlene Chandler Bassett spent two decades as a corporate executive with famed entrepreneur and arts patron, Eli Broad. Concurrent with her corporate management positions, Bassett was also Board Chair of The California Abortion Rights Action League-South, from 1984 to 1991. Bringing her unique combination of corporate and non-profit management experience to the arts, Bassett now focuses her efforts on women writers and artists. She...
Teri Crane
Dr. Teri Crane is a writer, educator, and marriage and family therapist. Besides her own writing, (including a memoir, We Never Used the F Word, a novel, Base Ball: Coming to the Show, a recently completed historical novel, What the Women Carried West), and the completion of the haiku a day for a year challenge, Teri teaches creative writing. She volunteers this at a local Senior Center and teaches creative writing at the district...
Shari Crane
Dr. Shari Crane is a speaker and medical author with a holistic psychiatry practice on Coronado Island. Dr. Crane attended medical school at the Mayo Clinic, where she served on the Mayo Foundation Equal Opportunities Committee and was President of the Mayo Senior Class. She completed Internship at Stanford University, a Research Fellowship at Wake Forrest University, Diagnostic Radiology at UCSD, and Psychiatry Residency and...
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