Tracey Cravens-Gras
A life-long lover of the written word, I studied English at the University of Cincinnati, and graduated with honors from the Ohio State University in 1997. After a miraculous decade raising two kids, and a family relocation to the desert southwest, I began working for A Room of Her Own as Darlene Chandler Bassett’s personal assistant in 2008. Author of thousands of emails and the rare and wildly-scrawled thank you note, I savor the...
Kristi Crutchfield Cox
Kristi Crutchfield Cox lives in Southern Oklahoma with her husband of thirteen years and their three dogs. By day, she navigates the minds of women and teens, helping them find their own definitions of peace and resolution, hope and new paths. During eves, her home resounds with a tango, as she sits on her bouncy ball weaving tales which reflect women’s experiences. Pieces of her soul linger in each line. She travels to Taos as...
Nicelle Davis
Nicelle Davis was the recipient of the 2013 AROHO Retreat 9 3/4 Fellowship. She runs a free online poetry workshop at The Bees’ Knees Blog and serves as Editor at Large for The Los Angeles Review as well as Poetry Editor at Large for Connotation Press. Her second book, Becoming Judas, was released from Red Hen Press in 2013. Her first collection of poems, Circe, is available from Lowbrow Press at Amazon.com, and her third...
Thelma de Castro
Thelma Virata de Castro is a Filipino American playwright and mom. Her work is included in the Asian American Women Playwrights Archive at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She received a residency at Hedgebrook and attended the 25th Anniversary Alumnae Reunion Celebration. Her work was featured in Guerilla Girls on Tour’s WE ARE THEATRE, and she is a proud supporter of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative. She is...
Peggy Dobreer
Peggy Dobreer came to poetry through dance and experimental theatre. She has one full-length collection, In The Lake of Your Bones, released in March 2012 by Moon Tide Press. She is a long time educator, offering her unique approach to kinesthetically generated poetry and performance, THE E=Mc2BODIED WORD. She also curates The RwIrGiHtTe READ at Stories Books in Los Angeles and FIRST FRIDAYS at The Rapp Salo(o)n in Santa...
Martha Donovan
Martha Andrews Donovan, author of the chapbook Dress Her in Silk (Finishing Line Press 2009), has been teaching at the secondary and college level for over thirty years. Her poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction have been published in varied venues. Her essay “Dangerous Archaeology: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother (and Others)” (with photographer Autumn E. Monsees) was named a “Notable Essay” by The Best American Essays 2013. Her...
Jeanette Eberhardy
Jeanette Luise Eberhardy is a teacher, writer, and storyteller. She serves as the Program Director for 1st Year Writing, and Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In October, 2014, at the 17th Global WIN Conference in Berlin, Eberhardy gave the opening address to 1,000 women leaders: “Your Story Matters.” Eberhardy has taught storytelling skills to emerging leaders, including youth, women in business, global...
Camille Endacaott
Camille was first involved with AROHO as a public relations intern in 2013 and is thrilled to return as a supporting intern for the 2015 Retreat. Originally from South Pasadena, Camille recently graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a degree in communication. She often strayed, however, into creative nonfiction writing, public affairs reporting, and studying the literature of Flannery O’Connor. She reads more than she...
Lisa Estus
Lisa Estus is a fiction writer and poet. Her work appears in Puerto del Sol, Rain City Review, Reed Magazine and other literary journals. An entrepreneur from an early age, Estus has owned and operated a natural candle, soap and toiletries company, marketing consulting practice, jewelry design business and snow shoveling service. She briefly considered starting a vintage hosiery e-business but opted instead to consolidate interests...
Kristine S. Ervin
Kristine S. Ervin grew up in a small suburb of Oklahoma City and now teaches creative writing at West Chester University, outside of Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature, with a focus in nonfiction, from the University of Houston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Brevity, and Passages North, and her essay “Cleaving...
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