Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah’s Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. Her third novel, Paint It Black (named after the Rolling Stones song of the same name), was published in September 2006 and is also set for production as a feature film. As an undergraduate at Reed College studying history, Janet was awarded with a student exchange opportunity to Keele University in England to...
Amanda Fletcher
Amanda Fletcher, a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow, is a Canadian writer who has resided in Los Angeles for over ten years. A breast cancer survivor and a pranayama breath work practitioner, Amanda teaches writing in the recovery community. She was a flash fiction finalist for the Orlando Prize and has performed for the Dirty Laundry Lit and Roar Shack reading series. Amanda’s writing has appeared in The Writer’s Tribe...
Gabriela Frank
Gabriela Denise Frank is the author of CivitaVeritas: An Italian Fellowship Journey, a collection of linked essays and prose poems. The book documents her investigation into the palimpsest of history, architecture and human connection within a unique Italian hill town while on a fellowship sponsored by the Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy. An alumna of the Jack Straw Writers Program and Artist Trust’s...
Mona Alvarado Frazier
Mona Alvarado Frazier is a writer who had a 28 year career with the California Department of Corrections. A single mom of three, two ‘starving artists’ sons and a daughter in Denver, she stays busy chauffeuring her 87 year old mom, and number one role model, all over unless she’s doing Latino outreach for her county museum. Her pen name, Mona Alvarado Frazier, is her mother’s maiden name. Her novels feature Latina protagonists...
Kate Gale
Kate Gale is the Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, which she founded along with her husband Mark Cull. Rather than mourn the lack of literary community in her adopted city of Los Angeles, Kate decided to create that community herself through the creation of the ever-growing press as well as the literary magazine The Los Angeles Review, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, the Geffen reading series, and a Writers in the Schools...
Marni Gauthier
Marni Gauthier, PhD is a published author, master facilitator, and certified professional coach. She is also a yogini of 20 years, yoga instructor, triathlete, wilderness-lover and mother who brings passion and devotion to all her practices. From 2002-2012, Marni was professor of literature and film at the State University of New York, where she was granted tenure by unanimous vote at every level of the College. Her company, Four...
Diane Gilliam
Poet Diane Gilliam was the winner of A Room of Her Own’s 6th Gift of Freedom Award. She has been widely recognized for the voice of honesty, beauty, and resilience that she has given to Appalachian culture and history–among the many other subjects of her writing. Her second book, Kettle Bottom, is a collection of poems written in the voices of people living in the coal camps at the time of the 1920-21 West Virginia Mine Wars....
Mai Lon Gittelsohn
Mai Lon Gittelsohn teaches memoir writing to seniors in Del Mar and Encinitas. A native Californian, she grew up in Berkeley and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1956. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon’s Pacific University with a focus on poetry in June, 2012. Her poems have appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annual, the Patterson Literary Review, the Hummingbird Review, the Magee Park Poets...
Felicia González
Felicia Gonzalez was born in Cuba. She believes that language and the act of speaking are not only physical, but also have a geographic presence. An alumna of the Hedgebrook Writers Retreat and the curator for the 2014 Jack Straw Writers Program, her writing has received numerous awards including an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. A poet and short fiction writer, she was awarded an individual artists grant...
Vero González
Vero González was a Dean’s Graduate Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned an MFA in Poetry. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vero received a BFA from Pratt Institute, where she earned the Thesis Prize in Fiction. Vero teaches English Language Arts and Humanities to amazing high school students in Holyoke, MA, and is currently working on a novel-in-verse. Touching Lives Fellow
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