Leah Greenbaum
Leah Greenbaum is one of those millennial writers trying to find poetry, truth, and humor somewhere at the intersection of Twitter, Joan Didion, and heart-aching wanderlust. On top of her day job in the world of progressive Jewish activism, she is a freelance journalist and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The National Journal, RollingStone.com, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Village Voice. Like Grace Paley, she...
Dipika Guha
Dipika Guha’s plays include I ENTER the VALLEY (Weissberger nom ’14), THE BETROTHED (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Chester Theatre), THE RULES (Superlab Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons) and BLOWN YOUTH (New Georges/Barnard commission). Her work has been developed by Old Vic New Voices in London, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, WordBRIDGE, Cutting Ball Theatre, the Playwrights Foundation, the Flea, INTAR, the Culture Project, One...
Toni Guy
Toni Guy writes middle grade and young adult fiction. She is an active member of SCBWI, AROHO, AWP, and WOWW Women Who Write. For ten years she wrote copy for Caboodles, a multimillion-dollar tween and teen brand of mass-market products sold worldwide. An excerpt of her midgrade manuscript, Jello Jamieson and the Sister Recycling Machine, won the 2013 SCBWI Summer Grant and was drafted in the #Pitchwars Feb 2015 online contest. She...
Leigh Haber
Leigh Haber is the Books Editor for O, The Oprah Magazine and a self-titled “book entrepreneur/editor/consultant.” Leigh began her career in book publishing as a news aide for The Washington Post’s Book World. After moving to NYC, she became a publicity director for Harcourt Brace and other publishers, but her first love was editing. She has worked as an editor with such writers as Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor,...
Tobi Harper
Tobi Harper has completed two English literature degrees with an MA at SF State and a BA at UC Santa Barbara and is putting them to use as the Development Associate at Red Hen Press. An experienced computer tech and tutor, Tobi loves reading, teaching, and technology.
Nora Hickey
Nora Hickey teaches Composition and Liberal Arts at the University of New Mexico and Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Her writing on food and arts appear in the alternative weekly, the Alibi. Her poetry has appeared in Court Green, the Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, and other journals. Originally from Shorewood, WI, Nora now lives in Albuquerque, NM. Her Midwest lives include slinging coffee in Milwaukee...
Amanda Hollander
Amanda Hollander is the author of Petra, forthcoming from Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She was the recipient of the inaugural Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Student Writer Scholarship and the 2014 SCBWI-LA Sue Alexander Grant. The manuscript for her first novel, Kudzu, won the Shirley Collier Prize for Fiction in 2012. Amanda lives and works in Los Angeles where, in addition to...
Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist, writer, and the bestselling author of five books, including the New York Times Bestseller Madness, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Wasted, and the New York Times Editor’s Choice The Center of Winter. Her work is published in eighteen languages and taught in universities around the world. The recipient of a host of awards and fellowships for her writing and research, Hornbacher’s essays,...
Molly Howes
Molly Howes is a nonfiction writer living in the Boston area. Thirty years of experience as a psychologist have crucially influenced and informed her sensibilities, but rearing four children has taught her even more. Her work has appeared in the New York Times “Modern Love” column, the Boston Globe Magazine, WBUR Cognoscenti (also read on NPR’s “Morning Edition”), Bellingham Review, The Tampa Review, Passages North, and...
Brianna Johnson
Brianna Johnson is the author of Fire Sale, an experimental prose manifesto detailing the economic decline of love, the body, and America in 18 movements, forthcoming from somewhere. As a result of her participation in the 2013 AROHO retreat, Brianna founded the Agua Viva Fellowship for a gifted and bold woman writer in recovery from alcohol and/or chemical dependency. She has earned her BFA and MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard...
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