Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is author of the memoir An Unquenchable Thirst, named one of 2011′s best books by Kirkus Review. Her courage to tell her story was the catalyst for the founding of A Room of Her Own Foundation (AROHO). Mary is AROHO’s Creative Director of Retreats and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been widely published in places such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg View,...
Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil is a multi-genre and multi-talented writer writing at the intersection of poetry, prose, and non-fiction. As a teacher, Bhanu focuses on generative, experimental writing practice, with a focus on returning to works or parts of works that were discarded, inert, or tossed aside. Bhanu has written The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Leon Works,...
Elizabeth Kenneday-Corathers
Elizabeth Kenneday, an Emeritá Professor of Art at the California State University in Long Beach, has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship at the University of Iceland, is an artist and author. Her activities in environmental education through art have led to numerous lectures at international conferences in Europe and North America, and her writings on the subject have appeared in several publications and anthologies....
Caroline Kessler
Caroline Kessler is a freelance writer and editor living in south Berkeley. Originally from outside Baltimore, she holds a BA with honors in creative writing and a minor in religious studies from Carnegie Mellon University. Her poetry and prose has been published in The Susquehanna Review, Sundog Lit, Anderbo, Superstition Review, Up the Staircase, Treehouse, and PresenTense, among others. An alumna of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger...
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is an internationally acclaimed Chinese American author spearheading conversations about peace, feminism, and race relations. Born in Stockton, California, Maxine earned her bachelor’s degree from U.C. Berkeley, where she currently teaches as Professor Emerita. She has written three novels and several works of nonfiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the US. Her first book, The Woman...
Tanya Ko
Tanya Ko, poet and translator who was born and raised in South Korea, and received her MFA at Antioch University Los Angeles. Author of Generation One Point Five, her work has appeared in Beloit, Two Hawks Quarterly, Rattle, Writers at Work, and elsewhere. She writes in English and Korean and currently translates the work of Arthur Sze into Korean. Living and writing from two cultures, hers is a unique, authentic, and courageous...
Cassandra Lane
Cassandra Lane has worked as a newspaper reporter, high school teacher and college advisor. She currently serves as the senior writer for a nonprofit that funds quality preschool for 11,000 children a year in Los Angeles County. Cassandra’s essays, stories and articles have been published in The Bellingham Review, TheScreamOnline, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Times-Picayune, Everything but the Burden, The Source and more. She...
Caroline LeBlanc
Caroline LeBlanc, former Army Nurse and civilian nurse psychotherapist, has had her poetry and essays published in the US and abroad. In 2010, Oiseau Press published Smokey Ink and a Touch of Honeysuckle, her chapbook about life as an Army wife, and the descendent of 17th Century Acadian/French Canadian settlers in North America. She regularly contributes to Poetry Matters, a group book review and poet interview blog. As Writer in...
Christina Lee
Christina Lee is a poet, musician and teacher who hails from Sierra Madre, a tiny foothill town just east of Los Angeles, CA. She teaches 7th grade English at a nearby public school. Christina holds an MFA in Poetry from Seattle Pacific University, and her poems have recently been featured in Ruminate Magazine and Relief Journal. When not writing or grading, she spends her time hiking, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and staging...
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Cynthia Leitich Smith is the New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-selling author of the Feral series, which includes Feral Nights, Feral Curse and Feral Pride, as well as the Tantalize series, which includes Tantalize, Eternal, Blessed and Diabolical. Cynthia is also the author of several highly acclaimed children’s books, including Jingle Dancer, Rain Is Not My Indian Name, and Indian Shoes. Cynthia was named a Writer of...
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