Marsha Pincus
Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus is a post mid-life, post-career woman writing for her life. After more than three decades of teaching in a public high school and at the University of Pennsylvania, Marsha retired in 2011 to write full time. A Carnegie Fellow and Philadelphia Teacher of the Year in 1989 and 2005, she’s published essays on teaching in several anthologies. Four of Marsha’s playwriting students had their plays produced...
Deborah Polikoff
Deborah Polikoff played a piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony as a teenager, was awarded the Radcliffe Poetry Prize in her twenties, and co-founded a community arts center in Silver City, NM, in her thirties. In her forties, she became Eve Kodiak – mother, practitioner specializing in developmental movement and personal growth, writer and composer for children, and improvisational recording artist with cellist David...
Tina Pocha
Born and raised in Bombay, India, to a Hindu mother and a Zoroastrian father, Tina Pocha is the quintessential outsider—neither of nor from any single place or culture, not mainstream nor maverick, ever feeling her way around people and situations that seem, at once, vaguely (impalpably) familiar yet never quite home. “Pick one!” they said, “You can’t be both.” Not grown up and child. Not scientist and artist. Not tender and...
Dianca Potts
Dianca London Potts is the prose editor of LIT Magazine and is currently earning her MFA in Fiction from The New School. Her work has been featured in Kweli Journal, The Village Voice, The Toast, and elsewhere. She is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and a VONA Voices alumna. She tweets at @diancalondon.
Tania Pryputniewicz
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Tania Pryputniewicz is the Managing Poetry Editor of The Fertile Source (on hiatus for anthology production). Her debut poetry collection, November Butterfly, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press, 2014. Recent poems appeared in print or online at Chaparral, NonBinary Review, Poetry Flash, Snow Jewel, and Soundings East. Co-founding blogger for Mother, Writer, Mentor, Pryputniewicz teaches...
Mary Purdy
Mary Purdy is a registered dietitian nutritionist in private practice with a food as medicine and whole foods approach to nutritional counseling. She has a master’s degree in clinical nutrition from Bastyr University in Seattle where she is an adjunct professor and clinical supervisor for their teaching clinic. Prior to her career in nutrition, she was a professional actor and writer whose solo shows were produced in New York...
Jaime Rae
Jaime Rae is a young adult fiction writer who weaves the fabric of strong and independent goddess archetypes into the backbones of her modern-day heroines. Whether they are on the warrior’s path or on a path of self-discovery, her characters encourage readers, both young and old, to delve deeper into who they are to embrace their own strength, courage, and divine nature. She recently completed one such story set in Oriabi, Arizona,...
Abbie Reese
Abbie Reese is an independent scholar and interdisciplinary artist. She is author of Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns (Oxford University Press) and filmmaker of the collaborative ethnographic and documentary work-in-progress, Chosen (Custody of the Eyes). In her relationship- and research-based practice, Abbie utilizes oral history and ethnographic methodologies to explore individual and cultural identity, public...
Tisha Reichle
Tisha Marie Reichle is a Chicana, Feminist, Reader, Writer, Teacher, Student, and former Rodeo Queen. Currently, she spends her weekdays engaging high school students with socially conscious literature. On weekends, she writes. Her stories have appeared in 34th Parallel, Inlandia Journal, Muse Literary Journal, Santa Fe Writers Project, and The Acentos Review. For the past 24 years, she has been living in Los Angeles and earned an MFA...
Kristen Ringman
Kristen Ringman is a deaf writer, traveler, sailor, and mother. She is the author of Makara (Handtype Press, 2012), a Lambda Literary Finalist in Debut Fiction. Her fiction and poetry have been published in: American Deaf Prose Anthology, Deaf Lit Extravaganza, Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology, amongst others. She received her MFA from Goddard College in 2008. She is currently writing a YA science fiction trilogy with androids and...
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