Marguerite Maria Rivas
Marguerite María Rivas’s essays, articles, book reviews, and poems have been published in journals and periodicals, both nationally and internationally. She has garnered numerous grants and awards, including the first Marg Chandler Memorial Award from AROHO. Cited by the New York State Legislature for her contribution to the literary arts, she is widely regarded as the de facto Poet Laureate of Staten Island. Her first full-length...
Barbara Rockman
Barbara Rockman came to poetry after careers as a director, stage manager, dramatic arts teacher, arts education consultant and curriculum designer. Mother of two grown daughters, her poems honor the gritty tales of motherhood, marriage and family. Her lyric essays intersect the political, personal, and natural worlds. Her work appears in Bellingham Review, Calyx, Cimarron Review, Louisville Review, and Nimrod among others and has...
Jamie Rose
Jamie Rose is a writer, performance coach, and actor and has worked in TV, Film, and Theater for over 40 years. Her first book, Shut Up and Dance! was published by Tarcher/Penguin and she is currently at work on a memoir about the legacy of alcoholism among the women in her family. She has taught acting seminars at the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina School of the Arts, and created online courses in Dramatic...
Lauren Rusk
Lauren Rusk is a poet and Virginia Woolf scholar whose work includes The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson (a study of autobiographical prose) and the poetry collection Pictures in the Firestorm. In her writing and teaching, Lauren focuses on the poetry of engagement–poems that arise from place, social history, science, and visual art. Her focus on outward-looking poetry prompted an essay...
Marlene Samuels
By training and career, Marlene Samuels is a research sociologist. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in sociology from University of Chicago, where she worked as a researcher with the National Opinion Research Center, followed by a position as Research Director for an international public relations firm. While she conducted the research needed to rewrite and publish her mother’s Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival, she...
Charu Saxena
Charu Saxena combines her eastern and western experiences to create Global Competency Projects for schools (https://4esolutions.org). Her news articles and other written works bridge the cultures of the two countries that she spans: India, where she was born, and America where she now resides with her husband and two children. Some of her writing and non-fiction work can be seen at her website, https://worldviewpoints.com. However, it...
Jane Schulman
Jane Schulman writes poetry and short stories. She works as a speech pathologist in a Brooklyn public school with autistic and emotionally-disturbed young children. Jane has participated in numerous writing workshops including Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Frost Place Poetry Seminar, and three previous AROHO Retreats. She’s been a featured poet in local venues and taught senior citizens to write their lives in poetry, fiction,...
Rachel Schwerin
Rachel Schwerin is earning her MFA in Fiction Writing at Columbia University and is currently an Instructor of Undergraduate Writing there. She is working on her first novel, set in New Mexico. In addition to writing, Rachel illustrates her own work and has a background in woodblock printmaking.
Elizabeth Silver
Elizabeth L. Silver is the author of the novel, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, which was the Amazon Best Debut of the Month, an Amazon Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Summer, Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year, Oprah “Ten Books to Pick up Now,” and selection for the Target Emerging Author Series. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton has been optioned for film by ImageMovers Production Company (Robert Zemeckis)...
Elisa Kay Sparks
A teacher of literature (contemporary, modern British, and science fiction) and women’s studies for 35 years at Clemson University, Elisa Kay Sparks has published a series of articles on parks, gardens, and flowers in Virginia Woolf’s life and work as well as a number of pieces exploring connections between the works of Woolf and the American Modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe. She is also a printmaker, specializing in color-reduction...
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