Lynne Southerland
After a long career as a producer and director of animated movies and television, Lynne Southerland felt a strange pull to write her own stories and began writing a novel. The gravity of the process gently sucked her in until now the primary focus of her life is her writing. In the never-ending process of expanding her skills, Lynne has participated in The Highlights Foundation Writers’ Workshop at Chautauqua and actively attends...
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a transmedia storyteller and journalist who believes story is the most important unit of social change. Growing up as a Tamil Dalit, she was driven to tell the stories of marginalized communities. This led to her founding the international media training organization Third World Majority. As a singer/director she fuses epic stories with complex visuals and melodies. Her films often explore interactivity,...
Jennifer Steil
Jennifer Steil is an American writer, journalist, and actor currently living in La Paz, Bolivia. Her first book, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (Broadway Books 2010) is a memoir about her adventures as editor of the Yemen Observer newspaper in Sana’a. The book received accolades in The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Sydney Morning Herald, among other publications. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune chose it as one of their best travel...
Amity Stoddard
Amity Stoddard joined her first circus crew nearly ten years ago, searching for the stories of the extraordinary people who move the show down the road. In her time with Circus Smirkus, Big Apple Circus, and Cirque du Soleil, she has loaded-in, set-up, torn-down, pulled stakes, cooked meals, justified ledgers, tracked down props, secured visas, driven big trucks and finessed fine print. She is currently working on a memoir.
Lisa Sukenic
Lisa Sukenic is a teacher, writer, and an adoptive mother of four children. She is currently teaching at The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. She has been an educator for the last 30 years. She is passionate about teaching writing and has involved students in NaNoWriMo, Haiku, and poetry publications. Her students have been published in Skipping Stones and Ecotone. This past year she was accepted by the Kid Lit Novel in a...
Kelly Sundberg
Kelly Sundberg completed her MFA at West Virginia University. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Ohio University where she is also the Managing Editor of Brevity Magazine: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in Guernica, Quarterly West, The Los Angeles Review, Mid-American Review, Slice Magazine, PANK, and others. Her essay, “Like Mourner’s Bread” was listed as a Notable Essay...
Elizabeth Sutherland
E.R. Harris is an urban educator and memoirist/essayist who lives in Northeast Minneapolis. She is a 2011 graduate of Hamline University’s MFA program in Literary Nonfiction. When she’s not writing, she can often be found riding her geriatric horse, Kaydee.
Aimee Suzara
Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and performer whose mission is to create poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social change. Based in Oakland, Suzara has graced stages nationally, from Florida to Washington. Her debut poetry book, SOUVENIR (WordTech Editions 2014) was lauded as “a powerful meditation on history and the legacies of race, family and identity,” (David...
Darlene Taylor
Darlene R. Taylor has had a long career as a senior aide to the U.S. Congress and an advisor to arts, cultural and development nonprofits, and Fortune 100 corporations. She has served as president of Preservation Action, a nonprofit grassroots voice of local and state historic preservationists. Darlene is Chair of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, a 24-year-old nonprofit dedicated to preserving the voice of Black...
Ruth Thompson
Ruth Thompson is the author of Woman With Crows (2013) and Here Along Cazenovia Creek (2011). Jendi Reiter called Woman With Crows “an antidote to fear.” Read an interview about the book here. Ruth’s poems have won the New Millennium Writings, Harpur Palate, and other prizes. They were choreographed and performed by the great Japanese dancer Shizuno Nasu. In January 2015 Ruth will again collaborate with Shizuno in a performance of...
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