Katherine Minott
Katherine Minott, M.A. is an artist whose photographic work reflects the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi–the celebration of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Her work has appeared in Camas: Nature of the West, New Mexico Magazine, Visual Language Magazine, and the Santa Fe Reporter’s Annual Manual. Please visit her website at katherineminott.com.
Rob Essley
Rob Essley likes to explore the dark forests of human interaction. He lives near Atlanta, where things wriggle and squirm.
Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons’ work has appeared in Liars’ League NYC, Serving House Journal, Hypertext Magazine, and HiLoBrow. An alum of the Writers Boot Camp screenwriting program, she co-wrote the web series Intersection. She also created and produces No, YOU Tell It!, a “switched-up” storytelling series open to anyone who wants to share his or her story and experience someone else’s. More at: noyoutellit.com.
Lisa C. Taylor
Lisa C. Taylor is the author of four collections of poetry. She is completing her first collection of short fiction. Lisa has recent or forthcoming work in Worcester Review, Map Literary, Bartleby Snopes, and Crannog. When not writing, Lisa enjoys cooking without recipes and getting lost on trails. She also teaches writing at a small college.
Elizabeth Peterson
Elizabeth Peterson completed her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1997. Her work has been published in several small literary journals. She was the winner of the 1987 Phi Theta Kappa National Competition in Creative Writing and has been a finalist for the Loft Mentor Series Competition (1996-1997), Hunger Mountain’s Howard Frank Mosher Short fiction Prize (2005), and Cutbank Literary Journal’s Montana Prize in Fiction (2014). She currently lives in Boston with her Golden Retriever, Riley. Ms Peterson works as a freelance writer and teaches at Bay State College.
Gail C. DiMaggio
Gail C. DiMaggio spent decades helping her husband, a jazz trombonist, pursue his music in a world where no artist ever gives up a day gig. Refusing to become discouraged, she writes about the life of an ordinary woman because for this she has all necessary credentials. And besides, as a friend recently told her, “What else have you got to do?” Self-exiled from New England winter, she lives and writes in Naples, FL.
Dvorah Telushkin
Between 1975-1988 Dvorah Telushkin worked as a personal assistant, editor, and translator for Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Yiddish writer who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her translations appeared in The New Yorker, and in collections of Mr. Singer’s stories published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. In 1997, she published her memoir, “Master of Dreams,” telling the story of her twelve-year apprenticeship with Mr. Singer. The book received wide critical attention, including a review in The New York Times. The Weekly Standard called the book “a fully realized portrait of a writer… a reminder that the author’s life was as fascinating as his best fiction.” She is currently completing her first novel, “The Cry of the Loon.” In addition, she has recently completed a one-woman show, In Search of the Perfect Pocketbook, which is currently being launched. In 2013, she published in the poetry journals, “The Light Ekphrastic”, “Literary Juice”, and “Orion Headless.”
Judith Thompson
As an emerging voice in the Taos poetry scene, Judith has been involved in several curated ekphrasis events and has aired on KVOT, a local radio station. She was also selected to read at the Society of The Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS) poetry series. From 2008–2012, Judith was enrolled in a poetry workshop with Sawnie Morris, and in 2009 she studied with Dana Levin in A Room Of Her Own Foundation’s poetry intensive. Her work has appeared in the Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art and HOWL: The Voice of UNM Taos. A classically trained musician, Judith received her bachelor’s in music from Occidental College and, before retiring early, worked as a symphony orchestra executive. For fourteen years, Judith and her husband lived aboard a forty-foot sailboat. Now that they have come ashore, she finds passion in growing organic vegetables and fruits when she’s not immersed in reading and writing poetry.