Jennah Ferrer-Foronda is an expressive arts educator/consultant, writer and artist. In her spare time, she scribbles, sketches, paints and explores conceptual photography. She imagines a world where a woman's style, dharma (or purpose), soundtrack are tools for creative collaboration and elevation—present and future. In addition to Mr. Expressivista and their six-year old awesome wonder, Jennah's current loves are iced milk tea, the color oxblood, rain in L.A. and the children's book, The Day the Crayons Quit. Create & collaborate at Expressivista.com.
Born and raised in Portland Oregon, Susan Sweetland Garay received a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Brigham Young University, spent some years in the Ohio Appalachians and currently lives in the Willamette Valley with her husband and daughter where she works in the vineyard industry.
She enjoys finding beauty and meaning in the everyday. She has had poetry and photography published in a variety of journals, online and in print. Her first full length poetry collection was published in 2013. More of her work can be found at susansweetlandgaray.wordpress.com.
Leea Glasheen writes on the shores of Lake Michigan where you are as likely to catch sight of her kayaking on or biking next to the lake as you are to spy her in the corner of a Milwaukee coffee shop tapping, tapping, tapping her thoughts into existence.
Deirdre Hennings has been a writer most of her life who resumed writing poetry and short stories after her parents' deaths. Two recent poems, “Badge of Womanhood” and “Discarding the Trappings,” were published in August 2014 at www.melancholyhyperbole.com (a website for poetry about longing) as part of their theme on mental health. Previously, she served for seven years as Occidental College’s Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations. Before that, she raised funds and wrote grant proposals for clients including the City of Inglewood and the Los Angeles Conservancy. She can be reached at [email protected].
Jenean McBrearty is a graduate of San Diego State University. Her fiction, photographs, and poetry have been published in over a hundred and twenty publications. Her mystery novel, The 9th Circle ,was published by Barbarian Books; her YA novel Retrolands is serialized at JukePop. Other titles (Helmut Wolf, Tales of the German Mind, Deathly Short Stories, Wanted Ones:Published Stories of 2012) are available at Lulu.com.
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Camel Saloon, Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, Spectrum, and
has been nominated three times for Best of the Net. Poet and Geek recognized her work as their best poem of 2013. Four of Joan’s books have been published by fine small literary presses and she has three e-book titles.
Joan McNerney
Jim Miller
Joshua Osto
Richard King Perkins II
Rudy Ravindra
Diana Rosen
Katheryn Simpson
Star Spider
Charles Thomas