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Anna Elkins is a poet and painter. She earned a BA in art and English, an MFA in poetry, and a Fulbright Fellowship to write art-inspired poetry in Germany. She has written, painted, and taught on six continents, exhibiting paintings and publishing books along the way—including her poetry collection, Hope of Stones, which won an Oregon Book Award. After many travels, Anna now enjoys living in a small town on a big river with her husband, Jared.
Janine Kovac founded Moxie Road Productions, a consulting company for writers and performers, with fellow writer and Listen To Your Mother director Tarja Parssinen. At Moxie Road she teaches writing classes, produces literary events and hosts writing retreats. In her spare time Janine teaches GYROTONIC(r) and GYROKINESIS(r) modalities in Oakland and at San Francisco GYROTONIC for Lines Ballet School.Her writing has been anthologized in What We Didn’t Expect: Personal Stories About Premature Birth; Mamas Write: 29 Tales of Truth, Wit, and Grit; Multiples Illuminated: A Collection of Stories and Advice from Parents of Twins, Triplets, and More and Nothing But the Truth: 51 Women Reveal the Power of Positive Female Connection. She is at work on a memoir of connected essays about the Nutcracker ballet.
Martha Grover is a writer and visual artist living with chronic illness in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of three memoirs: Sorry I Was Gone (self-published in 2021 via a successful Kickstarter campaign),One More for the People (Perfect Day Publishing) and The End of My Career (Perfect Day Publishing). She has been publishing her zine, Somnambulist, since 2003.
Martha is the founder/owner of Grover’s Curiosity Shop, a co-op bookshop and artists’ collective in SE Portland.
Lone Mørch is an award-winning author, photographer, speaker and creative catalyst. Her work lives at the intersection of creativity, spirituality and our entanglement with the living world.
Tomas Moniz is the founder, editor, and a writer for the award-winning zine Rad Dad.
Looking for radical parenting community, he created Rad Dad to provide the space for parents (particularly fathers) to share, commiserate and plan with each other, and to support each other in challenging patriarchy one diaper at a time. As China Martens has said, “Tomas has been the most vocal voice within zines trying to start and keep a discussion within this aspect of radical politics and parenthood.” His writing has been included in many zines about parenting as well as in the books My Mother Wears Combat Boots and Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind.
Minna Dubin is a writer, workshop facilitator, and occasional public artist in Berkeley, California. Her essays and reported articles on motherhood and identity have been featured in outlets like the New York Times, Oprah Daily, The Times, Salon, Lit Hub, Parents, Romper, The Forward, Hobart, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the recipient of an artist enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and has been awarded writing residencies at InCahoots, WordSpace Studios, Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Hopscotch House and Lacawac Sanctuary. As a leading feminist voice on mom rage, Minna has appeared on MSNBC, Good Morning America, The Tamron Hall Show, NBC, ABC, FOX, NPR and the BBC. Her groundbreaking work on mom rage has been covered in news articles from India to Portugal to South Africa.
Allison Landa earned her MFA in fiction writing from St. Mary’s College of California and my undergraduate degree in political science and anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The recipient of fellowships at Writers in Paradise and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, she has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Mill House Writers, Playa Summer Lake, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and The Julia and David White Artists Colony.
She’s proud to teach at the Writing Salon and to have been a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. She’s professionally represented by Marisa Zeppieri of Strachan Literary Agency and her memoir BEARDED LADY came out in 2022 from Woodhall Press.
Patricia Rareg was born in Martinique and currently lives in France. She has a master’s degree in British Civilisation. Her first short stories in French were published at university in an anthology “Éclosions.” In 2006, her novel “C’est l’heure!” (Time has Come!) was published: the story of a man who leads a happy life until a man stops him in the street and tells him Time has come! In 2012, following writing workshop at Shakespeare&Company in Paris, Patricia’s first story in English “Sunday Talks” was published in an anthology “Vignettes and Postcards from Paris.” Patricia completed a second novel, but never published it and right now she is working on her third novel that takes place in a village where people are kept awake by strange noises coming from the mountain in the middle of the night.