Glenda Barrett, a native of Hiawassee, Georgia is an artist, poet, and writer.  Her work has appeared in Woman's World, Farm & Ranch Living, Rural Heritage, Smoky Mountain Living, Living with Loss Magazine and many others.  Her first chapbook, "When the Sap Rises," is for sale on Amazon.com, and her paintings are on Yessy.com. 

Linda Barrows is the College Counseling Liaison at the Blake School in Minneapolis, hosting college recruiters’ visits. She teaches a workshop preparing rising seniors for the college application essay and is writing a book on the topic. Her background includes the disciplines of English (B.A.), education, marketing (M.B.A.), and college counseling. She has recently had an essay appear in Fourth Genre.

Fog

Laury A. Egan's short fiction has received an award from New York Stories and has appeared in Paradigm, Grasslimb, and The Battered Suitcase. Last year she received a Pushcart Prize nomination, and in January, a full-length poetry collection, Snow, Shadows, a Stranger, is forthcoming from FootHills Publishing. In addition to writing fiction and poetry, she is a fine arts photographer who loves to travel.

Looking for Black Gibbons

A 2009 Oregon Arts Commission Fellow, Elizabeth Enslin received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University.  Her recent work will appear in The Gettysburg Review, Oregon Literary Review, and Crab Orchard Review. She lives in Oregon, dividing her time between Portland and a farm in Wallowa County.

Rocks

Olga Pavlinova Olenich is a widely published Australian writer.

San Christopher’s Children

Freelance writer and dedicated nomad, Lorissa Rinehart currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where she is writing her second full-length work of fiction, Summer in Central Texas, a novella of fragments.

Awakening

Cherie Santos-Greenfield is passionate about writing, especially regarding her experiences in the natural world. Over the last five years, a variety of her short stories and poems have been published in literary journals and magazines. She resides in Washington State with her husband.

Start Running!

Michaelle Scanlon runs with her friends several nights a week, writes the Adventurous Women Blog, and leads an adventure group.  In her spare time, Michaelle actually goes to the office and works to pay the bills.

The Fog Beyond the Cliff

Gretchen Van Lente is a writer of short stories who publishes in magazines such as The Harrow, Drunken Boat, Thieves Jargon, and Cezanne’s Carrot. Her literary detective novel, Bride of the Beast, will be out in 2010 from Bad Moon Press.

It’s a Girl Thing

Malerie Yolen-Cohen is a travel freelance writer whose work appears regularly in Newsday, Northeast Boating, and Westchester Magazine.