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Lyra Dalton - 1 post
wrote The Long Cry when she was 12 years old. She lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest and loves to read and act. She loves challenges and to surprise people.
M. E. Fuller - 1 post
is a Meander artist, author, and writing workshop facilitator, living in southwestern Minnesota. In early 2021 her visual art took an abrupt turn from an emphasis on illustrative storytelling to an exploration of abstract expressionism. “Creative practice is always about the story for me, the most intuitive story.” The abstract expressionist style allows Fuller to experience the developing work as it exposes complex and deeply felt inner world themes. “It’s where I’ve been trying to get to, or back to, since my first painting efforts in 1976.” A former graphic designer and art director, Fuller retired in mid-June of 2014 to restart a personal creative career. Grant support from Minnesota regional arts councils and the state arts board has contributed to the accomplishment of two novels and the most current collection, Original Forms, of abstract paintings. M E Fuller can be reached through her websites: mefullerwords.com and mefullerart.com or by email at moc.liamgnull@stra.rellufem.
Madelaine Zadik - 1 post
lives in the wooded hills of western Massachusetts. She is at work on a memoir about her relationship with her Aunt Helga, whom she never knew except through letters Helga wrote from prison in Nazi Germany. Her work has appeared in DoveTales: An International Journal of the Arts, the Still Point Arts Quarterly, Straw Dog Writers’ Guild Pandemic Project, Public Garden, and is forthcoming in Being Home: An Essay Anthology.
Maggie Fuller - 1 post
has been writing since she was a child. Her first poem, about a runaway squirrel, has yet to receive literary acclaim. Fuller learned the craft of writing screenplays when working as a production secretary for a small independent film company in the early 1980s. She has written numerous short stories and made two sad and sorry attempts at novel writing. In 2015 Fuller received an artist project grant through the Five Wings Arts Council with funds from the McKnight Foundation to complete her first real novel about generational fallout from ancestral secrets and tragedies. Fuller’s professional career of nearly 40 years included graphic design, art direction and copywriting. She maintained a satirical blog from 2009 to 2015 She also paints in watercolor, acrylic and mixed media and is currently creating a gallery presentation to be offered in 2016. Her recent work may be found at mefuller.com
Makena Henriksen - 1 post
wrote Stupid Dyke when she was 17 years old. She was raised on Lopez Island since her birth. Although she liked reading the Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner in early elementary school, she found the books quite chauvinistic. She fell in love with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in fourth grade and reread the series before she would see any of the movies. Currently she reads science fantasy books on a regular basis. A day isn't complete unless she's had time to read.
Mame Ekblom Cudd - 1 post
received a BA in economics from Wells College and an MSSW from Columbia University’s School of Social Work, after which she worked for many years as a marriage counselor/family therapist. Whenshe retired, her focus shifted to her first love, a writing career. She has attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Conference (2009 and 2011) and the Arizona State Writers Conference (2006 and 2007), and her work has appeared in Crack the Spine, Fiction Fix, The Puritan, and SNReview.
Marcia Barthelow - 1 post
lived on Lopez for 19 years. In 1999, she moved to Seattle but she kept her island home. She still attends her island writers' group, serves on the Cooperative Preschool Board, and continues to keep in touch with her island community. Though widely published in her dreams, this is Marcia's first actual publication of one of her "creative" pieces; unless of course you count sixth grade, when her teacher sent her poem in to a local newspaper. That piece had a major problem: when the poem was finally published, Marcia saw that her teacher had changed the last line, which had been somewhat "eerie," to a "happily ever after" kind of ending...resulting in the fact that she doesn't acknowledge the piece as having been published, and leaves it out of her "extensive writing resume." She hopes you don't end up having to read her "candle piece" as many times as she's revised it...and that it will give you something to reflect upon in times of struggle.
Marcia Simpson - 1 post
received her B.A. from Stanford University and her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin. Mother of four, she taught learning disabled children in Wisconsin and in Alaska. For several years she lived on a boat in a small Alaskan village, where she taught K through 12 at a public school and immersed herself in the stories that led to her mystery novels Crow in Stolen Colors and Sound Tracks, both published by The Berkley Publishing Group.
Marcia Soderman - 1 post
is a painter working in acrylic and watercolor. Her work is a symbolic outcry against cultural injustice and destruction of the earth. Her large abstractions of natural elements—fire, light, water—serve as visual metaphors for these concerns. In 2015 she began the “Falling Water” series that portrays waterfalls as a symbol of healing as it cleanses and aerates the air, renewing much-needed potable groundwater that is in short supply. She was trained as both a painter and art historian, having earned an MFA in painting and drawing, as well as an MA and PhD in nineteenth-twentieth century art history from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She’s been a professional artist for over 25 years in numerous solo and group exhibitions, taught art and art history in Twin Cities colleges for many years, and is currently a Mentor for the Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota. Her work has been published in a number of print publications, including Studio Visit, International Contemporary Artists, and Twin Cities TOSCA magazine.
Marco Etheridge - 1 post
is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His work has been featured in over one hundred reviews and journals across Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA. “The Wrong Name” is Marco’s latest collection of short fiction. When he isn’t crafting stories, Marco is a contributing editor for a new ‘Zine called Hotch Potch. Author website: https://www.marcoetheridgefiction.com/