Heather Robinson
Heather Robinson is a Senior Writer for The New York Daily News' Big Town Big Heart section, in which she profiles New Yorkers who are making a difference via charitable or humanitarian work. She has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, New York magazine, Time Out New York, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Daily News.
Adina Kay
Adina Kay is a nonfiction writer living in New York City. She is currently finishing her MFA at Columbia University's School of the Arts and working on a nonfiction novel about growing up and getting caught amidst life, love and landscape in New York and Jerusalem. Her creative writing has been published in the Blood Orange Review and 580 Split. She loves her mother very much despite that crazy set-up.
Alix Strauss
Alix Strauss has been a featured lifestyle trend writer on national morning shows and talk shows including ABC, CBS, CNN and most recently, VH1. Her articles cover a range of topics, from beauty and food trends to celebrity interviews, appearing in an array of publications and newspapers such as: The New York Times, The New York Post, and Daily News, as well as national magazines: Time Magazine, Town & Country Travel, Travel & Leisure Golf, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, Self, Time Out, Wine Enthusiast, Esquire and Departures, among others. Her collection of shorts,The Joy of Funerals is the recent winner of the Ingram Award, and was named Best Debut Novel ...
Susan Sherman
Poet, playwright, and founding editor of IKON magazine, Susan Sherman has published four collections of poetry; a poetry, essay and short fiction collection, The Color of the Heart (Curbstone) and has had twelve plays produced off-off Broadway. Her translation of Shango de Ima (Doubleday) won eleven AUDELCO awards for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe production in 1996. Among her awards are a NYFA fellowship for creative nonfiction, a NYFA Fellowship in poetry and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her latest book America's Child: A Woman's Journey through the Radical Sixties (Curbstone, November '07) has garnered critical acclaim from the New York Times Book Review, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly and Lambda Book Review and ...
Wah-Ming Chang
Wah-Ming Chang has received grants from the Urban Artist Initiative, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Bronx Writers' Center, and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works it in New York City.
Felicia C. Sullivan
Felicia C. Sullivan is the author of The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life, which has been featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, USA Today, Newsday, and The Washington Post. She received her MFA from Columbia University's writing program and has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine and SLS Literary Seminars. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in anthologies and journals. In 2001, she founded the award-winning literary journal Small Spiral Notebook. Sullivan lives in New York, where she works in publishing.
Michael Moreci
Michael Moreci holds an MA in fiction from Northwestern University. His fiction, journalism, and book reviews have appeared in Stop Smiling, After Hours, Other Voices, New City, North Shore Magazine, Keepgoing, and In These Times. He's recently completed his first novel, titled Baron's Chronicle.
Lisa Williams
Lisa Williams is the author of The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf (Greenwood Press, 2000). Her book of creative nonfiction, Letters to Virginia Woolf, was published by Hamilton Books (June 2005). Lisa has published poetry, essays, and reviews in such publications as The Women's Studies Quarterly, The Tusculum Review, The Viriginia Woolf Miscellany, and For She is the Tree of Life: Grandmothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers. She teaches writing and literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Ella Veres
Ella Veres is a writer/performer/image maker hailing from Transylvania boasting of a Hungarian-Romanian-Gypsy heritage. Her latest dramatic collage, Three Eco-Friendly Self-Propelled Clowns, opened for a five-week run on October 19, 2007 off-off Broadway. At present she is the artistic director of her own shoe-string company, Ella Veres ArtVentures. For more information please visit her website: ellaveres.com
Marjorie Tesser
Marjorie Tesser has co-edited The Mom Egg with Alana Free for the past three years. With Bob Holman, she co-edited the anthologies Bowery Women: Poems and Estamos Aquí, Poems by Migrant Farmworkers, translated by Janine Pommy Vega (both Bowery Books). She produced Bowery Women: Shoot the Poem!, a video poetry festival funded by the Center for Experimental Television, in NYC this year.
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