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Sarah Avery is an escaped academic who writes contemporary and epic fantasy. She won the 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for her novella collection Tales from Rugosa Coven. Her short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Space and Time Magazine, Great Jones Street, and Fantasy Scroll, as well as Black Gate, where she wrote a column on teaching and fantasy literature for a decade. She lives in Maryland with her family and over a hundred kinds of medicinal plants.
I love to paint! Period. Although I won the annual art award my senior year in high school (long long ago), "life" got in the way of my pursuing an art career. When I turned 60 I just decided to start; to learn as best I could. I am a member of the "It's never to late to start club". Thank goodness for the internet - so many wonderful art videos available.
Dorian Berman is a self-taught American artist currently living in Bethesda, MD. Originally from Dallas, Texas, she started her love of culture and travel as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, and later lived ten years in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She left Montreal and her many years of teaching to become a full-time artist four years ago, settling in the Washington, D.C. area.
I was born and raised through my teenaged years, in New Orleans. It framed my vision of life. It was and continues to be a place of extremes: beauty and decay, religion and ritual, custom and iconoclasm. From that experience, I acquired an excitement for visual matters: colors, forms and even artifacts. Having lived on the border with Mexico for ten years changed my view of contemporary culture and our collective social responsibility. As a result, the expression of my imagery has become more topical.
I am a Maryland artist who draws his inspiration from philosophy, sacred history, and the natural world. Working in a variety of media -- mainly acrylic paint -- I try to convey a sense of mystery and expectancy in my paintings, so that each transcends momentary impressions to describe permanent things.
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Twanna A. Hines is founder and CEO of FUNKY BROWN CHICK. A social entrepreneur and award-winning sex and relationships educator, she has appeared on CNN, NPR, Sirius, CBC (Canadian National Radio), Paris Première (French Television), and in documentary films. She has written for The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Time Out New York, Lifetime, Mashable, Nerve, New York Press, Fast Company, and The Huffington Post. Her work also appears in the books Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak, Migration and Immigration: A Global View, and On Purpose: Rhetorical Analysis of Non-Fiction.