Arianne MacBean
Arianne MacBean is a writer, educator, and Artistic Director of The Big Show Co. – an LA-based dance-theater group. She recently graduated with an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and currently works as a Somatic Psychotherapist as a registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist (License #139718) in Los Angeles, CA employed by Here Counseling and supervised by Connor McClenahan, PsyD. You can find more of Arianne's writing at her blog Write Big: https://www.thebigshowco.com/write-big-blog.
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Cecilia Dintino
Dr. Cecilia Dintino is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, The Women’s Program and faculty at New York University’s graduate program in Drama Therapy. She is co-founder of Twisting The Plot: Solutions for Women over 50.
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Cristian Horgos
Cristian Horgos lives in Romania. After graduating Math and IT, he taught Math-IT for ten years. He currently works for an IT company. Some of his other published articles are: Mathematical equation, hidden in Brâncusi's Triptych from Târgu-Jiu ttps://www.romaniajournal.ro/society-people/mathematical-equation-hidden-in-brancusis-triptych-from-targu-jiu/#google_vignette Fibonacci Numbers in Cucuteni Culture https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesEurope/BarbarianCultures03.htm#:~:text=However%2C%20Fibonacci%20numbers%20can%20apparently,the%20disappearance%20of%20the%20Cucuteni.
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Elif Armbruster
Elif Armbruster, PhD, is a professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston where she focuses her teaching and research on American Women's Writing and Literature. She has published a book, edited two classic novels, and written a number of essays on women writers from Willa Cather to Laura Ingalls Wilder. She is inspired by rebel girls and nasty women writers across the centuries, from Harriet Jacobs and Phillis Wheatley to Louisa May Alcott and Edith Wharton to Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison. She attributes her own particular brand of nastiness to the legacy of indomitable women in her family from her great aunt, Elizabeth, who was a Lieutenant Colonel in World War II and earned a doctorate in education, to her mother who raised three children on her own while working 60 hours a week at Yale Medical School. In recent years, Elif has been working on inspiring her own daughter, Mea, to embrace her rebel girl self by bringing her to her classes on "Nasty Women in American Literature," among others. Elif lives outside of Boston with her husband, daughter, and puppy, Cooper, a miniature poodle, who keeps her company while she is writing.
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Enzie Riddle
Enzie Riddle is a digital artist born and raised in Kansas. She started her small art business, We R Angry at https://werangry.com/, in June 2025 with the intention of making others feel seen in their anger through what she creates. Enzie experienced a long period of time where she did not create at all. Through her teens and early twenties she was discouraged from drawing pieces that conveyed intensity in emotion–whether it was rage, fear, sadness, and the like. After breaking free from the expectations of others, she has found herself among a community of people that see themselves in her designs. Much of her work symbolizes the strength and anger of women and other marginalized groups. Her goal is to not only continually improve as an artist, but as a person who can see people in their deepest emotions, meet them there, and dwell with them in the darkness.
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Jamie Swann
Jamie Swann is a writer, nurse, and healthcare consultant with a passion for resilience, narrative, and systemic change. After losing her job in July 2024, she rediscovered her lifelong love for writing and completed her memoir, The Last Time I Saw Me: Reclaiming the Stories that Others Tried to Write for Me, which is now in the editing process. Jamie is currently working on her second book, Unwell at Work: Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Corporate America. Based in Richmond, Virginia, she blends her professional expertise with personal insight, bridging individual stories with broader societal challenges.
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Jocelyn Crawley
Jocelyn Crawley is a thinker who believes that critically contemplating female existence and agency under male supremacy is not only important but imperative. When not writing, she enjoys drinking coffee and studying the life of Jesus.
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Karin Peschau
Karin Peschau, artist, writer and activist, currently resides in both Germany and Italy. She is the creator of the MagnaMaterProject. Karin writes: I was born in the Harz mountains, close to the Brocken, considered the place where the witches have been meeting since remote times. Goethe set his oeuvre, The Faust, there. I studied Political Science, women’s studies, and romanistic languages in Berlin, in Paris, and then painting at the Art Academy of Verona, learning also ancient techniques from Maestro Federico Bellomi, a fresco painter. The main issue of my life, apart from “Awakening,” being a born feminist, is the liberation of humanity from patriarchal oppression. I am offering courses and workshops with the intent to liberate the archaic and sacred feminine energy through art and meditation and I love painting portraits, a face for me reveals the inner life of a person, going back some generations, sometimes… Learn more about Karin and her art here. Contact Karin at: magnamaterproject at gmx.com
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Maria Dintino
Maria Dintino has worked in higher education for twenty-six years, the first twenty-three at Keene State College in Keene, NH and the past few years at Flagler College in St Augustine, Florida. While in graduate school, Maria became enamored with the Transcendentalists, especially Henry David Thoreau. Although introduced to Margaret Fuller then, she did not comprehend her undeniable significance until another encounter many years later. It is now clear to Maria that Margaret is destined to claim her rightful place in American herstory and one of Maria’s goals is to help her do so. Maria’s first work of creative nonfiction, The Light Above: A Memoir with Margaret Fuller has been recently published and she is at work on her second book. Contact Maria at mdintino477 at aol.com.
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Mia Szarvas
Mia Szarvas was born in Vermont to an Israeli father and Italian-American mother, raised in California, and currently lives in Bremen, Germany. Her grandmother escaped from Poland in August of 1939 with her parents and sister, with whom she set up a new life in Palestine, while the family they left behind perished in the Holocaust. Mia has a degree in Political Ecology from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an MBA, and works in tech to create empowerment in unexpected places. She is curious about multiculturalism, languages, feminism, and how our intertwined histories inform the present.
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Michelle Barthel Kratts
Michelle Barthel Kratts has written, edited or contributed to several books of local interest including: The Missed, tales of spirit and tragic end at Niagara ; Haunted, true tales of Niagara; Anna Edson Taylor, the Queen of Oakwood; Angels on the Battlefield, Niagara’s Civil War Past; The Italians of Niagara Falls (Vols. I , II and III); Buon Appetito, Niagara’s early Italian-American culinary traditions ; From the Mouth of the Lower Niagara River and most recently Niagara Falls in World War II. Her poetry has been published in several issues of Slipstream. She holds degrees from Niagara University, the University of Toronto and the University of New York at Buffalo and is presently a librarian at the Lewiston Public Library. Michelle lives in Niagara Falls with her husband and three children in a very old home by the edge of a creek.She is contributing writer on The Journal of the Dead Beats Society and Kratt’s Korner, Oakwood Cemetery Association
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Mildred Faintly
Mildred Faintly, poet and translator, holds a doctorate in Classics from Brown University, and taught Classics and History of Religions at Haifa University. She is a contributor to The Jewish Women's Archive, and reviews books for 96thofoctober.com.
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Nancy Wikarski
Nancy Wikarski is a fugitive from academia. After earning her PhD from the University of Chicago, she became a computer consultant and then turned to historical mystery writing. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Society of Midland Authors, and has served as vice president of Sisters in Crime - Twin Cities, and on the programming board of the Chicago chapter. Her short stories have appeared in Futures Magazine and DIME Anthology while her book reviews and articles have been featured in Murder: Past Tense, Deadly Pleasures, and Mystery Readers Journal. Her Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, set in 1890s Chicago, have received People's Choice Award nominations for Best First Novel and Best Historical as well as a Lovey Award Nomination for Best Traditional Amateur Sleuth. Titles include The Fall of White City (rev. 2020), Shrouded in Thought (rev. 2020), and The Black Widow’s Prey (2021). Her seven-book Arkana Archaeology Mysteries have all become Amazon bestsellers. Using a contemporary time period, they reveal prehistory from a feminist perspective. The series finale received a Best Mystery of the Month award nomination from L.A.S. Reviews. Titles include The Granite Key (2011), The Mountain Mother Cipher (2011), The Dragon’s Wing Enigma (2012), Riddle of the Diamond Dove (2013), Into the Jaws of the Lion (2014), Secrets of the Serpent’s Heart (2015), and The Sage Stone Prophecy (2016). The further adventures of the Arkana are covered in a spin-off series of stand-alone adventures called The Trove Chronicles. The first book, Lucifer’s Triangle, debuted in 2022.
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Ottilee O'Malley
Ottilee O’Malley studied languages at Columbia University, and worked as a bartender, a night concierge, and a high-school Spanish teacher while she devoted herself to the art and poetry of East Asia. O'Malley is the author of two books, Woman in Chinese and Even Unto China.
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Patrick Chura
Patrick Chura is a professor in the English department at the University of Akron, where he teaches courses in American literature and culture studies. He is the author of three books and has published articles on a variety of literary-historical topics.
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Peggy Landsman
Peggy Landsman is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Too Much World, Not Enough Chocolate (Nightingale & Sparrow Press, 2024), and two poetry chapbooks: Our Words, Our Worlds (Kelsay Books, 2021) and To-wit To-woo (Foothills Publishing, 2008). She lives in South Florida within a short drive of a good library and a beautiful beach. A selection of her online publications is available on her website: peggylandsman.wordpress.com
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Starla Carr
Some people paint pictures with words and others create art with language. Miss Carr designs word play to help heal the reader. She’s an author, poet, spoken word artist, ghostwriter, lgbtqia activist and warrior of words. Recently she has completed her first book of poetry titled Who Molested My Elephant. The collection of poems takes readers on a journey to identify who it was that caused pain, so that there can be healing in moving forward. Her 2nd book published this year is a compilation of stories from the people who she worships with, titled Christian Terrorism. This book is an awakening of how Christianity can become twisted when those who claim they love Christ use their words and attitudes as weapons
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Theresa C. Dintino
Theresa C. Dintino, co-founder of Nasty Women Writers and feminist from a young age, is the author of nine books, including Ode to Minoa and Stories They Told Me, two novels exploring the life of a snake priestess in Bronze Age Crete, and The Strega and the Dreamer, a work of historical fiction based on the true story of her great-grandparents. Other books include The Oscan Oracle, co-written with Rauri Tor, Welcoming Lilith: Awakening and Welcoming Pure Female Power, Membranes of Hope: A Guide to Attending to the Spiritual Boundaries that Keep Lifesystems Healthy from the Personal to the Cosmic, The Amazon Pattern: A Message from Ancient Women Diviners of Trees and Time, Notes From a Diviner in the Postmodern World: A Handbook for Spirit Workers, and Teachings from the Trees: Spiritual Mentoring from the Standing Ones. Find out more about Theresa at ritualgoddess.com
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