Writers in the School Writers and Authors

Joanna Ruocco co-edits Birkensnake, a fiction journal.  She is the author of  the novel, The Mothering Coven, and the short story collection, Man's Companions.  Her stories and poems have appeared in various online and print publications, including Web Conjunctions, Caketrain, Marginalia, Fanzine, No Tell Motel, and No Colony.  She was the winner of the 2010 Noemi Press Fiction Chapbook Contest.  Her chapbook, A Compendium of Domestic Incidents, is forthcoming from Noemi Press.

Poet and fiction writer Seth has worked with youth for more than 10 years teaching workshops in writing, storytelling and acting. Formerly a member of Jafrika, a multi-cultural performance trio, SETH has taught and performed educational programs in public schools as well as for summer youth and recreational programs. Typically his students would perform their stories, plays and poems during school assemblies or before their parents and peers during special events. Seth is best known as one of Colorado’s more popular performance poets.

David Wirthlin is the author of the books Houndstooth (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) and Your Disappearance ( BlazeVOX Books, 2009). His work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, elimae, Sleepingfish, Harp & Altar, Horse Less Review and The 2nd Hand.  He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently at work on a PhD from the University of Denver. David is editor of the smallHABITS chap-journal of innovative fiction. Please visit David at http://www.davidwirthlin.com/

Danielle Vogel is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver, and graduated with her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University in 2007. She is the author of lit (Dancing Girl Press, 2008), and she has writing appearing and forthcoming in Cake Train, Horse Less Review, Omnia Vanitas Review, Sidebrow, and The Collagist. Danielle will be the featured writer in a show called Planchette with painter JL Schnabel during the summer of 2010 at Amberella Gallery in Philadelphia. She will be reading from her manuscript The Memory of a Color as part of the opening night for this show. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.