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Ellen Orleans loves exploring the world through words. A novelist, essayist, and creator of the occasional word collage, she writes in her nearby carriage house—the NoBo version of an artist’s garret.  Ellen has written seven books, most recently Mother Blue and the Deep Down Under: Stories Inspired by Caribou Ranch Open Space, and Inside, The World is Orange, a memoir. Her lesbian parody, The Butches of Madison County was a 1995 Lammy Award winner. Her work has been published in a dozen anthologies, many literary journals, The Washington Post (pre-Bezos) and also performed on NPR’s “Hanukkah Lights.” She’s currently completing Red Threads, a novel based in Rocky Mountain National Park. EllenOrleans.com

Frankie Rollins has worked 41 different jobs in her desire to live a life that centers writing. Frankie has published Do You Feel Like Writing? A Creative Guide to Artistic Confidence, and two works of fiction, The Sin Eater & Other Stories, and The Grief Manuscript. In 2023, Frankie left academia and founded the Fifth Brain Collective, an online space of radiant warmth for the cultivation of creativity and artistic confidence, with a weekly conversational membership, coaching, and a free weekly writing sprint called Fruit Cup.

Teré Fowler-Chapman (he/they) BFA, CLC, PRC, is a Black trans poet, educator, and certified life and recovery coach based in Denver, with roots in Tucson and Bossier City. An MFA student at Antioch University and the author of M O O N S H i N E, you can find Teré or his work at the Poetry Foundation, TEDx, NPR/PBS, HardBeauty, CAIR, AutoStraddle, Hugo House, UA Poetry Center, and The Huffington Post. He is also a Marsha P. Johnson Institute and National Arts Strategies alum, and a Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy nominee. Learn more at terefc.com.