Dawn Thompson holds an M.A. in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Oregon. She has worked as a staff member for Write Around Portland and has facilitated workshops there for adults in drug and alcohol recovery and for individuals experiencing homelessness, living with disabilities, metastatic cancer, breast cancer and HIV/AIDS. She is also a Certified Hypnotherapist.
Dawn has been published in VoiceCatcher and Thresholds and has self-published a collection of short stories and a chapbook of poetry with her father. She is also the writer for Divine Eros, a photography narrative about women mystics. Dawn believes writing our stories, whether they originate from our life experience or our imagination, is a sacred act that heals and transforms us.
Rhea Wolf has been a workshop facilitator for over ten years, bringing creative writing, theater arts and the Work that Reconnects to a variety of groups, including at-risk youth and women in prison. In 2005, she started on a new path as a professional astrologer, writer and mama. Before this, she worked as Program Coordinator for Write Around Portland and was a member of the Sowelu Theater Ensemble. Rhea studied theater and deep ecology at the Naropa Institute, and has trained extensively with author and workshop leader Joanna Macy. In 2009, she graduated from Colette Gardiner's Mystery School in Portland.
Rhea brings her love of the Earth and her desire to deepen relationships to all that she does. She enyoys helping people connect to their creativity and to the larger world, so we can claim more beauty and magic in our daily lives. Rhea has a regular column appearing in Alternatives Magazine, and has written for New Connexion, Tarot.com and VoiceCatcher. She is the author of Persephone Rising, a self-published book of poems and stories, and the performance-poem Bones in the Earth. Rhea lives in SE Portland with her husband, two daughters, two friends, and some chickens.
Emily Trinkaus started leading AWA-style writing workshops in Brooklyn, NY in 1999, after training with Pat Schneider. She founded Portland Women Writers in 2003, took a hiatus in 2007-8, and is now thrilled to be back. She is an astrologer, BodyTalk practitioner and writer. For more info see virgomagic.com.
Emily edited the first edition of VoiceCatcher, writes astrology forecasts for New Connexion magazine, and in 2008 served as the in-house astrologer for Tarot.com. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University and completed an M.A. in Women's Studies at Emory University.
