Authors

Basting is an artist, scholar, and educator committed to the power of the arts and culture to transform our lives as individuals and communities. She is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and founder and President of the award-winning non-profit TimeSlips. TimeSlips fosters an alliance of artists and caregivers bringing meaning and joy to late life through creativity, and has over 900 certified facilitators in 48 states and 20 countries.

Basting’s innovative work as both a community-engaged artist and a scholar has been recognized by a MacArthur Fellowship, an Ashoka Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and multiple major grants. She is author/editor of multiple books, including her latest, Creative Care, published by HarperOne; as well as The Penelope Project and Forget Memory.

 

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Maryanne O’Hara is the author of Little Matches: A Memoir of Grief and Light, published by Harper One, the novel Cascade, and many short stories.  Little Matches is inspired by 9LivesNotes.com, a blog that Maryanne kept while her daughter Caitlin was waiting for a lung transplant. Since Caitlin’s passing, she has been certified by the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine as an end-of-life doula, so that she may better speak to the state of end-of-life care in our culture. She is the former associate fiction editor of the literary journal Ploughshares, and has taught creative writing at Emerson College and Clark University.

 

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Toby Barlow lives in Detroit. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and The Paris Review. He is the author of Sharp Teeth and Babayaga.

 

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Ailton Krenak was born in the Doce River Valley region of southeast Brazil, which has been heavily impacted by mining. In 1987, while giving a speech on indigenous rights at the Brazilian Constituent Assembly, Ailton smeared his face with natural black paint in an unforgettable act of symbolism. Ever since, he has been heralded as one of the foremost Brazilian thinkers, and established a lifelong career fighting for the rights of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples.

His first title, Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, was published July 2019 and has sold over 150,000 copies in Brazil alone, while Life is not Useful has passed the 75,000 mark.

 

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Rory Squire is an American-British writer. She received her degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2014. She divides her time between Sweden and the United States.

 

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Caroline G. Rhame is an author of historical and contemporary fiction. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in Art History and studied at the Lorenzo de’ Medici School in Florence, Italy. She worked for over a decade at magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and I.D. Magazine. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two daughters, and one vivacious little dog.

 

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Smriti Ravindra holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. As a Fulbright scholar, she studied women’s oral storytelling in the Terai region of her native Nepal. Her fiction and journalism have been published in the US, India, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Mumbai.

 

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Julie Dobrow is a professor at Tufts University, where she is also the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Her last book, After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet (WW Norton, 2018), a mother/daughter biography of the two women most responsible for initially publishing Emily Dickinson’s poetry and crafting the image of her we have today, was a finalist for the Plutarch Award in Biography and long-listed for a Pen/Bograd Weld Award. In addition to her biography work and academic writing, Dobrow has worked professionally as a journalist, her work appearing in the Boston Globe Magazine, Huffington Post and other publications. She lives with her family outside of Boston.

 

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W.S. Winslow was born and raised in Maine, but spent much of her working life in New York in corporate communications and marketing. A ninth-generation Mainer, she now lives most of the year in a small town Downeast. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in French from the University of Maine as well as an MFA from NYU. Her short fiction has appeared in Yemassee Journal and Bird’s Thumb. Her first novel, The Northern Reach, will be published by Flatiron Books on March 2, 2021.

 

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Lisa Wells is the author of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) and The Fix (2018), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize.

Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, The Believer, N+1 and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle and is an editor for The Volta and Letter Machine Editions.

 

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