Prompts suggested by the authors will invi te participants to explore the dynamic relationship between past experienc es and present identity and encourage participants to consider broader the mes such as time\, change\, loss\, resilience\, and transformation.
\n< p>Carla Panciera was born on her family&rsquo\;s dairy fa rm in Westerly\, Rhode Island. Her poetry collections include Cider Press Award Winner\, One of the Cimalores\, Bordighera Press Award Winn er\, No Day\, No Dusk\, No Love and most recently\, One Trail of Longing\, Another of String (also Bordighera)\, longlisted for th e Massachusetts Book Award. Her short story collection\, Bewildered\, received AWP&rsquo\;s Grace Paley Award and was published by the Univ ersity of Massachusetts Press. She is also the author of Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir\, a finalist for the Bakeless Prize. Her wo rk has appeared in numerous journals including the New England Review\, Po etry\, Spillway\, Water~Stone Review\, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Car la has received funding \; from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, t he Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Bread Loaf Writers Confere nce. She is the Assistant Poetry Editor for Mom Egg Review. A retired high school English teacher\, Panciera lives on the North Shore of Massachuset ts.\nJane Alessandrini Ward is the author of S hould Have Told You Sooner (2026)\, In the Aftermath (She Wr ites Press\, 2021)\, The Mosaic Artist (2011)\, and Hunger (Forge\, 2001).After graduating from Simmons College\, Jane began worki ng in the food and hospitality industry almost immediately\, taking on a r ange of roles that included planning private events and working as a weeke nd baker in a neighborhood bakery. Later\, she became a contributing write r to an online regional and seasonal food magazine\, as well as a blogger and occasional host of cooking videos for an internet recipe resource affi liated with several regional newspapers. Most recently\, she has contribut ed book reviews to Story Circle and Mom Egg Review. She loves to travel an d often documents her trips through travel photography. Jane lives north o f Boston.
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