Donna Hardy

Donna Hardy leads weekend retreats and ongoing groups for which she shapes unexpected writing experiences as tools for self-exploration. She is a psychotherapist, poet, and writer; a wife, mother, grandmother, colleague, and friend. She lives in Santa Rosa, California.

She is the author of Songs to a Watchful Lover, a book of poems based upon the Psalms. She has recently finished editing Maria Rifo Alive at Any Age, A Memoir. She is next writing and rewriting a collection of essays. See Books.

Clare Morris

Clare Morris, PhD, psychotherapist and teacher, has been riding buses all her life, most recently with the companionship of her guide dog, Joy. Her fascination with city folk spills from the bus out onto the sidewalks of San Francisco and into cafes, museums, and concert halls. "City life is like my inner life," she says, "full of change, pain, beauty and birth."

She is the author of two books of poetry, In Transit, Love Poems to the City and Child of the Longest Night. See Books.

Nancy Gibbs Richard

Poet and photographer, Nancy Gibbs Richard lives with her husband Charles Richard in Windsor, California and Friday Harbour, Washington. They have five grown children and three granddaughters.

Nancy writes, "The taking of photographs and writing of small, spare poems and meditations are an essential part of my spiritual practice. Often they are a form of prayer calling me to see with new eyes, to hear with a new heart. They require a willingness on my part to enter stillness, to listen, to look for the presence of sacred mystery everywhere."

She is the author of A Small Steadying Sail of Love. See Books.