Maria T. Allocco spent a week at Wente Vineyards in a co-residency and sums up her time in eight words: Gratitude. Beauty. Silence. Laughter...
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Writer Alia Volz spent time with two fellow writers in a co-residency at Inman Family Vines where she discovered “Stories grow wild, fresh and juicy between the vines ...
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Monica Nolan shared a house with two other writers as part of her co-residency at Inman Family Wines. “We all so loved the retreat experience. It was one of the most rewarding ...
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Jacqueline Doyle is a professor at California State University, East Bay, where she teaches creative writing and literature. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Southern Humanities Review ...
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Kristy Leissle, also known as Dr. Chocolate, is faculty at the University of Washington Bothell and Cultural Specialist for National Geographic/Lindblad Expeditions ...
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Wine writer Alfonso Cevola found time to explore the region, taste some local wine, and get some work done on a forthcoming book during his retreat at Messina Hof Manor ...
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Phoebe is a New York based writer, cookbook author, private chef, culinary instructor, and blogger. She is a regular contributor to Food & Wine, Food52, Serious Eats, and ...
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Mary Cressler found the surroundings at Tinhorn Creek vineyards to be peaceful and productive, and blessedly free from the many interruptions that are the norm ...
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Writer Melissa Yancy discovered what all the fuss is about regarding Pinot and terroir in Anderson Valley, and found the vineyard setting around her retreat at The Madrones perfectly suited for work on ...
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Yalitza Ferreras is a 2014-2015 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won the Delbanco Thesis Prize. ...
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