ABOUT ROXAN

Roxan McDonald has dedicated herself to helping people find their voice both on the page and in their lives

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For fourteen years Roxan was on the management team of two alternative high schools focused on serving at-risk youth. Roxan taught creative writing, poetry, and memoir writing in alternative schools and produced eleven anthologies of student writing.

Roxan currently leads writing groups and personal development retreats in Santa Cruz, Carmel, and Monterey. She co-teaches with Ellen Bass at Esalen Institute and 1440 Multiversity. She’s also the founder of Spiritual AF & the wildly successful podcast Spiritual AF or Whatever.

She has studied with Ellen Bass, Marcy Allencraig, Joseph Stroud, Barbara Bloom, Jessica Brown, and Andy Courturier. She is an alum of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Breadloaf Sicily and is a member of Cheryl Strayed's Writers Camp. Roxan won the Mary Lonnberg Smith Award in poetry and her short stories, memoir excerpts, and poetry have been published in The Porter Gulch Review.  She won the Eshleman Scholarship for the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Roxan received an honorable mention in nonfiction for the San Miguel de Allende Writers'

Conference Writing Contest for an excerpt from her memoir. She was longlisted in The 2021 First Pages Prize and is a finalist in the 2021 Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Roxan is the author of the best selling self-help decks Spiritual AF and Grateful AF published by Knock Knock Publishing. Roxan holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Education from California Institute of Integral Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University.Roxan’s a writer, teacher, public speaker, coach, and workshop facilitator.

MEET THE TEAM

DESI
LENC

  • With a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Northridge State University, Desi Lenc writes speculative fiction that explores the healing potential dream work can have in our lives. As a writer, Desi has an ability to recognize the interplay of symbols and metaphors of dreams that illuminate inner narratives.  She has a passion for equipping people with the tools to hear their inner wisdom and believes in the soul enriching practice of communal dream sharing. Her passion for assisting writers in exploring their creativity led her to the operations manager position at Resource For Writers. She has participated in various readings and panels around the Bay Area, including FogCon, Lit Quake, Beast Crawl, and FIYAH Magazine’s An Afrofuturist Reading. You can find her writing in Midnight & Indigo and Spirituality & Health Magazine. She has held dream workshops with Midnight & Indigo, The International Women’s Writing Guild, and Resource For Writers She’s currently pursuing her certification in Dreamtending from Pacifica University.

REBECCA CHAMBERS

  • Rebecca’s a digital nomad whose home base is an unabridged island off the coast of Maine and a self converted custom tiny home van she built named ‘Dagmar’. She got a mad love and skills for designing custom Squarespace websites and all things media/ techie related. She’s on a mission to support creatives and entrepreneurs reach the next level of success with beautifully designed websites and online businesses.

MISS
POSYGIRL

  • Miss PosyGirl is a full time busy body scrappy scrapster lovable pooch. Her side hustle is chasing anything that moves!

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