Marj Hahne is a freelance editor and writing teacher, a 2015 MFA graduate from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and the founder-director of The Avocado Sisterhood, a membership organization for women writers. She has taught poetry-in-the-schools and for The International Women’s Writing Guild since 2001, and has read at over 100 venues around the country, including public radio and television. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, art exhibits, and dance performances. Having earned a B.S. in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, she previously taught high-school mathematics at Friends Select School in Philadelphia, as well as Business English and English-as-a-Second-Language to international students. Since moving to Colorado ten years ago, Marj has created a variety of hybrid-arts programming, including an online-radio interview show called Coffee Folk, an arts/sciences salon series called Atomic Circus, a theme-based literary series called Lingua Radio, and, most recently, booze-and-poem pairings.  www.MarjHahne.com / www.TheAvocadoSisterhood.com