Ron Stempkowski, Author
I’m a writer focused on stories of love, loss, and what it means to keep living forward when life changes you. My work blends grief, memory, humor, and hope, and often lives at the intersection of writing and journaling. My upcoming book of essays, The Luck We Carry: Love, Loss, and the Stories that Shape Us, comes out on March 23, 2026. If you want thoughtful essays, behind-the-scenes reflections on my upcoming book, and honest notes about rebuilding a meaningful life, subscribe to The Writing Life, Rewritten. It’s where I show up regularly, on the page, and invite you to do the same.
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JoNelle Toriseva believes in self-expression, art and the power of writing for everyone. An award winning writer, her poetry collection, Barbed Water, was elected by Shane McCrane for Saudade's contest.
She was also awarded the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry from Cutbank, chosen by Oliver de la Paz. Toriseva’s work has appeared in The North American Review, The Literary Review, The Saranac Review, The Cincinnati Review, Descant, and JACKET, among others, and included in Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound from City Lights, and Best Canadian Poetry in English. Close Calls, edited by Susan Fox Rogers. Toriseva edited the Image Out Anthology for the Image Out Film Fetival. She's taught writing internationally and in the United States, for Mills College, SUNY, California Poets in the Schools, San Francisco WritersCorps, and Literary Arts of Portland, Oregon.
I love creating stories for children and young people with big themes and deep roots, with a mixture of whimsy and high stakes.
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