Ellen J. Reich is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 11 alum, a Spiritual Companion, and a Process Writing Facilitator. She loves deep listening and guiding others to honor their inner critics – by sending them on vacation – so that word-play can bounce around uninterrupted and with joy.
Erin "Fitz" FitzGerald
Erin “Fitz” FitzGerald is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 9 alum, and a human who believes deeply in the healing power of generous listening. She is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and was an instructor and director of Healer's Art, which utilizes generous listening as a skill to be with others' suffering and humanize medicine.
Frankie Abralind
Geva Thole
Gina Petersen
Gina Petersen is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 7 alum, and creates through mothering, nursing, mentoring, teaching, reflecting, reading, writing poetry, listening, and exploring nature with her husband, dog Rosie, newly born son, family, dear friends, and the souls she meets on the sojourns of her days.
Gray Davidson Carroll
Gregory Gray
Heather Coats
Ingrid Berg
Jennifer Chassman Browne
Jennifer Chassman Browne is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum. She has been an educator for over 25 years, and has since founded New Ground Educational Consulting, a DEI consulting company with an emphasis on disability. She delivers keynote presentations and develops and facilitates workshops related to disability and inclusion.
Jennifer Hahn
Jennifer Hahn, a proud Certified Listener Poet from Cohort 14, is a nurturer of plants, people, and perspectives. She grounds her practice as a istening poet with a depth of experience in caregiving from her roles as a physician assistant, preschool teacher, youth coordinator, Stephen's Minister, and family member. She believes in the alchemy at work that transforms deep listening and storytelling into an opportunity for reflection, connection, and healing.
Jenny Hegland
Jess Skyleson
Jo Linder
Joseph M. Jablonski
Joy-Jayne Bassey
Julia McDonald
Julie Jenson
Kaitlin Dyer
Kaitlin Dyer is a Certified Listener Poet Cohort 10 alum, and a born-Appalachian, raised-Midwestern, transplanted-Californian queer poet. She’s the author of Alter Lives of Alter Egos (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) and her poetry has appeared in journals such as Witness, Crab Orchard Review, and PANK, among others.
