Board of Directors

Board Chair Rekha Rosha‘s work on the intersections of fiction and finance has appeared in anthologies published by Palgrave Macmillan and Cambridge Scholars Publishing. She has taught courses on American literature and composition at Boston University, Wake Forest University, and at Brandeis University, where she received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature. Her favorite moments in the classroom were teaching “When Zombies Attack!”–a composition course that explored questions only the undead can raise about consciousness and identity. She is currently writing an early American noir novel about the violence of colonization in 1630 Boston. She lives in beautiful Pawtuxet Village. 

Elisabeth K. Hubbard is a civil rights attorney by trade, but hangs out with writers because she thinks they are really cool.  She became involved with Frequency several years ago when some of these friends suggested she take a class.  She soon found herself not just welcome into the Frequency community, but on the board where she hopes to use her legal powers for good. When she is not lawyering or non-profiteering she is knitting sweaters for her wiener dog.

Emeritus

Darcie Dennigan is one of the founders of Frequency. From 2011 until January 2016, Darcie led Frequency with a vision that has made it what it is today. She is the author of Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse,  Madame X, and The Dept. of Ephebic Dreamery. She is currently a poet in residence at the University of Connecticut, and has taught writing at Brown Continuing Studies, Holy Cross, and elsewhere.

Elizabeth Howort founded Frequency with Darcie Dennigan in 2011. She has taught poetry at the fifth grade, high school and college level.  Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in L Magazine,The Round, Storyscape, THUNDERCLAP! Magazine, Transportal, and the Best American Poetry blog. She has taught writing for URI, Roger Williams University, and as a poet-in-residence for Writers in the Schools Rhode Island.

MacKenzie Abernethy trumpets reading and writing as collaborative. They write Social Studies textbooks with the Choices Program, and curriculum for Inventing Heron. In their past teaching experience—across ages 6-60—MacKenzie integrates language, the arts, and International relations for a greater understanding of communities. 

Katie Brunero previously served as Managing Director. She has been published in journals such as CactusHeart, BlazeVox, Belleville Parks Pages, Bangalore Review, Black Heart Magazine, Interrobang, Catacomb and others. She received her masters in english with a focus in fiction.

Raz Cunningham is a director and co-founder of LittleFire, a content and production Company. Most recently, he produced the regional Emmy Winning PBS Mystery-Comedy series “THE COBBLESTONE CORRIDOR. ”

Chris Dickson is an educator and advisor with College Unbound in Providence, RI where he teaches courses on Critical Pedagogy, Social Justice, Conflict Transformation, & Community Development. 

Kristen Falso-Capaldi is the recipient of a 2018 Assets for Artists grant in creative writing. Her writing has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Volume 1 Brooklyn, Joyland and on The Other Stories Podcast, and her short play, Threshold, debuted at the 2016 ten-minute play festival the Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre. She has been both a teacher and a board member at Frequency.

Evelyn Hampton served as a director and teacher for Frequency.  She is the author of Discomfort (a book of stories) and We Were Eternal and Gigantic (a chapbook of stories and poems). In October 2015, Alice Blue Books released Seven Touches of Music, and in May 2016, Meekling Press will release another chapbook, The Academy, as part of their Chill Horizon series. Evelyn lives in Oregon.

Karen Haskell has an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her chapbook Sixty Years was published by Finishing Line Press. Her work has been included in anthologies, RI Parent Magazine, and she was a member of the Listen to Your Mother Providence cast. Karen has over 12 years of experience as an administrator in non-profit adult education and as a teacher in higher education. She has also been a Frequency volunteer and student.

Dennise M. Kowalczyk relocated to Providence from Portland, Oregon.  She has worked for various non-profits as both a professional fundraiser and a communications manager. Her background includes working at various non-commercial radio stations in a volunteer capacity and later, as an employee. 

Janaya Kizzie writes horror stories and an occasional prose-style sonnet. Providence inspires her often, and her career as an archivist often informs the historical elements in her creative work. She is particularly interested in genre fiction  (especially historical fiction, horror and sci fi), interstitial fiction, small-batch self-publishing, and the places where writing meets other things, like visual art, music and film. Janaya served as interim co-director in 2016.

Jenna LeGault is a humanist with broad interests in things collaborative and creative.  She specializes in fostering meaningful engagements between diverse publics and the humanities.  Her BA in women’s studies and French (Tulane) led her to an MA in comparative literature/in French (Carleton) where she focused her research on the frequency and presence of narratorial interventions in private writing.  Since moving to Providence in 2006, she has been working as an arts administrator, creative project manager, and recently, as a research administrator.  She owns Ada Books with her husband. She reads for entertainment and edification.  She plays an instrument.  

Erica Mena is a poet, translator, and book artist. She holds an MFA in poetry from Brown University, and an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa. Her book Featherbone (Ricochet Editions, 2015) won a 2016 Hoffer First Horizons Award. Her translation of the Argentine graphic novel The Eternaut by H.G. Oesterheld and F. Solano Lopez (Fantagraphics, 2015) won a 2016 Eisner Award. She is the editor in chief of Drunken Boat, and the founding editor of Anomalous Press. Puerto Rican by descent, she was born and raised in Boston, and now lives between Providence, RI and

San Francisco, CA with three cats, one husband, and a growing collection of imaginary beings. You can find her online at http://www.acyborgkitty.com.

Renee Soto served as a director and teacher for Frequency. Her professional life has been dedicated to literary culture, specifically as a poet, an editor, an educator, and a community-arts activist. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in literary magazines including Crab Orchard Review, The Greensboro Review, The Indiana Review, and storySouth. She has served as poetry editor at The Greensboro Review, managing editor at Southern Poetry Review, founding editor at roger, an art & literary magazine, and is a contributing editor to Cave Wall. She has served on the panel of the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship Awards committee that determines the awarding of state fellowships in poetry.

S. Tourjee  has been a director and teacher with Frequency since 2013. They are the author of the  Ghost and When Tongue Was Muscle, both published by Anomalous Press, and a recently completed manuscript titled Sam Says, Sam. They write in a hybrid form of prose and poetry and collaborates frequently with many different artists. In 2014, Ghost was adapted for ballet by the Berkshire Choreography Project. They hold an MFA from Brown University, and were a 2015-2016 Artist-in-Residence at Joshua Tree National Park. Their work can be found online at stourjee.com.

Maryann Ullmann teaches adult ESOL at English for Action in Olneyville, as well as history, civics, and Spanish at School One. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University in Pittsburgh with emphases on Fiction and Pedagogy, and earned the program’s top fellowship for commitment to community leadership. She has taught creative writing in numerous community spaces including county jails, cultural centers, and afterschool programs for youth. She has published stories, essays, articles and poems in publications such as Permafrost, Literary Bohemian, Prime Number and Whole Terrain, among others. She is bilingual in English and Spanish, and has worked with English language learners from a wide variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. 

Rosalynde Vas Dias’s poetry has appeared in Crazyhorse, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Pinch, Laurel Review, The Collagist, The Four Way Review and elsewhere. She has done bookkeeping for Frequency since late 2014 and served on the Frequency board since 2015. Her first book, Only Blue Body, won the 2011 Robert Dana Award offered by Anhinga Press. She loves to teach and take Frequency classes.

Lucas Pralle is the co-founder of the audio-based creativity workshop series, Endless Beautiful. He’s a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and enjoys bringing his expressive workshops to vet programs in Rhode Island. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island Masters of Adult Education Program. Lucas’s creativity workshops can be found at endlessbeautiful.com. Info about his written work and audio drama series, Inner Harsh, is available on innerharsh.com.

Craig Demi received the honor of being named for a 2016 Fellowship Award in fiction by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. His writing has appeared in American Fiction 17 published by New Rivers Press (2019), and Meat for Tea; The Valley Review and Missing Providence; A Frequency Anthology.

Danielle Stockley is a former editor at Penguin Random House who has worked with numerous award-winning and national bestselling authors, including Caitlín R. Kiernan and Christina Henry. A Rhode Island native, she recently returned to the state with her husband, two cats, and tiny dog named Pip. She holds an MA in Children’s Literature from Simmons University.

Kristin Vegh is a poet whose work has appeared in Farrago Quarterly, and has served as choral text for award-winning composer Jake Gunnar Walsh. She holds a BA in English and writing.

Christena Carollo is a Florida native who moved to the Ocean State two years ago to experience the seasons and New England’s undeniable charm. By day, Christena works as a marketing associate for Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island, a non-profit in Providence that provides services for immigrants and refugees. Christena is a Frequency Writers alumna and is passionate about fiction writing and connecting with those who love the craft.