”Life itself can be understood as the search for our stories, as the enactment of our stories, as the endless hope of evidence that we exist, and the craft of finding ourselves in the nuance of our individual voice within our shared stories. It is in this deep structural sense that I celebrate our Arts Letters and Numbers writing workshops directed by Ginger Teppner and Andrew Helton. These workshops create a space for a remarkable gathering of writers to explore their voices, to expand the individual poetic imagination and make space for our shared stories. Together they build us, and our earth of, out of words and dreams. I am profoundly grateful to Ginger and Andrew for creating the atmospheres within which everyone discovers such depth and voice and vision and create gifts to us all and to the earth itself.

—David Gersten