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name: Janet Ruhe-Schoen
about: Janet Ruhe-Schoen is a writer and collagist. She’s published four books of biography, most recently Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, telling the stories of African-American lawyer and human rights activist Louis Gregory and others who worked with him to integrate communities in early 20th Century North America.  In 2011 she published Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of Tahirih, telling the story of the 19th Century Iranian poet and feminist martyr Tahirih Qurratu’l-Ayn.  She's also the author of A Love Which Does Not Wait - 9 biographies of great pioneering Baha'i teachers, and The Nightingale, Baha'u'llah/ El Ruisenyor, Baha'u'llah. Ruhe-Schoen worked as a journalist in Chile and the U.S., and has traveled widel Janet Ruhe-Schoen is a writer and collagist. She’s published four books of biography, most recently Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, telling the stories of African-American lawyer and human rights activist Louis Gregory and others who worked with him to integrate communities in early 20th Century North America.  In 2011 she published Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of Tahirih, telling the story of the 19th Century Iranian poet and feminist martyr Tahirih Qurratu’l-Ayn.  She's also the author of A Love Which Does Not Wait - 9 biographies of great pioneering Baha'i teachers, and The Nightingale, Baha'u'llah/ El Ruisenyor, Baha'u'llah. Ruhe-Schoen worked as a journalist in Chile and the U.S., and has traveled widely, beginning with an epic voyage to the Soviet Union in 1969.In her art as in her writing and her life, Ruhe-Schoen is dedicated to witnessing and documenting the oneness of creation, especially the oneness of humanity. She’s always been healed and assuaged by color, rhythm and form. She is a poet and considers her art visual poetry. She is currently most interested in developing fiction work and making visual art.www.facebook.com/JanetRuheSchoen.auth... ...more