Women’s Writing & Spoken Word: Lynne Rabchuk & Maleka Fruean

Lynne “Inner Light” Rabchuk Born and raised in the big-small-town that is Philly, Inner Light managed to adopt a worldview that enables her to identify as a human being living on earth. Now, in her thirties (which she considers her second puberty) she is having much more fun being a grown up kid. Inner Light started writing poetry while going through a depression in high school. Though mostly unstudied in the art, she continued practicing her therapeutic craft even after moving beyond that dark period, in order to share her Inner Light with you, with the intention of inspiring hope and thought in others. Check out her newest blog pollyannaponderings.tumblr.com or email her at iaminnerlight@hotmail.com

Maleka Fruean was born in Western Samoa, grew up in New Jersey, and became an adult in Philly. She’s a mama, writer, artist, events coordinator, and aspiring activist. She’s read her poetry in tea houses, festivals, communal houses, and bookstores all throughout Philadelphia. She recently had her first piece of flash fiction published.