River Huston

River Huston is an award winning poet, journalist, performer, painter and activist. She travels throughout the United States speaking at colleges, conferences, and corporate events. She has been featured on Good Morning America, Showtime, NBC, Nightline and CNN.

She has a degree in Physical Education and Music from Hunter College and was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Albright College. River was given the Dorthea Lange/ Paul Taylor award for her book A Positive Life: Portraits Of Women Living With HIV and The Leeway Foundation Award for her work over the last two decades. She is the creator of Goddess: A New Guide to Feminine Wisdom and SEXED: Tales of a Textrix.

In 1995 she was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is the author of three books of poetry, Jesus Never Lived Here, The Bones of Susan and In Which I Lost 1000 Pounds She has performed variations of her one woman show; Sex, Cellulite and Large Farm Equipment: One Girl’s Guide to Living and Dying in theaters internationally. Her paintings have been shown in galleries and museums around the world. For more info go to www.riverhuston.com