Renée Gregorio’s full-length poetry collections include The Skins of Possible Lives (1996), The Storm That Tames Us (1999), Water Shed (2004) and Drenched (2010). She’s also published many chapbooks, most recently Road to the Cloud’s House: A Chiapas Journal (2009, with John Brandi), which began its life as a limited edition letterpress book (2008) published by and available from the Press at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe.

She has received grants for writing residencies at the Mabel Dodge Luhan house in Taos and the Millay Colony for the Arts in New York state. She was one of the founding editors of the Taos Review and one of the featured writers in two videos, "Honoring the Muse" and "Intimate Witness."

Renée is a certified master somatic coach, writing coach and creator of the poetry dojo™, a learning environment in which participants engage in somatic and writing practices, exploring the wisdom of the body in relationship to the writing self, and removing obstacles to deep expression in writing. As a somatic coach, Renée works one-on-one with individuals to explore the voice of the body in the development of the self. As a writing coach, she helps writers go deeply in their work and stand with their fullest sense of aliveness and contribution as writers.

Since 1985, Renée has taught workshops in poetry and writing at the New Mexico Military Institute, the Taos Institute, the Harwood Art Center and Little River Poetics and was a visiting professor at Colorado College and a lead writer on a travel and writing course for San Juan College. In the past several years, she has conducted poetry dojos at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque, Santa Fe Soul, Poetry West in Colorado Springs, the Telluride Talking Gourds Festival, the Aikido Arts Center of Santa Fe, the El Rito Library summer program, Sas Colby’s painting classes in Taos, the Little River Dojo in El Rito and San Juan College. In Fall 2010, she led a weekend workshop “The Voice of Power, Presence, and Wisdom” at Bend of Ivy Lodge in Asheville, NC. In Spring 2010, she also led a six-session course for women, "Women Influencing: The Women’s Leadership Experience", which included somatic practices to increase influence, purpose and commitment in women.

She holds master’s degree in creative writing from Antioch University, London, and a third-degree black belt rank in the martial art, aikido. She lives in El Rito, a small northern New Mexico village, with her husband, the poet and painter John Brandi.