Renée Gregorio's work has appeared in many journals, chapbooks and anthologies of poetry in the U.S. and abroad. 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’s taught workshops 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 called Journaling Chiapas.  In June 2008 she opened Little River Dojo, in which she teaches aikido classes and conducts the poetry dojo. Please download a 2008 schedule here.

Her poetry collections include The Skins of Possible Lives (1996), The Storm That Tames Us (1999), Water Shed (2004) and Drenched (forthcoming in 2009). 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.

Along with the writing of poetry, Renée has trained in the martial art, aikido, for many years. She is a certified somatic coach with the Strozzi Institute, and combines poetry with somatics in workshops she teaches and in individual work with writers and others. She earned her master's degree in creative writing from Antioch University, London. She lives in El Rito, a small northern New Mexico village, with her husband John Brandi.