Rosa del Duca 

Rosa del Duca is a writer, journalist, teacher and musician. She grew up in rural Montana, where she joined the Army National Guard at seventeen. During her time in uniform she became a conscientious objector.  That tumultuous time is the focus of her award-winning memoir, Breaking Cadence: One Woman's War Against the War.

Rosa earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary's College of California. Her shorter creative work has been published in CALYX, River Teeth, Cutbank, Grain, the Los Angeles Review, and other literary magazines. When she’s not writing creatively, Rosa is teaching or working as a freelance journalist. She has taught composition at San Jose State University and journalism at Cal State East Bay and Diablo Valley College. She has written for local television newscasts for 18 years and freelanced for companies like Rodan + Fields, Eko Devices and Genesys.

Rosa's side passion is music. She founded the band Hunters with Will Decher in 2011, putting out three albums: White Lies, Treeline and We All Go Up the Mountain Alone Together. Her solo album is Love Letters. 

 Rosa lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her writer, professor, and craftsman husband, Nicholas Leither, and their two young children. In 2023 the family started a podcast for kids called Three Detail Stories.