Nikki Schulak is a 1st grade teacher in Portland, OR. Her students sometimes call her "the real Ms Frizzle" because her bearded dragon.

Francois Bereaud celebrated turning 50 a few years back by completing an MFA at San Diego State University.

Sara Behnke teaches high school English in North Carolina. Prior to teaching, she authored two books on Motherhood.

Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.

Brendan Shea is an educator and writer from Hyattsville, Maryland. Brendan loves folklore and the idea of hiking.

Kelsey Francis is a teacher living and writing in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

Rosalind Goldsmith lives in Toronto and has recently retired from teaching literacy in an adult education program.

Holly is a high school English teacher who is also a real human inside and outside the classroom.

Retired from the Quebec public school system, Karen Zey now devotes her time to writing and leading memoir workshops in her community.

Diane Augustine has been teaching for 25 years in both private and public schools.

Linda has two books of poetry. Her first was called Coming to be. Her second is available on Amazon: Poems to Amuse, Bemuse, and Entertain.

For the last two decades, Anna B. Moore has been publishing creative nonfiction, essays, and short fiction in a variety of literary journals

Sarah Pazur has been a teacher, curriculum director and principal. She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership.

Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 teacher in Metro Detroit. His fiction has appeared in Flyover Country and Rejection Letters.

Heather Bartos lives near Portland, Oregon, and writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Jennifer Novotney’s work appears in Buddhist Poetry Review, The Beatnik Cowboy, and The Vignette Review.

Holly Pelesky writes essays, fiction and poetry. She holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska.

Dana Kinsey is a writer, actor, and teacher with poetry published or forthcoming in Writers Resist, One Art, Broadkill Review, and more.

Christopher D. DiCicco is the author of So My Mother, She Lives in the Clouds and other stories (Hypertrophic Press).

Amy Watkins is the author of the poetry chapbooks Milk & Water, Lucky and Wolf Daughter.