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

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.

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

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

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.