Rebecca is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in various publications including (alphabetically) Elle, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The NYT Magazine, Salon, Vogue (contributing editor 1999-2020). Johnson is the author of the novel And Sometimes Why. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two children.

Bex lives in France with her husband and their dog. She is the author of the novels (Under Bex Brian) Promiscuous Unbound and Radius. At present, she’s working on a new novel entitled, Finnick

Carrie finds healing and beauty in both words and visual arts. She has undergraduate degrees in English and Art from the University of Washington and currently continues her studies at Path with Art where she also volunteers. Her poems have recently been published in Anti-Heroin Chic, Gyroscope Review, The Ekphrastic Review and Bird Brains: A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds; sculptures were included in exhibitions at Ghost Gallery, Lynn Hanson Gallery and Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital. She lives in Seattle with her papier-mâché animals.

Annmarie’s work has appeared in The Sun magazine's Readers Write column, the Staten Island Advance, Primo magazine, and the Italian Tribune, among others. She lives in Staten Island, New York City, with her rescue dog, Martina. 

Daphne is the author of the novel In the Land of No Right Angles and numerous essays, articles, and short stories. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, McSweeney’s, Open City, and The London Review of Books among other places. She’s been awarded fellowships by the New York Times Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and worked as an assistant editor at The New Yorker. Currently, she teaches creative writing at Pratt and is completing her second novel.

Laurel spent years in the controlled chaos of a producing and writing career, which — it turns out — is excellent training for crafting short stories that no one has published yet (but just you wait). These days, she splits her time between the sun-soaked shores of northwest Florida and the canyons of New York City, which means she's always either very relaxed or very caffeinated. She blogs with enthusiasm, writes fiction with ambition, and mothers her adult twin boys with a devotion that is both fierce and completely embarrassing to them. 

Kimberly is a survivor of two marriages trying to stay sane in the crazy state of Florida. Her work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Entropy, Montana Mouthful, Sunspot Literary, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and other lit mags, and anthologies. She’s currently working on an essay collection and a memoir.

Melanie writes personal essays and poetry. Her award-winning debut collection, Trace, was named one of the seven Best Inde Poetry Books of the year by Kirkus Reviews (starred review). She’s won many grants and awards for her writing, including a Fellowship with the NEA. Her writing has appeared in dozens of journals including Hippocampus, RUMPUS, Colorado Review, Nimrod, and others. Melanie works remotely with writers. www.melaniefigg.net

Launa’s MFA is in fiction but she writes nonfiction these days, some about education (she used to teach elementary school), and mostly about travel. When their two children grew up, she and her husband sold or gave away all the things, and for three years they've been slowly traveling new continents with a small suitcase and backpack each. She writes about wherever she is at launaatlarge.substack.com

Karen is a writer, musician, former high school English teacher, and teacher-educator. Her essays have appeared in Pangyrus, The Boston Globe, Cogniscenti, and elsewhere.She's been the songwriter/singer/guitar player in two Boston-based bands: The Vivs, and Edith, and lives in the Boston area with her family and dogs. You can find her online at karenharris.substack.com, where she writes about literature, teaching, birds, rock and roll, and getting old(er)

Ann is a recently retired headmistress who splits her time between the UWS of Manhattan and Eagles Mere, PA. She is in a perpetual search for the strongest cup of coffee in the Northeast.

Eve is a journalist and author currently scraping out a tiny living crafting police reports for newspapers in New York and Oregon. She is the author of What’s Your Sexual IQ?, The Goddess Orgasm, 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Sex and other titles bearing some relation to her stint editing Penthouse Forum and other ribald publications. She makes her home in a rural seaside community near Portland, OR with her husband, R.J. Marx, a jazz saxophonist, and Lucy, their dog child.

Donna is a longtime writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times,  Next Avenue, Ms., San Francisco, HerStry, and more. She is the author of Not Just Words: How a Good Apology Makes You Braver, Bolder, and Better at Life. Her one-act play, The Waiting Room, won first prize in a playwriting competition produced by the Dubuque Fine Arts Society. She and her husband live in Ossining, New York, where they raised three children and a succession of dachshunds.

Patricia formed the editorial consulting service Brooklyn Books after over twenty years in book publishing. She started as a temp at Farrar Straus and Giroux and left as Editor in Chief at Doubleday. Her authors included bestselling crime writers James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly.

She is the co-author of It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year –Old Woman, by Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson (Penguin, 2010) and Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS by Rebecca Eaton (Viking 2013). Her writing has appeared in Publisher’s Weekly, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, and in the anthology Brooklyn Noir 3 (Akashic Books). A member of the editorial collective 5E, she now lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.

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Sallie is 85, lives back of beyond in Northern California with her painter-writer-mechanic husband, a grand dog, and two hawks (she’s a licensed falconer.) She had to live this long in order to become a decent human being. Her stories are here and there, her two novels are on Amazon.

Tracy is a writer and poet with work appearing in The Mackinaw, MacQueen’s Quinterly, ONE ART, and Scrawl Place. Her story, “Sibling Rivalry,” was selected for Best Microfiction (2026). Tracy’s haibun have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. She lives in Southern California, where she enjoys hiking by day and watching film noir by night. You can find her on Bluesky.

Dale is a writer, communications advisor and yoga teacher. When not working to keep her two bouncy dogs in kibble, she meditates, writes and rewrites from her home in the woods surrounded by wild creatures, outside Ottawa, Canada.  Her work has appeared in Galaxy Brain, and Canada’s national newspaperThe Globe and Mail.

Amy has been writing for over three decades. Her articles have been published in America, Commonweal, The New York Times, Dappled Things and many other periodicals. She's the author of over thirty books on spirituality and faith and one sadly unpublished novel. She has five kids. She writes from Alabama at the moment and can be found at amywelborn.wordrpress.com.