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

Lorraine is a former U.S. figure skating champion, U.S. team member, and board-certified anesthesiologist. A graduate of Harvard University, Stanford Medical School, and Bennington Writing Seminars, she is a co-holder of a U.S. medical patent and author/ co-author of 35 medical publications. With notables in 2020 and 2023 Best American Essays, she has three nominations for the Pushcart Prize, one for Bet of the Net, and her personal essays have appeared in the New England Review, Boulevard, New Letters, Joyland, The Rumpus, and Newsweek, among 23 others. Her memoir is forthcoming in 2027 with Legacy Books

Karen is a retired professional copywriter who is interested in micro-societies and the heroic nature of everyday living. Her work has been published by Thin Skin, The Mackinaw, Parks & Points, Persimmon Tree, Open Secrets, Inknest, The Offing, Pasager, HerStry, Defenestration Magazine, Rust & Moth, The Gilded Weathervane, Ekphrastic Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and assorted suburban wildlife. You can learn more about Karen at her blog, I am Not a Pie. 

Diane is a writer, former journalist, and digital publisher whose essays appear in HerStry and on her Substack, Musings of a Storyteller. She is at work on a creative nonfiction book about Leonora Kearney Barry Lake, one of the first women to hold a national executive position in the American labor movement. A mother of two grown sons, she lives in New Jersey with her husband Tim, and Max, their elderly and overachieving dog.

Kate is a journalist, author and essayist. For 20 years, she was a regular contributor to The New York Times. Kate’s work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Time.com, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, AARP’s “The Ethel” and other national publications. She is the author of The Mama’s Boy Myth (Avery/Penguin), a nonfiction book on raising boys to be good men. www.katestonelombardi.com

Eve is a national journalist and book author. Her most recent novel, "How's Your Day Going So Far?" was released in 2026. She is also 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. Her is also a writer of police reports and the author of Call The Police: Flash Fiction Based on Real Police Reports can be found at eve.marx.Substack.com. She lives near Portland, Oregon with her husband, a jazz saxophonist. 

Suzanne is a former chef and caterer turned writer. Her work has appeared in Hippocampus and The Manifest Station. She lives in Albuquerque where she writes But First Breakfast, a Substack newsletter in which she explores life through her favorite meal of the day.

Danielle just finished a fast-paced, high-concept twisted psychological thrillerset in her ancestral village on England’s atmospheric southeastern Cornish coast. Currently, she works as a freelance writer, ghostwriter of rock-and-roll and other memoirs, and fiction editor. She served on the board of the PEN American Center from 2010 to 2016, helping to rewrite its mission statement and by-laws, heading the committee for Authors’ Evenings, and working with the PEN Prison Writing and Freedom to Write programs.

Bofang is a Chinese bilingual writer and theater professional. She won top prizes in China’s national competitions for violin, writing, and classical Chinese language, and studied music and theater in Beijing, Paris, and New York. She now works in theater production in New York and has recently begun writing in English. Her debut publication appeared in The Sun Magazine, and her plays have been produced at Theater for the New City and The Chain Theatre in New York, among others. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her violin and forty plants.