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

Jennifer’s essays have appeared in Hippocampus, MUTHA, Passages North, River Teeth, and elsewhere, including a 2025 anthology, So Heavy a Weight. After decades of city living, she relocated to Cape Cod, where she lives with her daughter and recently adopted Yorkie, Harley-Davidson, who is resisting a name-change to Barley. 

Debbie is a writer, nonprofit strategy consultant, restaurant cook, and mother. She writes about working, power, and motherhood. Her writing has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cincinnati Review, Jacobin Magazine, Progressive Magazine, Motherly, Discretionary Love, Motherwell, Bright Flash, FiveMinutes, Silk Road, and Journal of Working Class Studies. One of her stories was performed by the St. Louis Repertory Theater as part of the St. Louis Storytelling festival. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Erica writes personal essays exploring grief, marriage, and growing up Iranian American in small-town Texas. Her work blends dark humor with emotional honesty. A former teacher, she enjoys being with her family. Her writing has appeared in Sheepshead Review and elsewhere. She publishes weekly on Substack (https://messydiaries.substack.com/).

Marjee is a writer, researcher, and documentarian in the Washington DC area. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Masters Review, BULL, Maudlin House, and others. She is a social media co-director for Split Lip Magazine and the Presidential Fellow in fiction at George Mason University. You can read more at marjee.org or follow her on Instagram @marjeec

Lucinda grew up in Chicago before moving to rural Wisconsin where she writes from both the vantage point of an elder exploring frailty and strength, and through the eyes of a child making sense of the world.around them. Lucinda’s writing has appeared in Streetlight Magazine, the Brevity Blog, Short Reads and Under the Sun.

Tanya is a queer writer, educator, and researcher who writes about how privilege and empathy inform our inner and outer worlds. Her work has appeared in River Teeth, Atticus Review, and Radical Teacher, among others. She is writing a memoir about how many mistakes she had to make to become an anti-racist grown up and effective teacher (spoiler: a lot).

Lori’s nonfiction has appeared in a variety of journals, including Hobart, Epiphany, South Dakota Review, The Laurel Review, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Hotel Amerika. Professor Emeritus at UNC Asheville, I'm the author of two collections of memoir essays, The Girls of Usually (Truman State UP), and Collect Call to My Mother: Essays on Love, Grief, and Getting a Good Night's Sleep (New Meridian Arts).

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. 

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.

Julie is the author of three novels and a memoir. The recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in screenwriting, a New Jersey Council on the Arts grant in fiction, and a Cone Fellowship, she is a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” author, the runner-up for the Independent Press Association’s Memoir of the Year Award (2005), and the 2nd place winner of the D.H. Lawrence Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in the New York Press, Country Living and Stars magazine, and several newspapers. She currently lives in upstate New York.

Serena is a retired pediatrician. With her husband and dachshund, she splits time between Texas and Maine. Her Substack newsletter, Family Threads explores what binds families together and drives them apart. She is currently working on a memoir about family estrangement.

Gabriella is a writer of memoir, personal essays, and fiction. Her essays, based on her recently completed memoir, Necklaces in the Eucalyptus Tree, have been published in Ars Medica and Memoir Land, while another won the Southwest Writers Contest. Gabriella grew up in Sardinia, Italy, and moved to the United States in her early twenties. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where, during her spare time, you’ll find her remodeling an old farmhouse that will soon be home to a couple of rescue dogs and a flock of chickens. To learn more about Gabriella and her work you can reach her at www.gabriellauthor.com

Sallie is a near-nonagenarian who lives in a cabin in the Sierra foothills. She is a former editor, teacher, and falconer. Her recent essays and articles have appeared in Dorothy Parker's Ashes, How I Learned, Manifestation, and Oldster.   

Marguerite, after earning many degrees and working in many capacities, decided to satisfy her six year-old self by writing creatively.  She lives in the Bronx and Hudson Valley, NY, with her husband Richard and their hound, Murray. She enjoys gardening, yoga, reading, writing, and walking Murray. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marguerite-schneider-57256535/

Beverley is a Kiwi writer from Wellington, New Zealand, who is working on a memoir in essays. She's been published previously in Dorothy Parker's Ashes as well as in Short Reads, Sad Girl Diaries, Landfall, Headland, and the Brevity Blog. Her website isdesignit.co.nz

Leigh is a recovering public relations person and former Cola Warrior. She’s made a living with words for more than four decades—much of it writing “corporate fiction.” She teaches graduate Writing for Health at Boston University and publishes a Substack, Wilding. Three of her essays were recognized in the Writer’s Digest 95th Annual Writing Competition. She lives in Rhode Island.

Susan started her career as a journalist before moving to government communications and project management. A life-long journaler and scribbler, she is excited to turn her efforts to more creative pursuits. This her first publication of creative non-fiction. Susan lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Martha grew up in both New York and North Carolina. She has been an acting student, a dancer and choreographer, and an editor. She retired in 2020 from her position teaching literature and writing in the English Department and running the writing center at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.

The Georgia Review has published four essays of hers, the latest in Fall 2019. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, and White Eagle Coffee Store Press brought out a long story, Double Vision (2004), as a chapbook. Her “Dreams of Foreign Cities,” a prize-winner in Fish Publishing’s Short Memoir Contest, was published in Fish Anthology 2021, and essays are out or forthcoming from Ponder Review, Under the Sun, and The Bookends Review. She has also published an essay on Proust, book reviews, and translations from French, and she has collaborated on dance-theater pieces at the University of Michigan.

Annemarie is a Massachusetts-based artist, writer and community activist.  Her storytelling has been nationally televised on WGBH's Stories from the Stage.  Her writing has been published in The North American Review, Cognoscenti, Pangyrus and Lost Balloon. When not writing, she can be found living the ultimate writer's cliche: in an old house by the sea with her feral cat, Sonny.