Ami Sands Brodoff is the award-winning author of three novels and a volume of stories. Her latest novel, In Many Waters, centers on three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta and grapples with our worldwide refugee crisis. Ami won The Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction.

Jocelyn Cullity's fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in the United States, Canada, and India. Her first novel, Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons, was published in the fall of 2017. She is the director of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Truman State University.

Huey Helene Alcaro has worked on a farm, taught adults in inner city Newark, New Jersey, taught women’s studies, and served as director of the Women’s Center at Montclair State University. Her fiction has appeared in several North American journals. In the Land of Two-Legged Women is her debut novel.

carole giangrande is a former broadcast journalist and the award-winning author of nine books—three novels, three novellas, a short story collection, and two nonfiction works. Her most recent novel is All That Is solid Melts into Air.