Krista Bremer has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a North Carolina Arts Fellowship. Her essays have appeared in The Times (London), O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, and The Sun. She is a regular contributor to National Public Radio. Her memoir will be published in May 2014.

Sara Miles is the author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion; Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead, and City of God. She is the founder and director of The Food Pantry.

G. Willow Wilson is author of the novel Alif the Unseen, a New York Times notable book of 2012. Her previous works include the Eisner Award-nominated comic book series Air and Mystic: The Tenth Apprentice, as well as The Butterfly Mosque, a memoir.

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