Eleanor Henderson is the author of the novels Ten Thousand Saints and The Twelve-Mile Straight and co-editor of the essay anthology Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers. An associate professor of writing at Ithaca College, she is working on a memoir called Too Much Fire.

Tova Mirvis is the author of The Book of Separation, a memoir, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, as well as three novels, Visible City, The Outside World, and The Ladies Auxiliary. Her essays have appeared in publications such as The New York Times and The Boston Globe Magazine.

Elissa Altman is the author of Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing, Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw, Poor Man's Feast: A Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, and the Beard Award-winning narrative blog of the same name.

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