Helen Peppe is a professional photographer and author of Pigs Can’t Swim, a 2014 Indie Introduce and Indie Next title. She was one of seven finalists for the 2011 Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award. Helen recently wrote a book for tweens, I Name You Rockstar, and is working on her second memoir.

Ann Hood is the author of thirteen books, including most recently the novels The Obituary Writer and The Knitting Circle, and the memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief. She has been the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and Best American Spiritual, Travel, and Food Writing Awards.

Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of eleven books including This Is Paradise, about a medical clinic in Malawi. She teaches at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program and is writer in residence and director of the creative writing program at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

Sue William Silverman's books are The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew; Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction; Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You; and Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.