Tammy Dietz

Tammy Dietz, author of Falling from Disgrace (2023), is a learning experience design leader, facilitator, instructional designer, writer, and editor. Her creative work has appeared in various anthologies and literary journals. From 2009 to 2018, she served as nonfiction editor of Silk Road, a literary magazine published by Pacific University, where she earned an MFA in creative nonfiction in 2009. She has also worked in the field of learning and development for twenty years and is currently a learning experience design manager at a Fortune 500 company. She lives near Seattle with her spouse of thirty years.

Estela González

Estela González, author of Arribada (2022), holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in Latin American literature. As a binational and bilingual writer, she tells stories in English and Spanish about race, class, gender, and environmental justice. Growing up in Mexico, Estela regularly visited her family in Mazatlán, where decades-long intensive development has led to the demise of beaches and sea turtle colonies. Her research and support of fishermen protecting sea turtles in the Sea of Cortés deepen her reflections on environmental justice, race relations, and sexuality.

Her work is featured in the Barcelona Review, the Cobalt Review, Connotation Press, Cronopio, Flash Frontier, Flyway Magazine, Kudzu House, Label Me Latina, La Colmena, Luvina, the Fem, and the Revista Mexicana de Literatura Contemporánea, as well as in outstanding collections such as Best of Solstice Literary Magazine, Feminine Rising (Cynren Press, 2019), and Under the Volcano. Arribada was a 2017 finalist for the Feminist Press’s Louise Meriwether Award.

Tonya Mitchell

Tonya Mitchell, author of A Feigned Madness (2020; Winner of the 2021 Kops-Fetherling Phoenix Award in Historical Fiction; Winner of the 2021 Silver Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Award in Historical Fiction), lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and three sons. Her short fiction has appeared in various journals and anthologies.

Wendy J. Murphy

Wendy J. Murphy, author of Oh No He Didn’t (2024), is an attorney specializing in women’s rights, civil rights, constitutional rights, and violence against women and children. Codirector of the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project under the Center for Law and Social Responsibility at New England Law | Boston and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Wendy served as a columnist for the Boston Herald for many years and has appeared frequently on network and cable news shows as a pundit and legal analyst. Her first book, And Justice for Some (2007), is an exposé of injustices endured by women and children victims of abuse. Wendy, a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor, lectures widely on women’s rights, Title IX, constitutional law, and criminal justice policy and is a national leader in the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. A mother of five, a grandmother of one, and a yoga student for life, Wendy lives outside Boston.

Trish Reeves

Trish Reeves is the author of The Receipt (2023) and God, Maybe (forthcoming). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, Sarah Lawrence College (Keck), and the Kansas Arts Commission; a Pushcart Prize Special Mention; and the Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize for her first book, Returning the Question. Her poems have been anthologized and have appeared in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, the Ploughshares Poetry Reader, New Letters, the Women’s Review of Books, and Leon Literary Review. For twenty-one years, Reeves was on the English faculty at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and led Changing Lives through Literature seminars for Johnson County Corrections. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master’s of fine arts from Warren Wilson College. Reeves is a Kansas Humanities Scholar in Literature.

Kathleen Courtenay Stone

Kathleen Courtenay Stone, author of They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men (2022), knows something about female ambition. As a lawyer, she was a law clerk to a federal judge, a litigation partner in a law firm, and senior counsel at a financial institution. She also taught seminars on American law in six foreign countries, including as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Kathleen’s work has been published in Ploughshares, Arts Fuse, Los Angeles Review of Books, Timberline Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. She holds graduate degrees from Boston University School of Law and the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Boston with her husband, Andrew Grainger. Her website is https://kathleencstone.com/.