Deena Metzger is the author of A Rain of Night Birds. Her novel La Negra y Blanca won the 2012 Oakland Pen Award, and her Warrior Poster photograph is celebrated around the world as a testament to a woman’s triumph over breast cancer.

Carolyn Brigit Flynn is author of the poetry collection Communion: In Praise of the Sacred Earth, editor of the anthology Sisters Singing: Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Poetry and Sacred Stories by Women, and iscurrently working on a memoir/history of Ireland, The Light of Ordinary Days.