Sad Girls Club Literary Podcast

Nina Lichtenstein is a writer, teacher and storyteller born and raised in Norway, living in Maine, and soon to add Israel to one of her homelands. She has a PHD in French literature and an MFA in creative nonfiction. She is working on a memoir titled “My Body Remembers,” and has blogged as The Viking Jewess since 2014. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The HuffPost, Tablet, Lilith, Brevity and Hippocampus (forthcoming), among other places. Her book Sephardic Women's Voices: Out of North Africa came out in 2017.

Susan Dugan is a freelance writer, writing everything from newspaper and magazine articles to ad copy, marketing brochures and radio scripts, as well as fiction, essays, and poetry. Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines including eclectica, JMWW, Carve, RiverSedge, Prosetoad, Amarillo Bay, The Saint Ann's Review, River Oak Review, and The Esthetic Apostle.

Lou Storey is a visual artist, writer, and psychotherapist living in Long Branch, New Jersey with his husband Steve, Two dogs, three cat, four chickens and a wayward racing pigeon. Lou states “Living a good life has been my best revenge.”

A graduate of Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers, Julie Benesh is recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Grant and her writing can be found in Bestial Noise: A Tin House Fiction Reader, Tin House Magazine (print), Crab Orchard Review, Florida Review, Gulf Stream, Cleaver, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and other places, and is forthcoming in Hobart, Drunk Monkeys, and Dillydoun Review. Originally from Iowa, Julie now lives in Chicago where she works as a management consultant, professor of business psychology, and higher education leader and teaches creative writing at The Newberry Library.

Max McCoubrey is a singer, writer, songwriter, radio presenter and producer who lives in Dublin Ireland. She draws on her experiences in showbusiness as inspiration for her works.

Ann Liska is a 2020 graduate of the MFA program in creative writing, University of Tampa.  Her work has been published by Dark Alley Press, Pure Slush, the Abu Dhabi Writers' Workshop, 805 Lit, Change Seven, and others.

A native New Yorker, James Penha has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work has lately appeared in several anthologies including Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart, Pages Penned in Pandemic, The Impossible Beast: Queer Erotic Poems, The View From Olympia, and Queers Who Don’t Quit. His essays have appeared in The New York Daily News and The New York Times. Penha edits The New Verse News, an online journal of current-events poetry.

Jessica Crowley is a writer, former teacher, and, most importantly, a mother. She is raising two children: a boy born with congenital heart disease and almond, brown eyes (a miracle) and a girl born with blonde hair and green eyes (another miracle). Her most recent work can be seen in PANK and The Louisville Review.