MICHELLE BARKER is the award-winning author of The House of One Thousand Eyes as well as a poetry chapbook, a YA fantasy novel, and a picture book. Michelle also works as an editor and workshop leader

Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process (with Christie Aschwanden), co-director of Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club (with Art Goodtimes) and co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (with Sherry Richert Belul). She also directed the Telluride Writers Guild for ten years.

She teaches and performs poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, teachers and more.

Annie started a blog, with all sorts of names (Readingaholics Book Reviews, & We Keep Turning Pages) but nothing stuck until The Write Review which officially began in 2010.

In 2012 she enjoyed working as an Associate Reviewer with Samantha March of Chick Lit Plus, and that was a lot of fun. She taught me things about Blogging that I did not know.

Betsy Boyd's fiction has been published most recently at Eclectica and Loch Raven Review, and in Story Quarterly, Sententia, Shenandoah and Verb: An Audioquarterly. She is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council award, an Elliot Coleman Writing Fellowship, a James A. Michener Fellowship and residencies through Fundación Valparaíso, the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her short story "Scarecrow" received a Pushcart Prize.

Kathleen is a wonderful writerthe grateful recipient of five Maryland State Arts Council grants. Her collection, Aliens and Other Stories, won the 2013 Washington Writers Publishing House Fiction Prize. Since 2014, She serves as President and Managing Editor of WWPH

Lainey is a digital nomad, creator and host of The Best of Women’s Fiction interviews & podcast, part-time resident of the beautiful city of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, avid instagramer, and full-time writer of women’s fiction.

Lisa Kessler is a Best Selling author of dark paranormal fiction. She’s a two-time San Diego Book Award winner for Best Published Fantasy-Sci-fi-Horror and Best Published Romance. Her books have also won the PRISM award, the Award of Excellence, the National Excellence in Romantic Fiction Award, the Award of Merit from the Holt Medallion, and an International Digital Award for Best Paranormal.

Lori Duffy Foster is a former crime reporter who writes fiction and nonfiction from the hills of Northern Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and four children. She was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, where a part of her heart remains.

Her short fiction has appeared in the journal Aethlon, and in the anthologies Short Story America and Childhood Regained. Her nonfiction has appeared in Healthy Living, Running Times, Literary Mama, Crimespree and Mountain Home magazines.

Her first serious venture into writing was at age four, when she wrote a love letter to a little boy named Timmy. Several years later, she submitted her short story, "Palettes and Brushes", to Jack and Jill Magazine. Now, as an author, all of her writing...and her life in general...are intertwined with the arts.