Monica Starkman, M.D., is associate professor of psychiatry emerita and scientific researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry.  She’s author of the novel The End of Miracles (She Writes Press, 2016), whose themes stem from her extensive professional research into women’s experiences with infertility, pregnancy and labor.  As a recognized expert

Stephanie Austin Edwards is the author of What We Set In Motion (2016), which won the Best Submission Award at the Atlanta Writer’s Club Conference in 2013. Her recent publications include a short story in the University of Texas literary journal, riverSedge, and an essay in the book Beaufort Through the Ages. In a past

Michelle Hoover is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University and teaches at GrubStreet, where she leads the Novel Incubator program. She is a 2014 NEA Fellow and has been a Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell Fellow, and a winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award. Her debut, The Quickening, was a Forward Magazine’s

Arne Weingart is the 2015 laureate of the New American Press Poetry Prize, awarded for his debut poetry collection, Levitation for Agnostics (New American Press, January 2016). A Pushcart Prize nominee, Arne also won the 2013 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Poetry Contest and has had poems featured by such esteemed publications as RHINO, The Georgetown

Nicole Waggoner’s debut novel, Center Ring (She Writes Press, May 2016), focuses on five women trying to find balance in the tightrope act of life. Its characters reflect a poignant image of the daily lives of modern women. An award-winning teacher of upper-level English and Literary Criticism courses, Nicole has workshopped fiction writing and criticism

Emily Ross’s debut novel, Half In Love With Death (Merit Press, December 2015), received a 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Boston Magazine, Menda City Review and The Smoking Poet. A software developer by day who began coding before the Internet or any tech gadget existed, Emily is