Lee Hope, author of Horsefever (New Rivers Press, November 2015), is editor-in-chief of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.  Her fiction has received grants from both the Maine and the Pennsylvania Arts Commissions. Her short stories have been published in numerous literary journals, such as: Witness, The North American Review, Epiphany, and Sou’wester. Her short

Virginia A. Simpson, Ph.D., is a bereavement care specialist and executive counseling director for hundreds of funeral homes throughout the United States and Canada.  Founder of The Mourning Star Center for grieving children and their families and author of the memoir The Space Between (She Writes Press, April 2016) about her journey caring for her

Since her first encounter with a policeman at the age of four, Stephanie Gayle, author of Idyll Threats (Seventh Street Books, 2015), has been fascinated by criminal justice issues.  Though she didn’t successfully convince that first cop that her name was Nicholas, she decided she’d become a defense attorney. Her experience working as a paralegal

Terry Baker Mulligan is the author of Sugar Hill: Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem, which won the 2012 IPPY Award for Adult Multicultural Nonfiction and and 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award for Multicultural Writing and Autobiography / Memoir Writing.  Her second book, Afterlife in Harlem, was published in October 2014. A former high school English

Rosanna Fay Malcolm worked for over 25 years in high tech marketing, co-founding a successful mobile and entertainment marketing firm and serving as COO. After more than a decade of balancing this role with the care of her elderly parents, she shifted gears to become an aging in place specialist, helping families create and implement

Ron MacLean is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. His latest book is Headlong (October 2013, Last Light Studio), and his short stories have appeared in Narrative and Fiction International. He lives in Boston, where he teaches at Grub Street — the nation’s leading independent writing center. His work with BookSavvy led to articles