Giovanna “Jo” Brunini is an artist and the author of the novel Never a Cloud. Her poetry and oil paintings are found at www.giovannabrunini.com. At various times in her life, she’s lived in Mexico, and Italy. Among her regrets are losing the handwritten letter addressed to her from William Steig and not taking Tasha Tudor up on an

Sameer Chopra, author of The Work Ahead, is a humorist, a technologist and DevOps enthusiast. Employed at one of the big cloud providers, he spends his time doing buzzwordy things like “adding value,” “having impact” and “breaking barriers.” He has spoken at many tech conferences and to tech companies about DevOps and how to embrace

Kim Fairley is an artist and memoirist who writes about wrestling with secrets, healing from grief, and competitive swimming during the early years of Title IX. Her three books include Swimming for My Life, releasing in the fall of 2022, and Shooting out the Lights: A Memoir, which was a finalist in the International Book

Lynda Smith Hoggan, author of Our Song: A Memoir of Love and Race, has been a professional gift shop duster, bra strap counter, playground instructor, army base secretary, garment district house model, barmaid, go-go dancer, high school teacher, technical writer, sex educator, and amateur martini taster. Her writing, which includes poems and newspaper articles, sexuality

Adria Bernardi is a writer and translator whose publications include an oral history, a collection of essays, a collection of short stories, and two novels. Her eight translations from Italian include the prose of Gianni Celati and the poetry of Tonino Guerra and Raffaello Baldini. She has been awarded the 1999 Bakeless Prize for Fiction,

Alex Finley is a former officer of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, where she served in West Africa and Europe. Before becoming a bureaucrat living large off the system, she chased puffy white men around Washington, D.C. as a member of the wild dog pack better known as the Washington media elite. Her writing has