MARA ALTMAN is the author of two nonfiction books: Thanks for Coming and Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back), which was a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Altman also wrote eight best-selling Kindle Singles and has written for publications such as The New York Times and New York Magazine. Before that, Altman was a staff writer for The Village Voice and daily newspapers in India and Thailand. 

RONIT PLANK has been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, The Iowa Review; she has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, and the Best Microfiction. She is author of the story collection Home is a Made-Up Place and the memoir When She Comes Back about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation. She is an editor and a memoir coach. She hosts a weelkly podcast, Let’s Talk Memoir, featuring interviews with memoirists about craft, the creative process, and the writing life.

JENNIFER COBURN is the author of Cradles of the Reich, a historical novel about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. She has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir, We'll Always Have Paris, as well as six contemporary women's novels. Additionally, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies, including A Paris All Your Own. Jennifer lives in San Diego with her husband, William.