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Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jennifer Lang lives in Tel Aviv, where she runs Israel Writers Studio. Her essays have appeared in Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Under the Sun, Ascent, Consequence, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize, Best of Net, and Best American Essays nominee, she holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as Assistant Editor for Brevity. Often findable on her yoga mat with her legs up her living room wall: practicing since 1995, teaching since 2003. Places We Left Behind was a finalist in Chestnut Review’s chapbook prose competition.
Her memoir will be published in September 2023.
Catherine
Shields writes about parenting, disabilities, and self-discovery. She
is a retired educator. THE SHAPE OF NORMAL, Catherine Shields explores
the truths and lies parents tell themselves, illustrating how she
effectively used denial to protect herself from the stark reality of her
child’s diagnosis, and does not shy away from the complex subject of
how she learned to manage what appeared unmanageable. Catherine Shields
and her husband reside in Miami, Florida, where they raised three grown
daughters. They kayak, ride bikes, hike in the Everglades, and visit the
two grandchildren who live nearby.
Her memoir will be published in November 2023.
Washington-DC-based
Texas author Elizabeth Bruce’s debut novel, And Silent Left the Place
(re-issue 2021), won Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s Fiction
Award and distinctions from ForeWord Magazine and Texas Institute of
Letters. She’s published in USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Malawi, India, Yemen, and The Philippines, A co-founder of Sanctuary
Theatre, her bilingual book, CentroNia’s Theatrical Journey Playbook:
Introducing Science to Early Learners through Guided Pretend Play,
garnered four indie awards. She’s received DC Commission on the Arts
& Humanities and McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation Fellowships
and studied with Richard Bausch, Lee K. Abbott, Janet Peery, John
McNally, and Liam Callanan.
Her short story collection will be published in January 2024.
Sara
Hosey is the author of two novels, Iphigenia Murphy (an official
selection of the Children’s Book Council Children’s Book Week in
2021), and Imagining Elsewhere (forthcoming June 2022), as well as the
novella Great Expectations. She is a college professor, a parent,
sometimes a foster parent, and a tree enthusiast.
Her short story collection will be published in 2024.
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