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Susan Shapiro Barash has written thirteen nonfiction women’s issue books. Her most recent is The Nine Phases of Marriage published by St. Martins in 2012. As a gender expert, she is frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and Psychology Today. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune and appeared on national television including the Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor and MSNBC, as well as a guest on NPR and Sirius Radio.

Neil Shepard’s most recent books of poetry are T)ravel/Un(t)ravel, published by Mid-List Press in 2011 and an offbeat chapbook, Vermont Exit, published by Big Table Publishing in 2012. His three previous books of poetry are Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (First Book Award, Mid-List Press, 1993), I’m Here Because I Lost My Way (Mid-List, 1998) and This Far from the Source (Mid-List, 2006). His poems appear in several hundred literary magazines, among them Antioch Review, Boulevard, Harvard Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly. He founded and directed for eight years the Writing Program at the Vermont Studio Center, and he taught for several decades in the BFA Creative Writing Program at Johnson State College in Vermont until his retirement in 2009. He presently lives in New York City and teaches poetry workshops at The Poets House and in the low-residency MFA writing program at Wilkes University (PA).

Martha Qualben is a poet who lives in Brooklyn. She is working on a collection about 9/11.

Joanne Fisher is the Editor of Millburn-Short Hills Magazine, a lifestyle magazine in northern New Jersey. She is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in national and local magazines. Joanne studied fiction at the Writer’s Studio in New York where she also taught beginning fiction. Her fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review and North American Review. She is at work on a novel.

Gene Albertelli (fiction) docent at the Brooklyn Museum, avid marathon runner who is at work on a collection of short stories.