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Sylvia Merrill Beaupré is a native of New Hampshire and writes in her childhood home. Her work has been published in Yankee, literary journals, and online. She is currently completing Tavern Village Tales, an anecdotal history of a New Hampshire village.

Kathleen Fortin received a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College. Her studies concentrated on nonfiction narrative, personal essay and oral history. Her graduate thesis was an oral history of the MacDowell Colony, located in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Kathy is a freelance writer and is writing a book about her Italian heritage.

William Homestead teaches in the Communication Department at New England College. His research interests include the intersections between communicative and environmental ethics, and he teaches a course titled The Voice of Nature. He lives in Vermont with his wife and three children.

Linda Tiernan Kepner was born in Chase Mills, New York, and now lives in Bennington, New Hampshire.  She writes genre fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and romance).  Linda has been published in Dreams of Decadence, Absolute Magnitude (magazine and Tor anthology), Reality’s Escape, and Sorcerer’s Apprentice.  She has attended the Viable Paradise, Wilton Writers Forum, and Kate Phillips writers’ workshops, and is a member of Monadnock Writers' Group and Broad Universe.  

Brandon Lingle’s essay, "A Fair Fight in a Neutral Location," is a notable in The Best American Essays 2010. His award-winning writing and photography has appeared in more than twenty publications including The North American Review, Narrative Magazine, Mississippi Review, Evergreen Review, War, Literature & the Arts, Redivider, Anderbo, Adirondack Review, Juked, and Hot Metal Bridge. He serves as Art Director and Nonfiction Editor of War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities.

Tom Sheehan’s books are Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, A Collection of Friends, and From the Quickening. His work appears in Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform and Milspeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience. He has 14 Pushcart nominations, Noted Stories for 2007 and 2008, Georges Simenon Fiction Award, is included in Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009, nominated for Best of the Web 2010 and has 135 cowboy short stories on Rope and Wire Magazine.

Holly Whiteside, caregiver’s coach  and long-term care change agent, is author of “Exploring Hell and Other Warm Places,” a mother/daughter memoir, and “The Caregiver’s Compass,” a caregiver’s handbook for emotional balance.