Cameron D. Garriepy attended a small Vermont college in a town very like Thornton. She’s missed it since the day she packed up her Subaru and drove off into the real world. Some might say she created the fictional village as wish fulfillment, and they would be correct.

She is the author of the Thornton Vermont series, and the founder of Bannerwing Books, a co-op of independent authors. Prior to Bannerwing, Cameron was an editor at Write on Edge, where she curated three volumes of the online writing group's annual literary anthology, Precipice. Cameron appeared in the inaugural cast of Listen to Your Mother–Boston, and irregularly contributes flash fiction to the Word Count Podcast.

Since her time at Middlebury College, Cameron has worked as a nanny, a pastry cook, an event ticket resale specialist, a ghost-blogger in the finance and AV/tech sectors, and an office manager for a financial startup. When she's not writing, Cameron is an archer, knitter, baker, and gardener. She lives in the greater Boston area with her husband, son, a pug named after a salad topping, and four naughty hens.

Kameko Murakami is an author and oddball who lives, works and breathes in a somewhat-haunted Victorian in San Francisco that she shares with a tiger (which lives in a dark corner in the upstairs hallway, and who may or may not be waiting to devour her), a roommate who is fond of breaking and entering, and far too many dusty books to even bother with counting.

She is the author of numerous author's bios for Amazon's Kameko Murakami Page, most of which ended up reading like postings on an internet dating website.

Kameko Murakami also likes walks along the beach, making breakfast in bed and loving the same kind of obscure bands that you do.

She used to date a Serbian with a handlebar mustache. She doesn't have the Serbian anymore, but she does still have his motorcycle, so there is that.

When not tirelessly working on making the world a better place through the power of naps and general laziness, she sits at her antique desk, alone with her thoughts, writing by the light of a single candle, producing stories to entertain and delight, if you're into that kind of thing.

She can be found at:

kamekomurakami.com

@kamekomurakami on Twitter

kamekomurakami.tumblr.com

www.patreon.com/kamekomurakami

and at a surprisingly un-clickable but easily copy-and-pasteable Facebook address:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kameko-Murakami/189890291132900

Angela Amman is a freelance writer and content editor. You can find her personal essays and short stories in her collections, Garden Boulevard and Nothing Goes Away, and various anthologies. Angela’s writing has been featured at The Peacock Journal.

She juggles freelance writing and editing with managing a preschool office — and sometimes wonders if there's much of a difference. She is also a managing editor at Bannering Books, a writers’ co-op and lives in Metro Detroit with her husband, two children, and a spoiled cat.

She spends part of every day trying to convince her husband to buy into her color-coded calendar system and another part of it wondering where she put down her coffee mug. When she should be sleeping, she works on her novel and contemplates whether the perfect mascara exists.

Mandy Dawson started writing in the fourth grade with Bonanza fan fiction. She's moved on from the Cartwrights and the Wild West, finding love in romance novels.

She is the author of Elemental Awakening, the first of her Elemental Trilogy, as well as a contributor to the Three Christmas anthologies. Her fiction can also be found in Metaphysical Gravity, Echoes of Darkness, Open Studio, and Precipice: The Literary Anthology of Write on Edge. Her non-fiction has been featured on Momtastic, BlogHer, Mamapedia, VProud, and has appeared on HuffPost Live. A founding member of Bannerwing Books, a co-op of independent authors, Mandy is an editorial developer and professional beta reader.

Mandy lives on the California Central Coast with her two children, two cats, one dog, six chickens, and incredibly patient boyfriend. When she's not writing, editing, or reading, she can be found in her garden or kitchen where she uses her Baroness title to get out of doing dishes.

Elizabeth Yon lives in Bedford County, Pennsylvania in a late-19th century farmhouse that whispers and groans in the night. The region's lonely farms and dark-tangled woods find their way into her tales the way shadows slip into a room. Her work has been called atmospheric, haunting, and rich.