M. H. Davis is a mother of two who lives in the SanFrancisco Bay Area. Her inability to get over highschool is chronicled in "All The Pretty Little Horses", and in a teen novel she is currently writing about boys behaving badly in thewilderness.

Joanne Hartman lives with her husband and daughter in northern California. She is a founding member, profiles editor, and columnist ("Mother Angst") at Literary Mama and a columnist for San Francisco's J. Her work appears in the anthologies Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (2006), Using Our Words: Moms and Dads on Raising Kids in the Modern Neighborhood (2006), and The Knitter's Gift. Joanne has worked as a writer for a New England public television station on an award-winning feature magazine show, as a reporter and photographer for a sailing magazine, and as an editor at a wire service. She taught for a decade at Orinda Intermediate School. Joanne is at work on a novel.

Lisa Moskowitz Sadikman is a writer and editor living in Oakland, California with her husband and two young daughters. Her work has appeared in Literary Mama, Salon,
US Airways Magazine, Red Herring, Business 2.0, as well as Travelers' Tales Greece, and The Real Las Vegas: Life Beyond the Strip. Lisa's currently tackling the issues of feminism and the loss of equality on the domestic front once kids enter married life. She's also working on a series of essays about a road trip she took with her mom and other epiphanies of motherhood. As a parent, Lisa doesn't often use the skills that seemed so crucial in her previous life as an Internet User Interface Strategist, but she does draw on her love of make-believe when she plays with her princess-obsessed four-year-old. You can read about her journey into motherhood at her blog, Chicken Duty.