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Alicia Alvrez Author

Alicia Alvrez is a San Francisco Bay Area writer, a woman’s studies scholar, and avid trivia fan. She specializes in compiling facts about women and writing for and about women. She is also the author of The Ladies' Room Reader, The Ladies' Room Reader Revisited, and Mama Says: The Best Advice from Some of the World's Best Mothers. Becca Anderson is a writer, gardener and teacher living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally from Ohio, Becca Anderson credits her first grade teacher as a great inspiration and runs several popular classes and workshops including How to Put Your Passion on Paper. Anderson is the bestselling author of Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Women. Erin Barrett grew up in South East Asia and traveled extensively through her childhood years, instilling a lasting and deep curiosity about almost everything. This is reflected in the diversity of topics she has written about in her numerous books, dozens of articles, and her nationally syndicated column, Random Kinds of Factness, which appeared in newspapers around the country for over seven years. She currently resides in Northern California with her partner and their feline, Eleanor Rigby Soupstock.