Joan Schweighardt Author & Editor

Joan Schweighardt is the author of nine novels, a memoir, and two children’s books, along with various magazine articles. Some of her books include The Accidental Art Thief and Homebodies.

Faye Rapoport Despres is a journalist and creative writer who has written personal essays, fiction, and book reviews. She has been published in the Writer’s Chronicle, Prime Number Magazine, and Superstition Review, among others.

Anne-Marie Oomen is the author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid (coauthored with Linda Nemec Foster), Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields, An American Map: Essays, Uncoded Woman, and Love, Sex, and 4-H. She has written seven plays, including the award-winning The Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern. She is a poetry and nonfiction instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. She and her husband, David Early, live in their handmade house near Traverse City, Michigan.