Brenda Miller is the author of five essay collections including Season of the Body, Listening Against the Stone, and An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her creative nonfiction appears in the leading literary journals and has received six Pushcart Prizes. She also co-authoredThe Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, with Holly J. Hughes.Brenda is a Professor of English at Western Washington University, and associate faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop. In her spare time, she fosters dogs with Happy Tails Happy Homes, volunteers with Whatcom Hospice, and eats fabulous meals with her colleague Suzanne Paola.
You can reach Brenda at her website: brendamillerwriter.com

Suzanne Paola is the author of, most recently, Make Me a Mother (W.W. Norton) and digital chapbook, Curious Atoms: A History with Physics.She is also author of Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World, the novella Stolen Moments, and four books of poetry. Awards for her poetry and prose include a New York TimesNotable Book, an American Book Award, a Library JournalBest Science Book of the Year, a Lenore Marshall Award finalist, an Oprah Bookshelf pick, a Pushcart prize, and others. She lives in Bellingham, Washington and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review. She teaches in jails and juvenile facilities with the group Underground Writing, and loves spending time, especially if it’s eating or petting dogs, with her colleague Brenda Miller.
You can reach Suzanne at her website: suzannepaola.com