Annette Marquis is a community builder, wanderer, and author of two memoirs, Living Into the Truth: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery (available in print and eBook formats), and Accidental Mentors: Inspirational Stories of Women Who Shaped My Life by Just Being Themselves (coming soon), and one short-form memoir, Resistance: A Memoir of Civil Disobedience in Maricopa County. In a past life, she co-authored over twenty-five software books, mostly about Microsoft Office. She recently retired from the Living Legacy Project, Inc and lives with her wife, Wendy, in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Wendy DeGroat is the author of the chapbook Beautiful Machinery and co-editor of Poems from the Wellspring, an anthology of work by writers who stayed at Wellspring, a Progressive-era carriage house turned writing retreat where several of these poems first emerged. Poems from this book have appeared in Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review, the Found in the Public Domain series by Heron Tree, and Richmond Magazine. Two have garnered honors from the Poetry Society of Virginia. With roots in New Jersey, Wendy lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she is a librarian and educator who teaches workshops that connect readers with documentary poetry, and writers with creative sparks from historical archives. What Doesn’t Burn: Imagining Richmond’s Grace Arents in Poems is her first book-length collection.