Tania Pryputniewicz
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Tania Pryputniewicz is the Managing Poetry Editor of The Fertile Source (on hiatus for anthology production). Her debut poetry collection, November Butterfly, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press, 2014. Recent poems appeared in print or online at Chaparral, NonBinary Review, Poetry Flash, Snow Jewel, and Soundings East. Co-founding blogger for Mother, Writer, Mentor, Pryputniewicz teaches...
Mary Purdy
Mary Purdy is a registered dietitian nutritionist in private practice with a food as medicine and whole foods approach to nutritional counseling. She has a master’s degree in clinical nutrition from Bastyr University in Seattle where she is an adjunct professor and clinical supervisor for their teaching clinic. Prior to her career in nutrition, she was a professional actor and writer whose solo shows were produced in New York...
Jaime Rae
Jaime Rae is a young adult fiction writer who weaves the fabric of strong and independent goddess archetypes into the backbones of her modern-day heroines. Whether they are on the warrior’s path or on a path of self-discovery, her characters encourage readers, both young and old, to delve deeper into who they are to embrace their own strength, courage, and divine nature. She recently completed one such story set in Oriabi, Arizona,...
Abbie Reese
Abbie Reese is an independent scholar and interdisciplinary artist. She is author of Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns (Oxford University Press) and filmmaker of the collaborative ethnographic and documentary work-in-progress, Chosen (Custody of the Eyes). In her relationship- and research-based practice, Abbie utilizes oral history and ethnographic methodologies to explore individual and cultural identity, public...
Tisha Reichle
Tisha Marie Reichle is a Chicana, Feminist, Reader, Writer, Teacher, Student, and former Rodeo Queen. Currently, she spends her weekdays engaging high school students with socially conscious literature. On weekends, she writes. Her stories have appeared in 34th Parallel, Inlandia Journal, Muse Literary Journal, Santa Fe Writers Project, and The Acentos Review. For the past 24 years, she has been living in Los Angeles and earned an MFA...

