Contributors
C. Martin is a native Texan who has lived too far from home for decades. She has a background in public health nursing and currently freelances as a content writer while working on her first YA novel. She lives with two pet rats named Hermione and Katniss and their human family.1 Articles
Molly Felder is a writer with cerebral palsy. She studied at NYU's Gallatin School with a concentration in creative writing and disability culture and is currently revising a MG novel based on her match with her service dog, Patterson, from Canine Companions for Independence. She blogs about disability issues, cooking, and small triumphs of independence. She lives in northern Alabama.1 Articles
Jennifer Castle's first novel, The Beginning of After, was named an American Library Association Best Fiction for Young Adults selection and a Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best" Book. Her new novel, You Look Different in Real Life, was published in June 2013. She wrote many unproduced movie and TV scripts before returning to her first love, fiction ... but she's still hooked on film and the way we can find and tell our stories with images. She lives with her family in New York's Hudson Valley.2 Articles
Christine Kathleen McMahon is a roving freelance writer. She primarily writes about travel and adaptive action sports for people with physical disabilities. Having lived with Rheumatoid Arthritis since infancy—a disease that fluctuates notoriously—whenever she feels up to it, she can be found out of doors acting as a one woman investigative crash test dummy. When she feels less up to it she can be found indoors writing furiously—doing her best to encourage others to find their own frivolous fonts of joy—and waiting for the weather to change.1 Articles
Bogi Takács is a neutrally gendered Hungarian Jewish person who's recently moved to the US. E works in a lab and writes speculative fiction and poetry in eir spare time. Eir writing has been published in venues like Strange Horizons, Apex, Scigentasy, GigaNotoSaurus and other places. You can follow em on Twitter, where e tweets as @bogiperson, with semi-daily recommendations of #diversestories and #diversepoems that are regularly collected on eir website.1 Articles
Bethany Hagen has been diagnosed with narcolepsy since she was sixteen. Her young adult novel Landry Park debuted in 2014. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and two children.1 Articles
Sarah Bromley lives near St. Louis with her husband, three children, and two dogs. She likes the quiet hours of morning when she can drink coffee in peace, stare into the woods behind her house, and wonder what monsters live there. When she’s not writing or wrangling small children, she can be found volunteering at a stable for disabled riders. Her novel A Murder of Magpies released from Month9Books in 2014.2 Articles
Jessica Corra is an American living in Canada with her Scottish husband, writer Simon C. Larter, and their tabby Rachmaninov (but you can call him Noodle). As a writer, she has contributed to the Dear Teen Me anthology (Zest Books, 2012) and Straying From the Path (Drollerie Press, 2009). Her work is represented by The Bradford Agency. She writes literary speculative and historical fiction for teens and adults.1 Articles
M. Molly Backes is the author of the young adult novel The Princesses of Iowa (Candlewick Press, 2012). She writes the “Writing Tips” column for The Prairie Wind (the newsletter of the Illinois Chapter of SCBWI), and has performed her personal essays at reading series across Chicago including Essay Fiesta, Funny Ha-Ha, Sunday Salon, and Is This a Thing? She works as an editor by day and writer by night and spends her free time hanging out with her retired racing greyhound, Zia.1 Articles
Bookworm, music-lover, computer nerd. These are the words that Kimberly Trigg uses to define herself. Her spina bifida (myelomeningocele) is a part of her, but by no means is it the only part. Trigg is an amateur theatre, book, and movie critic who has been writing reviews since the early 2000s.1 Articles