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Editor Megan McMorris is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon, where she moved 10 years ago from NYC. She’s the editor of two other anthologies: Woman’s Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives (Seal Press, 2006), and Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends (Seal Press, 2007). She’s written for magazines such as Real Simple, Woman’s Day, Glamour, Prevention, and SELF, among others. Her website is www.meganmcmorris.com.

CONTRIBUTORS

Nichole Bernier is a freelance writer based in Boston. She has been a Contributing Editor with Conde Nast Traveler magazine for 13 years, and has appeared on programs including CNN, CNBC and Good Morning America. Her freelance bylines have appeared in magazines including Elle, Self, Health, Men’s Journal, Child, and Boston Magazine, and she received her MS in journalism from Columbia University. She teaches writing in Boston, and is at work revising her first novel, which her agent is planning to sell this spring.

Celena Cipriaso has written for the Emmy-nominated writing staff of ABC’s All My Children. Her publishing credits include the Harper Collins anthology Yell-Oh! Girls, Growing Up Asian American, AsianAvenue.com, Rollick Guides, and WordRiot.org.  She is currently working on her memoir.

Anna Cox (www.ladyprofessor.com) is an assistant professor and director of the photography program at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Her writing has been published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Besides writing, Anna is an award-winning visual artist who exhibits her work nationally and internationally at cities such as New York, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston.

Jane Hodges is a freelance writer in Seattle. Her fiction has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, and she has published essays in Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Seal Press, 2007), and The Seattle Weekly. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business 2.0, and many others. Visit her at www.janehodges.net.

Lori Horvitz’ short stories, poetry, and personal essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies including The Southeast Review,Hotel Amerika, Thirteenth Moon, Dos Passos Review, and Quarter After Eight. She has been awarded writing fellowships from The Ragdale Foundation, Yaddo, Cottages at Hedgebrook, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Blue Mountain Center. A native New Yorker, Lori now makes her home in North Carolina, where she is an Associate Professor of Literature and Language at UNC-Asheville.

Susan Johnston lives in Boston, where she works as a freelance writer by day and teaches writing and blogging by night. Her essays have appeared inThe Boston Globe, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Getting Into College, and The Christian Science Monitor. She also writes about career and lifestyle topics for publications including AOL’s Lemondrop, Bankrate.com, DailyCandy.com, MediaBistro.com, SELF magazine, WritersWeekly.com, and many other places. Visit her website at www.susan-johnston.com or read about her writing adventures at www.UrbanMuseWriter.com.

Margaret Littman is a freelance journalist who splits her time between Nashville and Chicago and wherever else her assignments take her. She is the author of The Dog Lover’s Companion to Chicago and VegOut Vegetarian Guide to Chicago and is the editor of several other guidebooks. Her articles have been published in magazines ranging from Art & Antiques to Wine Enthusiast. Read more of her work at www.littmanwrites.com.

Denise Schipani is a former editor for such magazines as Bridal Guide, American Baby, Child, All Woman, and Zest in the U.K. Denise is now a freelance writer and editor, and has written features, columns and essays for Parents, Redbook, Real Simple, Woman’s Day, Health and The Washington Post. She lives in Huntington, New York; her website is www.deniseschipani.com

Over nearly two decades as a writer, Jenna Schnuer has focused on a rather random assortment of topics, from spending an hour getting schooled in golf by Alice Cooper (yes, that Alice Cooper) to hanging out with mushers on the Iditarod Trail to playing marbles in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. And there was a trapeze class; many profiles of people, places, and events; and loads of other good stuff mixed in. Basically, Jenna is the up-for-anything type of writer. A freelancer since June 1999, Jenna regularly contributes to American Way, the American Airlines magazine; co-founded and co-writes the Flyover America website (http://www.readflyoveramerica.com); and has also written for publications including Continental, National Geographic Traveler, Viv, Saveur, Executive Travel, several guidebooks, and plenty of websites.

Judy Sutton Taylor grew up in Brooklyn, near the last stop on the L/Canarsie line. She lives in Chicago now, where she’s the editor of Time Out Chicago Kids magazine and a mom to seven-year-old twins, two dogs and three cats. Her semester abroad way back when left her with a permanent itch to travel, and she’s been lucky enough to mix work with pleasure by contributing to travel guides for Fodor’s, Mobil, Little Black Book and IndependentTraveler.com

Robin Troy is a professor of fiction writing and director of the MFA Program in creative writing at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the author of the novel Floating, as well as a forthcoming novel, Liberty Lanes. She received her MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was also a staff writer for the Missoula Independent newspaper, and she now lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, daughter, pound dog and two turtles.