MB Austin
Born and raised in Delaware, MB Austin’s childhood getaways all took her to the water: days at the blistery beach, weeks on the chilly Maine coast, and never enough time sailing on the Susquehanna River. Then she headed south for four long years, making good...
Diana DiGangi
DIANA DIGANGI was born and raised in the suburbs outside Washington D.C. She pursued a bachelor’s and master’s in journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where she started her journalism career in television news, then returned to the D.C. area to...
Kate Rounds
My name is KATE ROUNDS. My best friend’s mother owned a typewriter. I was mesmerized by the keyboard and the hum of the machine. I could make it work, but I couldn’t make it write. That was my first introduction to the machinery of journalism. My first story was about...
Irwin & Faderman
PHYLLIS IRWIN, a professor of music emerita, is the author of two college music textbooks and the co-author of a music education textbook. (As a teenager, she wrote short adventure stories in which she flew an airplane to rescue beautiful damsels in distress—never...
Lydia Stryk
Award-winning playwright LYDIA STRYK was born in DeKalb, Illinois, the birthplace of barbed wire and flying ears of corn. She grew up between DeKalb and London, England, and as a child also lived in Japan where she studied Kabuki and performed on the stage, and in...