Jasper is a part-time Math teacher and yoga instructor, but a full time mother and wife. She loves being outside and helping her husband around the farm. Writing allows her to live so many different lives all of her own making! She is the author of the novel Oliva: A Summer of Second Chances and Maeve: Crush on a Prince. Because she has always taught in 100% poverty schools and seen so much negativity in her students’ lives, Jasper writes stories that are happy and easy to get lost in.

Natalie Devora is the author of Black Girl, White Skin: A Life in Stories. She was senior editor for Ache: A Journal for Lesbians of African Descent. She has been featured on NPR’s Code Switch. Her work has appeared in Sweatpants and Coffee, Arise 2.0, and in various anthologies. Natalie is the National Coordinator for International Albinism Awareness Day with the National Association for Albinism and Hypopigmentation NOAH. Natalie Devora lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Author of the debut collection, No Thanks: Black, Female and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone, Keturah Kendrick is also the host of the cutting edge podcast, Unchained. Unbothered. and a regular columnist for Medium. Her work highlights the triumphs and challenges of living as a free black woman. A traveler and educator, Kendrick’s candor provides an unapologetic perspective on what it means to live at the intersection of race and gender.

An award-winning writer, Kari Bovée writes about empowered women in history, horses, unconventional characters, and real-life historical events. After graduating with a B.A. in English Literature, Bovée worked as a technical writer at a Fortune 500 tech company, but her love of fiction never waned. She opted to stay at home with her two young children and wrote her first novel. To date, she hasn’t stopped. Bovée is the author of the Annie Oakley Mystery Series.