Debra is an emerging writer, savouring retirement and the challenge of pushing her writing boundaries beyond her prior professional parameters. Her creative writing has been published in Passager Pandemic Diaries, The Literary Yard and Kaleidoscope WoJo. Her professional articles were published in Wired and the HuffPost; the latter also published her short articles on travel and the arts.
Joanne Jagoda is a longtime resident of the Oakland hills. After retiring in 2009, one inspiring workshop, Lakeshore Writers, launched Joanne on an unexpected writing trajectory. Her short stories, poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared on-line and in numerous print anthologies including, The Write Launch Burningword Literary Journal, A Poet's Siddur, Third Harvest, Snapdragon, A Journal of Art and Healing, Quillkeepers Press, The Awakenings Review, The Deronda Review, Dreamers Magazine, Passager, Better After 50, Heat the Grease We’re Frying up Some Poetry, Is it Hot In Here Or Is it Just Me?, Project Healthy Love (Riza Press) and Still You, Poems of Illness and Healing. Joanne received a Pushcart Prize nomination and has won a number of contests including the Benicia Love Poetry contest. She continues taking Bay Area writing workshops enjoys Zumba on-zoom, and spoiling her seven grandchildren who call her Savta. Joanne’s first book of poetry My Runaway Hourglass, conceived while she was home sheltering-in-place, was published in summer of 2020 (Poetica Publications). Joannejagoda.com
Jo Goren has illustrated, raised two children, dairy goats, and honeybees. A nominee for Best Small Fiction 2021, her writing has appeared in The Ilanot Review, The Woolf, Blink-Ink, Inverted Syntax. @drawing4dollars
After thirty years in the Cleveland Municipal School District, Gail began teaching at two universities. When she is not teaching, writing, running, practicing yoga, gardening, eating cookie dough, or reading, she dotes on her six grandchildren, two in Cleveland, Ohio ,and four in Jerusalem. Her work has been published in Lilith (online), Gordon Square Review and Persimmon Tree.
Sima Gerber, Ph.D., CCC is a Professor of Speech-Language Pathology in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders of Queens College, City University of New York. She has been a speech-language pathologist for over 40 years, specialising in the treatment of children with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental challenges. She received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Elisa is old enough to have done many,many things. She has worked as a Speech Pathologist, in Customer service, in superannuation, as a Yiddish teacher, as a piano teacher and is currently the Volunteer Coordinator at Souper Kitchen. Elisa has also been a performer since childhood, having performed in amateur and professional productions throughout Australia as well as in Montreal and New York. She has also performed in film and television. She is an avid volunteer.
Lindsay J. Karp is a writer/author based in Ambler, PA. As a contributor for The Mighty, she writes about her unusually long diagnosis journey and life with multiple sclerosis. Many of her articles have been republished on partner sites including MSN and Yahoo. She was a recent guest blogger for Momentum, the National MS Society’s blog.
Kaley Klapisch is a high school senior from New Jersey.
She is a Dungeons & Dragons DM and an avid fan of “speed crosswords”. She has been told that she makes a mean blueberry cobbler.
Alex Gordon is a native of Kiev (USSR) and graduate of the Kiev State University and Haifa Technion (Doctor of Science, 1984). He immigrated to Israel in 1979. He is a Full Professor (Emeritus) of Physics in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Haifa and at Oranim, the Academic College of Education. He is the author of 8 books and about 500 articles in paper and online and was published in 59 journals in 12 countries in Russian, Hebrew, English and German. Literary publications in English: "Jewish Literary Journal (USA), Jewish Fiction (Canada), Mosaic (USA) and Arc (Israel).