Maureen Brady is the author of the novels Ginger's Fire, Folly, and Give Me Your Good Ear, the short stories, The Question She Put to Herself, and three books of nonfiction. Recent short stories appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and the anthology, Just Like a Girl. Others appear in Cabbage and Bones: Irish American Women's Fiction; Mom; In the Family and Intersections: An Anthology of Banff Writers. Adjunct assistant professor of Creative Writing at New York University, she also teaches at The NY Writers Workshop at the Jewish Community Center.

She is Board President of The Money for Women:Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and a co-founder of the publishing company Spinsters Ink and The New York Writers Workshop. She lives in New York City and the Catskills and is currently at work on a memoir and a novel.

Martha E. Hughes has taught the Advanced Fiction Workshop and Fiction Tutorial at New York University since 1991. A former Fiction Fellow at the NY State Summer Writing Institute at Skidmore College, she founded the Peripatetic Writing Workshop, Inc., in 1991, is the author of a novel, Precious In His Sight (Viking/Penguin), two books of nonfiction and is included in the anthology, Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness (Random House). Her work has also appeared in Bomb and Cosmopolitan magazines.

A native of New Orleans, she is a free-lance editor/book doctor, a board member of the Money for Women: Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and also teaches at the New York Writers' Workshop. She has also taught writing at Bronx Community, Hunter, Marymount and Mount St. Mary colleges in New York. She received a BFA in Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York City and an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College in Vermont.