Candice Louisa Daquin is a Psychotherapist and writer living in America's Southwest. Originally from Europe, she made a career in the publishing sector before re-training in Psychotherapy and now divides her time between both. Daquin is the author of five books of her own poetry, editor of many Anthologies and multiple single author books. Daquin is a Senior Editor at Indie Blu(e) Publishing. She regularly edits manuscripts, reviews other writing and collaborates with writers on creative writing and poetry projects. Daquin edited the successful anthology; SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like, Poetry By Women For Women, which won Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards and was an Amazon #1 best seller. Likewise, Daquin co-edited We Will Not Be Silenced, which also became an Amazon #1 best seller. More recently Daquin co-edited The Kali Project, Invoking The Goddess Within, Indian Women Speak, which has become a worldwide success. Some of Daquin's work can be found on her webpage www.thefeatheredsleep.com and on Facebook under Candice Louisa Daquin.

Sarah Bigham reads, teaches, writes, and paints in Maryland where she lives with her kind chemist wife, three independent cats, and an unwieldy herb garden. Find her at www.sgbigham.com.

Susi Bocks - writer/author/poet, has self-published two books - Feeling Human and Every Day I Pause. You can find her work at IWriteHer.com or follow her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MyHumanityInWrittenForm/, where she invites you to read her thoughts and get to know her. She is also the editor of The Short of It. Her online magazine recently published the anthology - The Sound of Brilliance. Bocks' work has been published in the anthologies As the World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad, SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women and in Scarlet Leaf Review, VitaBrevis, Spillwords, Literary Yard, as well as other literary magazines.

Megha Sood is a Pushcart Nominated Award-Winning Poet, Editor, Author, and Literary Activist based in New Jersey, USA. She is an Associate Editor at MookyChick(UK), Life and Legends (USA), and Literary Partner in the project “Life in Quarantine'' with Stanford University, USA. Works featured in journals, including Poetry Society of New York, New York Public Library zine, NPR, WNYC Studio, PBS American Portrait, American Writers Review, Stanford Daily, Kissing Dynamite, Rising Phoenix Review, and many more.Blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.Tweets at @meghasood16

Co-Editor of anthologies ( “The Medusa Project”, Mookychick) and (“The Kali Project, Indie Blu(e) Press).“The Medusa Project” has been selected as a digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2023 as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX.

She is a recipient of Poet Fellowship 2021 MVICW (Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing), 2020 National Level Winner Spring Mahogany Lit Prize, and Three-Time State-level winner of NJ Poetry Contest. Recipient of “Certificate of Excellence” from Mayor, Stephen Fulop, Jersey City. New Jersey.

She is a member of the United Nations Association- US Chapter (UNA-USA), National League of American Pen Women ( NLAPW), and Women’s National Book Associations (WNBA).

Performing venues includes New York Poetry Festival, Paterson Poetry Festival, Nuyorican Cafe, Hudson County Community College, Historic Apple Tree House, Newark Arts Festival, Panorama International Literary Festival, FEMINEN Turkey Arts Festival, and many more.