Monica Woelfel
MONICA WOELFEL is a third-generation Californian and legend has it that her great-grandfather made shoes for famed train robber Black Bart. She’s written in almost every form you can imagine: non-fiction articles, creative non-fiction, screenplays, stage plays, fiction and poetry. She’s been an organic farmer, a cob house builder, an interpretive naturalist, and a lab technician as well as a reporter, editor and writer. Monica holds a BA in biology from Swarthmore College and an MFA in creative writing.

Lisa Wojna
LISA WOJNA has worked in the community newspaper industry as a writer and journalist. She has traveled all over North America and even to the wilds of Africa. Although writing and photography have been a central part of her life for as long as she can remember, it's the people behind every story that are her motivation and give her the most fulfillment.