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Andrea Neusner lives outside of Washington DC with her husband and three daughters. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, Seltzer, and she is a regular contributor to Delight Gluten-Free magazine.
Andrea spends her free time casting the movie musical that she is certain will be made of her life.
Mary Wanser recently earned her master of fine arts degree in creative writing at the University of Tampa and completed her first collection of personal essays, a mosaic memoir entitled Things I Wasn’t Supposed to Say. Her next project is pointing toward the self-help genre. A Long Island native, Mary now lives where two rivers meet in Bradenton, Florida as a freelance editor and private English tutor. She is an AWP member.
Mary began writing personal essays as an assignment during her graduate studies. The outlet proved an effective tool for emotional uncovery and recovery from her taboo history. Ever brave, she continues allowing her pen to expose vulnerable truths about her life experiences in “Enchained,” the non-traditionally formatted essay in My Other Ex.
To find out more about Mary and to read excerpts from some of her other work, please visit http://www.MaryWanser.com. She welcomes direct contact via phone or text (352) 422 – 0592, or by email Mary@MaryWanser.com. She accepts invitations to read her work publicly and designs workshops focused on women’s empowerment.
Vicky Willenberg is a wife, mother, and obsessive volunteer at her sons’ school. She works as a Social Media and Communications Manager while juggling the class bake sale, folding laundry from two weeks ago, and searching for the dog who escaped from the yard yet again.
You can find her chronicling her adventures raising two boys on her blog, The Pursuit of Normal. Vicky has been featured on Scary Mommy, as well as several other sites, and had the privilege of being a contributor to the HerStories Project’s first book.
Katrina Anne Willis, a Hoosier currently living in Ohio, is happily married to her high school sweetheart and is the mother of four teens/tweens. An author and essayist, Katrina was named a 2011 Midwest Writers Fellow, was a 2011 “Notes & Words” contest finalist, participated in the 2013 Indianapolis “Listen to Your Mother” show, is a writer for Mamalode and is resident “Mom” blogger for Indy’s Child magazine.
She’s the author of “Table for Six: The Extraordinary Tales of an Ordinary Family,” is featured in A Band of Women’s 2014 “Nothing but the Truth” anthology, and was awarded the 2014 Parenting Media Association’s Gold Medal Blogger Award. When she’s not reading, running (slowly), or pouring a glass of Cabernet, you can find her at http://www.katrinaannewillis.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
Shannan Ball Younger is a freelance writer and blogger living outside Chicago with her husband and daughter. She’s originally from Ohio and received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Notre Dame. She blogs at Mom Factually and at Chicago Parent. You can also find her writing in the book The Her Stories Project: Women Explore the Joy, Pain and Power of Female Friendship and several regional publications.
She has written about the adventures of raising an adolescent at Tween Us on ChicagoNow for more than two years, so it’s probably not a coincidence, then, that her essay in this collection is about a friend with whom she was close in middle school.
You can find Shannan on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Google+.
