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Dee Anne Anderson
(New York) Dee Anne is a veteran English teacher with the NYC public school system. She is also an adjunct professor at New York University, teaching a yearly course on multimodal literacy in education and the arts in London. After teaching English in China early in her career, Dee Anne became fascinated with the way that people from various cultures understand the world. She returned to the United States to earn a Master’s degree in English Literature and then later moved to New York City to work on a PhD in English Literacy at NYU. She fell in love with NYC with its phenomenal theater scene and the cultural diversity of this wonderful city. You can find her on Instagram as @readwithjoy.
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Lauren Bonanno
Lauren is an unapologetic Intersectional Feminist & Social-Liberation focused Social Worker. She has been providing support services to teens and adults on a crisis hotline for over 13 years. Her areas of interest are LGBTQIA2 Youth, End of Life Care, grief, and animal-based intervention. While Lauren had to be peer pressured into her first visit to a certain hotel, it didn't take her long to realize that those darkened halls were a place she wanted to return to. Now she is as trapped there as the rest of the inhabitants. She is also an avid fan of anything created by Jim Henson and puppets in general (but no dolls or clowns – those are terrifying). Lauren has a deep love of all animals and was honored to share the last 17 years of her life with a beloved feline companion - a queer and boisterous cat diva by the name of Buster Purrski.
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Richard Butner
(North Carolina) Richard's fiction has appeared in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, been shortlisted for the Speculative Literature Foundation's Fountain Award, and nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award; his nonfiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers. He has written for and performed with the Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Aggregate Theatre, Bare Theatre, the Nickel Shakespeare Girls, and Urban Garden Performing Arts. He lives in North Carolina with Barb and Fred, where he runs the annual Sycamore Hill Writers' Conference.
