Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, and folklorist specializing in fantasy literature and mythic arts. She has published over forty books, receiving nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for her novel The Wood Wife), and the SFWA Solstice Award for life achievement. She has edited fantasy fiction since the 1980s; and published numerous anthologies of magical stories, including sixteen volumes in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror series and six volumes in the Snow White, Blood Red series of adult fairy tales (co-edited with Ellen Datlow). She also writes fiction for adults and children, nonfiction on folklore and fairy tales, and a long-running blog: Myth & Moor. A former New Yorker, Terri now lives with her British husband (a theatre director and puppeteer) in a small Dartmoor village full of artists.They have one grown daughter, an elderly dog, and a tiny house crowded with books and puppets.

Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Yocom (She/Her) grew up in the Pennsylvania German farmland listening to her grandparents’ stories. She founded the Folklore Studies Program of George Mason University where she taught for 36 years; she especially loved telling and encouraging her students to tell stories. She has published on folklore and gender, folk arts and politics, as well as on storytelling among the Inuit of Alaska, woodsmen’s families in Maine, her own family, and more. Her book ALL KINDS OF FUR: Erasure Poems & New Translation of a Tale from the Brothers Grimm was published by Deerbrook Editions in 2018. Co-founder of the American Folklore Society’s Creative Writing & Storytelling Section, she holds a Ph.D. in English and Folklore from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A founding member of Western Maine Storytelling, she tells legendary tales of the seen—and the unseen. She makes her home, with her geologist husband, in the western mountains of Maine. You can find her online at margaretyocom.com 

Dr. Maria DeBlassie (She/Her) is a native New Mexican mestiza and award-winning writer and educator living in the Land of Enchantment. She writes about everyday magic, ordinary gothic, and all things witchy. When she is not practicing brujeria, she's teaching classes about bodice rippers, modern mystics, and things that go bump in the night. She is forever looking for magic in her life and somehow always finding more than she thought was there. Find out more about Maria and conjuring everyday magic at mariadeblassie.com.