Johanna Nauraine is an Asian American writer who has been a serious student of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for decades. Her work has been published in Bright Flash Literary Review, Bristol Noir, ASP Publishing, Witcraft, The Pure Slush Anthology on Loss, Discretionary Love, BarBar and she has forthcoming publications in Rust and Glass, Fall 2024 and The Stray Branch, Winter 2024. She is a retired psychotherapist living in a little resort town on the shores of Lake Michigan. You can find out more about her writing at www.johannanauraine.com.

Nancy Johnson is a native of Chicago’s South Side. Her debut novel, The Kindest Lie, was a Target Book Club Pick. It has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, and was featured in Real Simple magazine and on Entertainment Weekly’s Must List. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and was named one of the most anticipated books by Newsweek, O, the Oprah Magazine, Shondaland, NBC News, Marie Claire, ELLE, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Post, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Refinery29, and more. Her novel was chosen for Book of the Month Club, IndieNext, and Library Reads. Her second novel, People of Means, will be published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in February of 2025.