Ariel Ambers is a writer based in Laguna Hills, California. She uses her work to highlight queer experiences and girlhood, as well the ever-evolving mental health epidemic. She enjoys crafting worlds of lyricism in unexpected places, and creating space for unfiltered girls to truly express themselves. When she’s not writing she’s either at her service job, pouring wine and getting to know customers, or she’s enjoying California’s sunny coastline.

Patrice Sullivan lives and works in Phoenix, AZ. Sullivan had taught painting for 25 years at Colorado State University. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and her MFA from University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Her work is about memory and family.  Although she works from photographs, the paintings are not photorealism.  The paint itself, with its restive and gestural surfaces, embodies the memory with which she sees the past. And the past is her family, sibling rivalry, marital conflicts, divorce and adversity and their effects.