KGB Bar

Candace Walsh is the editor of Ask Me About My Divorce. She is a writer and editor living in Santa Fe, and is the features and poetry editor at Mothering magazine. She co-founded and edited Mamalicious magazine. Her articles have also appeared in Travel + Leisure, Sunset, Food + Wine, Entrée, Newsday, Blender, and Details.

Laura André received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was an Assistant Professor in photo history at the University of New Mexico from 2003-2007. Currently she lives in Albuquerque and works for an independent bookseller specializing in rare and contemporary photography books.

Sally Blakemore, creative director for Arty Projects Studio, Ltd. (an award winning pop up book packager in Santa Fe, NM) has lived through two divorces and lives to tell about it. She is happily married now to her third husband (30 years) and has lived to tell about THAT too.

H.K. Brown is a practicing litigation attorney specializing in brief writing, and a professor of legal writing. She is the author of a legal textbook for first-year attorneys, published by Thomson-West Publishing, now in its fifth edition. Ms. Brown won Honorable Mention in the WOW-Women-on-Writing Flash Fiction Contest, and wrote The Ground Rules, a screenplay that was optioned by a production company in Simi Valley, California. She has completed the manuscript for a divorce recovery memoir entitled Even Good Girls Get Divorced. Ms. Brown currently resides in Laguna Beach, California.

Jessica Cerretani currently is an editor at Harvard Medical School’s award-winning alumni magazine, and a successful freelancer. Her work has appeared in Martha Stewart’s Body + Soul, Prevention, Natural Health, National Geographic’s The Green Guide, The Boston Phoenix, Boston Home, and-ironically-Boston Weddings.

Sue Sanders lives in New Paltz, New York with her husband and daughter. Since starting to write a little more than a year ago, she’s had articles published in a variety of magazines.  She’s working on her first novel.

Samantha Ducloux Waltz is an award-winning freelance writer and teacher of writing in Portland, Oregon.  Her essays appear in the A Cup of Comfort series, the Ultimate series, the Hero series, and a number of other anthologies, as well as the Christian Science Monitor and The Rambler. Her website is www.pathsofthought.com.

Kristin Tennant is a freelance copywriter, an instructor for MediaBistro in Chicago, and author of the blog Halfway to Normal (http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/). She lives in Urbana, Illinois, with her new husband, her two daughters, and her stepdaughter (along with the exes and their new partners).