Jenny Kostecki-Shaw home-schools her children by day and paints by night. She is a national award-winning author and illustrator of children's books including Luna and Me: The True Story of a Girl Who Lived in a Tree to Save a Forest , Same, Same but Different , and My Travelin' Eye (all Macmillan). She lives with her family at their mountain homestead near Taos, NM. Her website is: DancingElephantStudio.com/visualart. Niki Dewart is an author and rites-of-passage guide devoted to walking the sacred path of motherhood. Over the past 20 years, she has studied countless spiritual traditions and traveled worldwide to sit with wisdom keepers. She now writes books and leads rituals, workshops, and retreats that nurture the soul of mothering.

Niki is coauthor of Sacred Motherhood (Random House) and a leader in the Sacred Living Movement. Elizabeth Marglin makes her living as a journalist, editor, and copywriter. Elizabeth offers writing workshops devoted to expressing the rich--and ragged--inner life of motherhood. She lives in Lyons, CO, with her children Jordan and Oriah.