Candace Acquino

Candice Acquino is a New Yorker turned Bostonian with a bachelor's degree in women's studies. She works at a children's publishing company in Cambridge and is trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Candice's favorite things in life are her girlfriend, her fat cat Goose, her four-pound rescue Chihuahua named Alligator, reading, Mexican food, good beer, and educating the world on how amazing pit bulls are. You can read more about Candice at candicesgreenbean.blogspot.com.

Vanessa Bombardieri

Vanessa is a writer and theater artist living in New York City. She is Director of New Play Development for White Horse Theater Company where she is particularly interested in developing the voices of female playwrights. In her spare time she enjoys yoga, reading, cats and vegetarian cooking. She holds a BA in Theater Directing from Bard College.   

Tracy Candido 

Tracy Candido is currently the program associate in the fellowships department at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).  She is also an independent cultural producer who organizes social practice projects and public programs in New York City and Brooklyn. In her work, Tracy confronts ideas pertaining to food as a community binder, as a fundraising resource, and as a point of sensory information in creative, critical, and social spaces. Recent endeavors include Community Cooking Club (hosted by the Bruce High Quality Foundation University and also the Etsy headquarters) which combines the concept of the potluck with the environment of the critical classroom. Previous projects include Sweet Tooth of the Tiger, a two-year experiment in baking with, eating, and selling sugar, and the Bake Sale Residency, a micro-granting project for artists. Tracy holds a master's degree from New York University in visual culture theory.

Andrea Davila

Andrea Davila likes being a hostess, eating bacon, making lists, eyeballs, her sweet cats, trying to make things, small celebrations, cooking, talking about money, felt, waiting while reading, puppets, and wondering. She blogs about finance, cats, and food.

Marni Grossman

Marni Grossman holds a BA from Vassar in Women's Studies. The degree turned out to be of little practical value, but nonetheless holds a lot of sentimental weight. She's written for BUST, Playgirl, Heeb and gURL.com. Her interests include subverting the patriarchy, reading, and Law and Order: the Jerry Orbach years. You can find her work at thenervousbreakdown.com. 

Kendall McKenzie

Kendall McKenzie is a freelance writer and sexuality expert residing in Brooklyn after managing to escape her hometown of Orange County, CA. She works for a women's health and reproductive rights advocacy organization, and spends her days trying to figure out how to best irritate anti-choice nutbags and fundies. Kendall is a certified family planning and sexual health educator, ex-sex shop employee, former co-host of the best damn sex talk show ever to hit college radio, and an all-around fucking enthusiast. When not boring her friends and family and anybody who will listen with rambling musings on feminist theory and sexual liberation, Kendall is sleeping, writing, riding the subway, or wandering NYC trying desperately to find decent Mexican food. 

Candace Mills

Candace Mills is a native Memphian in the throes of a bohemian rebirth. She sold her successful green cleaning business to some friends, and now lives in fair NYC. She now models for artists and art academies for work and is not in charge of anyone's schedule other than her own. Candace's future is bright and shiny. 

Chella Quint

Chella Quint writes for and edits the comedy print zine Adventures in Menstruating. She is a comedy writer and performer originally from New York who now lives in the UK. She also contributes to Feminist Review, re: Cycling, Girl Future, and Subtext Magazine, as well as performing a live comedy show based on the zines at festivals and universities around the UK and Europe. 

Veronica Liljeblad Reid

Veronica Liljeblad Reid is a makeup artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Before she moved back home this summer she worked in Paris, London, and New York. She loves salty cucumber, meatballs, and the Muppets. She gets her inspiration anywhere from people she sees on the street, to reading about painters. You can find her work here.

Brittany Shoot

Brittany Shoot is an American freelance writer currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her writing has appeared in a variety of print and online publications including Herizons, Bitch, make/shift, RH Reality Check, and Bookslut. She loves avocados, acupuncture, twenty-four-hour pharmacies, and her 1987 diesel Mercedes-Benz named Stan. She can usually be found in the company of her partner and their cat, Malcolm X.

Anne Vauclain

Anne Vauclain is a pop culture enthusiast living in New York City. She has studied Sociology and Film at Brown and at The New School, and gotten herself involved in politics this year by participating in Obama's historic campaign. Hobbies/interests: seeing films, listening to music, doing yoga, going green (trying to get people off of plastic bags, once and for all). 

Kate Wadkins

Kate Wadkins is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer pursuing an MA in women’s history at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the founding Web editor of RE/VISIONIST and co-editor of International Girl Gang Underground, a compilation zine. She has written for Maximum Rocknroll, For the Birds, Elevate Difference, and Sadie Magazine, among others. On the weekends she manages Storefront gallery in Bushwick, and she has proudly interned for Le Tigre. Kate is a founding member of For the Birds Collective as well as a coffee enthusiast, bass player, and rabble rouser.

Brady Evan Walker

Brady Evan Walker doesn't subscribe to the whole lover vs. fighter dualism, though this doesn't mean he's necessarily any good at being either. He writes fiction and nonfiction and, when he gets around to it, really snappy e-mails.
 

Emily Westerweller

Emily Westerweller is a fiction writer who lives out of her white (circa 1960s) suitcase. Her suitcase spends most of the time traveling between New York and Los Angeles. She recently finished her first novel.