Anne Boyd was a professor of women’s literature for twenty-three years before she gave up tenure and embarked on her own creative life. She writes the popular Substack newsletter Audacious Women, Creative Lives, where her story of quitting her life went viral and was recommended by Elizabeth Gilbert, who said, “You know I love everything about this!” Anne is also the author of three nonfiction books about women writers, two of them published by Norton, and has written for Literary Hub, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She is completing her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and working on her first novel. For more, see her website.

Michelle Titus was an international correspondent reporting across the world from Belgium to Australia, Finland to Malaysia, soaking in diverse cultures and perspectives along the way. She later became the founder of three female-led publishing companies. Six years ago, she transitioned to her passion project Cummari, hosting women focused retreats and opening Europe's first travel house for solo female travellers, artists and nomads in Sicily. She is a student of matriarchal anthropology studies with International Academy HAGIA and hosts feminine pilgrimages to ancient feminine sties in Sicily with SheLegends  and runs a local women's community, Zingarelle di Sicilia.