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CM Harris is the author of novels The Children of Mother Glory and Enter Oblivion. Her short stories and essays appear in Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine, Escape Artists' Pseudopod podcast, SALiT Magazine, Harrington Literary Quarterly, and the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Her screenplay The Cost of Glory recently received a Gold Award for Best Concept Script and a Silver Award for Best Feature Script from the Queen Palm Film Festival. CM Harris attended The School of Art Institute of Chicago and The Loft Literary Center of Minneapolis. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife and their twins and is the owner of marketing firm Carbon Creative. When she is not writing or designing, she is the lead singer of the indie band Hothouse Weeds.

Melissa Moran is an accomplished radio personality who has won both a CMA (Country Music Association) and ACM (Academy of Country Music) award in broadcasting. In addition to commercial voice-over work, theater and on-camera roles, and improvisational comedy, Melissa has narrated over seventy audiobooks in many different genres. Originally from Massachusetts, Melissa traded in her winter coat for flip flops and now resides in sunny Florida.