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Laura J. Oliver is an award-winning writer, developmental story editor, workshop facilitator, and writing mentor. She is the author of The Story Within, New Insights and Inspiration for Writers (Penguin Random House) reprinted 8 times. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in national magazines, newspapers and literary reviews. She taught at the University of Maryland and St. Johns College and her weekly column for the Talbot Spy, Chestertown Spy, and the Cambridge Spy is featured every Wednesday as “This is How the Story Goes” on NPR-member station, WHCP. Oliver has won a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction and an Anne Arundel County Literary Arts Award. www.thestorywithin.com

I am a teacher, wrestling coach, and music obsessive. When I’m not in the classroom or on the airwaves, you can find me hiking, playing board games, resistance training, traveling with my family, or trying to make the perfect pizza.

Dr. Kerry Forrestal, emergency physician, takes on topics from cancer to suicide and examines societal issues and healthcare specifics with medical insider insights. He works at Tidal Health hospital in Salisbury, Maryland.

Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts to put current events in the larger context of history to document the overall health of American democracy. Heather Cox Richardson was the first author with over a million Substack sponsors and has been named as one of USA’s 2022 Women of the Year.

Tom Horton is a film maker, columnist for the Chesapeake Bay Journal and professor of environmental studies at Salisbury University.