At the intersection of mental and chronic illness in families is a desire to hide them from view. Each of our authors has experienced these issues in her own unique way and, in voices that sometimes rely on humor, will share how healing can come from exposing secrets.
Freda Epum is a Nigerian American writer and artist. She is the author of "The Gloomy Girl Variety Show," and two chapbooks, "Input/Output" and "Entryways into memories that might assemble me," which won the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook competition....
Julie Fingersh is a writer, journalist and, most recently, the author of "Stay: A Story of Family, Love & Other Traumas." Julie’s personal essays, editorials, and reported stories have appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, Businessweek, Grown and Flown and more....
Author of "No One Gets to Fall Apart," Sarah LaBrie' is a Texas writer, whose libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Her fiction appears in Guernica, The Literary Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books....