Michelle Cacho-Negrete is a retired social worker in Portland, Maine, and the author of Stealing: Life in America. Winner of the Hope Award and runner-up in the Brooklyn Literary Arts contest, she’s had over ninety publications, two in the Best of the Net, five in anthologies, and four among The Best American Essays’ most notable. She is particularly thrilled at being in Able Muse, a favorite journal.
Mark Pearce is an author/playwright whose stories have been published in national magazines and plays produced on the New York stage and around the country. He was previously Resident Playwright of the New Ensemble Actors Theater of New York, and his play Asylum is listed in the Burns/Mantle Theater Yearbook: The Best Plays series. He resides in the Denver-metro area and has lived in Arizona, Texas, and briefly, Greenwich Village while one of his plays was being produced Off-Broadway.
