CAROL MITCHELL
Carol Mitchell is the author of the novel What Start Bad a Mornin’ and of 18 books for children, three published by HarperCollins UK. She holds an MFA from George Mason University where she is a Cheuse Center fellow and traveled to São Paulo, Brazil in 2018 to research Lebanese migration to the Caribbean and South America.
She is also a fellow of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She hosts and produces the Moonshine Murmurs podcast by Stillhouse Press. Her book reviews and short stories have appeared in several journals. She is an assistant professor at George Mason University in Virginia and is always working on one novel or another.
BRITTANY KERFOOT
Brittany Kerfoot received a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. She is a former student of Alan Cheuse and shares his love of voracious reading and, thanks largely to his encouragement during her time in graduate school, a dedicated fiction writer. Brittany is currently the co-producer and host of Generation Women DC, a multigenerational storytelling series in the District, and a writing and literature instructor for Politics and Prose Bookstore. She is at work on her first novel.