Claire Rudolf Murphy is the award-winning author of several books for children and young adults, including
Children of the Gold Rush (winner of the 2000 Willa Cather Award),
Gold Rush Women and
Free Radical. She is coauthored of
Daughters of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Womenfrom Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions (SkyLight Paths).
Meghan Nuttall Sayres is atapestry weaver and the author of The Shape of Betts Meadow: A Wetlands Story and Anahita's Woven Riddle and coauthor of Daughters of the Desert: Tales of Remarkable Women from Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions (SkyLight Paths).
Mary Cronk Farrell,formerly an award-winning television journalist, is now a children's author and syndicated columnist on family spirituality.
Sarah Conover is the author of Kindness: Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents, winner of the Skipping Stones Multicultural Award, and is currently writing a children's reader on Islam. She is also coauthor of Daughters of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Women from Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions (SkyLight Paths).
Betsy Wharton is a writer and nurse whose work has taken her to a Navajo Indian reservation, an AIDS hospice, and a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.