Sady Doyle (“Birth of the Uncool”) started the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in September of 2008. These days, she is on the Internet all the time, most notably at tigerbeatdown.com. Her writing has also appeared in The American Prospect, Salon, The Atlantic’s Culture Channel, and TheAwl.com, and she's spoken semicoherently at Harvard's Rethinking Virginity Conference and at Netroots Nation. She’s also previously written a guest blog on pop music for the Bitch site. Her mom recently threw away all of her toys from childhood, but kept the Tori Amos tour programs. Just so you know.

Stephanie Nolasco (“Magical Thinking”) is a writer and editor in New York City, who first discovered Francesca Lia Block and the Weetzie Bat books before she fully understood English. She has written for VenusZine, Manhattan Times, New York Press, Latina, and the blog Elevate Difference, among others. When not writing, she enjoys watching classic films, shopping for vintage dresses, and reading biographies of old Hollywood stars. If she were a mythical creature, this Pisces would naturally be a mermaid. Find her at StephanieNolasco.com.

Miriam Muñoz (illustration,“Mother Hucksters”) is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. Originally from Spain, she currently lives in Brighton, U.K., where she enjoys improving her cooking skills, watching cute dogs at the park, wearing mustaches, and doodling everywhere. She is the codirector of the queer digital magazine Una Buena Barba. Her future aspirations include attending the Vienna New Year's concert, publishing a book of illustrations, and becoming the world bobsleigh champion. You can see more of her work at miriampersand.com.

Áine McCarthy (“Full Circle”) is getting started as a freelance writer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She recently graduated from Wesleyan University, where she enjoyed classes that linked environmental science with dance, and Gertrude Stein with Virginia Woolf, and ended up majoring in religion. She is a certified labyrinth facilitator and known to be a bit labyrinth obsessed. Her work has appeared in New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams and The Journal for Advances in Gender and Education. As a means of surviving adolescence, she wrote and pasted together a feminist zine called Hip Chick.

Laura Park (Adventures in Feministory) is a cartoonist and illustrator. She is the author of the serial minicomic Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream, and her work has appeared in the anthologies Mome, Superior Showcase, and The Best American Comics, as well as in Vice and Nickelodeon magazines. She lives in Chicago with her pet pigeon, Nixon, and is working on her first collection of autobiographical comics.