Herta B. Feely, who co-edited the anthology, “Confessions: Fact or Fiction,” is an award-winning writer and editor. In 2010, she received the American Independent Writers award for best published personal essay, and for her novel Serra Blue, she was awarded the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and an Artist Fellowship in Literature from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities. Her short fiction and memoir pieces have appeared in The Sun, Lullwater Review, Provincetown Magazine, The Potomac Review, and Big Muddy. In 2002, she received her M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.  She is currently working on a novel titled, “But, I Love Her.” 

Her co-editor Marian O’Shea Wernicke has been the faculty editor of The Hurricane Review, a national literary magazine published by Pensacola State College, for the past seven years. She is a recently retired professor of English at the college, and participated at the Sewanee Writers Conference in workshop with Maxine Kumin and Mark Jarman. She writes poetry and fiction and is now working on a memoir about her father.