Beth Shalom Feagan wrote a memoir of her childhood as her MA thesis at Longwood University and a YA mystery as her MFA thesis in Children's Literature at Hollins University. She has taught at Longwood University and currently teaches at Berea College. An active member of MLA, ChLA, ICFA, and the Southern Humanities Council, she has presented at each of these organizations' conferences. She has served as a writing coach at the Mountain Workshops Project for six years and as CNF co-editor of HeartWood literary magazine for six years: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/. She is currently working on writing poetry as a way of noticing, meditating, and breathing. Her NaNoWriMo handle is @BethShalom, and she’s always looking for writing buddies.