Contributor Biographies Samantha Earley is a third-year undergraduate student at The University of West Florida. She is currently working on a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Studio Art. Her passion is in photography. She currently works in Pensacola and plans to move to Asheville, North Carolina, after graduating to continue her education in art and to open her own photography studio/gallery. Her goal is to make art accessible, whether it be owning, making, or learning.
Shawna Guenther, B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her dissertation examines early modern English medical representations of women’s breasts. She has published several academic articles and book chapters and has presented at many international conferences including the 2017 “Bowie’s Books” at the University of Northampton. She has served as the Secretary of the Graduate Students’ Caucus of ACCUTE and as Academic Vice-President of the Graduate Students’ Association (University of Regina). Under her pen name Jane Arsenault, she has published several creative non-fiction works about depression and motherhood. She is co-editor of Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices (Demeter, 2010). Natacha Guyot is a French scholar, author, and public speaker. Her academic background includes two master’s degrees, one from Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle in Film and Media Studies and one from King’s College London in Digital Culture and Technology. She currently studies for her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her main fields of research, which influence her fiction projects as well, are storytelling, science fiction, women, and spirituality. Didi Hock is how she called herself as a kid. She was born in Germany and has lived half of her life in Spain. She completed professional training in conceptual design, holds a B.A. in Sociology, an M.A. in Gender Studies, and diplomas in different fields of Photography. She has worked (and sometimes earned money) as a temp in construction, in offices and at fairs, as a telephone operator, a waitress, a shop assistant, a German and Spanish teacher, a photographer, an event manager, a social and visual educator, a counsellor, an independent researcher, a curator, a journalist, a translator, a self-publisher, a home-producer of ecological detergent, and as an artist. She refuses the idea of expertise and encourages experimentation. She was reborn in spirit in 2016 when she started to work in text and picture on her personal experience with chronic illness, pain, trauma, sexuality, memory, and auto-history.
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