Dine: An Anthology

We're pleased to introduce you to the contributors to Dine: An Anthology.

 Lisa L. Allen’s work has appeared in Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now (2015), Bacopa Literary Review (2018, 2019), Feckless Cunt (2018), Midway Journal (2019), and Lily Poetry Review (2019). She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from The Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College, where she was a Michael Steinberg Fellow, and she co-edits the anthology series Maximum Tilt. She's inspired by the work of Abigail Thomas, Dr. Randall Horton, Lucille Clifton, Meg Kearney, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Bob Hicok, and Jacqueline Woodson.

Steph Auteri is a journalist who has covered women’s health and sexuality for the Atlantic, VICE, Pacific Standard, the Washington Post, and other publications. She is the author of A Dirty Word.

Susan McGee Bailey directed the Wellesley College Centers for Women for 25 years before retiring to pursue writing in Grub Street’s Memoir Incubator. Her publications include scholarly articles; a widely discussed, research-focused book, How Schools Shortchange Girls; and numerous opinion pieces. Her nonfiction has appeared in Ms. Magazine, the Boston Globe, Gulf Stream, the Brevity Blog, and the anthology, The Way to My Heart. She is completing a memoir, The Education of a Feminist.”

Born in the Midwest, Kimber Beckham currently makes her home in central Massachusetts with her two cats.  She splits her time between writing and photography, noticing details in nature and the world around her. She strives to capture these things with her camera and her writing in order to share their beauty and inspiration with others.

Aurora D. Bonner is an environmentally driven writer and artist. Her writing has appeared in Brevity, Colorado Review, Under the Gum Tree, Assay: Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and more. Bonner has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University.

Maria Ceferatti is a music teacher and writing instructor in the Philadelphia Area. She is also a director, composer, and playwright for Acting Without Boundaries, Jr., a theater group for children with physical disabilities. Maria earned her MFA in creative writing from Rosemont College with a concentration in creative nonfiction. Her previous work has been published in The Best of Philadelphia Stories, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Paterson Literary Review, among others.

Angie Chatman is a writer, editor, and storyteller. She's told for the Moth, Story Collider, and on WGBH's television show Stories from the Stage. Her recent articles can be found in Business Insider magazine; her short stories and essays have appeared in Blood Orange Review, fwriction:review, Hippocampus Magazine, and elsewhere. Angie earned an MBA from MIT-Sloan and holds an MFA from Queens University in Charlotte. A Chicago native, Angie lives with her husband, children, and dog, Lizzie, in Watertown, Massachusetts. Follow Angie on Twitter at @angiecwriter.

Joanne DeMieri-Kennedy is a writer living in Montclair, New Jersey. She has worked as a producer and voiceover scriptwriter for several documentary companies in the United States and Germany. Her nonfiction and fiction has appeared in Hudson Valley Magazine, Two Sisters Writing and Publishing (anthology), The Write Launch, and Books by Hippocampus. She is working on a novel set on the Isle of Mull and a short story collection.

Sue Fagalde Lick is a writer/musician/dog mom living on the Oregon Coast. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Full Grown People, Persimmon Tree, the anthology Biting the Bullet, and other publications. Her books include Stories Grandma Never Told, Childless by Marriage, and Unleashed in Oregon. Visit her website at www.suelick.com.

Sheila Luna is a writer from Arizona whose essays have appeared in Kaleidoscope, Longridge Review, Spry Literary Journal, PILGRIM: A Journal of Catholic Experience, bioStories, among others. She is active in the Phoenix area literary community and co-founded a creative nonfiction writing group that meets monthly. An avid collector of cookbooks, she plans to write one of her own someday. She loves cooking, road trips, and Bach. Visit her at www.sheilaluna.net.

Kate Meadows holds an MFA in professional writing, with concentrations in creative nonfiction and journalism. Her work has appeared in Writer’s Digest, Writer’s Market, River Teeth, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and elsewhere. She teaches writing workshops, hosts writing retreats, and helps coordinate writers groups. Overall, she is a fierce promoter of literary citizenship. Kate is a Wyoming native and now lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Jessica Kehinde Ngo is an identical twin with a Nigerian-American background. She studied creative nonfiction in University of Southern California’s Master of Professional Writing program. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Times, Eater, Entropy, Artillery, and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. She lives in Los Angeles with her son and husband, and teaches writing and food literature at Otis College of Art and Design.

Dina Peone is a reverse engineer of true stories from Saugerties, New York. She studied writing at Sarah Lawrence College before earning her MFA at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. She is at work on her first book— a memoir about burning almost to death when she was a morbid teenager— while teaching nonfiction at the Universities of Iowa and Chicago. Once, during a medically induced coma, she momentarily woke and requested coffee.

Risa Nye is a San Francisco Bay Area native. Her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in a variety of publications. She has an MFA in creative writing from Saint Mary’s College in California. She co-edited the anthology Writin' on Empty. Her memoir, There Was a Fire Here, was published by She Writes Press in 2016. Find her writing, including her forays into the world of mixology as Ms Barstool, at www.berkeleyside.com and at www.risanye.com.

Rae Theodore is the author of My Mother Says Drums Are for Boys: True Stories for Gender Rebels and Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices from the Gay Bars, Sister Wisdom and Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender. Rae is immediate past president of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association and lives in Royersford, Pennsylvania, with her wife, kids, and cats.

Mike Weymes was born in Toronto, Canada, to Irish immigrants. He has three wonderful children, each of whom allows him to brim with pride each day. He’s a member of the Bufflehead Writing Academy, a group of writers dedicated to the art of writing and so named after the cutest duck species on the planet. Each member is an accomplished writer and has encouraged and critiqued in nothing but positive ways.

Chris Wiewiora is from Orlando, Florida, where he used to toss 30-inch pies up in the floury air at Lazy Moon Pizzeria. Then, he earned an MFA in creative writing and environment at Iowa State University. His nonfiction has been anthologized in Best Food Writing, Make X, and The Norton Reader as well as published in Edible Iowa River Valley, Gastronomica, Graze, and many other magazines. Read more at www.chriswiewiora.com.

Brian Yarvin is the author of seven books about food. He has been photographing and writing about food and the experiences that surround it for almost 50 years. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from The Washington Post to SeriousEats.com. You can find his photography work at agencies including Getty Images, Shutterstock, and Alamy Images. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he is working on a book about Lancaster today.

About the Editor:
Donna Talarico is founder and publisher of Hippocampus Magazine and Books. She lives in Lancaster, Pa, and also celebrates her love of diners with the Instagram account Donna Does Diners.