About the Authors

  • Ren Albon is a pursuer of art, rearer of children, and amateur hobby farmer on the coast of Maine.

  • Emily Baer is a writer and artist living in Bucksport, Maine.

  • Shantee Maggie Baker is a Mother-Artist-Healer-Activist and a member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Castine is her homeland.

  • Casey Bernard is a marketing research consultant, writer, and mother. She and her family took advantage of the 2020 pandemic to move to Castine, Maine permanently.

  • Jenny Bicks is a television and film writer. She resides in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine.

  • Barbara Cooper is a longtime summer resident of Castine who returns to Texas in the Autumn. She enjoys writing Folk poetry, art and playing the French horn in the Castine Town Band.

  • Bryan and Ceane Corbett live in Chevy Chase, Maryland, outside of Washington D.C., and have three children. They have been coming to Castine for the past 6 years and look forward to many more years at Fort Madison.

  • Kristy Cunnane is a full-time teacher of children and an artist living in Orland, Maine.

  • Heidi Daub's creative work reflects her involvement in various artistic disciplines and her reverence for the natural world. She has resided in Maine since 1984. 

  • Abby Dunham is…

  • Gale Eaton is a writer and retired professor who grew up in Bangor and Brooksville but now lives in Rhode Island.

  • Marianne Cooper Lee is a retired grandmother, political activist, manager, and public health advocate who lives in Castine, Maine summers. She sailed from Castine to Antigua, Guatemala where she lives when it gets cold.

  • Charlotte Alston Legg is a relationship educator, training people around the globe how to engage and connect instead of rupture and polarize. She splits time between Salt Lake City and Castine, Maine.

  • William Light is a retired Engineer and college teacher from away who is a resident of Castine (when there is no possibility of snow on the ground). 

  • Jack Mankiewicz is a writer and video editor. Castine is his favorite place in the world.

  • John Mankiewicz is a television and film writer. Castine is his favorite place in the world. 

  • Dabney Hunter McKenzie is a college professor and erstwhile administrator who loves a good book, well written. She divides her time between Montgomery, Alabama, and Castine, Maine.

  • Deborah Neve is an architect, interior designer, and project manager/general contractor living full time in Castine Maine.

  • Sally Piper is a university student in Norwich, England, studying English Literature and Creative Writing, with a passion for feminist writing.

  • Kathryn Rensenbrink, a physician and a parent, lives in Blue Hill and is ever hopeful that she will someday be more than an intermittent writer

  • Jacob Simmons is a math professor, proud father to a brood of amazing girls, self-professed nerd, and a wannabe outdoorsman. Jake moved to Castine a year ago and hopes to never move again.

  • Johanna Sweet is a teacher, author, and poet who resides full-time in Castine, Maine, but who fully understands that she will always be “from away.”

  • Eve Stwertka is an author, painter, sculptor, and retired English professor who divides her year between New York and Maine

  •  Debbie Weil is a podcaster and nonfiction book coach who lives in Stonington, Maine, and New Haven, Connecticut. She’s also the producer of the women’s storytelling event, Island Women Speak.

  • Goody-B. Wiseman is an artist and arts advocate living with her little family in the wilds of Downeast Maine.