Paige Adams Strickland (1961- ) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and adopted at 13 months. In 1987 she began a search for her biological family members. She has a BA from Florida State University in Spanish Education. She has 30 years experience in teaching. Her writing has been featured and won attention from scinti.com, a wordwithyoupress.com, soniamarsh.com and adoptionvoicesmagazine.com. Her website is https://stricklandp.wordpress.com.

Wendy Hart Beckman is an author, award-winning freelance writer and editor. She has published ten books and has edited numerous novels, nonfiction books, and anthologies. She has published more than 300 freelance articles in print and online publications and has received 13 awards for her editing, writing, and desktop publishing. Her articles have been published in Writer's Digest, Cincinnati Magazine, M.D. News Magazine, Builder/Architect, Veterans Health System Journal, and Qualified Remodeler, among others. Since 1994, she has owned her own business, Beckman Communications, through which she provides editing and writing services to individuals and corporations. She's not sure how she really feels about the Oxford comma.

Wendy's hobbies are singing, reading, writing, ringing handbells, and playing video games. For ten years she was a member of the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus, the longest continuous choral tradition in the Western Hemisphere and the official chorus of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She also holds a second-degree black belt in tae kwon do. She co-founded a nonprofit, Athletes Joined Against Spondylitis, through which she raised awareness of ankylosing spondylitis through her sponsorship of two paintball teams. She lives in Ohio with her husband, three sons, one cat, and one dog. Well, that's not quite true: all three sons are grown and gone, but the husband, cat, and dog are still here. She is also the proud grandmother of two of the cutest girls in the world.

Wendy's bachelor's degrees are in geology and natural science/technical communications from Virginia Tech and the University of Cincinnati, respectively. She has a master's degree in English, with a concentration in editing and publishing, and a graduate certificate in professional writing from the University of Cincinnati. She has taught business, scientific and technical writing at the University of Cincinnati and cultural diversity at Miami University. In her other lives, she worked for the National Park Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Veterans' Administration.

Wendy is still not sure what she wants to be when she grows up, but through it all she has always wanted to be a writer.