M.J. Fievre is the author of Happy, Okay? Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival (Books & Books Press, 2019) and Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens (Mango Publishing, 2020). She helps others write their way through trauma, build community and create social change. She works with veterans, disenfranchised youth, cancer patients and survivors, victims of domestic and sexual violence, minorities, the elderly, those with chronic illness or going through transition and any underserved population in need of writing as a form of therapy—even if they don’t realize that they need writing or therapy. A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews and other author events.

Fernando Subirats, a Miami native, has been involved in the South Florida arts and holistic communities for over 20 years. As a percussionist, he has performed at virtually every venue in Miami from the legendary Tobacco Road to the Arsht Center. As a student of Indian music and Tabla drumming, he travelled to India and studied with great masters. In 2016 he innovated "Drumming & Dreaming", a form of meditation involving hypnotic drumming that enables the listener to enter a dream like state and make contact with the spirit realm. "Drumming & Dreaming" the album was released in January 2020. He is the proud father to three musical children and married to a singer/songwriter and Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) practitioner Connect: @FernandoSubirats Instagram www.fernandosubirats.com