Beginning with her first book, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity and continuing with A Spacious Place: A Spiritual Journey with St. Edith Stein, Claire Dwyer seeks to integrate an appreciation for Carmelite saints and their deep, personal interiority with the particular challenges and unique possibilities of Christian life in a modern world. As a writer, speaker, and podcast host of "Your Best Yes", she is grateful to be able to participate in a growing conversation about contemplative prayer and its fruit–vast interior freedom for a greater yes–in individual souls and in the Church as a whole. She holds a B.A. in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville, a graduate certification in Spiritual Theology from the Avila Institute, and a certification in Spiritual Direction from St. Vincent Seminary’s Institute of Ministry Formation. She works for the Avila Foundation as senior copywriter and content editor of Spiritualdirection.com. Over the last few years, she’s helped thousands of Catholic writers and communicators through online conferences, retreats, workshops, courses, coaching, and the membership community of PraiseWriters, to respond generously to the urging of Pope Paul VI to use their gifts to make truth “sweet, tender, and accessible.” She desires to help those called to share in the mission of the Word find the courage to reclaim our most misunderstood words and put them under the headship of Jesus Christ and in service of the Gospel. Claire knows the power of story and finds fulfillment in helping others see more clearly the beauty and redemption in their own, whether shared publicly or pondered in the private inner room of their prayer. Discover more at WriteTheseWords.com. She is a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother - those in her family are unquestionably the ones she “goes for,” in the spirit of St. Edith Stein. Follow her and find out more about all of the above at ClaireDwyer.com.

Kendra Tierney Norton is grateful to be a wife, mother, and stepmother. She lives in the wilds of unincorporated Los Angeles County in a big old fixer-upper with her husband and a varying number of their combined fourteen children, plus two cats, two giant tortoises, and twenty-something chickens. She likes to say that her goal is keeping Catholicism weird. To that end, she is the author of books with Ignatius Press and Emmaus Road Publishing, the creator of Catholic All Year At Home on FORMED, and the CEO of Catholic All Year, an apostolate dedicated to helping parents live out their Catholic faith and pass it along to their children. Find out more at CatholicAllYear.com.

Sister Faustina Maria Pia, S.V. was raised in Somers, Connecticut, and is the youngest of eight children. She studied human services and nursing before entering the Sisters of Life in 2009 and professing final vows in 2018. The Sisters of Life are a community of religious women who vow to protect the sacred dignity of every human life. She has served in a home for women who are pregnant and live with the Sisters for a time after they give birth, as well as being a part of the formation and vocations mission. Several years ago, in her own struggle to trust the Lord, she received an inspiration to compose a prayer, the Litany of Trust, and subsequently authored a book entitled, Jesus I trust in You, a 30 day retreat with the Litany of Trust. Sr Faustina currently resides in New York and serves as the local superior of Annunciation Motherhouse.