Lynne Reeves Griffin and Michelle Bowdler

Lynne Reeves Griffin is an internationally recognized family counselor, public speaker, teacher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Cognoscenti, Parents, Psychology Today, Solstice Literary Magazine, Chautauqua Journal, Craft Literary, Fiction Writers Review, Brain, Child and more. She regularly appears as a media guest expert to discuss contemporary family life and preventive mental health. She writes novels of domestic suspense as Lynne Reeves, with The Dangers of an Ordinary Night and Dark Rivers to Cross published by Crooked Lane Books.

Michelle Bowdler works in the public health and higher education fields on issues of addiction, violence prevention, mental health, sexual health, HIV education and prevention. She has been involved for over a decade working on social justice issues related to rape and crimes of violence. Her book, Is Rape a Crime: A Memoir, and Investigation and a Manifesto (2020 Flatiron Books) was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and named a Must Read by Time Magazine and the Mass Center for the Book as well as on the best books lists of Publishers Weekly, the Boston Globe and Book Page. Michelle is a recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial Award for non-fiction and has been a Fellow at MacDowell and Ragdale. She has been published in the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Lit Hub, Hippocampus, and Brevity.