The HerStories Project is a writing and publishing community for women. Our goal is to have a meaningful conversation about what it means to be a female writer at midlife, and to create a space for expression, sharing, celebrating women’s voices, and supporting each other during a complicated stage of life. https://www.herstoriesproject.com/

STEPHANIE SPRENGER is a writer, editor, producer, podcaster, and music therapist. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, O Magazine, The Chicken Soup for the Soul series, the anthology A Letter To My Mother (Erspamer, 2015) Mutha Magazine, Cosmopolitan.com, Redbook.com, GoodHousekeeping.com, Brain, Child Magazine, The Huffington Post, Motherwell Magazine, and other places. She is the Executive Producer of Listen To Your Mother Boulder, a live storytelling show featuring local writers’ original compositions about motherhood. She co-hosts The Mother Plus podcast and teaches early childhood music classes and voice lessons for adolescent girls. Stephanie lives in Colorado with her husband, tween and teen daughters, and two rescue dogs. https://stephaniesprenger.com/

JESSICA SMOCK is a writer, educational consultant, and editor. She has been a classroom teacher, writing instructor, academic researcher, writing curriculum coordinator, and ghostwriter. Her academic research and publications have been about social stratification, educational inequality, and gender. She lives in western New York with her husband, two children, two dogs, and a cat. 

https://www.schoolofsmock.com/