KATHLEEN MCKITTY HARRIS is a fifth-generation native New Yorker and a Ridgewood, New Jersey resident, wife and mother of two college-aged children, and an essayist whose work has appeared in several print anthologies, as well the New York Times, Longreads, The Rumpus, and McSweeney’s, among others. She is currently at work on a memoir. Kathleen has also performed on The Moth Podcast and at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in New York City, as well as many other storytelling venues throughout the Northeast.

RORY KELSCH is an actor, writer and storyteller who has performed at such storytelling venues as the Woodstock Bookfest, Generation Women, and The Porch. Her essay, Love and Happiness, was featured in the print anthology, I Am Strength: True Stories of Everyday Superwomen (Blind Faith Books). She has acted in theatre, film, TV and beyond. She is the proud co-founder and co-host of the WHAT’S YOUR STORY? live-reading series in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, two kids, and a cat named Walter Mitty.