Meta Herrick Carlson is a pastor and writer passionate about building connections and courage in liminal spaces. Meta serves Bethlehem Lutheran Church Twin Cities as the campus pastor and redeveloper at the Minnetonka campus. A cocreator of the podcast Alter Guild, she lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three kids.
Joana Garcia is a retired military officer with twenty years of active duty under her belt. She spent most of her adult life fixing fighter jets on aircraft carriers as a US Navy aviation maintenance officer. Her warm, rich, and graceful voice can be heard in over sixty titles in multiple genres, fiction and nonfiction.