Abigail Thomas’ new memoir, Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing, was published this winter by Golden Notebook Press. Thomas worked as both a book editor and book agent before writing her own first collection of short stories, Getting Over Tom. Her second and third books An Actual Life, and Herb’s Pajamas, were works of fiction. Thomas’ memoir, A Three Dog Life, was named one of the best books of 2006 by The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. It received the 2006 Inspirational Memoir Award given by Books for A Better Life. She is also author of the memoirs Safekeeping, Thinking About Memoir and What Comes Next and How to Like It. In her new book, Still Life at 80, Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. She lives in Woodstock, New York.

Rosemary Armao is supposed to be retired but stays busy as a public affairs commenter on WAMC in Albany and as an adjunct professor at RPI and The University at Albany. She is a former editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Project, an International investigative reporting collective, and has worked on media development and training projects in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and north and eastern Africa. She is a former head of the Journalism and Women’s Symposium (JAWS) and of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) in the US. She teaches writing, reporting, investigative techniques, disinformation and the media, and ethics. She loves gardening, cats, and her mother, 97, and is still going strong.

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