Patty McGuigan built a decades-long career in Silicon Valley commercial real estate before becoming an author in 2020. She’s since published a book on widowhood, several illustrated children’s books, and this memoir on her commercial real estate journey, blending business savvy with heartfelt storytelling. Her writing captures resilience, reinvention, and pure joy.

Priska Wenger is an illustrator and visual artist with a BA in Illustration from her native Switzerland. She received a Masters of Fine Art at the City University of New York. Aside from her own fine art work, Priska illustrates for books, advertisements, and magazines. She is a longstanding editorial illustrator for the Swiss magazine “Surprise”. The illustrations for ‘Beyond Widow’ are handmade drawings in ink and watercolor on aquarelle paper.

After living in New York for a decade, Priska moved back to Switzerland with her family. She is a mother of two young boys, and the wife of a musician with whom she collaborates on artistic projects. She loves gardening, restoring old furniture, and hiking in the Swiss Alps wilderness.

John is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Reader’s Digest, and numerous other print and electronic publications around the globe.

John lives with his wife, children, dogs and chickens in Maine, living the way life used to be.