Marie Anderson is a Chicago area married mother of three millennials. She is the founder and facilitator of her local public library’s writing critique group, going strong since 2009. Her stories have appeared in over 50 publications, including The Saturday Evening Post, Lamplight, and Woman’s World. In 2021, After Dinner Conversation published her story, “Metaphors,” as a standalone on Kindle, and that story still occasionally cracks the top ten in three Free Amazon-Kindle Categories.