Mark Shea
Mark Shea is Senior Content Editor for Catholic Exchange and a weekly columnist for the National Catholic Register. You may visit his website at http://www.mark-shea.com/ check out his blog, Catholic and Enjoying It!, or purchase his books and tapes here.

Rich Leonardi
Rich Leonardi is a recurring CE author and author of the blog Ten Reasons, The Observations of a Seditious Catechist

Karen Edmisten
Karen Edmisten is a freelance writer and homeschooling mother of three. Visit her online at her blog, which she updates whenever her kids aren't looking.

The Kitchen Madonna
The author of five published histories, Virginia Fisher, a.k.a. the Kitchen Madonna, has also written for EWTN and has served as a director of religious education. These days, she blogs at kitchenmadonna.blogspot.com as she works on her forthcoming book, Kitchen Madonnas Everywhere.

Elizabeth Foss
Elizabeth Foss is a freelance writer from northern Virginia. To visit her blog click here.

Tom O'Toole
Tom O'Toole is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and lives in Elmhurst, Illinois. His book Champions of Faith: Catholic Sports Heroes Tell Their Stories is available through Amazon.com. To purchase an autographed copy, or to have Mr. O'Toole speak at your function, contact him at tacotoole@aol.com or through his website at www.fighting-irish-thomas.blogspot.com

Mike Foss
Mike Foss is a homeschooled senior in highschool. To read more from Mike, please visit his blog at www.ebeth.typepad.com/van_goal.

Kevin Schmiesing
Kevin Schmiesing is a research fellow at the Acton Institute, where he blogs for the PowerBlog. He is also executive director of CatholicHistory.net, a site dedicated to the history of Catholicism in the United States. Author of Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II, Kevin's interests include American and Church history, Catholic education and social thought, and the history of business and economics.

William Luse

William Luse has written articles for Touchstone, The New Pantagruel (now defunct but still online) and Orson Scott Card's Ornery.org. He teaches English at Valencia Community College in Orlando, hosts the website Apologia, and is married with in two daughters. With many years experience as the only male in an otherwise female family unit, he has concluded that the mystery of the feminine nature is destined to remain so.

Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle 

Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle, mother of five and Lay Missionary of Charity is the author of the best-selling books, Catholic Prayer Book for Mothers (Our Sunday Visitor, Oct. 05), The Heart of Motherhood: Finding Holiness in the Catholic Home (Crossroad, Oct. 06), and Prayerfully Expecting: A Nine-Month Novena for Expectant Mothers (Crossroad, April 07). All were endorsed by Blessed Teresa and blessed by Pope John Paul II. They are available through her website and she offers daily inspiration at her blog: "Daily Donna-Marie: A Dose of Inspiration." Her work can be seen in several magazines and Catholic websites.

Patrick O'Hannigan

Patrick is a husband and father whose essays have appeared in American Spectator Online and other places. He lived and worked in California for more than ten years, but writes now from North Carolina. His blog, The Paragraph Farmer, is found at: paragraphfarmer.blogspot.com.

Brian Killian is a freelance writer and a columnist for the Atlantic Catholic. Read more of his writings at his blog, Noetic Muse.