Elizabeth Mosier logged one thousand volunteer hours processing colonial-era artifacts at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park Archeology Laboratory to write EXCAVATING MEMORY: ARCHAEOLOGY AND HOME. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her nonfiction work has been selected as notable in Best American Essays and appears widely in journals and newspapers including Cleaver, Creative Nonfiction, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She writes the Intersections column for the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin.