Signe earned an MFA in Writing from the University of Minnesota in 1996 and a JD from William Mitchell College of Law in 2006, graduating as the class valedictorian. She taught creative writing at St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota and practiced law in Minneapolis. Signe’s work has appeared in Bookends Review, Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks, Atticus Review, Coachella Review and others. In 2019, Signe won third place in the Kay Snow Poetry Competition and Second Place in Atticus Review’s Flash Non-Fiction Contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry. In 2018, Signe was diagnosed with autism. Signe's first published book is F*ck This Murder, Book One in the F This Murder Series, and she’s currently working on book two. Signe is the co-founder of The Unpopular Publishing Co.; co-creator of AutisticAunties.com; and co-owner & operator of Cooper’s Point, a book-filled family getaway cabin resort at Lake Hamilton, Hot Springs National Park, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas. Signe does not, and has never, used AI to create.  

Elizabeth, born and raised in North Dakota, is a disabled, queer, autistic writer, wife, and a mom to three very cool kids. She holds degrees in the Classics and Political Science from St. Olaf College, and splits her time between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Hot Springs, Arkansas. Elizabeth has published in The New York Times, Disability Acts, The Manifest-Station, The Red Noise Collective, Unleash Lit, Tangled Locks and more. Her first published book is F*CK THIS MURDER, the first in the F This Murder series. Elizabeth is the proud co-founder of The Unpopular Publishing Co., co-creator of Autistic Aunties, and happily rents out adorable little cabins with shelves full of books in Arkansas. Elizabeth does not, and has never, used AI to create. 

We are two autistic sisters who grew up together on the prairie in North Dakota.