Contributor Jocelynn Cordes is an author, essayist, and literary critic whose essays and op-eds have appeared in The Federalist, American Thinker, Jihad Watch, and several local newspapers. Under the pen name Plum McCauley, she has published two award-winning novels, "It All Started with a Bicycle" and "Worthy of Prometheus." Jocelynn has also published literary criticism and book reviews in scholarly journals as well as short fiction in anthologies. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English and is currently at work on her third novel.