Annette Marquis is a community builder, wanderer, and author of two Substack serialized memoirs, If You Only Knew: A Daughter's Journey to Living in the Truth, and Accidental Mentors: Inspirational Stories of Women Who Shaped My Life by Just Being Themselves, and one short-form memoir, Resistance: A Memoir of Civil Disobedience in Maricopa County. In a past life, she co-authored twenty-five software books, mostly about Microsoft Office. She works for Living Legacy Project, Inc and lives with her wife, Wendy, in Richmond, VA.