Maria Morera Johnson is the author of the award-winning books Super Girls and Halos and My Badass Book of Saints. She also contributed to The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion, Word by Word: Slowing Down with the Hail Mary, and Gaze Upon Jesus. A CatholicMom.com blogger and educator, Johnson retired in 2016 from her positions as a composition and literature professor and the director of English learning support at Georgia Piedmont Technical College.
Johnson has spoken at a number of events, retreats, and conferences, including the National Council of Catholic Women, Austin Women’s Conference, and the Catholic Press Association. She also has been featured on CatholicTV and Busted Halo and in Catholic Digest and St. Anthony Messenger.
Johnson is a native of Cuba. She and her husband, John, have three grown children and live in the Mobile, Alabama, area.
Pat Gohn is a Catholic writer, retreat leader, conference speaker, catechist, and author of the award-winning book
Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious.
Host of the
Among Womenpodcast, she also is a frequent guest on Catholic radio and television. Her writing has appeared in a number of Catholic publications and blogs, including
Catholic Digest, Catechist, CatholicMom.com, Patheos, and
Amazing Catechists. Gohn also has contributed to eight books in recent years, including
Walk in Her Sandals, The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion, and
Word by Word. She is the editor of
Catechist magazine.
Gohn earned a master’s degree in theology and certificates in adult faith leadership, theology of the body, and spiritual direction. She and her husband, Bob, are empty nesters in Massachusetts.
