No More Cupcakes & Tummy Aches
JAX LOWELL is the author of the best-selling classic,  Against The Grain and its long-awaited sequel The Gluten-Free Bible, forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co., New York, March 2005.  She is also the author of the powerful and critically praised novel,Mothers, originally published by St. Martin’s Press and reissued as an Authors Guild Back-In-Print edition. Gluten-free since l981, she is a lifestyle expert, advocate, popular speaker and a contributing editor to Living Without Magazine.  Prior to writing books full-time, Lowell was Executive Creative Director of the International advertising agency, Foote, Cone & Belding and was named one of the 100 Best and Brightest Women in Advertising by AGE Magazine.  Descended from a long line of "Petitpain’s"(French for "little bread"), she lives in Philadelphia in a former bread factory, where she is currently working on a new novel.JANE KIRKWOOD is an illustrator, painter, portraitist, photographer and graphics designer whose work has been exhibited at Soho’s Ariel Gallery, The Art Gallery at Lincoln Center, Washington Square East Gallery, The American Craft Museum, and Long Island’s East End Arts Council.  Her freelance work includes illustrations for The Nation and the Arts and Entertainment Network.  Her forthcoming book, Birdle & Sprey, is a charming environmental tale about a baby turtle and a newly hatched osprey. She lives and works on Long Island’s North Fork and has been collaborating with Jax Lowell since childhood.