NATALIE JENNER was born in England, raised in Canada, and graduated from the University of Toronto with consecutive degrees in English Literature and Law. She worked for decades in the legal industry and also founded the independent bookstore Archetype Books in Oakville, Ontario, where she lives with her family and two rescue dogs. The Jane Austen Society is the first published novel for this lifelong devotee of all things Jane Austen and comes out on May 26, 2020 from St. Martin’s Press (North America) and on May 28, 2020 from Orion (UK).

Amy Poeppel is the author of SMALL ADMISSIONS and LIMELIGHT. Her third novel, MUSICAL CHAIRS, will be out this July 2020 with Emily Bestler Books/Simon and Schuster. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus (Funny Women), Belladonna Comedy, and Working Mother. She lives in New York City and Frankfurt, Germany.

Amanda Brainerd lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, blocks from where she grew up, and attended The Nightingale-Bamford School before going on to graduate from Harvard College and Columbia Architecture.

Colleen Oakley is the critically acclaimed author of Before I Go, Close Enough to Touch, You Were There Too and the forthcoming The Invisible Husband of Frick Island (May 2021). Colleen’s novels have been translated into 21 languages, optioned for film and longlisted for the Southern Book Prize twice. A former magazine editor for Marie Claire and Women’s Health & Fitness, Colleen’s articles and essays have been featured in The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Women’s Health, Redbook, Parade, Woman’s Day, Fitness, Health, Marie Claire and Martha Stewart Weddings. A proud graduate of the University of Georgia’s school of journalism, Colleen currently lives in Atlanta with her husband, four kids, and the world’s biggest lapdog, Bailey.

Mary Pauline Lowry is the author of the novel The Roxy Letter and is a regular contributor to O Magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Millions, and other publications.

Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. She teaches at the Writers’ Grotto, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and elsewhere.

Julia Claiborne Johnson grew up on a farm in Tennessee, and as so often happens, went from there to working in magazines in New York City. After marrying a tv-comedy-writer, she moved to Los Angeles and had two children. Her first novel, Be Frank with Me, a national bestseller, was one of six finalists for the American Booksellers Association's Best Debut of 2017. The audiobook, performed by Tavia Gilbert, won an Audie Award for Best Female Narrator. Her second novel comes out in January from Custom House/Harper Collins.

Kerry Kletter holds a degree in literature and is the critically-acclaimed author of the young adult novel The First Time She Drowned. She has an extensive background in theater, having appeared in film, television, and onstage. She lives in Los Angeles and adores her friends, her partner David, dogs, neuroscience, funny people, Montauk, surfing, and French fries. East Coast Girls is her first adult novel.

Bianca Marais is the author of two novels, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words and If You Want to Make God Laugh. She holds a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Torontos School of Continuing Studies where she now teaches creative writing. Before becoming an author, she started a corporate training company and volunteered with Cotlands, where she assisted care workers in Soweto with providing aid for HIV/AIDS orphans and their caregivers. She champions the Own Voices movement in her country of birth, South Africa, where she runs various programs through the Eunice Ngogodo Own Voices Initiative to encourage and empower women of colour to tell their own stories. She resides in Toronto with her husband (Stephen), her golden retriever (Muggle) and her cat (Wombat).

Michael J. Spivey, Ph.D., is the author of Who You Are: The Science of Connectedness and The Continuity of Mind. After 12 years as a psychology professor at Cornell University, Spivey moved to the University of California, Merced to help build their Cognitive Science Program. His research uses eye-tracking, computer-mouse tracking, neural network models and dynamical systems theory to explore how a mind emerges from the interaction of brain, body, and environment. In 2010, Spivey received the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement from the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.

Aimee Liu is the author of Glorious Boy (May 2020), as well as the bestselling novels Flash House, Cloud Mountain, and Face, and the memoirs Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders and Solitaire. She is the editor of Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk About Writing, and Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders. Her articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Ms., Cosmopolitan, Self, Glamour, The Los Angeles Review of Books and other publications. Her novels include a Literary Guild Super Release and have been published in more than twelve languages and serialized in Good Housekeeping. She’s received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers award and special mention by the Pushcart Prize and teaches in Goddard College’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend, WA.

Maria Espinosa is an award-winning novelist. She was born on the East Coast but has lived in California most of her adult life. For the past eight years she has lived in Albuquerque. Many years ago she self-published two chapbooks of poetry, Love Feelings and Night Music. She mailed them to Anais Nin who responded. “They are... direct and rich in feeling—rare today— /Don’t let people tell you anything is too personal. I was accused of that for twenty years. Espinosa's later publications include four novels: Dark Plums, Longing, Incognito: Journey of a Secret Jew, and Dying Unfinished In addition, she published a critically acclaimed translation of George Sand's classic autobiographical novel, Lelia. Her latest novel, Suburban Souls is forthcoming in 2020 with Tailwind Press.

Carolyn Porter is a graphic designer, type designer, and author of 'Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate’ (Skyhorse, 2017). Carolyn lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota with her husband and a gigantic black lab.

Theresa Kaminski holds a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of a trilogy of nonfiction history books on American women in the Philippine Islands during World War II, the most recent of which is Angels of the Underground. Theresa’s biography, Dr. Mary Walker’s Civil War, is forthcoming from Lyons Press, and she is currently completing the first full-length biography of America’s favorite cowgirl, Dale Evans.

Christina Lane is the author of three books, including the recent Phantom Lady: HollywoodProducer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock, which Molly Haskell has called "a revelation" and "a riveting read." In addition, she has written numerous articles on classical Hollywood stars, film history, and contemporary women directors. Chair of the cinematic arts department at the University of Miami, she makes frequent speaking appearances and has provided commentary to such media outlets as NPR, Air Mail, and the Daily Mail.

Christina Clancy is the author of the forthcoming novel The Second Home, out June 2020, St. Martin’s Press. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Sun Magazine, Glimmer Train Stories, Hobart, Pleiades, and on Wisconsin Public Radio.

Byron Lane's debut novel is called A STAR IS BORED, about a celebrity assistant struggling to manage his eccentric and hilarious movie star boss, inspired in part by Lane’s time as assistant to actress Carrie Fisher. Available 7/28 from Henry Holt.

Award-winning author Laurie Wallmark has written picture book biographies of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in fields ranging from computer science to mathematics to astronomy. Her books have earned multiple starred trade reviews, been chosen as Junior Library Guild Selections, and received awards such as Outstanding Science Trade Book, Cook Prize Honor, AAAS/Subaru Prize Longlist, and Parents’ Choice Gold Medal. Laurie has an MFA in Writing from VCFA. She is a former software engineer and computer science professor.

GRETCHEN ANTHONY is the author of Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners, which was a Midwestern Connections Pick and a best books pick by Amazon, BookBub, PopSugar, and the New York Post. Her forthcoming book, The Kids Are Gonna Ask, will be released on July 28, 2020. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Medium, and The Write Life, among others. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.

Steven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016 and The Editor, named by NPR and Esquire Magazine as one of the Best Books of 2019. His fiction has been published in nineteen languages. Lily and the Octopus is being developed as a feature film by Amazon Studios. The Editor was optioned by Twentieth Century for director Greg Berlanti. Steven has worked as a freelance writer, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Originally from Portland, Maine, he is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Palm Springs.