Steven Wingate is the author of the novels The Leave-Takers (2021) and Of Fathers and Fire (2019), both part of the Flyover Fiction Series from the University of Nebraska Press, and the short story collection Wifeshopping (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008). He is associate editor at Fiction Writers Review and associate professor of creative writing at South Dakota State University.

Tammy Euliano, MD, is a practicing anesthesiologist and tenured professor of anesthesiology at the University of Florida. In addition to a prolific list of academic publications, YouTube teaching videos, and numerous teaching awards, she has also written award-winning short fiction. Fatal Intent is her debut novel. Tammy lives in Gainesville, FL, with her husband.

Margot Bloomstein is the author of Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap (March 2, 2021, from Page Two Books) and Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project (2012, Morgan Kaufmann). She is the principal of Appropriate, Inc., a brand and content strategy consultancy based in Boston. As a speaker and strategic adviser, she has worked with marketing teams in a range of organizations over the past two decades. The creator of BrandSort, she developed the popular message architecture-driven approach to content strategy. Margot teaches in the content strategy graduate program at FH Joanneum University in Graz, Austria, and lectures around the world about brand-driven content strategy and designing for trust.

Matt Wallace is the Hugo–winning author of Rencor: Life in Grudge City, the Sin du Jour series, the Savage Rebellion series, and BUMP. He’s also penned over one hundred short stories in addition to writing for film and television. In his youth he traveled the world as a professional wrestler, unarmed combat, and self-defense instructor before retiring to write full-time. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Nikki.

Steve Kosareff wears multiple creative hats due to many interests.  He is an author, graphic designer, historian, screenwriter, film director, editor and producer. His first book, WINDOW TO THE FUTURE: THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION MARKETING AND ADVERTISING, was published by Chronicle Books in 2005. The book fondly looks back at the culture of marketing and advertising television sets during the golden age of American manufacturing in the 1950s and 60s. Kosareff next wrote, produced and directed a related documentary, TV MAN: THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST INDEPENDENT DEALER about the few remaining mom-and-pop stores which sold and repaired television sets in the United States.

Jones Deady lives in northern Vermont with his wife. He is a dog lover and thinks they are windows to the soul. He grew up in the South and his first book, The Steep Side of the Marble has its basis there. He has other books and novellas in the works and makes that his life’s ambition. He loves the idiosyncrasies of humanity and writes of the goodness but also of the vagrancies and complexities wired into this life. In Vermont, Jones loves to garden, to cook, and to walk or ski in the beautiful hills and valleys around his home.

Janet Stilson lives in two worlds. On the one hand, she is a journalist. On the other, she writes scripts, novels and short stories that largely fall in the grounded sci-fi and fantasy genres and illuminate the human condition in provocative ways.

Patrick Hicks is the author of The Commandant of Lubizec, Adoptable, Library of the Mind, and The Collector of Names, among others. His work has appeared on NPR, The PBS NewsHour, American Life in Poetry, and his first novel was selected for National Reading Group Month. He is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member in the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University. He lives in the Midwest and hosts the popular radio show, Poetry from Studio 47. His latest novel is In the Shadow of Dora.

Tim Grove writes about American history,  striving to show the complexity of the past and making history accessible to all ages. His most recent book, Star-Spangled, was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020. His book First Flight Around the World was a 2016 YALSA excellence in nonfiction finalist. His fourth nonfiction book for ages 10-14 will be published in 2022. His career memoir, A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History, highlights some of the fun projects he worked on as a public historian, educator, and exhibition developer at three Smithsonian museums. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area. 

Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of Waiting for the Night Song (Jan. 12, 2021, Forge Books, Macmillan) and The Last Beekeeper (coming in 2022.) She is a Tin House alum, 2021 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference fellow, and graduate of GrubStreet's Novel Incubator. She is a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League and is a frequent speaker at universities, bookstores, and writers conferences on the topic of Fiction in the Age of Climate Crisis. Julie also owns a small farm in rural New Hampshire.

Dr. Kellie Brown has been a member of the Milligan University music faculty since 1998 and holds the positions of Chair of the Music Department, Professor of Music, and conductor of the Milligan Orchestra. She is a frequent clinician and performer throughout the country and serves as the assistant conductor and associate concertmaster of the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra.

I am a retired trial lawyer having practiced for over 40 years. I was involved in all kinds of civil litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States, and tried over 100 jury trials, including civil rights actions involving Sections 1981 and 1983.I was also a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Judge Advocate General Corps practicing in administrative and criminal law as it relates to the UCMJ. I also worked for Legal Aid representing some of America's most vulnerable populations. I have taught legal studies and American and military history at the college level. I am currently a volunteer speaker for the ACLU.

Donna Rifkind is the author of The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood (Other Press, Jan. 2020) Her book reviews appear frequently in The Wall Street Journal and many other publications.

Joan Gelfand’s reviews, stories, essays and poetry have appeared in over 150 national and international literary journals and magazines including the LA Review, PANK! The Huffington Post, Rattle, Levure Litterarie, Voice and Verse, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner and The Meridien Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.

Barry Eisenberg is the author of Primal Calling, his debut novel. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, among others. An associate professor of health care management in the School for Graduate Studies at the State University of New York Empire State College, he is also a health care management consultant and a former hospital administrator. An avid bicycle rider, Eisenberg lives in New Jersey with his wife, Amy.

British born Mary-Rose Hayes is the author of nine novels, most recently WHAT SHE HAD TO DO, including the TIME/LIFE bestseller AMETHYST and two political thrillers co-authored with Senator Barbara Boxer.   

Melissa Payne is the bestselling author of The Secrets of Lost Stones. For as long as she can remember, Melissa has been telling stories in one form or another—from high school newspaper articles to a graduate thesis to blogging about marriage and motherhood. But she first learned the real importance of storytelling when she worked for a residential and day treatment center for abused and neglected children. There she wrote speeches and letters to raise funds for the children. The truth in those stories was piercing and painful and written to invoke in the reader a call to action: to give, to help, to make a difference. Melissa’s love of writing and sharing stories in all forms has endured. She lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her husband and three children, a friendly mutt, a very loud cat, and the occasional bear.

Leslie Brody is an author and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands. Her books include Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford, Red Star Sister – a memoir that won a PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award, and her latest Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy, available December 1, 2020 from Seal Press/Hachette.

Fashion designer and author Marina Makaron has come out with her debut illustrated chapter book for children, Mashka and Mishka Get Trapped in a Rainbow. Launching November 18, 2020, the illustrated work delves deeper into questions of gender identity and the conflicts that underline issues of gender equality.

Emma Palova was born in the former Czechoslovakia. She is a Lowell Michigan-based author now and is very excited to share her memoir, "Greenwich Meridian" with readers. Her memoir comes out on November 12th and talks about her and her family's epic emigration to the U.S. Some of her previous works include her collection of short stories that she wrote during her studies at ICS in Montreal and at Grand Rapids Community College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Currently, she is participating in the National Novel Writing Month where she will be working on the third book in the Shifting Sands Stories series: Steel Jewels. In addition to being a novelist, Palova is a screenwriter and journalist who has written for a number of publications, including Czechoslovak Newsweek and Prague Reporter.