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Angela Brown is the author of Some Other Time and Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time . In addition to her novels, Brown’s writing has a...

Jennifer Pearson is a former teacher and author who lives in the northeast of England with two energetic boys and her somewhat energetic hu...

Travis Mulhauser was born and raised in Northern Michigan. His novel, The Trouble Up North , was one of NPR's Books We Love in 2025, re...

Kayla Hardy is a mythology expert and multi-hyphenate author and screenwriter of Louisiana Creole descent. She earned her PhD in creative w...

With a background in magazine publishing, April Howells has built a career in global communications and employer branding. Raised in southe...

Helen Benedict , a British-American professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author of nine novels, six books of nonfiction, a...

Michael O’Donnell is the author of the bestselling novel Above the Fire and the new novel Concert Black . In 2023, Apple Books named him a...

Originally from Southern California, Leslie Karst moved north to attend UC Santa Cruz (home of the Fighting Banana Slugs), and after gradua...

Chris Nickson is the author of eleven Tom Harper mysteries, eight highly acclaimed novels in the Richard Nottingham series, and seven Simon...

Alex Ritany is a nonbinary Canadian artist, musician, and author of Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry , I Wish You Wouldn't , and Maybe To...

Ed Lin is a journalist by training and an all-around stand-up kinda guy. He’s the author of the Taipei Night Market series: Ghost Month , I...

Robert Gwaltney is the author of Sing Down the Moon (2026) and The Cicada Tree (2022), works of Southern literary fiction that explore in...