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Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of six novels. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times ...

Andrew Welsh-Huggins , a son of the Finger Lakes, a Kenyon College graduate, and now a longtime Ohio resident, is the author of more than a ...

Mahmud El Sayed is a British Egyptian science fiction and fantasy writer and translator. A former journalist, he won the 2023 Future Worlds ...

Catriona McPherson (she/her) was born in Scotland and immigrated to the US in 2010. A former linguistics professor, she is now a full-time ...

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...