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Taylor Brown grew up on the Georgia coast. He has lived in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and the mountains of western North Carolina...

Patricia Marcantonio was born in Pueblo, Colorado. She has won awards for her journalism, short stories and screenplays. Her children's...

J. Albert Mann is the author of six novels for children. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and...

Daisy Pearce was born in Cornwall and grew up on a smallholding surrounded by hippies. She read Stephen King’s Cujo and The Hamlyn Book of...

David Hofmeyr was born in South Africa and lives in London and Paris. In 2013 he graduated from Bath Spa University with an MA in Writi...

Stephanie Wrobel grew up in Chicago but has been living in the UK for the last three years with her husband and Cockapoo, Moose Barkwinkle....

Phillip Margolin has written over twenty novels, most of them New York Times bestsellers, including Gone But Not Forgotten , Lost Lake , a...

Richard Fifield earned his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in upstate New York. For the past twenty years he has worked as a social worker ...

Alma Katsu is the author of The Hunger , a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party with a horror twist. The Hunger made NPR’s list of...

Bridget Tyler grew up in Berkeley, California. She went on to attend NYU, living in New York and London before completing her degree and ...

Michael Zapata is a founding editor of the award-winning MAKE Literary Magazine . He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award fo...

Susann Cokal is a moody historical novelist, a pop-culture essayist, book critic, magazine editor, and sometime professor of creative writi...