Russ Gerney has published three novels through Atmosphere Press: Eighty Hours; To Sleep, Perchance to Dream; and his most recent, The Methuselah Project. He has also had his poem Dreams of the Beach in Scribeworth magazine.

Kenneth Thomas, a lawyer with an undergraduate degree in anthropology, has practiced in both disciplines over the years. He has traveled extensively in Africa and participated in archaeological digs, both on land and underwater as a certified PADI diver. In the 1980s, he represented South African political refugees (fleeing the apartheid regime) in asylum cases and testified before the United Nations on behalf of economic sanctions against the apartheid government. Soundscape, his first novel, speaks to many of these experiences. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Alicia. Their son, Andrew, is an immigration attorney in Philadelphia.

Tom McEachin earned an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MA in Rhetoric and Composition from Texas A&M International University. He also holds a BA in Journalism from Central Michigan University. After fifteen years as a newspaper sportswriter, he made a gradual transition into the world of fiction. He currently resides in Bandera, Texas, ‘The Cowboy Capital of the World.’

Nic Bettauer is a filmmaker who loves to witness, share, and advocate others’ stories, to photograph decisive moments, and to travel. She appreciates hearing tales as much as telling them, meeting characters as much as creating them. Nic seeks to be an experiential learner and a good conversationalist.

Reverend Deborah Galtere served as a missioner, pastor, educator, and chaplain during her years of ministry serving in the Caribbean, South Africa/Botswana, and Florida (USA). Highlights of ministry include travel by foot, horse, donkey cart, boat, airplane, truck, and car to reach the congregations in which she lived and served.

A lot of Rochelle’s time is up in the air. She flies planes for a living and if she can’t put skegs in the water, then she’s out surfing clouds from her home base in Denver. Firmly grounded while flying, but head in the clouds while grounded, Rochelle loves fantasy and science fiction.

Beca Salmon is an oncology nurse practitioner, a writer, a yoga teacher, and a world traveler living in Montreal. The pandemic placed her firmly in one place long enough to finish her first book, a memoir called The Third Option.

To those who say, ‘Now I’m retired, I have no spare time,’ it’s absolutely true! I bought my first horse at fourteen after saving hard during a couple of years of delivering groceries after school and on Saturday mornings, and I still own one more than fifty years later...more fool me. But I never thought I’d write about them, in any of their uses by mankind down the centuries, and I’ve spent my spare time over the last two decades doing just that.

E.A. Jones is based in the heart of Wiltshire, England. She is married to her biggest supporter and has three boys. She is a lover of the countryside, having grown up on a farm. She has a lot of dogs, a horse, and some bantams.

Melanie McClellan-Hartnett is an award-winning poet and visual artist in South Carolina. She won her first prize at seventeen from the Poetry Society of South Carolina for her poem Smoke Serpents.