Alan Cohen retired after a rewarding career in medicine and turned his attention to writing and publication. His poetry has appeared in nearly one hundred venues; he has had letters to the editor in Poetry magazine and The New Yorker (a new one was just published December 8, 2025); and he has published medical articles and essays concerning current affairs. Easy in Harness: A Productive Approach to Hiring a Good Manager was published in 2023, Taxonomic Vignettes, a book of poetry, in 2024, and Inferno, a novel, in November of 2025. Each has had highly positive feedback from reviewers and readers. And he has now completed Hijacked, a new nonfiction work about how to revive equality, democracy, and freedom.

Jessica C. Wheeler is a Connecticut-based author and poet known for her lyrical prose, emotional precision, and a dry, understated perspective on contemporary life. Her writing spans across genres, including poetry, contemporary romance, upmarket fiction, and sharp-edged satire, as seen in her short story collection She’s Fine, which explores the polished absurdities of womanhood and the quiet catastrophes we disguise as composure. Her stories often circle grief, family, and the complicated performance of being ‘fine’ in a world that rarely is. As a lifelong New Englander, she draws constant inspiration from the shifting seasons, particularly autumn, which appears in her work almost as frequently as her characters do. Wheeler resides on the Connecticut coast with her husband and their two young daughters and is currently developing her forthcoming novel.

Award winning author, LPGA Class A Professional, TPI Certified Junior Golf Coach, and designer.

Maria Giakoumatos has been interested in all things spooky since she was too small to ride the fun roller coasters in amusement parks. She probably would have become a paranormal investigator if she wasn’t afraid of the dark, so she settled for just writing about spirits. Her family often took her to church as a child, so that may explain some things.

To consider who I am as a writer, there was a time in my life when writing became a way for me to escape to some other reality than my own. Now, I am the author of six self-published books and counting. Never thinking about my pain or struggles or just my existence as being something exciting or worthy to talk about, but God always gives us a testimony. The passion to write started in high school, and in her early twenties, experiencing vivid dreams, Amethyst in Love and Detective Brenda Sayers: Mercy Undercover 2024. I created Nita Nae’s Books—Truthful Imagination to feed the imagination of readers. There were many dreams that followed, which generated other books, such as Apocalyptic 7: Salvation’s Cry, birthed from a dream during my writing alluded to in Unconditional Counsel. Six novels have since followed – The Ghosts of Slavery’s Dance, Unconditional Counsel 2: Fate Unbroken, Apocalyptic 8: Angels of Heaven’s Army, The Container, Opposing Fruit, and co-authorship for Embrace the Dawn: To Live Again with Margo Leonard (my mom – 2024, Amazon.com).

I was a member of the Tafelmusik Orchestra, Toronto, for over thirty-five years. At first, I was the principle second violin, then a section player and occasionally a violist. Tafelmusik and the Lumieres Quartet were the core of my performance career in music.

Born into a racially mixed military family, raised in a Catholic orphanage and adopted later on.

Carly Kaye is a Tennessee-based single mom and romance author. When not playing with her kids, Carly wears many (chic) hats: author, copy editor, and travel agent. She was inspired by her tenure as an English teacher and research as an English major/ reader of the classics, to write a balance of humor, angst, spice, the different faces love wears, and yearning. Her debut is a redemption arc for an infamous female character, and for all women given a label. For more information on A Lady of Means, book recs, and previews of what’s next, she is on social media: @carlywritesandreads.

Tended by the green thumb of Andrea Jones, the Neverland grows ever more gripping. Like Mr. and Mrs. Darling, Mrs. Jones raised three children. Author of the Hook & Jill Saga – a series of literary Neverland novels intended for adult readers – Jones is also the editor of a classics restoration program. In tribute to J.M. Barrie, she returned the story that will never grow old to its 1911 origins in Peter and Wendy: The Restored Text (Reginetta Press). Jones studied literature at the University of Illinois and worked in television production at CBS and PBS affiliates. With her additional training in theatre, Jones garners a rich harvest as a storyteller extraordinaire.

L’Travia Crawford is an author, currently living in NC, who writes from the raw edges of the heart, exploring the beauty and ache of love, the quiet devastation of heartbreak, and the strength found in healing. When not writing, L’Travia finds comfort in baking delicious baked goods, or spending time with her pet Simba, always seeking the small moments of softness that make life worth savoring.