Author Interviews

Born in Zimbabwe, Mwana waMusikavanhu has a Master of Business Administration. For twenty-four years, he worked in the insurance industry and later engaged in financial planning before pursuing a role in consulting and strategy. He is currently the Chief Executive of a financial services organisation. The Sacred Passage is his first novel. Mwana is married and has three children. Mwana lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Maria Caponi was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she spent a large part of her waking hours making up stories and working on mathematical equations. She has a Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Maryland, and a Creative Fiction writing certificate with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of An Accidental Pilgrim, a memoir in prose and verse, released in February 2024. Two of her recent poems and four of her photographs have been included in the recent publication of ONWARD, a MB Poetry Circle and Mira Cost HS book of poems (March 2024). She is currently completing a collection of personal essays. More details about her previous work and publications can be found at mariacaponi.com.

Sarah Jolicoeur is a Corporate Coach with over fifteen years of leadership experience. As a National Director of Training and Development, she helps develop and implement new coaching programs. She is a certified Executive and Life Coach. Sarah and her husband have been in the poly and swinging lifestyle for fifteen years and she is moving her skillset into the lifestyle arena. They currently have a farm in South Florida. This is her first book, chronicling her personal journey into polyamory.

I have been a writer and avid reader for several decades. I have an MFA from Hamline University (2008) and have taught at The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, am a member of The Loft and several other literary organizations. I’ve published fifteen works of fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary journals in addition to two novels published in 2024. Both novels have received an IndieReader review with an IR approved rating of 4.0 for Quiet Desperation and Indie’s highest rating of 5.0 for Too Many Stones.

Florida-based, Slovak-born author and creator Christiaan A. Lecky is the designer of the CHALstories platform, an ever-growing collection of literary works of varied genres spreading across three primary timelines. A mixed background of interests in business, history, and enjoyment of technology and culture provides the reader with a unique worldbuilding, writing, and execution. Christiaan hopes to pull from his backlog of ideas the right one for his next writing campaign and is already working on the sequel for Gasoline Cowboys.

Kira Metzger is a mother of four and a wife. Her writing has always been a passion of hers. With her imagination and creativity, she can draw her readers in and leave them hanging.

Margaret Mandell’s life story is one of adaptation. Earning her BA and MA in History at the University of Pennsylvania, she has been a doctoral candidate and college teacher, mother of two, entrepreneur, independent school admissions director, triathlete, and certified yoga instructor. When her husband of many years passed away, she became a widow, a woman still in the midst of becoming. Her debut memoir And Always One More Time was released by Atmosphere Press in print and audiobook, narrated by the author, in early spring 2024.

I am a dental professional by trade, but my true passion lies in storytelling. I was born and raised in Amman, Jordan, and currently reside in Long Island, New York, with my husband and our dog, Domino. My debut novel, Dance Around the Dandelion, marks the beginning of my career as a published author.

An RN for nearly twenty years, mostly in the ICU, David Kyrie was also a captain in the US Army Nurse Corp with seven years of experience, and is also fully credentialed Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP).

I am a North Carolina native living in the Blue Ridge mountains. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in English with honors in creative writing and then pursued a career as a professional journalist for over twenty years, working in print and television journalism. My lifelong interest in archaeology led me to change careers and earn a second degree in anthropology in 1998 followed by a master’s degree in medieval archaeology from the University of York in York, England.