Kit Falbo is obsessed with storytelling. It's one of their neurodiverse special interests. Folding in their non-binary, nerdy, life experiences with their degree in psychology to create compelling quirky stories. Best known for their book The Crafting of Chess, they continue to explore technology, pop-culture, magic systems, and family in their writing. Books on Amazon, on Facebook, Tiktok, and Twitter(not calling it x).

David E. Frost is an NFPT-certified Master Fitness Trainer, a rowing coach, a champion competitor, and an award-winning adjunct professor. After decorated careers in the US Navy and business world, he founded Well Past Forty LLC to promote wellness and longevity for folks in their “middle ages.”

Jet graduated from the University of Texas, Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree. She started her first company as a very young entrepreneur in 1986. Each venture became more successful and demanding. Jet celebrated some exciting achievements throughout her corporate career: she edited and published the first full-color (print) newspaper for CEOs written by CEOs, became a national speaker, published her first book, ABCs for CEOs and closed her first multi-million-dollar deal. She currently operates two small companies while completing her first three novels.

I knew I wanted to write historical fiction and I knew it would follow a heroine in indentured servitude 17th or 18th century rural colony in Maryland. I began reading, researching, and speaking with local historians, one of whom told me a story about women in England's overcrowded debtors' prisons . As the story goes, These ladies were shipped across the Atlantic to become indentured servants in the New World. Once I heard that story, combining it with my original notion became much easier.

Former film studio copywriter Nancy Van Iderstine wrote Twentieth Century Fox: The First 75 Years as part of a film anthology. She's a contributor to No Kidding: Women Writers On Bypassing Parenthood (Seal Press) and The Total Cat Manual: Meet, Love & Care For Your New Best Friend (Weldon-Owen). She self-published the cookbook Vegan and Gluten-free Recipes to Live For. (A second edition has just been completed.) Nancy has also penned a number of short stage plays that have been produced in Los Angeles. A selection of those will be available in a compendium sometime in 2024. Her solo piece…

Eman Rimawi-Doster is a Black and Palestinian woman, born and raised in NYC. For 26 years, she’s been organizing around diversity, equity, and inclusion in disenfranchised communities, while using art, writing, fashion, creativity, and organizing. She learned the ins and outs of taking action and having integrity from her parents. She has made it her life’s mission to change the things that need a push in a more inclusive direction. Her father wanted her to change the things she saw wrong and she does with everything she touches.

Melanie Chartoff's been seen on and off Broadway, on series like Seinfeld, Newhart, Ally McBeal, Parker Lewis, Wise Guy, Weird Science, Wonder Woman, and heard as the animated mommy Didi on Rugrats, and the animated Aunt Nora on Jumanji. She's been read in McSweeney's, the NY Times, The Jewish Journal, Wry Times, Avalon Literary Review, Evening Street Press, and five editions of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her first book, Odd Woman Out, is rated 5 stars on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple Books.

Prior to earning her MFA from Northwestern University, Joyce Becker Lee worked as a newspaper reporter, editor, theater columnist, textbook developer, and high school and college instructor of English, Writing and Theater. Her stories, features, and poetry have been published extensively in print and online, and she also writes novels, plays and screenplays, and has developed a television series based on the characters in a small-town community theater. A dedicated theater lover, she has spent a lifetime in educational, community and professional theater as a director and performer, and is the writer/composer of seven children’s musicals. She enjoys volunteer work…

Writer. Qualified Speech, Drama & Dance Teacher. Active member of West Coast Writers’ Circle, Cape Town.

From the moment I wrote my first story in my high school journalism class, I have dreamed of becoming a writer. Life required me to work and my dreams were put on hold, but now that I'm retired, I find myself drifting towards creative writing again. My wish is that I write something worthy for publication before I die! I have two living sisters who are both extremely talented artists, but my talent is in writing. I don't have an established "style", I just write from the heart.

My name is Saul Stone. I am a 21-year-old writer and student, based in Chester, UK. I am studying my MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chester. I am also the editor for Tin Can Poetry, an online poetry magazine looking for poems with LGBT+ topics, dark themes, swearing, weird ideas, and strong, compelling writing. For almost two years now, I have been working on a passion project novel called Atop Burning Fields, and have assembled a project book to contain every bit of information concerning the story, characters, ideas, and world.

Lashaun K Green is a wife, stay-at-home mom of three, whimsical bibliophile, and aspiring librarian. In Lashaun's humble opinion, books are better than food, and people make the world go somewhat in a circle. Storytelling and story reading are some of Lashaun's greatest passions in life. She is also known to crochet until her wrists are stiff, and star in full-blown concerts from the front seat of her car, singing both lead and back up somehow at the same time. Lashaun's goal as a writer is to share stories that make people smile.