I’m a graduate of Transylvania University—in Lexington, Kentucky, not Romania—where I met Aris, the charming Greek student I married at age nineteen. Three years later—that’s its own story—he introduced me to his parents and a small Greek island. I fell in love instantly and returned every year to visit my in-laws and the island. I now spend a third of my life there.

Evelyn A. Fisher is an emerging children’s book author dedicated to crafting stories that spark curiosity and wonder in young readers. Oliver’s Garden is her debut book.

Born in Hong Kong and a true-blue son of La Salle College, an English Catholic school for boys, the author immigrated to Canada in his youth and established Canada’s first national Chinese-language television station. Before eventually settling in Toronto, he lived and worked in China for two decades, witnessing the country’s meteoric rise.

Maria Karametou, a first-generation immigrant to the US from Athens, Greece, is a visual artist, writer, curator, and professor whose mixed media works have been exhibited internationally in numerous museum and gallery shows that, aside from the US, include Germany, Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, and Korea, among other countries.

Jo Ann Kiser has previously published The Guitar Player and Other Songs of Exile, a collection of poignant short stories on leaving one’s childhood for elsewhere; A Young Woman from the Provinces, a novel about a Kentuckian’s odyssey to New York and her turn homeward in search of Ithaca; and Sunday People, a slim novel celebrating several Kentucky characters caught in transition between the old and the new.

Dr. Cody J. Arvidson, the founder and CEO of Degree Solutions Group LLC, has dedicated her career to empowering students through personalized coaching, editing, and research services. She specializes in guiding dissertants worldwide through the intricacies of academic writing and has successfully coached about 250 dissertants to successful final defenses.

John Tynes is a physician, author, photographer, and world traveler who delights in the constant surprises delivered by the human experience, and who loves sharing tales of those surprises and the lessons learned from them.

Andy spent more than thirty-five years working as a journalist in the United Kingdom and Dubai before retiring in 2025. He is a lifelong Derby County fan who lives in Wiltshire with his wife Sarah. They Think It’s All Over is his debut novel, with plans to publish his second book in 2027.

Vanda is a twenty-five-year-old author from Hungary with a background in computer science. Her debut novel, Dark Things, is a dystopian sci‑fi story set in 2049 and serves as the first part of a larger series. She has already begun working on the sequel. When she’s not working or writing, she enjoys listening to music, playing games, and spending time with her husband.

It’s been a wild ride. From sneaking into R-rated movies with childhood friends as a broke kid from Brooklyn, to graduating college and traveling the world twice over. Finally becoming a decorated detective with years of law enforcement experience under his belt. W. J. Cass employs every fun experience and worthwhile lesson in between writing his brand of fiction, which is truly a labor of love years in the making. He’s still just kid at heart, seeking the same escapism that captivated him all these years and his goal as a writer is lending that same experience to fans.