Riley Morgan is forty-something with an overactive imagination and a desire to create worlds to escape to. They run mostly on caffeine and a love for words. An agoraphobic with depression and severe anxiety, delving into fictional worlds is an oasis and lifeline for them. They also enjoy crocheting and supporting other authors.
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Scots-born and raised, I became a US citizen in 1984. I am retired now after an exciting career that took me around the world, interacting with so many wonderful people and their cultures, and experiencing enough adventures to fill a lifetime.
Jackie is a freelance writer and journalist, writing articles for numerous magazine publications, both print and online, and has contributed work to Gibraltar’s national newspaper, The Gibraltar Chronicle, where she currently resides. Jackie takes an interest in women’s issues and the evolving story of women’s continuing struggle for equality, even in terms of how their stories are remembered and told.
Aileen Bassis is a widely exhibited visual artist and poet in New York City working in book arts, printmaking, photography, and installation. Her use of text in art led her to explore the craft of poetry. She was awarded two artist residencies in poetry to the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her chapbook, The Other Side of the Mirror, was published in 2023 by Dark Onus Press. Her chapbook, Advice for Travelers and other poems, will be published by Black Sunflowers Press in 2024. Her journal publications include B o d y Literature, Spillway, Grey Sparrow Journal, Canary, The Pinch and The Southampton Review.
Ann Favreau is a retired educator who lives in Venice, FL. She is a member of the Florida Writers Association, Florida State Poets Association, and Past President of the Suncoast Writers Guild, Inc., in Englewood. She has self-published six books. Her writing has appeared in many newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. She has won local and national prizes for her prose and poetry and loves sharing her work with others.
As an award-winning, three-time bestselling author and distinguished mindset expert, Melissa Van Oss empowers students, educators, and business leaders to succeed in today's unpredictable and diverse world.
Award-winning author Katie L. Carroll began writing after her sixteen-year-old sister, Kylene, unexpectedly passed away. Since then writing has taken her to many wonderful places—both real and imagined. She wrote her YA fantasy Elixir Bound, winner of the 2019 Connecticut Author Project for Best YA, and its sequel Elixir Saved so Kylene could live on in the pages of a book.
Joyce Jean Moore is a native of Mt. Vernon, Illinois. She attended AIU in Chicago, IL, where she received her Associate’s Degree in Business Administration, Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration/Accounting. She is the owner/CEO of Kingdom Financial Services Management, LLC, located in Atlanta, GA, where she has lived for the past nine years.
Constance has worked, studied, and earned certifications and recognition as author of three books, and is also an artist, muralist with an AA in Environmental Design, illustrator, Intuitive Counselor and certified MBSR Mindfulness Teacher, a published poet, and an avid participant in poetry readings. Her current passion is in being a puppeteer performer for children.
In 2009 I started to seriously write as a way to express my inner feelings. Writing is an extremely interior process, allowing access and expression of deep emotions. Writing my book literally saved my life.
