Evelyn Puerto reads just about anything, writes in multiple genres, and is the author of the award-winning Outlawed Myth epic fantasy series. When she married, she inherited three stepdaughters, a pair of step-grandsons, and a neurotic cat. Currently she writes…
Nanette Littlestone’s emotional stories take the reader on a journey of the heart. An award-winning novelist and gourmet, Nanette believes in happily ever after. Her pragmatic side realizes that most people don’t live fairy tale lives, so her stories explore…
Ferne Arfin is an American writer in London. Her short stories have appeared in The Literary Review (Fairleigh Dickinson), The Arkansas Review, Wild Cards: The Virago Writing Women Anthology, and other literary magazines. She has worked as a travel writer,…
R. Christian Bohlen is a bestselling author and an award-winning consultant to Fortune 500 companies, providing instructional design services and developing human performance improvement programs. He has been involved in ministry and church leadership for more than thirty years and…
As with any journey, life has offered me more strange twists and turns than I could have imagined. At seven, sure I was destined to be a fireman or a forest ranger, my parents gave me a toy printing press.…
As an eighty-year-old, first-time published author, it is difficult to know what to tell you about my life. I thought I would do something meaningful when I was eighteen, then spent thirty years thinking I would never do something meaningful,…
Maria Leonard Olsen practices law as a commercial litigator in Bethesda, MD, and Washington, D.C. She is an author (50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life), podcaster (“Becoming Your Best Version”), journalist, TEDx speaker (“Turning Life’s Challenges…
Award-winning author Beth A. Freely was born and raised in upstate New York, with a brief and very influential stint living in Great Britain that can be seen in her writing. Today she calls New Mexico home. When asked how…
Born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, Craig has lived in Idaho, Oregon, Tokyo, and today he calls Charlotte, North Carolina, his home. All of these places have greatly influenced his work. He is the author of…
Ken Conklin is a member of the Author’s Guild, the Virginia Writers Club, and the Poetry Society of Virginia. A native of Los Angeles, he has resided in Botetourt County for nearly twenty years. Conklin was presented a 2022 Kegley…
Michael Ruocco grew up in Howell, New Jersey, during the roaring 1980s. A decade with much to be influenced by, its colors and sounds were hypnotic. Moving to northeast Pennsylvania by age twelve, Michael only dove deeper into the music,…
A.P. Thayer is a queer Mexican-American living in Los Angeles. He writes cross-genre speculative fiction and is represented by Helen Lane at the Booker Albert Literary Agency. He has words in places like Dark Matter Magazine, Uncharted, and Neon Hemlock…
Natalie Jacobsen began writing fiction in high school, and after publishing her first newspaper article at age thirteen, she was invited to hone her craft in creative writing programs locally and overseas; in college she turned her interest in storytelling…
Marlis Manley Broadhead, a former college instructor of all forms of written communication except Braille, has award-winning short stories and poems in literary magazines—including Kansas Quarterly, Mikrokosmos, Crosscurrents, and Kansas Women Writers. Her debut novel, Trophy Girl, published by Black…
Basically a huge nerd, Jack Shannon’s love of history and the macabre have combined in Brigandine, his first full-length dark fantasy novel. When not writing, he enjoys historical reenactment, TTRPGs, wargaming, spoon carving, brewing mead, and soap making. Time permitting,…
Kelli Kassoff is a writer of prose and poetry. Diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, her writing is based on moments in her life and firsthand experiences. She pushes the parameters of mediocrity, aiming to bend the rules of writing. She creates…
A true student of the pop culture sphere, B. D. Greer has been absorbing just about every form of media from a young age. Whether it’s legendary novels like Blood Meridian or Fight Club, Edgar Allen Poe’s oeuvre, movies, anime,…
A full-time student and carer, I’ve loved writing my whole life. I have a problem with procrastination and fixating on a task that is definitely not the one I’m supposed to, so I’ve only recently finished the final draft of…
Rebecca Bischoff is the award-winning author of several novels, including a YA novel titled The French Impressionist, a historical middle-grade mystery, The Grave Digger, a humorous middle-grade novel, Hole in the Rock, and a YA historical mystery, Streets of Shadow.…
Ericka Jordan is a recent NMSU undergraduate with a degree in English Language, Literature, and Culture, as well as a minor in Creative Writing. She has a deep love and passion for writing of all sorts but is particularly fond…