Atmosphere Press

Charles Ota Heller is the author of four memoirs in English and one in Czech. The former are Prague: My Long Journey Home, Close Encounters with the Famous and Near-Famous, Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant’s Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror, and Cowboy from Prague: An Immigrant’s Pursuit of the American Dream.

Elisabeth Conway is a British author who grew up in the Worcestershire countryside, but who spent a considerable part of her life in Southeast Asia, which she first encountered as a student of social anthropology.

Connecticut-born Robin D’Amato moved to New York City to attend New York University, fell in love with the city, and never left. In 1984, she was introduced to the Macintosh computer and has worked in the publishing industry as a pre-press specialist ever since. She also spent several decades pursuing dance and choreography. Her first novel, Somebody’s Watching You, won a 2021 second-quarter Firebird Book Award for fiction. She currently lives in Manhattan’s East Village with her 3,000-LP music room and two cats.

Sandra Fox Murphy is originally from Glasgow, Delaware, but grew up an “Air Force brat.” Ms. Murphy was inspired to write verse and stories while studying the beatnik poets at Indian Valley College in California and she is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin. After retiring from the U.S. Geological Survey, she wrote her novel A Thousand Stars, the story of Ann Hill, who came to Rhode Island in 1649. Her second novel, That Beautiful Season, is a tale of the Civil War and its aftermath; a story rich in the love of family and the land near the Chesapeake Bay.

Mireille Parker is an Indian Australian author from Fremantle, West Australia, who has devoted herself to writing for the past fifteen years. Journaling since age eleven, Mireille wanted to be a writer since discovering Anais Nin in the film Henry & June on daytime TV while at university. She graduated from The University of West Australia, majoring in English Literature and Psychology, with a history minor (the Vikings and Ancient Greeks), but it was during a stay in Mumbai in 2003, while recording Hindi vinyl in a sound studio, that a book just started coming out of her.

Marian Birch was born and raised in New York City but spent most of her adult life on the West Coast, the past thirty years on the Olympic Peninsula. She was a clinical psychologist specializing in work with mothers and babies until her retirement in 2012. Marian has been writing since she was seven years old but The Age of Reason is her first novel.

Justine Gladden has always thought about putting a lot of things on the wall as far as accomplishments and certificates. After quitting school at an early age, she went back and got her GED. She became a licensed foster parent, then she became a therapeutic foster parent. She has run a home care business for the past eight years. She is a certified notary and is also certified in CPR. Justine is a co-guardian to three special needs children, and has adopted three children. She raised two grown daughters and five beautiful grandchildren. She likes to say that she is “Just working to see how many things I can accomplish before it’s all over. I believe the world doesn’t owe me anything and I believe when I leave, I will have enjoyed all that life had to offer me.”

Kendall Roberts lives in California. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, biking, and board games. Gunslingers is his first novel.