Hi, I’m Cindy Kate Wills. I wrote and illustrated Cookie Math. I am originally from Norfolk, Virginia. I have always loved to draw and added watercolor painting during the pandemic. I now live out of the country with my husband…
Kimberly W. Heiman is a biology professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She took up creative writing as a pandemic coping strategy, earning an MFA from Wilkes University. Her first book, The Scientist and the Story, a personal storytelling…
Sehaj Kasture is an Indian-born writer and creative who loves telling stories that celebrate imagination, kindness, and the little things that make each of us unique. Inspired by her own birthmark, she wrote Meera’s Magical Birthmark to help children grow…
EMMY-nominated journalist recently retired from fifty-four years in media (TV/radio). Nominated for the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame as a Local Legend. Nominated for the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a Legendary Communicator. Self-published two previous books.
Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet, author, and educator whose work centers storytelling, cultural memory, and voice. A founding member of the Asian American spoken word poetry group Yellow Rage, she was among the first Asian American women featured on…
Leslie Reta is an author, trainer, coach, and advocate with over twenty years of experience working with families impacted by abuse, neglect, trauma, and addiction. Her work combines professional experience with a deeply personal understanding of what it means to…
Jack Rife was born in 1941 in Graham, Texas, where he spent his youth. As a boy, he milked cows, helped in his father’s wrecking yard, and spent summers doing seasonal labor with his family in the cherry orchards of…
Before moving to the United States in July 2012, Claire graduated from the French University of Sorbonne Nouvelle with a bachelor’s in French modern literature and languages. While at the university, she studied under Cécile Ladjali, a well-known French author…
My creative nonfiction and poems (some award-winning) have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. Originally from Boston, I remained in California after completing my PhD at Berkeley. I was a tenured professor at a community college for many…
Afshine Emrani, MD, FACC, is a board-certified cardiologist and Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He founded Los Angeles Heart Specialists in 1999 and has cared for patients for nearly thirty years, earning recognition as…
Brian Oberman is a Minnesota memoirist whose work explores love, devotion, resilience, and the unexpected ways adversity can deepen human connection. His debut memoir, The Woman at the Sunshine Factory, chronicles the real-life story of falling in love, navigating immigration…
Meghana Karanjkar is a short story writer as well as a non-fiction essayist. She has recently published her first book, First Generation, through Atmosphere Press. A few of her stories and essays have been published in The Adelaide Journal, The…
Ellen van Schoten is a Dutch author, artist and music enthusiast with a lifelong fascination for history, architecture, and the arts. She is the author of The Boy Who Lost His Voice, published in English by Atmosphere Press on 27…
William B. Stickle is professor emeritus since 2015 in the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University. Bill earned a PhD in Biology from the University of Saskatchewan, Regina. He taught at LSU from 1972 until 2015. Bill conducted…
Katrina started her physiotherapy training at St Thomas Hospital in September 1986; she had a unique NHS career working across community and acute care, in mental and physical health. She taught antenatal classes and nursed patients in the last days…
Townsend Walker has written two short story collections: No One Sleeps and Three Women, Four Towns, Five Bodies & other stories, and one novella, La Ronde. In addition, his stories have appeared in over one hundred literary journals and anthologies.…
Amy Smyth Miller is a nationally recognized educator with a bachelor’s degree in special education and a master’s in counseling. She recently retired after a thirty-year career in public education and lives in northern Washington State with her husband, “Captain…
Stephanie Simpson is a retired psychotherapist living in southern Maine with her husband and ornery cat. She worked with military veterans and adult survivors of trauma for two decades in outpatient mental health clinics and in private practice. Later she…
E.L. Ambrico is a writing warrior inspired by the written word and she delights in mentoring aspiring novelists. Her thriving blog, wordytips.com, is devoted to budding authors and writers and spans over thirty-six countries on five continents. She is a…
Writer and filmmaker Sophie Sartain is the co-director and producer of the documentary Seeing Allred, which premiered at Sundance and is on Netflix. Among Sartain’s credits is her ITVS-funded film Mimi and Dona, named one of the best TV shows…
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