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…
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…
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…
Tessa Kinsela is a Queensland-based educator and writer with a passion for adolescent well-being and storytelling. Through her teaching and writing, she explores the complexities of teenage identity, emotional growth, and consequence. An Unconscious Choice of Chaos, her debut novel,…
I have a master’s degree in professional writing and three bachelor’s degrees in psychology, counseling, and coaching from Liberty University. My office is the passenger seat of a semi-truck. I travel with my husband coast to coast, delivering medical supplies.…
Sera Maddox Drake is an independent, self-published author with a BA in English who writes weird literary fiction that refuses to pick a lane and stay in it. Their work has a special focus on the viewpoints of neurodiverse, queer…
I have been a commercial artist, a farmer, a teacher, and an academic, all of which feed into my love of writing. I hold a doctorate in creative writing and my essays and short stories have been published in several…
Victoria was born near Chicago, Illinois, where her father was a well-known artist, creator of Bill Randall’s Date Book. She has five children, including Keith Graham, an artist, and Brandon Graham, author of graphic novels King City and Escalator. She…
Eileen P. Kennedy is the author of three collections of poetry. Banshees (Flutter Press, 2015) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Second Prize in Poetry from the Wordwrite Book Awards. Touch My Head Softly (Finishing Line Press, 2021),Literary…
Born in Sweden in 1996 to a family with eight siblings, writing and art have always been huge parts of my life.
Theresa Janson grew up in the American Midwest and uprooted to Colorado in the mid-’90s. Writing has always been in her blood, and she has culled stories from working as a paralegal with attorneys and law enforcement—knowing everyone’s secrets. Her…
Hazel Hart has been writing since she was a teenager. Her short stories and early novels have a contemporary setting. However, with her first series, the Pierce Family Saga, she returned to her childhood love for frontier fiction. All of…
Will Cole is a queer, transgender man, professor, scientist, activist, a “seahorse dad” to an adult son, and proud husband to a fellow writer. In 2026, he completed an MA in Writing Nonfiction at Johns Hopkins University, received the David…
Born in Orsk, Russia, in 1944, weighing less than four pounds. My memory goes back to the age of two. Moved to New York at the age of six.
I immigrated from Johannesburg, South Africa, to New York in 1966. I was thirteen years old and came with my family. My father was a doctor, and we had my mother and two sisters, aged fifteen and four, with us.…
Born and raised in North Idaho, Amanda taught K-12 in both private and public schools, raised three children (plus many, many more cats), and spent over a decade as a nurse in urgent care and pediatrics before renewing her childhood…
Magnus Baikie has spent most of his career attempting to warm the planet (his home country of Canada is rather frigid). As it appears that he has not been too successful in his endeavor (Canadian summers still being more of…
Rebecca Day is a writer and author specializing in music journalism, arts and culture stories, and songwriting. She is a regular contributor to publications such as The Epoch Times and The Objective Standard. In 2019, she released her debut novel,…
Diane Skye Gropper has been a professional writer throughout most of her long career. She spent nearly two decades as a writer and editor at a major financial magazine, where she won several journalism awards, and as a freelance writer/editor.…
I think you should hear this from me. I could write it in the third person and try to make myself sound interesting, but where’s the accountability? Born the second of five children (perfect positioning), I grew up in the…