A voracious reader since preschool, Ekta was one of those ‘nerdy’ kids who competed in spelling bees. If her parents wanted to punish her, they would take away her books, so Ekta made sure to behave. She got her start… 

Annabel Youens originally studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before falling into ‘her own alternate dimension’—the world of tech. As employee number eleven at Abebooks.com and co-founder of two global startups, she spent twenty years building companies in… 

Tom’s debut novel, Moving in Stereo, about a troubled tennis professional from the nineties, won an American Writing Award. He received an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University, where he’s also taught creative writing, and his work has been… 

Amy Minett loves her dog, her cat, and her sister, not necessarily in that order. A Maine native, she’s equally at home in the forest or on the beach, so long as she has a book in hand. Growing up,… 

Hi, my name is Marie Angel, and I love to write romantic suspense and romantasy. My passions include romance and the mystical. I live in Collegeville, PA, with my three cats, and I am an avid reader and fan of… 

My name is Stephanie Fidis. By day, I work as an inside sales rep for Dover Publications, but by night I’m a writer, a cozy girl-gamer, an amateur cook, a runner, and a cat mom. I have my bachelor’s in… 

Crystina Luna is an author from California. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading, enjoying motorsports, or on a long run with her Jack Russell, Larry.

E.M. Duffield-Fuller is a dark fantasy author who has previously written Obsidian and the Darkwatch Trilogy, as well as short stories for several anthologies and journals. Her next novel, Killing Hares, is coming out January 22 with Honno.

Jenn Crowe is a thriller author who loves crafting fast-paced, suspenseful stories with shocking plot twists. She enjoys writing in the domestic and psychological subgenres. When she’s not writing, brainstorming, or reading about fictional worlds, Jenn works as a marketing… 

Mary Keating is a poet, disability rights advocate, attorney, and Yale Law School graduate. She became a paraplegic in 1973 after a car accident at age fifteen and has spent over fifty years challenging assumptions about disability. She runs her… 

I came to writing fiction while working as a technical communicator in the IT world, but I had written many articles about high tech and politics for some time, publishing them online. Most of my career before that was in… 

Dan Morgan is a Welsh American sociologist, educator, and corporate trainer whose former professions include international roller derby skater and stand-up comic. He is also a gay man in recovery from drug addiction who has spent much of his life… 

With multiple degrees in economics, finance, computer science, and an MBA, Guy Morris earned a reputation as a thought leader and innovator even before graduation, when he developed a macro-economic model that outperformed the Federal Reserve and changed how we… 

Gene Turnbow is a writer and editor, painter, musician, animator, and maker, and has worked in everything from game design to special effects, film archiving and restoration, to industrial robotics. He is also the founder and station manager of SCIFI.radio,… 

Ali R Jaber is a Lebanese-American author, writer, poet, and influencer who bridges cultures through storytelling. Born in the United States and originally from Nabatieh, Lebanon, Jaber writes with a voice rooted in heritage, resilience, and identity.

When Jessica Belshe was a rockabilly singer and burlesque performer, she thought that was adrenaline. Then she became an EMT, married a cop, became a mom, and took a job as a 911 dispatcher. But nothing gets her heart racing… 

Orange Pebbler is a pen name. I’m a small-island-born academic currently focused on computer science research – algorithms and applied work – and I tend toward aiming for practical benefit that can hopefully reach actual people beyond the papers. Research… 

Valerie Taylor is an award-winning author living in Connecticut, originally known for her romantic comedy trilogy What’s Not Said, What’s Not True, and What’s Not Lost. She also pens the A Venus Bixby Mystery series, including A Whale of a… 

Andrew Rubin is a filmmaker, writer, and cofounder of the mental health education company Symptom Media. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied film production and history, he has spent over a decade in the… 

I’m a qualified teacher and tutor of English literature.