Author Interviews

I have an BA in English from Governors State University, where I was editor in chief for the school’s semi-annual literary and art journal. I have won second place in a recent Reedsy Weekly contest, and have slowly climbed the ladder among the other writers in several NYC Midnight contests for short stories and flash fiction. My WIP, a psychological thriller, is called Still Water.

After Nancy Werking Poling’s essay, “Leander’s Lies,” won the 2018 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize, she wondered WHY did the man lie? That could only be answered through imagination and historical research, hence, a novel.

Born and raised in Scotland, I studied history at the University of London before training to be a teacher. On retiring, I became involved in local history in Northumberland, writing a book on our village workhouse, A Poor Little House, and editing and contributing to two volumes of local history essays, before becoming involved in researching the Pegasus.

Carol Selick is a performing singer and songwriter and a music educator with a degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education.

Bill Lythgoe is a retired primary school teacher From Wigan, England, and has been writing poetry seriously for about ten years. He has won prizes awarded by Writing Magazine, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Fire River Poets, the Wakefield Red Shed, Creative Writing Ink and Nottingham Poetry Society, and been published by Earlyworks Press, Strong Verse, Southport Fringe Poetry and Gordon Square Review (Cleveland, Ohio).

UK author Fiona Linday supported literacy in schools for many years. Then the local author wrote for young adults—Get Over It, Adventures, 2009, Onwards & Upwards—before her prize-winning short story, Off the Beaten Track, was published. She won the Unique Writing Publications Story Award with prose non-fiction entitled Love, in Spiritual Awakenings.

Oluwatosin Ajayi is a prolific content writer with immense creativity. With 5+ years’ experience ghost writing, she has helped up to twenty clients craft converting blog content.

Riley Morgan is forty-something with an overactive imagination and a desire to create worlds to escape to. They run mostly on caffeine and a love for words. An agoraphobic with depression and severe anxiety, delving into fictional worlds is an oasis and lifeline for them. They also enjoy crocheting and supporting other authors.

Scots-born and raised, I became a US citizen in 1984. I am retired now after an exciting career that took me around the world, interacting with so many wonderful people and their cultures, and experiencing enough adventures to fill a lifetime.

Jackie is a freelance writer and journalist, writing articles for numerous magazine publications, both print and online, and has contributed work to Gibraltar’s national newspaper, The Gibraltar Chronicle, where she currently resides. Jackie takes an interest in women’s issues and the evolving story of women’s continuing struggle for equality, even in terms of how their stories are remembered and told.

Aileen Bassis is a widely exhibited visual artist and poet in New York City working in book arts, printmaking, photography, and installation. Her use of text in art led her to explore the craft of poetry. She was awarded two artist residencies in poetry to the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her chapbook, The Other Side of the Mirror, was published in 2023 by Dark Onus Press. Her chapbook, Advice for Travelers and other poems, will be published by Black Sunflowers Press in 2024. Her journal publications include B o d y Literature, Spillway, Grey Sparrow Journal, Canary, The Pinch and The Southampton Review.

Ann Favreau is a retired educator who lives in Venice, FL. She is a member of the Florida Writers Association, Florida State Poets Association, and Past President of the Suncoast Writers Guild, Inc., in Englewood. She has self-published six books. Her writing has appeared in many newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. She has won local and national prizes for her prose and poetry and loves sharing her work with others.

As an award-winning, three-time bestselling author and distinguished mindset expert, Melissa Van Oss empowers students, educators, and business leaders to succeed in today’s unpredictable and diverse world.

Award-winning author Katie L. Carroll began writing after her sixteen-year-old sister, Kylene, unexpectedly passed away. Since then writing has taken her to many wonderful places—both real and imagined. She wrote her YA fantasy Elixir Bound, winner of the 2019 Connecticut Author Project for Best YA, and its sequel Elixir Saved so Kylene could live on in the pages of a book.

Joyce Jean Moore is a native of Mt. Vernon, Illinois. She attended AIU in Chicago, IL, where she received her Associate’s Degree in Business Administration, Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration/Accounting. She is the owner/CEO of Kingdom Financial Services Management, LLC, located in Atlanta, GA, where she has lived for the past nine years.

Constance has worked, studied, and earned certifications and recognition as author of three books, and is also an artist, muralist with an AA in Environmental Design, illustrator, Intuitive Counselor and certified MBSR Mindfulness Teacher, a published poet, and an avid participant in poetry readings. Her current passion is in being a puppeteer performer for children.

In 2009 I started to seriously write as a way to express my inner feelings. Writing is an extremely interior process, allowing access and expression of deep emotions. Writing my book literally saved my life.

Award-winning Seattle-based author Erica Miner balances her reviews and interviews of real-world musical artists with her fanciful plot fabrications that reveal the dark side of the fascinating world of opera. Erica believes that opera theatres are the perfect places for creating fictional mischief!

Ligia de Wit is a quirky bilingual writer residing in Mexico City. An eternal romantic who’s loved fairy tales and swashbuckling stories all her life, she blends both with fun language and a hefty sprinkle of romance while she’s at it. Her stories are full of personality with endearing characters.

Born in Boston, Ricardo is a Chicago-based author who recently released his debut collection, Computer Love, which has been called “a compilation of poetic, earnest, and arresting tales” by Kirkus Reviews. Outside of writing fiction, he splits his time between climate change advocacy, coding, and riding his bike.