Debora Masterson is a writer, producer, musician and Francophone. A Los Angeles native, she currently resides in Chicago’s vibrant Far North. After a successful career in musical theater, she opened Working Artists Agency, representing post-production and developed programs for film and television. Fluent in French, she has a master’s degree in French literature and continues to play bass and sing in various musical groups.
I’m a writer who enjoys exploring emotions and how they shape our everyday lives. I’ve spent the last decade working in health and social care, alongside my writing. My long-term goal is to dedicate more time to it and eventually write full-time, continuing to develop my voice and connect with readers through honest, emotion-led projects. My work has also been featured on the radio.
Lisa Dawn was brought up in New Jersey, where she fell in love with fairy tales and animated movies. She studied screenwriting at Ramapo College in the hopes that she could one day write the next great animated princess movie. After attending the DAVE School in Florida to learn computer animation, she moved to Los Angeles to work on 3D movies as a rotoscope artist. She lives in Texas with her husband, where she reviews princess content through The Princess Blog and composes original princess songs on the piano.
From high atop a mountain in Western North Carolina, Mark Charles Powers shares glimpses of grace revealed in ordinary lives. Go to MarkCharlesPowers.com to be uplifted and inspired by his weekly blog Glimpses of Grace and his book Going Full Circle: Worship That Moves Us to Discipleship and Missions.
A. Elizabeth Shaughnessy is a North American artist with a passion for Gothic horror. While most of her works are painted on canvas, she took a venture into the unknown and rekindled a hobby for writing. Sourced from both imagination and nightmares, with a paranormal nod to her New England roots, she penned a novel deeply woven by folklore and the essence of human survival.
Scotland-based historical fiction author, shortlisted as part of Penguin’s WriteNow program 2023 and invited to read at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as part of their On the Road event in 2022.
S.K. Fields was born in Yorkshire and has lived a life shaped by contrasts – from bustling cities to quaint villages and a rural community deep in the countryside.
Robert Callaway was born in Hollywood, California, and moved with his parents and sister to Utah when he was six. He grew up in the Orem-Provo area.
Snehal is a freelance writer and poet based in Surrey, UK. She writes about motherhood, memory, chronic illness, and the quiet drama of everyday life much like a Bollywood film, but with fewer costume changes and more laundry. Her work has appeared in anthologies, and literary zines. Snehal has authored four poetry books, including Magical Mundane, plus a memoir, PapaMa’s Portrait.
Roger Fischer is a multifaceted director, producer, and entrepreneur whose career spans high-fashion e-commerce, international film production, and the literary world. After successfully building and selling a tech-driven apparel company, Roger pivoted to entertainment, founding Regulate Entertainment and spearheading major global film ventures.
I grew up in the Midwest, on the edge of the Ozarks close to the town of Joplin, Missouri. The first five years of my life, I lived in the log cabin my grandfather built. I left home when I was fifteen and supported myself with odd jobs until I joined the Army at seventeen. After the Army, I traveled around a lot to many parts of this country, from Alaska to Arizona and several places in between, having many adventures and getting to meet many interesting people. I found my soulmate, my wife, in Tucson, AZ, forty-six years ago.
Dr. Richter has received national writing awards for his novels.
Chirag Sainath is a versatile Indian author whose literary journey began at the age of sixteen. Originally from Patna, Bihar, and currently based in Delhi, Chirag has built a diverse body of work that spans from poignant romance to gritty crime fiction.
I’m a husband, dad, grandfather (and dog dad to Soozie the cockapoo) from Glasgow, Scotland. I’m also a rom-com devotee. I love a good cheeseburger, a piece of cheesecake, and a nice glass of red wine.
Matt Robinson has been an educator at all levels from pre-K to college for over twenty years. He also hosts the nationally syndicated author interview show, The Writer’s Block, and has hosted events around the world. Pete’s Beat is his second book (he wrote Lions, Tigers, and…Bulldogs? An unofficial guide to the legends and lore of the Ivy League in 2020), and he looks forward to sharing it with your students soon!
I’m the author of over eighty books. William Saroyan, now forgotten, was a very big influence, but after moving to San Franciso I took up with the Beats, sharing the first floor of an apartment with Philip Whalen, making friendships with Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, Gary Snyder, and many others. My book on them, Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, resulted in me becoming a poet myself, although my best-known work is The Road From Home, about my mother’s survival of the Armenian genocide. This book received countless awards and assured me to become a full-time writer.
Kathleen Spivack is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, from Doubleday, Graywolf, Knopf, and others. Among them are A History of Yearning, With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz & Others, and her poetry book, Homage, published last fall.
My name is Michael Wardner. I was born and raised in California, but now I live just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, in a very small town called Pine Lake. I love to draw and write stories. I have won recognition for my cartoons from the SF Weekly and for my short story writing from Creative Loafing Atlanta. In addition to Kris Kringle and the Great Magic Swindle, I have written The Boy Who Went Boom, The Girl from the Gamma Zone, and a graphic novel called Crumble. I work in video post-production, and I love to do improv comedy and hang out with my wife, two kids, and our dog and cat (I’m not sure the cat enjoys it as much as I do).
Jacoby double majored in illustration and theater at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire in 2017. He works professionally as an artist at UW-Eau Claire. Being a jack-of-all-trades, he also works in a variety of artistic mediums, including but not limited to, illustration, writing, painting, carpentry, woodworking, sewing, acting, ballroom dance, and more. In his spare time, he enjoys cruising around in his hearse or riding motorcycle, working on his vintage car, cosplaying and attending conventions, reading comics, watching horror movies, and finding new ways to create and make art.
Who am I? A writer passionate about the Caribbean—the tumultuous history, the resolute people, the unfolding events of today that tug at the heart. I don’t write about fun things to do on vacation. I seek out stories that cry for attention—poverty, wealth, overdevelopment, crime, and who gets and doesn’t get a piece of paradise.