Author Interviews

L.A. Sands is an author with Aphantasia, a condition that leaves her unable to visualize mental images. As a result, her stories are crafted to be felt as much as seen, inviting readers to imagine the world in their own… 

Adam grew up in Sydney in the 1970s doing all the usual things, like playing footy, talking too much in class, and playing music.

By day, Lainy Carslaw is a novelist, essayist, editor and writing coach. Her work has been published with Causeway Lit, The Sandy River Review, Brevity, Pink Pangea, the Nasty Women anthology, The Fourth River, and several editions of The Madwomen… 

Thank you for inviting this little ole lady to participate in an author bio! Since I have had a lifetime of ‘wanting to write,’ but only began at the tender age of eighty-one (after some amazing coincidences and challenges) I… 

I’m Shawn A. Daniel, a father, author, and Black man with cerebral palsy. I write from lived experience about disability, dreams, identity, independence, and the conversations families often struggle to begin.

Author and illustrator R.M. Tembreull is a military veteran whose rich experiences and global travels inform his creativity and his writing. His passion is eco-fantasy, and he has created the world of the Blighted Earth as his literary construct for… 

Rob Lee is an acronym for ROBotic Letter Election Equipment, a device created by professors at Cloudsville Theoretical University. They wanted to prove that enough monkeys at enough typewriters could produce a line of Shakespeare and deduce how many monkeys… 

Kevin and Jayne reside in Belleville, IL. He is a graduate of the Northern Illinois School of Journalism and a proud member of the 100-year-old St. Louis Writers Guild. He loves traveling, family, hiking the Shawnee National Forest, and black… 

Monique Hayes is a fiction author, poet, and screenwriter from Maryland. A Periplus and Hurston/Wright Fellow, she received her MFA from the University of Maryland College Park. She’s the recipient of an American Antiquarian Fellowship, an Eccles Visiting Fellowship (British… 

My name is Peter Brownlow, I am sixty-five years old, live in the UK, and write children’s books even though I have no children.

Davina Silkwing lives in the North of England and is a cleaner and freelance editor working in the gig economy. She is the author of two young adult novels, Fish Food and Nagel, and Streaks is her debut novel for… 

Gina V. Badd is every bit a bad girl—a spicy, outspoken, Italian firecracker! Gina is a dreamer, and fiercely believes if you want something, go and get it! She lives in Indiana with her husband, Travis.

Fredricka ‘Ricki’ Maister calls herself a ‘lifelong mourner.’ At age twelve, she experienced the untimely death of her father. Twenty-five years later, she was forced to cope with the intense, overwhelming emotions unleashed by the brutal murder of her longtime… 

D.J. Hupp is a filmmaker, actor, and comedian based in Portland, Oregon. He is known for: Comedy shorts and mashups. Creating BardSubs.com (comedic modern language subtitles for movies based on Shakespeare plays). Editing James Nguyen’s (famous for creating one of… 

The painful, sudden ending of a long-distance relationship and the pains of trying to love someone living as two different versions of himself due to his high profile career. The hollowing fact that the ghost of his image across my… 

Laura (she/her) is an author, educator, and writing coach/developmental editor from Oxford, Ohio. Her memoir Mosaic (Unsolicited Press, March 2025) delves into loss, motherhood, and parenting a child with disabilities. Mosaic was named on LitHub’s Notable Small Press Books of… 

Kim Greenfield Alfonso, MBA, is an entrepreneur, executive leader, and passionate advocate for accessibility and inclusion. She is the CEO of Results One LLC, a certified minority- and woman-owned business that partners with organizations to make their digital content, workplaces,… 

Just like her character, Ana from Sweden lives in Stockholm and keeps her personal life behind the scenes. She might shop at the same grocery store as you or bring her kids to the same sports activities. Look around, there… 

Kim Bainbridge, born as Kim van Rossum, I grew up in the small Dutch town of Megen in the Netherlands. After serving for ten years in the Royal Dutch Army, I have spent the next twelve years travelling through nearly… 

D.J. Slater is a Milwaukee native with a love for sharing stories. He wrote his first in third grade followed by several more during his school years, mostly about dinosaurs and an ambitious detective. His passion for writing took him…