Heather Christle
Heather Christle is the author of four poetry collections: The Difficult Farm, The Trees The Trees, What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press), and Heliopause (Wesleyan University Press). Her first work of nonfiction, The Crying Book, published in 2019, is being translated into four languages and adapted for radio by the BBC. The Trees The Trees, which won the Believer Poetry Award, was adapted into a ballet in a collaboration between the composer Kyle Vegter and the choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams. It premiered in 2019 at the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Christle's poems have also appeared in The Believer, Granta, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, and she previously taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas, and Wittenberg University. She has been a writer in residence and faculty member at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and is a contributing editor at jubilat.
Daisy Johnson
Daisy Johnson is a British novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Everything Under, was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. For her short stories, she has won three awards since 2014. Johnson grew up around Saffron Walden, Essex. She was a pupil at a Quaker school, Friends' School Saffron Walden, completing her A-levels in 2009. She earned her bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing from Lancaster University before earning a master's degree in Creative Writing at Somerville College, Oxford, where she also worked at Blackwell's bookshop. While at Oxford, she won the 2014 AM Heath Prize for fiction while working on her first short story collection, and had short stories published in The Warwick Review and the Boston Review. Shortly after, she won the 2016 Harper's Bazaar short story prize for "What The House Remembers".
James Logan
James Logan is a British author who grew up in the southeast of England and grew up on a steady diet of classic 80s cartoons and Commodore 64 computer games. The impulse purchase of a Fighting Fantasy gamebook forged a love of all things fantastical, which later led to a career in genre publishing. James lives and works in London. First completing an undergraduate degree in Cardiff, then a postgraduate degree in Manchester. It was around this time that James rediscovered his love of writing. Soon it grew from a passion to a dream, and an escape from tedious reality. Eventually, realising he was either going to be fired or completely lose his mind (and it was only a question as to which happened first), James quit his job and moved to London to take a role in publishing, figuring that editing fantasy books was the next best thing to actually writing them.
Sarah Pinsker
Sarah Pinsker is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is a nine-time finalist for the Nebula Award, and her debut novel A Song for a New Day won the 2019 Nebula for Best Novel. Her fiction has also won the Philip K. Dick Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award and been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Tiptree Awards. Pinsker was born in New York and lived in several places of the United States including Illinois and Texas before her family settled in Toronto, Canada. She returned to the US to attend Goucher College where she studied history. In addition to writing fiction she is a singer-songwriter with the band Stalking Horses and has had multiple albums released through independent labels. She also volunteers as director at large for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and hosts the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's Dangerous Voices Variety Hour reading
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Jeff Radwell
Jeff Radwell is an American nonfiction author. He is also a best-selling romance author under a pen name. Born outside Philadelphia, Radwell spent his childhood in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong. He then attended the Quaker boarding school, the George School, before graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. Although he was accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his family discouraged writing as a career, so he instead earned an MBA with First Class Honors from London Business School and completed his PhD under the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. Radwell currently calls the Echo Park area of Los Angeles home. In addition to writing, he is a prolific scholar known for his research while Associate Professor at New York University School of Medicine. He is an active advocate for diversity initiatives within academia and industry, and serves on the board of several scientific professional associations, where he helps shape policy to further his commitment to a better, fairer, and more inclusive world.
Amisha Sethi
Amisha Sethi is an Indian author and model. She was crowned the winner of Haut Monde Mrs. India Worldwide 2021. Sethi pursued a bachelor's degree in Science from University of Delhi and a Masters in Business Administration from Amity Business School. She is also an executive scholar in Marketing and Sales Management at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. She is the author of the novel It Doesn't Hurt To Be Nice, which explores rediscovering life, with comedy, drama, and spirituality. It is a story of a young girl and her hilarious, dramatic and enthralling experiences to understand the ultimate purpose of her life, which is – to be a better human with each passing day.
Lance VanGundy
Lance VanGundy is an American speculative fiction author who came of age in rural central Iowa, the product of public education and good parents. He studied anthropology and biology, earning a bachelor's degree from Cornell College and then attended medical school at the University of Iowa. He and his wife, Kristin, have been married for over thirty years and raised three daughters. He continues to practice emergency medicine in central Iowa but escapes to all things fantasy in nature for as much as his wife can tolerate. That is no small amount, for he is, after all, a very lucky man. His prior books published in the Rune Fire Cycle include Awakened Runes and The Runes of the Prime.
Olivia Wilson
Olivia Wilson is a British author whose work is celebrated for its keen emotional insight and elegant prose. She read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, before completing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Now based in Notting Hill, she shares her home with her husband and their four cherished cats, Peter, Periwinkle, Poe, and Poppy. Her writing, often praised for its wit and emotional depth, explores themes of love, longing, and the quiet complexities of everyday life. Wilson brings a sharp eye for detail and a deep empathy for her characters. When she’s not writing, she can often be found browsing local bookshops, tending to her ever-growing collection of antique teacups, or enjoying a quiet moment with her feline companions.