Maurice Benard is an American actor. In 1993, he was cast as Sonny Corinthos on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital. Bernard has been nominated for several Daytime Emmy awards for his role of Sonny Corinthos, winning Outstanding Lead Actor in 2003 and 2019. He is a spokesperson for treatment of bipolar disorder with Mental Health America.
Jill Amber Chafin's work has appeared in The Personal Story Publishing Project and Motherfigure, and has been honored as a Finalist for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, Honorable Mention in the New Millennium Writing Awards, and Third Place winner in the anthology America’s Next Author. Shaken is her debut novel and has recently been selected as a finalist for The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.
Jill lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband and two children, where she works as a freelance writer, editor, and circus arts instructor.
