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  Lisa May Bennett

  Lisa May Bennett is the author of two nonfiction books. By becoming a self-published author in her 50s, she hopes to demonstrate that it's never too late to chase your dreams. She blogs about balancing personal growth with self-acceptance at Bittersweet Nugget and enjoys speaking about self-publishing, sobriety, and building self-confidence.
  
  Lisa has worked for more than two decades in communications and marketing, including an eighteen-year stretch at the National Organization for Women. She majored in creative writing in college, and after years of writing for employers, she published her first book in 2022. Through the process of self-publishing her memoir, Lisa discovered a passion for helping others share their stories. She hopes that h

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  Amber Tozer

  Amber Tozer has written for the Cartoon Network’s animated sketch series MAD and Adult Swim’s Moral Orel. Her tweets have been featured by Ellen, Huffington Post, Playboy, and Mandatory. She co-created #nitTWITS, a Twitter-based web series that features writers and performers from SNL, Modern Family, The Office and Conan. She has appeared on Last Comic Standing, performs stand-up comedy across the US, and has written about sobriety for The Fix.com, After Party, and Thought Catalog. She also writes for Shoebox Greeting Cards. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow Amber on Twitter @AmberTozer.

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  Augusten Burroughs

  Augusten Burroughs born Christopher Robison, son of poet and writer Margaret Robison and younger brother of John Elder Robison.
  
  Burroughs has no formal education beyond elementary school. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, he was also an alcoholic who nearly drank himself to death in 1999. But spurned by a compulsion he did not understand, Burroughs began to write a novel. Never outlining or consciously structuring the book, Burroughs wrote, "as fast as I could type, to keep up." Seven days later, Augusten Burroughs had written his first book. He had also stopped drinking. The book was published one year later. Burroughs remains sober to this day. And Sellevision stands as Burroughs's only published novel. It

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  Aphrodite Jones

  Aphrodite Jones is an award-winning American reporter and author who writes about murder. Her knack for detail allows her to dissect bizarre murder cases and bring readers into the heart of darkness. Now, the author has taken her career to TV as the executive producer and TV host of the ID series, True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, which airs on Investigation Discovery.
  Jones is now filming her sixth season, uncovering secrets about riveting cases across America. The series follows Jones, who's written a string of best-selling true crime books, as she unravels new mysteries lurking behind cases that shocked America: O.J. Simpson, Scott Peterson, Jon Benet Ramsey, Phil Spector, and the list goes on.
  

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  Caroline Knapp

  Caroline Knapp was an American writer and columnist whose candid best-selling memoir Drinking: A Love Story recounted her 20-year battle with alcoholism.
  
  From 1988-95, she was a columnist for the Boston Phoenix, where her column "Out There" often featured the fictional "Alice K." In 1994, those columns were collected in her first book, Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect New Shoes.
  
  Knapp won wide acclaim for Drinking: A Love Story (1996), which described her life as a "high-functioning alcoholic" and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for several weeks. She followed Drinking with Pack of Two, also a best-seller, which recounted her relationship with her dog Lucille and humans' relation

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  Midge Raymond

  Midge Raymond is the author of the novels Floreana and My Last Continent and a short-story collection, Forgetting English, which received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, North American Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, Poets & Writers, and many other publications.
  
  Midge is also the author of Devils Island, co-authored with John Yunker. She has taught writing at Boston University, Boston's Grub Street Writers, Seattle's Richard Hugo House, and San Diego Writers, Ink.
  
  Midge lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. Visit her online at www.MidgeRaymond.com and www.MidgeandJohn.com.
  
  "FLOREANA is a beautiful, unexpected, and powerful novel a

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  Jowita Bydlowska

  
  Born in Poland, live in Canada, published some books.

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  Sarah Hepola

  Sarah Hepola is the personal essays editor at Salon.com, where she reads people’s secrets for a living. She has written many stories about drinking and eating too much. Her essays on culture have appeared in the New York Times magazine, The New Republic, Glamour, The Guardian, Nerve, Slate, and The Morning News, where she has been a contributing writer for more than a decade. Her past jobs include: Travel columnist, music editor, film critic, sex blogger, and for about 15 seconds in the late ’90s, she taught high school English. She lives in East Dallas, where she enjoys playing her guitar poorly and listening to the “Xanadu” soundtrack.
  
  Her memoir, “Blackout,” will be published by Grand Central on June 23, 2015. It was recently named one of

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  Cat Marnell

  Cat Marnell is a Condé Nast drop-out and former beauty editor at Lucky and xoJane.com. She wrote the “Amphetamine Logic” column for Vice. How to Murder Your Life is her first book.

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  Amber Tozer

  Amber Tozer has written for the Cartoon Network’s animated sketch series MAD and Adult Swim’s Moral Orel. Her tweets have been featured by Ellen, Huffington Post, Playboy, and Mandatory. She co-created #nitTWITS, a Twitter-based web series that features writers and performers from SNL, Modern Family, The Office and Conan. She has appeared on Last Comic Standing, performs stand-up comedy across the US, and has written about sobriety for The Fix.com, After Party, and Thought Catalog. She also writes for Shoebox Greeting Cards. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow Amber on Twitter @AmberTozer.

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  Lisa F. Smith

  Lisa Smith is a writer and a lawyer in New York City. Sober for more than ten years, she is passionate about breaking the stigma of drug and alcohol addiction.
  
  Lisa's writing has been published in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, After Party Magazine, and Addiction.com. She is on the Board of Directors of the NY Writers Coalition and The Writers Room in Greenwich Village.
  
  Before working for more than fifteen years in legal marketing, she practiced corporate finance law at a leading international law firm.
  
  She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Rutgers School of Law.
  

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  Clare Pooley

  Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising.
  
  Clare’s memoir - The Sober Diaries - has helped thousands of people around the world to quit drinking.
  
  The Authenticity Project, Clare’s first novel, was a New York Times bestseller, a BBC Radio 2 book club pick, and winner of the RNA debut novel award.
  
  Clare’s second novel - called The People on Platform 5 in the UK, and Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting in the USA - was published in 2022.
  
  How to Age Disgracefully is being published in June 2024.
  
  Clare lives in London and Cornwall, with her husband, 3 kids and 2 border terriers. She loves cooking, walking the cliff paths and wild swimming.

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  Laura McKowen

  Laura McKowen is the author of the bestselling memoir, We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life and Push Off From Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety and Everything Else. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, WebMD, the TODAY show, and more.

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  Frances Quinn

  Welcome to my Goodreads author page! I'm the author of The Smallest Man, my debut novel, which tells the story of Nat Davy, a 'court dwarf' at the time of Charles I and the English Civil War, and That Bonesetter Woman, set around a century later, in Georgian London, and telling the story of Endurance Proudfoot and her sister Lucinda, two women determined to make their way in very different worlds.
  I love hearing from and talking to readers, so if there's anything you'd like to know about me, my writing or my books, do get in touch via Twitter (@franquinn), Instagram (@franquinn21) or my author page on Facebook, Author Frances Quinn

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  David Poses

  David Poses was the author of the groundbreaking memoir The Weight of Air.
  
  After hiding his struggle with depression and opioids for twenty years, David started opening up and challenging conventional addiction wisdom. He has been published by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Daily News and has appeared on national TV programs, including The Doctors Show, and numerous radio shows and podcasts. With candor, humor, and a unique perspective informed by science and experience, he advocated for evidence-based approaches to drug policy, prevention, and treatment. David lived in New York with his wife and two kids and entirely too many guitars for such a mediocre player.
  
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  Phoebe MacLeod

  Phoebe MacLeod is married and lives just outside Sevenoaks in Kent. She has two grown-up sons at university, and a disobedient dog. She enjoys reading, cooking, playing the piano and walking the dog. She’s also keen on vintage and classic cars and can often be seen behind the wheel of her own classic - a 1928 Ford Model A.

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  Lisa May Bennett

  Lisa May Bennett is the author of two nonfiction books. By becoming a self-published author in her 50s, she hopes to demonstrate that it's never too late to chase your dreams. She blogs about balancing personal growth with self-acceptance at Bittersweet Nugget and enjoys speaking about self-publishing, sobriety, and building self-confidence.
  
  Lisa has worked for more than two decades in communications and marketing, including an eighteen-year stretch at the National Organization for Women. She majored in creative writing in college, and after years of writing for employers, she published her first book in 2022. Through the process of self-publishing her memoir, Lisa discovered a passion for helping others share their stories. She hopes that h

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  Paul Fuhr

  Paul Fuhr is a writer whose work has appeared in The Literary Review, The Live Oak Review, The Fix, AfterParty, and InRecovery Magazine, among others. He’s also the creator and co-host of “Drop the Needle,” a podcast about music and recovery. Fuhr lives in Columbus, Ohio with his cat, Miss Moneypenny.

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