Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman (born 1974 in London) is a British author and novelist.
Alderman was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist.
She was the lead writer for Perplex City, an Alternate reality game, at Mind Candy from 2004 through June, 2007.[1]
Her father is Geoffrey Alderman, an academic who has specialised in Anglo-Jewish history. She and her father were interviewed in The Sunday Times "Relative Values" feature on 11 February 2007.[2]
Her literary debut came in 2006 with Disobedience, a well-received (if controversial) novel about a rabbi's daughter from North London
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Tony Lee
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Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work.
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He was born as Mark Doyle in Melbourne. He changed his name to Louis Nowra in the early 1970s. He studied at Melbourne's La Trobe University without earning a degree. In his memoir, The Twelfth of Never, Nowra claimed that he left the course due to a conflict with his professor on Patrick White's The Tree of Man. He worked in several jobs an -
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Maria Giudice
Throughout her illustrious career, creative teams and business leaders have sought the provocative vision and mentorship of Maria Giudice. As founder and CEO of the pioneering experience design firm Hot Studio, Maria built a thriving practice around the principles of human-centered design. Today, former “Hotties” can be found leading teams at Adobe, Google, McKinsey, Airbnb, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, and more.
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After Hot Studio’s acquisition by Facebook in 2013, Maria led global design teams at Facebook and Autodesk, building digital experiences for millions worldwide. And now, after three decades at the forefront of business and design, Maria has a new mission — building the next generation of creative leaders. Through one-on-one coachin -
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James W. Nichol has been a prominent playwright in Canada since 1970. Midnight Cab was inspired by his immensely popular radio drama of the same name, broadcast on CBC in thirty-five half-hour episodes. He lives in the country near Stratford, Ontario. Midnight Cab won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the CCWA Gold Dagger. He is currently working on a second novel.
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Rosie McGee
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I was born Florence Nathan in Paris, France, the daughter of two Parisians who owned a bookstore. When I was five, we emigrated to the U.S. where I entered a San Francisco kindergarten speaking only French.
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Manohar Malgonkar
Manohar Malgonkar was an Indian author in the English language of both fiction and nonfiction.
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Malgonkar was born in a royal family, and educated at Bombay University. He was an officer in the Maratha Light Infantry, a big game hunter, a civil servant, a mine owner and a farmer, and he also stood for parliament. Most of that activity was during the build up to Indian independence and its aftermath, often the settings for his works. The socio-historical milieu of those times form the backdrop of his novels, which are usually of action and adventure. He also wrote non-fiction, including biography and history.
Malgonkar lived in a remote bungalow, at some distance from the town of Belgaum, Karnataka. His only child Sunita (educated at the famous -
A. Natasha Joukovsky
A. Natasha Joukovsky holds a BA in English from the University of Virginia and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She spent five years in the art world, working at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before pivoting into management consulting. The Portrait of a Mirror is her debut novel. You can find her on Instagram @joukovsky and on Substack. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Edward Conlon
Edward Conlon was born in the Bronx. Conlon spent most of his childhood in nearby Yonkers. He attended Regis High School and graduated from Harvard in 1987 before joining the NYPD in 1995.Mr. Conlon's family background is also in law enforcement. Mr. Conlon's great-grandfather was a police sergeant in Brooklyn, and his father was an F.B.I. agent.
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Conlon's police experience focused on patrolling city-owned public housing developments, as well as arresting street-level drug dealers after observing their sales from surveillance posts. In 2002, he was promoted to the rank of detective, and was assigned to the Bronx's 44th Precinct. He retired as a Detective, Second Grade, in July 2011 after 16 years with the department.
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Benjamin Blech
Benjamin Blech, born in Zurich in 1933, is an Orthodox rabbi who now lives in New York City.
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Rabbi Blech has been a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966, and was the Rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside for 37 years. In addition to his work in the rabbinate, Rabbi Blech has written many books on Judaism and the Jewish people and speaks on Jewish topics to communities around the world.
Rabbi Blech received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yeshiva University, a Master of Arts degree in psychology from Columbia University, and rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. -
Rob Himmel
Born in Germany, Rob Himmel grew up in Italy, in the lush land of Abruzzo, between mountains, sea and roast mutton skewers. From an early age he became fond of fantasy settings, developing worlds and stories in the hours of childhood play. Then, growing up, he gave an outlet to his creativity by inventing board games for his own pleasure. With the passage of time, adolescence led him to discover and fall in love with Tolkien through his The Lord of the Rings. As a lover of the genre, he has played the famous role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons for more than a dozen years, leading his friends in extraordinary adventures, building worlds, stories and intrigues as Dungeon Master. All this creativity has finally resulted in him becoming a nove
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Fritz Peters
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Arthur Anderson “Fritz” Peters was the author of both novels and memoirs, which touched on themes of spirituality, mental illness, homosexuality, self and society, always through the lens of an unrelenting individuality and nonconformism. Peters’ most successful novel was Finistère, published in 1951, which sold over 350,000 copies and was an influential and unapologetic work of early gay literature. Due to instability in his family life, Peters spent his childhood between Europe and the United States, often nurtured by those adults who were able and willing to assist. Central to his upbringing was his aunt Margaret Anderson and her partner Jane Heap, creators of The Little Review literary magazine, along with ot
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Marcel Feldmar
Marcel Feldmar was born and raised in Vancouver, BC—(That’s Canada, eh?). He studied creative writing at Capilano College and then ended up spending some time in an institution called The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and now he lives in Los Angeles where his words often get caught in traffic.
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He has had more bands than girlfriends, but now he is married and not playing music, even though he’s been mistaken for Ric Ocasek on more than one occasion.
Marcel is a regular contributor to the Big Takeover, a music magazine based in New York. His musical journalism has also appeared in columns, reviews, articles, and interviews in a variety of ‘zines and magazines.
Marcel’s poetic writings have appeared in one small book of poetry enti -
Joel McKay
Joel McKay is an award-winning author of fantasy and dark fiction, including the YA fantasy novel The Dungeoneers and the Treasure of Roan, the horror novella Wolf at the Door and dark anthology It Came From the Trees and Other Violent Aberrations. He lives in Northern B.C.
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David Campbell
David Campbell is an Australian political scientist. He is known for his writing on photography and post-realism.
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David Court
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David Court was born and resides in Coventry, UK with his patient wife and Rebel, a greyhound border collie cross. A few years back David achieved minor internet notoriety under the pseudonym FoldsFive for his animated GIFs telling the entirety of the Star Wars Trilogy, a fact that he's still jolly well proud of and insists on telling anyone at any opportunity. When not reading, blogging angrily on www.foldsfive.co.uk, drinking real ale, being immune to explosions, writing software for a living or practicing his poorly developed telekinetic skills, he can be found writing fiction.
His short stories "A Shadow Cast by the World" and "Undercurrent" were published in the horror anthologies "Fear's Accomplice" and "Terror at the beach" in 2014. -
Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who was noted by Time magazine in 1939 as one of the two most influential women in America, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt.
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She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany (in 1934), one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s, and as the inspiration for Katharine Hepburn's character "Tess Harding" in the film Woman of the Year (1942).
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Noah Lemelson
Noah Lemelson is a speculative fiction writer based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied under the mentorship of Brian Evenson. Noah has previously published short fiction in online magazines such as “Space Squid,” “Allegory,” and “Silver Blade.” You can find more of Noah’s work at Noahlemelson.com
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His debut novel, The Sightless City, was released by Tiny Fox Press in 2021. Its sequel, The Lioness and The Rat Queen, was released in August 2023 -
Sarena Straus
Author of the multi-award-winning novel, "ReInception" (Winding Road Stories, 2022)
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A corporation's immensely popular mind technology is eradicating socially unacceptable behavior in 2126 New York City. When a college student and a government-labeled terrorist discover the truth of what's happening inside people's heads, they fight for their free will and the future of society.
Writer, attorney, and child safety advocate, Sarena has appeared as a commentator on numerous TV and radio shows. She is also the author of "Bronx DA: True Stories from the Sex Crimes and Domestic Violence Unit." In 2010, Bronx DA was sold as a pilot to CBS/Paramount.
ReInception is the recipient of multiple awards including and American Writing Award, Literary Titan -
Calder Szewczak
Calder Szewczak is writing duo Natasha C. Calder and Emma Szewczak, who met while studying at Cambridge University. Natasha is a graduate of Clarion West 2018 and her work has previously appeared in The Stinging Fly, Lackington’s and Curiosities, amongst others. Emma researches contemporary representations of the Holocaust and has published work with T&T Clark and the Paulist Press.
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Valeria Edelsztein
Nació en Buenos Aires en 1982. Es doctora en Química por la Universidad de Buenos Aires e investigadora del Conicet.
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Participa como columnista científica en medios radiales, gráficos, televisivos y digitales. Desde 2012 es columnista del programa televisivo “Científicos industria argentina” (TVP) y se ha desempeñado como asistente de contenidos para “Proyecto G” (Canal Encuentro). Es editora adjunta del encarte y revista de divulgación científica para niños Chic@s.
Ha dictado numerosas charlas en el marco de actividades de divulgación científica. Es autora de varias publicaciones en revistas nacionales e internacionales, entre las que se destacan las separatas “200 años de ciencia en Argentina”, que forman parte de la edición 2010 del manual -
Jay W. Song
I am a full-time pharmacist who has a heart for helping people heal, whether through medicine or through stories. I write my books hoping that they will make others feel seen, and that they will inspire others to discover the unique joy their life can bring, even in difficult circumstances. When I’m not helping patients or working on my next book, you can find me hoarding new books like a dragon, yelling at my Nintendo Switch, or picking flowers.
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