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Mary Gabriel

Mary Gabriel was educated in the United States and France, and worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades. She is the author of two previous biographies: Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored, and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone. She lives in Italy.

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Magdalena Genow

Autorka powieści "Złodziejka matek" i książki non fiction "Bułgaria. Złoto i rakija". Matka założycielka wydawnictwa Czwarta Strona. Przez ponad 10 lat pracowała jako wydawczyni. Obecnie prowadzi warsztaty storytellingowe i pomaga w inkubacji książek. Pracuje jako redaktorka i mentorka pisania. Pisze o poznańskich osobliwościach do magazynu kulturalnego „Dynks”. Lubi czytać w pociągu.

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Jill McCorkle

Five of Jill McCorkle's seven previous books have been named New York Times Notables. Winner of the New England Booksellers Award, the Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature, she has taught writing at the University of North Carolina, Bennington College, Tufts University, and Harvard. She lives near Boston with her husband, their two children, several dogs, and a collection of toads.

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Clete Barrett Smith

Clete Barrett Smith’s first novel, Aliens on Vacation, will be published by Disney-Hyperion Books for Children in May, 2011. A sequel, part of The Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast series for middle grade readers, will come out the following year. A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, Clete taught English, Drama and Speech at the high school level for over a dozen years and has also worked in journalism. Clete received his MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in January, 2010. He currently lives in Bellingham, Washington with his wife and two daughters.

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Martha McPhee

Martha McPhee graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

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Karen Osborne is the author of Architects of Memory and Engines of Oblivion, as well as a violinist, videographer and thereminist. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Fireside, Escape Pod, Robot Dinosaurs and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She once won a major event filmmaking award for taping a Klingon wedding.

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Diane Oliver

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Born in 1943 to schoolteachers in Charlotte, N.C., Oliver, who was Black, attended segregated schools, university in Greensboro and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lived to see four of her stories published, including in The Sewanee Review and Negro Digest. A new collection, “Neighbors and Other Stories,” gathers these with 10 more

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Tara Isabella Burton

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Heidi Pitlor has been the series editor of The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novel, The Birthdays. Her second novel, The Daylight Marriage, is forthcoming in May, 2015.

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Sheridan Hay

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Carolyn Wall

Carolyn D. Wall is the author of the novel Sweeping Up Glass (Poisoned Pen Press; available in bookstores August, 2008). Her short stories, articles and photographs have appeared in over 100 publications. For many years she worked as Senior Staff Writer for Persimmon Hill, the award-winning publication of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and was chief writer for the museum’s children’s magazine. For six years she served as Fiction Editor and columnist for ByLine magazine.

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Allison King is an Asian American writer and software engineer based in Massachusetts. In technology, her work has ranged from semiconductors to platforms for community conversations to data privacy. Her short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine , Diabolical Plots , and LeVar Burton Reads, among others. She is a Reese's Book Club LitUp fellow.

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Dalia Sofer

The Septembers of Shiraz is Dalia Sofer's first novel. She was born in 1972 in Tehran, Iran and fled at the age of ten to the United States with her family. She received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002 and has been a resident at Yaddo. She currently resides in New York City.

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David Scott Kastan

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Although I teach broadly across the field of Renaissance literature, my primary academic concern has been with the relations of literature and history in early modern England, considered from a variety of perspectives. This interest has in large part focused on the production, transmission, and reception of texts (a focus that I like to think of as “the new boredom”). I am one of the general editors of the Arden Shakespeare, for which I edited 1 Henry IV, and I edited both Milton’s Paradise Lost

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Marianne Wiggins

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Aimee Pokwatka grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia. She studied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and received her MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. Her work has been published in Fairy Tale Review, Outlook Springs, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. She lives in New York with her family.

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Deborah B. Gould

Deborah B. Gould is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Jude Morgan was born and brought up in Peterborough on the edge of the Fens and was a student on the University of East Anglia MA Course in Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.

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Felice Picano

Felice Anthony Picano was an American writer, publisher and critic who encouraged the development of gay literature in the United States. His work is documented in many sources.

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Guan Un

Guan lives in Sydney’s inner west with Mary, two kids and a red dog. He studied at Moore College in order to write books, which confused just about everybody. Now, he’s a programmer and a writer of fiction and books like this one, and happily spends a lot of time behind a keyboard. He gets excited about a well-told story, a well-turned sentence, and a well-baked custard tart.

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Bradley Sides

Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn't Cause the Flood. His writing appears in Chapter 16, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The Rumpus, and Southern Review of Books. His fiction has been featured on LeVar Burton Reads. He holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, where he served as Fiction Editor of Qu. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama, with his wife. On most days, he can be found teaching writing at Calhoun Community College.

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Jessamine Chan’s short stories have appeared in Tin House and Epoch. A former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Brown University. Her work has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Anderson Center, VCCA, and Ragdale. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.

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Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I'll Say It. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. In addition, her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories, for which she has also been the guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair, and on public radio's This American Life.

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Karen Russell

Karen Russell graduated from Columbia University's MFA program in 2006. Her stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope. Her first book of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, was published in September 2006. In November 2009, she was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. In June 2010, she was named a New Yorker "20 Under 40" honoree. Her first novel, Swamplandia!, was published in February 2011.

She lives in Washington Heights, New York.

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Dara Horn

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007), she is the recipient of three National Jewish Book Awards, among other honors, and she was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into twelve languages.

Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tablet, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications.

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Alexander Chee

"Alexander Chee is the best new novelist I've seen in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic - and pure."--Edmund White

“A complex, sophisticated, elegant investigation of trauma and desire - like a white hot flame.”--Joyce Hackett, in The Guardian

“A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.”--Washington Post Book World

Alexander Chee was born in South Kingston, RI, and raised in South Korea, Guam, Truk and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA F

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Agnes Ravatn

Elev ved Skrivekunstakademiet i årskullet 2004-2005.

Debuterte i 2007 med romanen Veke 53.

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Anna Kańtoch

Polish writer. She graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Jagiellonian University with a specialization in Arab Studies. After graduation she came back to Katowice, where now she works in tourist office. Member of a Silesian Fantasy Club. She made her debut in April 2004 with a short story Diabeł na wieży, which was published in a Science Fiction magazine. She was writing movie and book reviews for web magazine Avatarae. Today she writes for Esensja. In July 2005, her short stories about Domenic Jordan were published in a collection entitled Diabeł na wieży by Fabryka Słów Publishing. Her full lengh book debut was a novel Miasto w zieleni i błękicie.

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Zyta Rudzka

Polska dramatopisarka, pisarka, poetka, publicystka, autorka scenariuszy filmów dokumentalnych, psychoterapeutka wyspecjalizowana w poradnictwie z zakresu seksuologii. Zaczynała jako poetka. W r. 1989 ogłosiła tomik wierszy Ruchoma rzeczywistość, z czasem objawiła się jako prozatorka, wydając – bardzo dobrze przyjętą przez krytykę – powieść Białe klisze (1993). Już wówczas doszedł do głosu charakterystyczny dla Rudzkiej styl narracji powieściowej – silnie zmetaforyzowany, zorganizowany wokół archetypów i symboli, zrodzony zapewne z inspiracji psychoanalitycznych. Pisarka chętnie umieszcza swej opowieści w umownych realiach, lubi wszelkiego typu uniwersalizacje, zwłaszcza te, które mówią o spotkaniu kobiety i mężczyzny, do jakiego dochodzi j

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Jakub Małecki

Pisarz, autor książek: Błędy (2008), Przemytnik cudu (2008), Zaksięgowani (2009), Dżozef (2011), W odbiciu (2011), Odwrotniak (2013) i Dygot (2015).

Napisał rownież kilkanaście opowiadań ogłoszonych w prasie i w antologiach. Przełożył z języka angielskiego wiele pozycji, między innymi Brudne wojny Jeremy’ego Scahilla, Paryż wyzwolony Antony’ego Beevora, Moją prawdę Mike’a Tysona i zbiór korespondencji pod tytułem Listy niezapomniane. Publikował w „Newsweeku”, „Polityce”, Angorze”, „Znaku”, „Nowej Fantastyce” i „Tygodniku Powszechnym”.

Laureat nagrody Śląkfa w kategorii „Twórca roku”, dwukrotnie nominowany do Nagrody im. Janusza A. Zajdla. Za przekład książki Listy niezapomniane na język polski zdobył Nagrodę Literacką Miesięcznika KSIĄŻKI. Za

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Merethe Lindstrøm

Merethe Lindstrøm er født i 1963 i Bergen og er oppvokst i Hammerfest, Stord og Høland. Nå bor hun i Oslo.
Forfatteren debuterte med novellesamlingen "Sexorcisten og andre fortellinger" i 1983, og siden har hun skrevet flere novellesamlinger, romaner og en barnebok.
Karakteristisk for forfatterskapet er hennes fokus på moderne menneskers søken etter andre og etter mening. Hun har fått mye oppmerksomhet for novellesamlingen "Svømme under vann" (1994) og romanene "Steinsamlere" (1996) og "Stedfortrederen" (1997). For novellesamlingen "Gjestene" (2007) var hun innstilt til Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2008 og nominert til Kritikerprisen for beste voksenbok 2007. Hun er tildelt Dobloug-prisen 2008 og Amalie Skram-prisen 2012 for sitt samlede forfa

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Nino Haratischwili

Nino Haratischwili (Georgian: ნინო ხარატიშვილი) is a Georgian-born German novelist, playwright, and theater director.

Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended the seventh and the eighth grade of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again in order to attend drama school in Hamburg. She became a German citizen in 2012.

Haratischwili currently lives in Hamburg.

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Therese Bohman

Therese Bohman is an editor of the magazine Axess and a columnist for Expressen and Tidningen Vi, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. She lives in Sweden.

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Aneta Jadowska

Aneta Jadowska przyszła na świat w Radomsku, w 1981 roku. Pierwsze opowiadanie opublikowała w wieku dziewiętnastu lat, w lokalnej gazecie. Jej debiut powieściowy nastąpił w 2012, gdy ukazał się Złodziej Dusz, pierwszy tom planowanej heksalogii.

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Magdalena Witkiewicz

Magdalena Witkiewicz – a writer. Graduated from Gdańsk University, Gdansk Foundation for Management Development and Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Gdańsk.. She has worked as a marketing analyst and marketing specialist. Until recently, she has owned a marketing company.

www.magdalenawitkiewicz.pl

In 2013 she published four bestsellers: (Zamek z piasku, Szkoła żon, Ballada o ciotce Matyldzie, Lilka i spółka), three of which granice.pl vortal warded in a contest for the best books of spring and summer
A Vietnamese publishing house has bought the rights to ”Szkoła Żon” book and this novel will be translated and published in Asia in 2014
Magdalena Witkiewicz has also represented Poland at the International Festival of Literatu

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Beth Lewis

Beth Lewis was raised in the wilds of Cornwall and split her childhood between books and the beach. She has travelled extensively and has had close encounters with black bears, killer whales, and Great White sharks. She has been, at turns, a bank cashier, fire performer, juggler, and is currently working publishing. Her debut novel, The Wolf Road, was shortlisted for the inaugural Glass Bell Award and her third novel, The Origins of Iris was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She lives in Oxford with her wife and daughter.

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Rebecca Kauffman

Rebecca Kauffman is originally from rural northeastern Ohio. She received her B.A. from the Manhattan School of Music in Violin Performance, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from NYU. She currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

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Magdalena Genow

Autorka powieści "Złodziejka matek" i książki non fiction "Bułgaria. Złoto i rakija". Matka założycielka wydawnictwa Czwarta Strona. Przez ponad 10 lat pracowała jako wydawczyni. Obecnie prowadzi warsztaty storytellingowe i pomaga w inkubacji książek. Pracuje jako redaktorka i mentorka pisania. Pisze o poznańskich osobliwościach do magazynu kulturalnego „Dynks”. Lubi czytać w pociągu.

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Lee Su-yeon

Multiple Korean names of this author. To avoid duplication, this author's Korean name has one dots at the end of the name.

이수연.

Associated Names:
* 이수연. (Korean)
* Lee Su-yeon (English)
* อีซูย็อน (Thai)

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Song Yu-jeong

Korean name: 송유정.

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Adam White

Adam White grew up in Damariscotta, Maine, and now lives with his wife and son in Boston, where he teaches writing and coaches lacrosse. He holds an MFA from Columbia University. The Midcoast is his first novel.

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Simon Doonan

Writer, fashionista, acclaimed window dresser and author Simon Doonan is the Creative Ambassador for Barneys New York. His books include Confessions of a Window Dresser, Soccer Style, Eccentric Glamour and Gay Men Don’t Get Fat. His memoir 'Beautiful People’ was turned into a BBC TV series starring Oscar-winners Olivia Coleman and Brenda Blethyn. Simon appears as a judge on the NBC television show Making It, co-hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman.

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Tobi Ogundiran

Tobi Ogundiran is the award-winning author of the Guardian of the Gods duology (In the Shadow of the Fall, At the Fount of Creation) and the critically acclaimed collection, Jackal, Jackal. His work has appeared in several Year's Best anthologies, and on the hit podcast LeVar Burton Reads. Originally from Nigeria, he now lives and works in the US South.

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Val Emmich

Dubbed a "Renaissance Man" by the New York Post, Val Emmich is a writer, a singer-songwriter, and an actor. His first novel, The Reminders, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers selection and his follow-up, Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel, based on the hit Broadway show, was a New York Times bestseller. He's had recurring roles on Vinyl and Ugly Betty, as well as a memorable guest role as Tina Fey's coffee-boy fling, Jamie, on 30 Rock. Emmich lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Caroline Van Hemert

Caroline Van Hemert, PhD, is a biologist, writer, and adventurer whose journeys have taken her from the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean to the swamps of the Okavango Delta. Her research and expeditions have been featured by the New York Times, MSNBC, National Geographic, and more.

She lives in Alaska with her husband and two young sons. When she’s not traveling, she divides her time between a remote off-the-grid cabin in southeast Alaska and a cozy home in downtown Anchorage. The Sun is a Compass is her first book.

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Lyndsie Manusos

Lyndsie Manusos’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tor.com, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, and other publications. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart Prize and appeared on Locus Magazine's Annual Recommended Reading List.

Her debut novella, FROM THESE DARK ABODES, is forthcoming from Psychopomp press in Summer 2024.

She lives in central Indiana with her family, where she works as a bookseller for her local indie, Wild Geese Bookshop. She also is a senior contributor at Book Riot.

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Nicola Maye Goldberg

Nicola Maye Goldberg is the author of NOTHING CAN HURT YOU (Bloomsbury, 2020). She lives in New York City.

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Karmen Špiljak

Karmen Špiljak is an award-winning author of suspense, horror and speculative fiction, a developmental editor and an Author Accelerator certified book coach for fiction.

Her thriller, 'No Such Thing as Goodbye', was shortlisted and received an honourable mention on 'The Black Spring Crime Fiction Prize 2020'. Her short story collection, 'Add Cyanide to Taste', won the 2022 IndieReader Discovery Award for best short stories. In 2023, LeVar Burton Reads licensed her short story, 'Three Roses', for their podcast. Her collection, 'Pass the Cyanide', won 'The 2023 Wishing Shelf Awards Bronze'.

She currently lives in Belgrade with her husband, two cats and an unknown number of fictional characters. Find out more about her fiction on https://www.kar

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Shannon Sanders

Shannon Sanders is a writer and attorney and the author of the short story collection Company. Sanders’s short fiction was the recipient of a 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and has appeared in several publications including One Story, TriQuarterly, Joyland, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her husband and three sons.

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Anna Zumbro

Anna Zumbro is a short fiction writer with stories in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and other publications. When not writing, she teaches high school English and journalism. She’s on Twitter occasionally at @annazumbro and her website can be found at annazumbro.com.

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Aleksandra Hill

Aleksandra Hill is a Polish-Canadian speculative fiction writer and the founder of khōréō, a magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. She earned an MFA at the New School in Fiction and Non-Fiction writing and is an alumna of the Odyssey Writers Workshop. In past lives, she earned a Ph.D. in computational biology and worked as a management consultant and a product manager.

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Rodrigo Culagovski

Rodrigo Culagovski Rubio is a Chilean author, architect, designer, and web developer. He currently heads a web development agency and is a researcher and professor at Universidad Católica in Chile. He has published in Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures, The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and Ai, Solarpunk Magazine, Translunar Travelers Lounge, and Future Science Fiction Digest. On mastodon as @culagovski@wandering.shop. He misses his Commodore 64. Pronouns he/him/él.

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Elizabeth Poliner

Elizabeth Poliner is the author of As Close to Us as Breathing, a novel; Mutual Life & Casualty, a novel-in-stories; What You Know in Your Hands, a poetry collection; and Sudden Fog, a poetry chapbook. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared widely in literary journals including the Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Colorado Review. She is a recipient of seven individual artist grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, fiction fellowships to the Wesleyan and Sewanee writers’ conferences, and artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches creative writing in the MFA and undergraduate programs at Holli

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Leigh McMullan Abramson

LEIGH MCMULLAN ABRAMSON has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Tablet Magazine and more. She grew up in New York City, the daughter of a children's author and an illustrator.

Leigh's parents often collaborated on picture books—many based on Leigh's own childhood experiences. Leigh studied ballet at The School of American Ballet into her teens, but eventually rebelled against her artistic family by going to law school. She practiced law for several years before following her passion for writing.

Leigh now lives in New York City and Vermont with her husband and two young children.

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Kim Fu

Kim Fu is a Canadian-born writer, living in Seattle, Washington. .

Her first novel FOR TODAY I AM A BOY won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. It was also a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and long-listed for CBC’s Canada Reads. Fu's debut poetry collection HOW FESTIVE THE AMBULANCE received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, and includes a 2017 National Magazine Awards Silver Medal winner and a Best Canadian Poetry 2016 selection. Her most recent novel, THE LOST GIRLS OF CAMP FOREVERMORE, was published in February 2018.

Fu’s writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the Times Literary Supplement. She has received residency fellowships

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Colleen Faulkner

Colleen Faulkner is the daughter of best-selling author Judith E. French. She sold her first novel at the age of 23 and has been publishing ever since. A Southern Delaware resident, Colleen has published a hundred historical romance, contemporary romance,mystery, suspense and women's fiction novels, and won numerous awards, including The Diamond Award for literary excellence in the state of Delaware. When Colleen isn't writing, she enjoys spending time with her children and grandchildren and traveling the world.

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Linda Joy Myers

Linda Joy Myers has always been haunted by the power of the past to affect people in the stream of time. She learned about World War II through her grandmother, a passionate Anglophile who would rhapsodize about the unfairness of war. Together they watched black and white documentaries about the war when Linda Joy was young which led to a passion about history which she integrated into her own struggles with intergenerational trauma and her work as a therapist and a writer.
As founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers, Linda Joy is the author of four books on memoir writing. The Power of Memoir and Journey of Memoir help writers find their way to their healing stories. Her two memoirs Don’t Call Me Mother, and Song of the Plains

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Michael Golding

MICHAEL GOLDING was born in Philadelphia and educated at Duke, Oxford, and the University of California at Irvine. He began his career as an actor, appearing in numerous Off-Broadway shows. His first novel, SIMPLE PRAYERS, was published in 1994 and has been translated into nine foreign languages. BENJAMIN’S GIFT, his second novel, was published in 1999. His translation of Alessandro Baricco’s stage play NOVECENTO opened the 2002 Edinburgh Festival and his screenplay adaptation of the best-selling novel SILK was a Featured Selection at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. His third novel, A POET OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, was published by Picador in 2015. It was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and was the recipient of the Ferro-Grumley Award

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Padgett Powell

Padgett Powell is the author of four novels, including Edisto, which was nominated for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications, as well as in the anthologies Best American Short Stories and Best American Sports Writing. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he teaches writing at MFA@FLA, the writing program of the University of Florida.

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Manjula Padmanabhan

Manjula Padmanabhan is a playwright, novelist, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author.

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Mary Jo Doig

Mary Jo Doig has been editing life-writing and facilitating women’s writing circles for 20 years. Her stories have been published in Inside and Out: Women’s Truths, Women’s Stories and Kitchen Table Stories.
Mary Jo writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she enjoys quilting, gardening, hiking, and spending time with friends, family & her rescue pets.
Patchwork is her first book.

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Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator, critic, and professor of English.

Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2009, Hacker won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani.

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Pantheon Space Academy

Pantheon Space Academy makes highly focused books to bridge the gap from problem to solution, empowering you—the future leader and innovator—with the knowledge to advance your career, grow your business, and get results.

Get ahead with tools and strategies from experts in science and technology. Some questions can be answered without spending thousands of dollars and weeks in a classroom. We believe in feeding our readers' ambitions, providing timely information, and a roadmap to problem-solving. Your goals are not just dreams but destinations you can reach with the right knowledge.

Join a world-class network of high-achieving, self-taught, ambitious people who want to maximize their skills and capabilities, save precious time, and solve prob

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Peter Selgin

Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, two books on the craft of fiction, and two children’s books. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including Glimmer Train Stories, Poets & Writers, The Sun, Slate, Colorado Review, Writers and Their Notebooks, Writing Fiction, and Best American Essays 2009. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist’s Memoir, was recently published by the University of Iowa Press and was short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His latest novel, The Water Master, won this years’ Pirate’s Alley / Faulkner Society Prize, and his essay, The Kuhreihen Melod

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Edward S. Curtis

Beginning in 1900 and continuing over the next thirty years, Edward Sheriff Curtis, or the “Shadow Catcher” as he was later called by some of the tribes, took over 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over eighty American Indian tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. He captured the likeness of many important and well-known Indian people of that time, including Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Medicine Crow and others. This monumental accomplishment is comprised of more than 2,200 sepia toned photogravures bound in twenty volumes of written information and small images and twenty portfolios of larger artistic representations.

Edward S. Curtis was

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Gregory Marlow

Gregory Marlow animates for money and writes for fun. He was raised in the mountains of East Tennessee where he currently works as a teacher and freelance digital artist and animator. He spends his free time with his wife, Amanda, because she is fun; that's why he married her. His short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine, The Mockingbird 2002, Every Day Fiction, Suddenly Lost in Words, Kzine, One Forty Fiction, Sci-Phi, and Robot and Raygun.

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Janice Steinberg

I grew up in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, which is less bucolic than it sounds; it’s a suburb of Milwaukee. Whitefish Bay is nonetheless charming. It’s right on Lake Michigan. Quiet streets, glorious autumns. One of my earliest memories is of standing with my mother in a cozy brick building that was at one time the public library. I think the cozy building later became the police department, which does give Whitefish Bay a sort of Mayberry vibe.

During college, I became a Californian. I got a B.A. and M.A. at the University of California-Irvine, and that’s where met my husband, Jack Cassidy. We spent a couple of years in Los Angeles and now live in San Diego. There was also a brief detour to Colorado, but we missed California so much that we to

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Oanh Ngo Usadi

Oanh Ngo Usadi was born in Saì Gòn but grew up in an orchard in the Mekong Delta, where her family was exiled after the war. When she was eleven, the family escaped Việt Nam as part of the mass exodus of boat refugees. In 1984, they settled in a small Texas town where her father, the eternal entrepreneur, opened a bánh mì sandwich shop.

After working in consulting and having her own personal chef business, Oanh turned to writing. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, and elsewhere.

She has been featured in several podcasts including Voice of America, the Bookmonger, and Morphmom. She has also been a featured storyteller at The Moth Mainstage.

You can follow Oanh on Facebook, Twitter and the O&O Press w

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Rachael Wesley

Rachael lives in Denver and takes advantage of its thriving music scene and outdoor splendor. Her creative nonfiction stories have been published by Insider, Denverse Magazine, and in various literary magazines, and she was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. SECOND SET CHANCES is her debut. You can find her at Rachaelwesley.com.

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Joanna Czeczott

Joanna Czeczott – politolożka i reporterka. Ukończyła stosunki międzynarodowe na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, studiowała też na Państwowym Uniwersytecie w Petersburgu i w Warszawskiej Szkole Filmowej. Pracowała w Przekroju. Jest jedną z twórczyń i założycielek pisma reporterskiego dla dzieci Kosmos dla Dziewczynek, którym kierowała pięć lat. Debiutowała książką Macierzyństwo non-fiction. Relacja z przewrotu domowego (jako Joanna Woźniczko-Czeczott), która była ważnym głosem w debacie o nowej roli matki Polki. Jej książka Petersburg. Miasto snu zdobyła nagrodę Warszawskiej Premiery Literackiej oraz Nagrodę Fundacji im. Kościelskich, a także znalazła się w finale Nagrody im. Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego.

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Photo: Barbara Piotrowska

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Donald Horne

Donald Richmond Horne AO was an Australian journalist, writer, and public intellectual. He was editor of The Bulletin, The Observer, and Quadrant, and was best known for his 1964 book The Lucky Country.

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Jason Myers

Jason Myers grew up in western Maryland and graduated from Bennington College, where he studied with Mary Oliver. He received an MFA from NYU and an MDiv from Emory University, where he was an FTE Fellow sponsored by Ebenezer Baptist Church. He worked for a number of years as a healthcare chaplain before becoming ordained as an Episcopal priest. He is editor-in-chief of EcoTheo Review, and co-director of EcoTheo Collective, a nonprofit arts organization that celebrates wonder, enlivens conversation, and inspires commitments to ecology, spirituality, and art. His second book, A Place for the Genuine: Reflections on Nature, Poetry, and Vocation, will be published in 2024. He lives with his family in Texas.

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Stephanie Raffelock

Stephanie Raffelock is the author of Creatrix Rising, Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women, (She Writes Press - August, 2021). She also penned the award winning book, A Delightful Little Book on Aging.
A graduate of Naropa University’s program in Writing and Poetics, Stephanie was a contributor to The Rogue Valley Messenger in Oregon. She has blogged for Nexus Magazine, Omaha Lifestyles, Care2.com, as well as SixtyandMe.com.
A former i-Heart Radio host, she is now a popular guest on podcasts, where she inspires women to embrace the strength and passion of their personal story.
Stephanie continues to build her speaker’s resume by giving presentations for groups like The Ashland Literary Arts Festival, Breaking the Glass, WINS at Charles Schwa

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