Saara El-Arifi
Saara El-Arifi is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ending Fire Trilogy
and the Faebound Trilogy.
El-Arifi knew she was a storyteller from the moment she told her first lie. Over the years, she has perfected her tall tales into epic ones. She has lived in many countries, had many jobs, and owned many more cats. After a decade of working in marketing and communications, she returned to academia to complete a master’s degree in African studies alongside her writing career. She currently resides in London as a full-time procrastinator.
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VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades universe, the Villains series, the City of Ghosts series, Gallant, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Fragile Threads of Power. When not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she can usually be found in Edinburgh, Scotland, tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters. -
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Her debut novel FATHOMFOLK is inspired by mythology, folklore, East and South-East Asian cities and diaspora feels. It will be published by Orbit in Spring 2024 with the sequel to follow.
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Rebecca Roanhorse
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Chelsea Abdullah
Chelsea Abdullah is an American-Kuwaiti writer born and raised in Kuwait, where she grew up listening to stories about mysterious desert creatures and wily (only sometimes likable) heroes.
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Hannah Kaner
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Hannah’s trade has always been story telling. From creating and unravelling mysteries in Northumberland with her mates, to annoying the hell out of her supervisors at the University of Cambridge by insisting on comparing Terry Pratchett to Charles Dickens, and studying narrative theory in video games.
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Makana Yamamoto was born on the island of Maui. Splitting their time between the Mainland and Hawaiʻi, Makana grew up on beaches and in snowbanks. Always a scientist at heart, Makana fell in love with sci-fi as a teen–they even led the science fiction and fantasy interest house at their college. A writer from childhood, fiction became the perfect medium for them to explore their interests as well as reconnect with their culture, coalescing into a passion for diverse sci-fi. They love writing multicultural settings and queer characters, as well as imagining what the future might look like for historically marginalized communities. In their free time, Makana likes to hoard dice for their Dungeons & Dragons games, experiment in the kitchen, de
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M.H. Ayinde
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From her Grandma’s rolling Scottish R’s and her Nan’s ability to slip from English to Welsh, to the dialect spoken in the French village she grew up in, Steph has always known that languages are creatures that live and move and breathe.
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DC Guevara
DC Guevara is a fantasy-romance author who enjoys lounging on the beach, going to the movies, and browsing bookstores in her spare time. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Art History with a minor concentration in English Literature from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus. Utilizing English as her second language, she started exploring her love for literature by writing some herself and has never looked back. She found a home in the romance genre and has begun carving out little worlds with her favorite subsections within them and with luck, she aims to add historical fiction, urban fantasy, and gothic romances to her roster. She currently resides in her homeland of Puerto Rico with her partner and their pets, three cats and on
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Cate Pearce was homeschooled on a Christmas tree farm in rural Western Washington. At age eight she was fed-up with a plotline on Star Trek TNG so she wrote her own episodes on a Commodore 64. She has been a writer ever since, but only recently decided to share that information with you and the world.
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Cate has two children which she delivered at-home with the assistance of saintly midwives. Cate is unapologetic in her fervor for feminism, queerness, and Christian faith. Aside from writing, her "day job" is to prepare organizations for response and recovery from catastrophic disasters. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. -
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Hannah Kaner
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Hannah’s trade has always been story telling. From creating and unravelling mysteries in Northumberland with her mates, to annoying the hell out of her supervisors at the University of Cambridge by insisting on comparing Terry Pratchett to Charles Dickens, and studying narrative theory in video games.
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Melissa Blair
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A.K. Mulford
A. K. Mulford is a bestselling fantasy author and former wildlife biologist who swapped rehabilitating monkeys for writing novels. They/she is inspired to create diverse stories that transport readers to new realms, making them fall in love with fantasy for the first time or all over again. They now live in Australia with their husband and two young human primates, creating lovable fantasy characters and making ridiculous TikToks (@akmulfordauthor).
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A.Y. Chao
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Samantha Sotto Yambao is a professional daydreamer, aspiring time traveler, and speculative fiction writer based in Manila. She is the author of Water Moon, Before Ever After, Love and Gravity, A Dream of Trees, The Beginning of Always, and THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS (Jan 2026) -
Hayley Dennings
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Nada Awar Jarrar
Nada Awar Jarrar was born in Lebanon to an Australian mother and a Lebanese father. She has lived in London, Paris, Sydney and Washington DC and is currently based in Beirut where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and Lebanon's English language newspaper, The Daily Star. Her first novel, Somewhere, Home won the Commonwealth Best First Book award for Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
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Damien Buckley
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Greg Van Eekhout
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Samantha Shannon
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Danny Scheinmann
DANNY SCHEINMANN is a writer, actor and storyteller. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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"Random Acts of Heroic Love" was in the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestsellers for 6 weeks and has now been translated into 21 languages.
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Djamila Knopf
"Djamila is an independent artist and Schoolism instructor, based in Leipzig (Germany).
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She creates illustrations that evoke a sense of wonder and nostalgia, and primarily focuses on personal projects. When you look at her work, you might catch a glimpse of the summers she spent strolling through the woods and fields around her grandparents' garden, and you might also see her love for Japanese animation.
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Paul O. Williams
Paul Osborne Williams was an American science fiction writer and haiku poet. Williams was professor emeritus of English at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.
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Johanna Valkama
Johanna Valkama is a Finnish author writing historical novels from the Nordic Viking Age and Renaissance era.
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Valkama kirjoittaa Pohjolan viikinkiaikaan ja renessanssiin sijoittuvia historiallisia romaaneja, joita värittävät taianomainen pohjoisen luonnon kuvaus, vanhojen kaupunkien tunnelma sekä suomalainen ja skandinaavinen mytologia. Yritetteliäiden naisten ja perheiden selviytymistarinat ovat lähellä kirjailijan sydäntä. -
Michele Vail
Michele Vail writes young adult paranormal fiction about zombies and reapers.
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Jenny Williamson
Jenny Williamson is a romance and fantasy novelist obsessed with the ancient past. While writing a historical romance, she fell down a research rabbit hole—an occupational hazard—and realized she had a decision to make. She could either go on hanging out in bars and ranting about child emperors and Mongol siegecraft and the Praetorian Guard—she gets that way after a few Dark n Stormies—or she could start a podcast.
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Rory Power
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Lyra Selene
Lyra Selene was born under a full moon and has never quite managed to wipe the moonlight out of her eyes. She grew up on a steady diet of mythology, folklore, and fantasy, and now writes tall tales of twisted magic, forbidden romance, and brooding landscapes.
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Lyra lives in New England with her husband and daughter, in an antique farmhouse that probably isn’t haunted. She is the author of the young adult duology AMBER & DUSK. A FEATHER SO BLACK is her adult debut.
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Mishka Jenkins
Mishka Jenkins lives in the UK with her family and fluffy muse, a rough collie named Harliquin, who she couldn't write without.
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Sarah Underwood
Sarah Underwood grew up in Devon, England. A data scientist by training, she obtained her MEng in Computational Bioengineering at Imperial College, London and her MPhil in Population Health Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She is now studying for her PhD at the University of Oxford.
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Sarah’s first novel, Lies We Sing to the Sea, became an instant New York Times, indie, and international bestseller. -
Namina Forna
Namina Forna is a young adult novelist and the author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy YA series The Gilded Ones. Originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, she moved to the US when she was nine and has been traveling back and forth ever since.
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Namina's books have been translated into 25+ languages, nominated for several awards, and optioned for film and TV. Namina herself is an accomplished public speaker, especially on the topics of feminism, storytelling and challenging dominant narratives. -
Kat Dunn
Kat Dunn is the author of HUNGERSTONE (2025), BITTERTHORN, and the Battalion of the Dead trilogy:
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DANGEROUS REMEDY, MONSTROUS DESIGN and GLORIOUS POISON.
She grew up in London and has lived in Japan, Australia and France.
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Laura Sibson
Laura Sibson worked for years as a career counselor for undergraduates before getting her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. When she’s not writing, counseling, or drinking impossibly strong coffee, you can find her running miles around her home in Philadelphia, walking her dog, or ingesting pop culture (along with great takeout) with her family. She is the author of the young adult novels The Art of Breaking Things and Edie In Between, both from Viking.
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Hadeer Elsbai
Hadeer Elsbai is an Egyptian-American writer and librarian. Born in New York City, she grew up being shuffled between Queens and Cairo. Hadeer studied history at Hunter College and later earned her Master’s degree in library science from Queens College, making her a CUNY alum twice over. Aside from writing, Hadeer enjoys cats, iced drinks, live theater, and studying the 19th century.
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Alexandra Bell
Alexandra Bell signed her first book deal at nineteen and has since written multiple books for adults and young people. She works for a legal advice charity and lives in Hampshire with her husband, sons and Sphynx cats. She also writes as Alex Bell.
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Jack Townson
A 2023 Witchy Award nominee, Jack Townson, a multi-talented artist, is the heart and soul of the thriving FangFam community across various social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch. With an ever-expanding following that now exceeds four hundred thousand devoted fans, he’s left an indelible mark on the digital landscape, garnering an impressive 4.2 million likes under the #Fangfam hashtag.
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Beyond his online presence, Jack is a versatile artist, encompassing the roles of actor, singer, and writer. His most celebrated work to date is “The Vampire Jack Townson,” an original story that first captivated audiences on TikTok and has been endorsed by New York Times bestselling author and 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Jonathan -
Amy Leow
Amy Leow is the author of The False Goddess Trilogy (Orbit Books). Currently residing in Kuala Lumpur, she graduated with a degree in linguistics and is currently pursuing a PhD in the same subject. When not reading or writing, she can be found consuming copious amounts of anime, boba, and random facts on the internet.
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Haley Pierson-Cox
Haley Pierson-Cox writes the craft blog Red-Handled Scissors. She's a knitter, sewer, maker, cross-stitcher, lover of cats, purveyor of quirk, and avid swearing enthusiast! She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon called Tiny Cranky Haley.
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C.M. Lockhart
C. M. Lockhart (also known as Chelsea) is a Black writer of fantasy because she loves creating worlds, exploring relationships, and writing stories about Black girls who aren't all that nice. She is the founder of Written in Melanin LLC — which encompasses a weekly podcast and YouTube channel of the same name — and the Melanin Library, an online database of books written by Black authors.
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She is also a lover of video games and anime, so whenever she isn't reading and writing — or talking about reading and writing — she's watching anime, playing her Switch, and dreaming about the day her books get animated. -
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Jo Riccioni
Jo Riccioni graduated from Leeds University with a Masters in Medieval Literature. She has lived and worked around the world but finally settled in Australia where she conjures up fantasy worlds from a shed in her garden on Garigal land in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Jo’s series, The Branded Season, was inspired by a long-standing desire from uni days to see women and women’s issues at the heart of the epic fantasy canon. Jo's award-winning short fiction has been anthologised in Best Australian Stories 2010 and 2011, and her story, Can't Take the Country out of the Boy has been optioned for a short film. The Italians at Cleat's Corner Store, her first novel, was awarded the International Rubery Award for Fiction in 2015. https://www.joriccio
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Maame Blue
Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner, creative writing tutor and author of two novels; 'Bad Love', which won the 2021 Betty Trask award, and 'The Rest Of You' due for publication in October 2024 with Verve Books (UK) and Amistad Books (US). Her short stories have been published in 'Joyful, Joyful' (Pan Macmillan), 'Not Quite Right For Us' (Flipped Eye Publishing) and 'New Australian Fiction 2020' (Kill Your Darlings). Maame is a recipient of the 2022 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and was a 2022 POCC Artist-in-Residence. She contributes regularly to Royal Literary Fund publication Writers Mosaic and The Bookseller Magazine, and her writing has appeared in many places including Refinery29, Black Ballad and The Independent. She teache
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Amanda Cale
I was born and raised in North Carolina. I've been working on the Riddle universe since November of 2001, and just recently finished the first book in the trilogy.
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A lot of what inspired me didn't come until after college. Even though I grew up in North Carolina, the setting of the book wasn't my home until much later. Thanks to my senior history paper, I was inspired to create a background element for the story that would add some history to the fictional town of Salt's Creek.
I'm currently working on the sequel to Riddle, and I'm pretty excited with the direction the story has taken. -
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B.Y. Simpson
B.Y. Simpson hails from a small town in Tennessee. Growing up, time spent at the library or at the book fair far outweighed any other activity. But, one day she decided to trade in her bookmarks for a pen and wrote her first story. It was written in a journal during lunch breaks and it took two years to complete. Having completed her first novel, she decided to keep writing to develop her current book, Hades Sent.
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In her downtime, she can be found with her children, watching murder mystery shows, and trying out new recipes. Just don't ask her to cook an omelet. She's never been able to get those right. -
Alicia Gaspar De Alba
Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a scholar, cultural critic, novelist, and poet whose works include historical novels and scholarly studies on Chicana/o art, culture and sexuality.
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She is from the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, where she lived until age 27. She has a B.A. (1980) and a M.A. (1983) in English from the University of Texas at El Paso, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico (1994). She started her doctoral work at the University of Iowa in 1985 but left after a year, then lived in Boston, Massachusetts for four years. In 1994, she was hired as one of six founding faculty members of the then César Chávez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies at University of Californi -
Polly Pullar
Polly Pullar grew up in Ardnamurchan. In addition to being a field naturalist, wildlife guide and wildlife rehabilitator she is also photographer and journalist, and contributes to a wide selection of magazines. She is currently wildlife writer for Scottish Field and is the author of a number of books.
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Terry Young
Terry Young is a writer and teacher who lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia with her husband, two daughters and a springer spaniel named, Mr. Darcy. She graduated from the University of Victoria with degrees in English and History.
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When she is not reading or writing space themed science fiction, Terry enjoys hosting large family dinners, gardening, hiking and cruising the West Coast of British Columbia on a sailboat with her husband. -
Gem L. Preston
Gem L. Preston is an international bestselling fantasy author from a small town in South Wales, where her love of video games and deep obsession with Welsh mythology collided to create Prince of the Ancients— and she hasn't stopped writing magical chaos since.
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Her books are full of fierce heroines, morally grey men, shadowy magic, and slow-burn romantic tension that will emotionally ruin you (in the best way). Her characters are brave, bold, and brilliant — unlike Gem, who is terrified of moths and would much rather be hiding under a blanket with a cup of tea.
When she’s not writing (or *trying* to write while her two small daughters reenact a WWE match in the background), you’ll usually find her reading, gaming, or deep-diving into her favou -
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström is a Swedish professor who served as executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Rockström is internationally recognized on global sustainability issues. In 2009, he led the team which developed the Planetary Boundaries framework, a proposed precondition for facilitating human development at a time when the planet is undergoing rapid change.
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K.A. Connolly
K.A. Connolly lives in New England with her family and two cats who sow chaos with abandon. She regularly embarks on quests of various sizes. She has written two books.
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Faye Oliander
Faye Oliander is an Afro-Surinamese author of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her books transport readers to non-Western settings, weaving epic adventures with a touch of romance.
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Currently residing in a small European country with her beloved cat, Faye enjoys reading, practicing yoga, and indulging in her love for old-school music and movie soundtracks. A true foodie at heart, she's always on the lookout for her next culinary adventure. -
S.M. Webb
S.M. Webb is a married mother of 3 active teens. Spirited was inspired by S.M.'s youngest child, who at age 11 said, "I think God needs to bring more people to heaven because the world needs more angels."
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Book 1, No Accidents, is an award-winning teen novel told from the perspectives of two imperfect adolescents in a fantasy afterlife world, complete with an inclusive heaven, an inscrutable angel advisor, and a hauntingly hot dead guy. -
Josie Jaffrey
Josie is a dark fantasy, paranormal romance and historical fiction author who writes about lost worlds, dystopian societies and morally-ambiguous monsters (vampires are her favourite). She has published multiple novels and short stories. Most of those are set in the Silverse, an apocalyptic world filled with vampires and zombies.
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Josie is the founding editor of indie fantasy magazine Indie Bites (www.silversunbooks.com) and the writer of the urban fantasy podcast Jack Valentine, Vampire Detective (www.jackvalentinepod.com).
She’s currently working on vampire murder mysteries (the Seekers series) and a YA series centred around Atlantis and the lost civilisations of the Mediterranean (the Deluge series). Researching the latter is the first t -
Alana Vieira
Alana Vieira is author of the REALM OF THE SEVEN series: a world steeped in old magic and blood, where myths blend with truth and things are rarely as they seem. The fantasy genre stole Alana's heart early in life and it has never let her go since.
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Ratings and reviews are an indie author’s life blood. If you enjoyed any of my works, please leave a rating/review to let me know!
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Tayla Jean Grossberg
Mermaid. Heroin. Actress. Assassin. Princess. Dragon rider.
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Tayla was all of these things as a child (due to her overactive imagination). She grew up on a game ranch in South Africa, between animals such as leopards, buffalo, zebras and giraffes.
She expanded her horizons by travelling America and Europe. Experiences, people she meets, places she visits and animals she loves inspire her to write novels. Now Tayla spends her time reading, writing and going on crazy adventures.
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Luke Courtney
Who am I? My name is Luke Courtney, I’m a 33 year old Briton who by day works in a little military museum in London, and by night, works on writing an array of stories that I push myself towards getting finished and published.
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Writing and story-telling has been a passion of mine since childhood; I was surrounded by books and stories at home, so I grew up on stories from Greek and Celtic mythology. I came to love reading tales of knights and heroes rescuing princesses from monsters and fighting evil tyrants to save the world, as well as making up ones of my own.
That love carried on when I was in school, but the real impetus for me to start writing properly came in 2010/2011, not long after I left university. One of my first jobs was working i -
Bebe Backhouse
Bebe Backhouse is a Bardi man from Western Australia. With a background in classical music as a concert pianist, repetiteur and teacher, his educational work with Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth in the Kimberley led him to win ‘Western Australian Young Person of the Year in the Arts’ at twenty-one. He now lives in Melbourne where he designs and produces creative high-profile festivals and events for that city’s diverse communities.
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Leila Summers
Leila Summers is an author, editor, and book coach with a love for all things creative and human. She specializes in the writing, editing, publishing, and promotion of books and currently runs her own publishing company. Leila is also a trained Heal Your Life® teacher. She has always had a passion for storytelling. It Rains in February: A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss is her first book. She is busy writing and publishing a series of children’s picture books and hopes to one day finish her second memoir.
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