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  Jessie Ren Marshall

  Jessie Ren Marshall’s debut story collection, WOMEN! IN! PERIL!, is published by Bloomsbury (2024).
  
  Her writing has appeared in places like New England Review, Electric Lit, ZYZZYVA, Joyland, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, and the New York Times.
  
  She has an MFA from New York University and her work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Millay Colony, the KHN Center for the Arts, and the Community of Writers.
  
  She lives off-grid with her dogs on Hawai‘i Island. Find her at jessierenmarshall.com.

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  Joan Leegant

  Joan Leegant's first book of stories, An Hour in Paradise: Stories, won the 2003 PEN/New England Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. She is also the author of a novel, Wherever You Go. Her prize-winning fiction has appeared in over two dozen literary magazines and anthologies. Formerly an attorney, she has taught at Harvard, Oklahoma State, and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she was also the writer-in-residence at Hugo House. For five years she was the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv where she also spoke at Israeli schools on American literature and culture under the auspices of the U.S. Emb

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  Florence Parry Heide

  "What do I like about writing for children? Everything," says Florence Parry Heide, the award-winning author of more than sixty children’s books, including the classic THE SHRINKING OF TREEHORN, illustrated by Edward Gorey. "I like the connection with children," the author says. "I like the connection with all kinds of book people. And I like the connection with my childhood self, which is the most of me. It is the most welcome and familiar of worlds. There miracles abound--indeed it is magical that something I might think of can be put into words, stories, ideas, and that those words end up in the heads of readers I will never meet."
  
  Florence Parry Heide wrote SOME THINGS ARE SCARY, a humorous look at childhood bugaboos, more than thirty ye

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  Maya Arad

  מאיה ערד נולדה בראשון לציון בכ"ח בטבת תשל"א, 25 בינואר 1971 להוריה טובה ויוסף ערד. גדלה והתחנכה בקיבוץ נחל עוז ובראשון לציון. לאחר לימודי יסוד ותיכון בראשון לציון התגייסה לצה"ל ושירתה במדור הסברה של חיל החינוך, בו פגשה את רויאל נץ. מאיה למדה בלשנות ולימודים קלאסיים לתואר ראשון באוניברסיטת תל אביב ובלשנות לדוקטורט באוניברסיטת לונדון. לימדה באוניברסיטאות שונות, ביניהן הארוורד, ז'נבה וסנקט-פטרבורג. ספרה "מקום אחר ועיר זרה" זיכה אותה בפרס משרד החינוך ליצירת ביכורים, נבחר לחמישיית המועמדים הסופית לפרס ספיר לשנת 2005 והועלה כמחזה בתיאטרון הקאמרי (בבימוי אלדד זיו ומוסיקה מאת אלון אולארצ'יק). כיום מאיה מלמדת באוניברסיטת סטנפורד. נשואה לרויאל נץ ואם לשתי בנות.

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  Pirkko Saisio

  See also Saisio's pseudonyms: Jukka Larsson, Eva Wein
  
  Pirkko Saisio (s. 16. huhtikuuta 1949 Helsinki) on suomalainen kirjailija, näyttelijä ja ohjaaja. Hän on kirjoittanut myös salanimillä Jukka Larsson ja Eva Wein. Saisiolla on laaja kirjallinen tuotanto, joka romaanien ja näytelmien ohella käsittää monenlaisia tekstejä elokuvakäsikirjoituksista aina balettilibretoihin asti. Saisio on kirjoittanut näytelmiä niin teatteriin kuin televisioonkin, ja lisäksi hän ohjaa ja näyttelee itsekin. Saisio suoritti Suomen Teatterikoulun näyttelijän tutkinnon 1975 ja toimi Teatterikorkeakoulun dramaturgian professorina 1997–2002.

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  Frode Grytten

  Frode Grytten (born December 11, 1960 in Odda) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage award-winning novel Bikubesong ('Song of the Beehive'), and other collections of short stories and poetry. His works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Albanian, Croatian and Chinese.
  
  Grytten is a native of the industrial town Odda, which often features in his work.
  
  As a journalist he has mainly worked for Bergens Tidende, the local newspaper of Bergen, Norway. He is also writing for the Oslo-based national newspaper Dagbladet.

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  Serena Dandini

  Serena Dandini, all'anagrafe Serena Dandini de Sylva (Roma, 1954), è una conduttrice televisiva, scrittrice e autrice televisiva italiana. Ha ideato e presentato programmi cult come La tv delle ragazze, Avanzi, L’ottavo nano e Parla con me. Con Rizzoli ha pubblicato diversi libri tra cui Dai diamanti non nasce niente, Ferite a morte, da cui è stata tratta una pièce teatrale rappresentata in tutto il mondo, e Avremo sempre Parigi (Premio Cesare Pavese).

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  Steven Ujifusa

  Steven Ujifusa is an historian and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous articles on architecture and urban history for PlanPhilly.com and PhillyHistory.org. When he is not writing, he enjoys singing, photography, rowing on the Schuylkill River, and travel. A native of New York City and raised in Chappaqua, New York, Steven received his undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and a joint masters in historic preservation and real estate development from the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the advisory council of the SS United States Conservancy, a national nonprofit dedicated to saving the great ship and preserving her historical legacy.
  
  "A Man and His Ship" is his first book. "The Wa

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  Ayelet Tsabari

  Ayelet Tsabari is the author of The Art of Leaving, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and has been published internationally. She’s the co-editor of the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language and has taught creative writing at Guelph MFA in Creative Writing and The University of King’s College MFA. Her novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted is forthcoming with Random House and HarperCollins Canada in September 2024.

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  Francesco Vidotto

  Dopo una laurea in Economia e una lunga attività come manager d'azienda, ha scelto di dedicarsi esclusivamente alla scrittura ed è tornato a vivere a Tai di Cadore, tra le Dolomiti. Ha pubblicato: Il selvaggio (Carabba 2005), Signore delle cime (Carabba 2007), Siro (Minerva 2011, premio Cortina d'Ampezzo per la letteratura di montagna e premio eLEGGERE LIBeRI di Tione di Trento), Zoe (Minerva 2012), Oceano (Minerva 2014, premio Torre Petrosa e premio Latisana per la letteratura del Nord Est).

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  Riko Saatsi

  Riko Saatsi (s. 1978) on Lieksasta kotoisin oleva ohjaaja, dramaturgi ja ohjaajantaiteen lehtori. Hän on opiskellut filosofiaa Helsingin yliopistossa ja ohjausta Teatterikorkeakoulussa ja työskennellyt ohjaajana laaja-alaisesti eri näyttämöillä Suomessa ja kansainvälisesti.

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  Suzanne Parry

  Suzanne Parry is a former arms control negotiator turned historical novelist. She studied Russian in Moscow and worked for the US Department of Defense. While at the Pentagon, she helped negotiate the first international security agreement of the Gorbachev era. She has taught university, coached high school cross-country, and raised a large family. A dedicated runner, Suzanne lives on both coasts but calls Portland, Oregon, home.

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  Jessie Ren Marshall

  Jessie Ren Marshall’s debut story collection, WOMEN! IN! PERIL!, is published by Bloomsbury (2024).
  
  Her writing has appeared in places like New England Review, Electric Lit, ZYZZYVA, Joyland, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, and the New York Times.
  
  She has an MFA from New York University and her work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Millay Colony, the KHN Center for the Arts, and the Community of Writers.
  
  She lives off-grid with her dogs on Hawai‘i Island. Find her at jessierenmarshall.com.

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  Howard Langer

  Howard Langer was born in New York and brought up on the west side of Manhattan. His father served on the U.S.S. Missouri and was present at the Japanese surrender in 1945. His mother taught reading in Spanish Harlem for over thirty years. Howard attended the City College of New York when its English faculty included, among others, William Gaddis and Joseph Heller. He obtained a teacher’s degree from the Greenberg Institute in Jerusalem where he had the opportunity to study under the poet, Yehuda Amichai, and the novelist, Aharon Appelfeld. He holds an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto, where he studied Shakespeare with the scholar-poet Sheldon Zitner, who first began publishing his remarkable books of poetry at age 75.
  
  While H

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  Howard Langer

  Howard Langer was born in New York and brought up on the west side of Manhattan. His father served on the U.S.S. Missouri and was present at the Japanese surrender in 1945. His mother taught reading in Spanish Harlem for over thirty years. Howard attended the City College of New York when its English faculty included, among others, William Gaddis and Joseph Heller. He obtained a teacher’s degree from the Greenberg Institute in Jerusalem where he had the opportunity to study under the poet, Yehuda Amichai, and the novelist, Aharon Appelfeld. He holds an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto, where he studied Shakespeare with the scholar-poet Sheldon Zitner, who first began publishing his remarkable books of poetry at age 75.
  
  While H

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  Nina Schuyler

  Nina Schuyler's short story collection, IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, will be published July 2, 2024. It won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature.
  
  She's the author of AFTERWORD, winner of the PenCraft Seasonal Book Award for Literary-Science Fiction; a Foreword INDIE Finalist in the categories of Science Fiction and Literary, and a Top 100 Notable Book Unshelved Competition; THE TRANSLATOR, which was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award, General Fiction; THE PAINTING, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her nonfiction books HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES AND STUNNING SENTENCES: A CREATIVE WRITING JOURNAL are bestselle

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  Leah Lax

  Leah Lax has written award-winning fiction and non fiction as well as an immigrant opera for Houston Grand Opera, reviewed with acclaim in The New York Times and broadcast on NPR. Her work has appeared in Salon, Longreads, Dame, HuffPost, and Lilith, among many others, and in anthologies by Seal Press and North Atlantic. When Leah isn't writing, you can find her playing her cello, or with her wife kayaking around the world.

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  Gary Barwin

  GARY BARWIN is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 21 books of poetry, fiction and books for children. His bestselling novel [Book: Yiddish for Pirates] won the 2017 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and was a Governor General’s Award and Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist and has recently been longlisted for the Leacock Medal. His latest poetry collection is No TV for Woodpeckers His work has appeared widely in journals, including Poetry (Chicago), The Walrus and the Paris Review blog. A finalist for the National Magazine Awards (Poetry), he is a three-time recipient of Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year, and has also received the Hamilton Arts Award for Literature. He is was Writer-in-Residence at Western Univer

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  Steven Ujifusa

  Steven Ujifusa is an historian and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous articles on architecture and urban history for PlanPhilly.com and PhillyHistory.org. When he is not writing, he enjoys singing, photography, rowing on the Schuylkill River, and travel. A native of New York City and raised in Chappaqua, New York, Steven received his undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and a joint masters in historic preservation and real estate development from the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the advisory council of the SS United States Conservancy, a national nonprofit dedicated to saving the great ship and preserving her historical legacy.
  
  "A Man and His Ship" is his first book. "The Wa

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  Suzanne Parry

  Suzanne Parry is a former arms control negotiator turned historical novelist. She studied Russian in Moscow and worked for the US Department of Defense. While at the Pentagon, she helped negotiate the first international security agreement of the Gorbachev era. She has taught university, coached high school cross-country, and raised a large family. A dedicated runner, Suzanne lives on both coasts but calls Portland, Oregon, home.

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  Toba Spitzer

  Rabbi Toba Spitzer is a popular teacher of courses on Judaism and economic justice, Reconstructionist Judaism, new approaches to thinking about God, and the practice of integrating Jewish spiritual and ethical teachings into daily life. She served as the President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association from 2007-2009, and was the first LGBTQ rabbi to head a national rabbinic organization. Rabbi Spitzer has received the honor of being included in Newsweek’s Top 50 Rabbis in America list and the 2010 Forward list of 50 Female Rabbis Who Are Making A Difference. She lives in Massachusetts.

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