Shea Ernshaw
Shea Ernshaw is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestselling author of THE WICKED DEEP, WINTERWOOD, A WILDERNESS OF STARS, LONG LIVE THE PUMPKIN QUEEN, and A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES. Her novels have repeatedly been chosen as Indie Next Picks and A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES was a Book of the Month selection. She is also the winner of the Oregon Book Award.
She often writes late, late, late into the night, enjoys dark woods, scary stories and moonlight on lakes.
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Awards/Honors:
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Judith O'Brien
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Like most writers, I knew early on that I wanted to be a writer. Well, almost. Actually, writing was the third choice on my short list of career possibilities, right after Fairy Princess and Prima Ballerina. The first two didn't work out. So after college I moved to New York, where I worked for Seventeen Magazine. Not only had I never really been to New York before, but I believe I was the only editorial assistant in the magazin -
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Hayley Chewins
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Rebecca Ross
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Juanjo Reinoso
Córdoba (España), 1981.
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Escritor, Escenógrafo e Investigador. Graduado en Arte Dramático. Desde pequeño ha sido un apasionado de las historias de fantasía, terror y ciencia ficción.
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Dan Greenburg
DAN GREENBURG BIO
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Dan's 73 books have been published in 24 countries.
His adult best-sellers include EXES, LOVE KILLS, HOW TO BE A JEWISH MOTHER, HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF MISERABLE, and HOW TO AVOID LOVE AND MARRIAGE. How to be a Jewish Mother sold several million copies. It and How to Make Yourself Miserable were in print for 30 years and were on Publishers Weekly’s list of all-time bestsellers.
Amazon will publish Dan’s third psychological thriller, FEAR ITSELF, in January 2014. They’ll also republish his first two thrillers, EXES and LOVE KILLS.
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Jack Douglas
Jack Douglas (born Douglas Linley Crickard , July 17, 1908 - January 31, 1989) was an American comedy writer who wrote for radio and television while additionally writing a series of humor books.
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On radio, he was a writer for Red Skelton, Bob Hope and the situation comedy, Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou (1938–46), in which Riggs switched back and forth from his natural baritone to the voice of a seven-year-old girl.
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Cassandra Peterson
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Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Peterson grew up near Randolph, until the area was flooded to create Tuttle Creek Reservoir; her family then moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado. According to a 2011 interview, Peterson states that as a child, while other girls were occupied with Barbie dolls, she was more -
Intisar Khanani
Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad and world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states as well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Prior to publishing her novels, Intisar worked as a public health consultant on projects relating to infant mortality and minority health, which was as close as she could get to saving the world. Now she focuses her time on her two passions: raising her family and writing fantasy.
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Intisar is the author of the Dauntless Path books (beginning with Thorn) and The Sunbolt Chronicles.
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Mari Mancusi
Mari Mancusi grew up where the north wind meets the sea (otherwise known as Massachusetts), but has since made her home in the great state of Texas, mostly due to her love of summer. (And tacos.) A former Emmy Award winning TV news producer, today she is the author of more than two-dozen books for kids, teens, and adults, mostly of the sci-fi/fantasy variety. In addition to writing, Mari loves traveling, video games, and cosplaying. She is also Mom to an eight year old Frozen superfan who, when recently asked by her teacher to describe her hero answered: “My Mom!” (Okay, fine, she said Kristin Bell.)
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Goldy Moldavsky
Goldy Moldavsky was born in Lima, Peru, and grew up in Brooklyn, where she still lives. Her novels include the New York Times bestseller, KILL THE BOY BAND, the Publishers Weekly bestseller, THE MARY SHELLEY CLUB, and the upcoming OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, and BUBBLEGUM SHOES. You can find her on X and Instagram @goldywrites.
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Laura E. Weymouth
Laura Weymouth is a Canadian living in America, and the sixth consecutive generation of her family to immigrate from one country to another. Born and raised in the Niagara region of Ontario, she now lives at the edge of the woods in western New York, along with her husband, two wild-hearted daughters, and an ever-expanding menagerie of animal friends.
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Tim Burton
Timothy "Tim" William Burton is a prolific American film director/writer, best known for the dark imagery and quirky nature of his popular films. He is also the author and illustrator of the poetry collection "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories."
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Jennifer Chen
Jennifer Chen is a freelance journalist who has written for print and online, including pieces in the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, and Bust. She earned an MFA and BFA in dramatic writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is a proud alumnae of Hedgebrook, a women’s writing residency. She lives in Los Angeles with her TV writer husband, twins, two pugs, and a smoky black cat named Gremlin.
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Rachel Ekstrom Courage
Rachel Ekstrom Courage is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Murder By Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery and the young adult thriller Nothing Bad Happens Here. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband (the children’s book author Nick Courage) and their family.
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Michele Torrey
Michele Torrey, author of chapter books for young readers and novels for middle grade, young adult, and adult, is a two-time Thurber House Residency in Children's Literature nominee, plus a two-time winner of PNWA's Zola Award. Among other honors, her books have received starred reviews from “Publisher’s Weekly” and “Kirkus,” been chosen by the Junior Library Guild, and been nominated for numerous state medals.
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Torrey holds a degree in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Washington (’88), and a Master of Arts in Religion from Graceland University (’06). She currently lives on Fox Island, Washington, but has lived and traveled all over the world. She has three sons and five grandchildren. In addition to her writing and traveli -
Sunya Mara
Sunya Mara grew up in six different cities across five different states and now calls Los Angeles home. She studied film and business at the University of Southern California and went on to write and illustrate at Kobe Bryant’s Granity Studios. When not telling stories, she spends her time haunting old movie theaters and staring at museum walls.
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Stacey Lee
Stacey Lee is the New York Times and Indie bestselling author of historical and contemporary young adult fiction, including THE DOWNSTAIRS GIRL, Reese's Book Club Late Summer 2021 YA pick, and her most recent, LUCK OF THE TITANIC which received five starred reviews. A native of southern California and fourth-generation Chinese American, she is a founder of the We Need Diverse Books movement and writes stories for all kids (even the ones who look like adults). Find her
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Gretchen McNeil
Gretchen McNeil is the author of the YA horror/suspense novels POSSESS, 3:59, RELIC, GET EVEN, GET DIRTY, and TEN (a YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a Romantic Times Top Pick, and a Booklist Top Ten Horror Fiction for Youth) all with Balzer + Bray for HarperCollins. Gretchen’s first YA contemporary I’M NOT YOUR MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL, also with Balzer + Bray, hit shelves in 2016, and her next novel will be the horror-comedy #MURDERTRENDING for Disney/Freeform in August 2018.
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Gretchen’s novels have been published internationally in Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, and Czech. The film adaptation of TEN starring China Anne McClain (Descendants 2, Black Lightning), Rome Flynn (The Bold and the Beautiful), and Callan McAulif -
Amy Christine Parker
AMY CHRISTINE PARKER is the author of the critically acclaimed duology, GATED and ASTRAY and the standalone thrillers, SMASH & GRAB, FLIGHT 171, and YOU'RE DEAD TO ME. GATED was a nominee for both the Sequoyah Book Award and the South Caroline Junior Book Award and was a YALSA Quick Pick for reluctant readers. She writes full-time from her home near Tampa, Florida, where she lives with her husband, their two daughters, and two very mischievous cats. Visit her at amychristineparker.com and follow her on Twitter @amychristinepar.
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Chantae Oliver
Book 3 of The Dream Weaver Series - The Dream Redeemer - is now available for preorder on Amazon.
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Chantae writes how she reads - which is to mean that she likes to get to the exciting bits AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Her writing reflects that as her focus is on taking you on a fun ride. Writing motto? "I'm here to entertain you, not teach you."
Chantae Oliver has lived a life seeing the world with constant travel and interactions with different people and cultures. She has both a strong sense of wanderlust and a passion for writing stories and poems that readers around the world can relate to.
As someone who is mixed race, Chantae grew up a book worm who unfortunately often felt underrepresented. As the literary world expands its’ representation, Ch -
Melissa Poett
Melissa Poett majored in music composition, first telling stories with instruments before switching her medium to words. She now writes young adult novels in a variety of genres ranging from contemporary to romantasy. She lives in Canada, and The Enemy’s Daughter is her debut novel.
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Rosamund Hodge
Catholic. Writer. Lay Dominican. I write books about gods & death & girls with knives. Next: WHAT MONSTROUS GODS, coming 03/05/2024.
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Goodreads policies: I do read messages. I seldom friend people. I never comment on reviews of my own work. -
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie is an award-winning Australian actress and producer, whose many roles have included Barbie in Barbie, for which she is currently nominated for a BAFTA, Harley Quinn in the DC Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey films, Tonya Harding in I, Tonya (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA), Kayla Pospisil in Bombshell (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA), and Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantinos Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (for which she was nominated for a BAFTA).
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Under her LuckyChap banner, Robbie also produced Barbie, Promising Young Woman, Birds of Prey and I, Tonya, among many others, including 2023s BAFTA-nominated Saltburn. -
Erin Cotter
Erin Cotter writes young adult fiction. Originally from Buffalo, New York, she currently calls Austin home. When not writing she spends time with her partner and pets, eating tacos, and searching for Golden-cheeked Warblers in the Texas Hill Country.
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Tachibana Higuchi
[[If you're looking for a French translation, search under "L'académie Alice", with the engine set to amazon.fr.]]
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Tachibana Higuchi (樋口 橘, HIGUCHI Tachibana), born 1976-03-16 , is a Japanese manga artist. In year 1996, she first made her debut work in Bessatsu Hana to Yume's 5th issue, entitled 5 Gatsu no Sakura (『5月のサクラ』?).
During an interview with Tokyopop, she gave a detailed account of how she started as a mangaka.
"I first submitted a manga story a while after I graduated from high school. Up until then I was studying for the entrance examinations for the Art University, and as part of that, I sometimes drew manga and four-panel strip comics for fun.
"Because I was conscious of the fact that I had started drawing manga in earnest at a lat -
Priyanka Taslim
Priyanka Taslim is a writer, teacher, and lifelong New Jersey resident.
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Having grown up in a bustling Bangladeshi diaspora community, surrounded by her mother’s entire clan and many aunties of no relation, her writing often features families, communities, and all the drama therein.
Currently, Priyanka teaches English by day and tells all kinds of stories about Bengali characters by night. Her writing usually stars spunky Bengali heroines finding their place in the world…and a little swoony romance, too.
Her debut young adult novel, THE LOVE MATCH, is releasing from Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in January 2023. -
Gwendolyn Womack
Gwendolyn Womack is the USA Today and Los Angeles Times bestselling author of The Fortune Teller, The Time Collector, The Memory Painter, and her YA debut The Premonitions Club. Up next is The Last Labyrinth, a scifi romantic adventure coming 3/24/26 with 47North.
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Gwendolyn went to college in Fairbanks, Alaska to study theatre and received an MFA in Directing for theatre and film from California Institute of the Arts. She lives in Houston, Texas with her family, is an adjunct faculty member at HCC, collects and photographs kaleidoscopes, and can usually be found either immersed in a book or dreaming up a new story. Visit her at www.gwendolynwomack.com. -
Leslye Walton
Leslye Walton was born in the Pacific Northwest. Perhaps because of this, Leslye has developed a strange kinship with the daffodil--she too can only achieve beauty after a long, cold sulk in the rain. Her debut novel, THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER, was inspired by a particularly long sulk in a particularly cold rainstorm spent pondering the logic, or rather, lack thereof, in love.
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Leslye is a full-time writer living in Seattle, Washington. She spends her time eating chocolate cupcakes, and doting on her chihuahuas, Mr. Darcy and Doc Holliday. Her next novel, THE PRICE GUIDE TO THE OCCULT, is set to be published in March 2018. -
Emily J. Taylor
Emily was born and raised in California and has since refused to stay put. She's lived in four states and two continents, all of which have conveniently given her an endless amount of story fodder. She currently works as a creative director in Minneapolis, where she spends the long winters dreaming up glittering worlds to spin into dark tales.
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Amanda M. Helander
Amanda Helander (pronounced “HELL-ander”) is a romantic fantasy author and paralegal from Seattle, Washington. She likes to write about mental health struggles and hot wizard boyfriends. When she’s not writing, Amanda can be found watching horror movies, learning to crochet, or eating entire blocks of parmesan in one sitting.
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Jennifer Bosworth
Author and screenwriter, Jennifer Bosworth, grew up in a small town where there was nothing to do but read and get into trouble. She did plenty of both, which led her to a career writing about people who get into trouble. Jennifer and her husband recently escaped from Los Angeles and are now hiding out in Portland, Oregon with a couple of long-legged dogs. In her spare time she can be found watching horror movies and dreaming of starting her own hippie commune, where there will be many goats. Learn more about her and view her short films at jenniferbosworth.com or just Google her and see what happens.
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Amy Goldsmith
Amy Goldsmith is the author of THOSE WE DROWN, which was a Barnes & Noble YA Book Club selection, OUR WICKED HISTORIES, and the forthcoming PREDATORY NATURES. She has a lifelong love of all things spooky and lives on the Sussex coast with her family and beloved whippet.
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Katie Bernet
Katie Bernet is an author living in Dallas, Texas. She’s an award-winning creative director, a long-standing member of the DFW Writer’s Workshop, and the director of the 2025 DFW Writer’s Conference. The oldest of three sisters, she’s a diehard fan of "Little Women."
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Marc Simont
Artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books, Marc Simont was born in 1915 in Paris. His parents were from the Catalonia region of Spain, and his childhood was spent in France, Spain, and the United States. Encouraged by his father, Joseph Simont, an artist and staff illustrator for the magazine L'Illustration, Marc Simont drew from a young age. Though he later attended art school in Paris and New York, he considers his father to have been his greatest teacher.
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When he was nineteen, Mr. Simont settled in America permanently, determined to support himself as an artist. His first illustrations for a children's book appeared in 1939. Since then, Mr. Simont has illustrated nearly a hundred books, working -
Emma Noyes
Emma Noyes is the author of HOW TO HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT, GUY'S GIRL, and the Sunken City trilogy. The first book in her next YA romantasy series, SOUL OF SHADOW, comes out July 2025. She lives in Chicago with her Swedish husband and their accident-prone Pomeranian.
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Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty was an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning actress (theatre and screen). She was best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo in the sitcom The Golden Girls. In her later years, she retired from acting and was battling Lewy Body dementia.
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In 1988 she wrote her autobiography, with Steve Delsohn, titled If I Knew Then, What I Know Now. . . So What? -
Andrea Morstabilini
Andrea Morstabilini was born in Lodi, in the misty middle of the Po Valley, in Northern Italy, in 1983. He studied Modern Literature at the University of Milan with a thesis on the Fantastic in late 19th century Italian literature. He (predictably) loves Gothic novels and architecture, the theatre, cats, and cemeteries. A Blood as Bright as the Moon, forthcoming from Titan Books, is his English-language debut. He is the author of two previous novels in Italian and various essays and short stories. He also works as an editor. He lives in Milan, and sometimes Kraków, with his husband.
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Cezilla L. Lontrato
Cezilla L. Lontrato se recuerda, ya desde niña, como una amante de la literatura policial y de terror. El género fantástico hizo su aparición años más tarde, cuando empezó a animarse a escribir –y a mostrar– sus relatos y cuentos.
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Estudió Licenciatura en Economía en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y en la actualidad se desempeña como consultora de empresas para las que realiza trabajos de investigación macroeconómica, mejoras de procesos, manuales de procedimientos.
Además de ser fanática de la literatura de fantasía oscura y terror –si tiene toques góticos, mejor–, adora la música: el metal, el darkwave, el EBM, el country y el southern gothic. -
Alexandra Sirowy
Alexandra Sirowy is the author of several thrillers for young and old readers. When she's not writing from her island home in the Pacific Northwest, you can find her in her second life as an activist for women's rights, an investor in women-founded companies, traveling the world with her daughters and husband, and collecting folklore and art.
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Esther Sanz
Nací hace treinta y dos años en L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), y aunque actualmente vivo en Castelldefels con mi hija y mi marido, mi vida está estrechamente ligada a Bellvitge, un barrio de esta localidad conocido por sus numerosos bloques de hormigón, parecidos a fichas de dominó. Allí viví hasta hace un par de años, y crecí feliz con mis dos hermanas y una multitud de niños de nuestra edad con los que compartimos juegos, ropa, libros... Quizá por la monotonía de ese paisaje gris, el contraste del verde de mis veranos en Regumiel de la Sierra me marcó de un modo especial y me ha inspirado en mi primera novela.
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Aunque casi llego a olvidarlo, siempre quise escribir e idear historias. De pequeña me inventaba las letras de las cancione -
Annie Guest
Annie Guest had a varied career in book publishing, advertising, and law, before she took another leap to work as a mental health therapist and publish her first book. In DESIGN FOR YOUR MIND, Annie combines her passion for people and their potential with her love for interior design and her appreciation for the design choices that support mental health.
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Melinda Grace
Melinda Grace wrote her first piece of fiction in middle school, but didn't write a complete story until an introduction to creative writing course at State University of New York at Oswego, where she earned a BA in human development. She went on to earn a MS Ed in counseling from Alfred University and currently works as an elementary school counselor. She loves sunshine, ice cream sandwiches, and anything Disney. Her debut novel Meet Me in Outer Space is an #OwnVoices story.
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Maximiliano Pizzicotti
Maximiliano Pizzicotti (6 de enero, 2000) es un joven escritor oriundo de Entre Ríos, Argentina.
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Creció rodeado de historias en el altillo de su casa, fascinado por todo lo que podía inventar y las emociones que escribir le provocaba. Años más tarde, se mudó a la ciudad de Córdoba para asistir a la universidad. Allí, motivado por la soledad y su inmensa curiosidad hacia el mundo, concibió la idea de Todas nuestras noches, su primer libro publicado en febrero de 2021, editado por VyR Editoras.
Escribir es su pasión, algunas noches es conocido como Fiction Mary, toma mucho café y en su tiempo libre comparte su amor por la lectura en su cuenta de bookstagram:
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V.L. Adams
I recently published my first novel, The Source of Smoke. It's a mystery about a possible wrongful conviction - inspired by my own work in wrongful conviction education.
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I'm always reading at least one book (I usually get through around 100 a year). While I love mysteries, I also love romance and fantasy.
I'm obsessed with Harry Potter, true crime podcasts and documentaries, and food. -
Bob Curran
BOB CURRAN is an educational psychologist in Coleraine University. His interests are broad-ranging but are focused especially on history and story. He has written several books, including The Field Guide to Irish Fairies, The Wolfhound Guide to the Shamrock, Creatures of Celtic Myth, The Truth about the Leprechaun.
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Adela Basch
Adela «Dolly» Basch (Buenos Aires, 23 de noviembre de 1946) es una escritora argentina. Estudió Letras en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, fue miembro de la Comisión Directiva de ALIJA. Dirigió colecciones de literatura infantil y juvenil en varias editoriales y en 2002 fundó Ediciones Abran Cancha. Realizó también varias traducciones.
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Diane Thomas
My second novel, In Wilderness, a literary thriller inspired in part by the haunting southern Appalachian folk ballads of violence and erotic obsession, was also my first. I wrote it in 1981 to distract myself from fears of dying, during an extended period of extreme ill health. I titled this early version The Clearing, gave my symptoms to its protagonist, and sent her into a Georgia mountain wilderness to either die or heal.
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Before moving to New Mexico in 2009, I'd lived in Atlanta and north Georgia since age four, except for two years in New York earning an MFA in Theater and Film History and Criticism at Columbia University. I hold a BA in English from Georgia State University and have worked as a reporter for The Atlanta Constitution, n -
Jen Knox
The Founder and Executive Director of Unleash Creatives, Jen Knox is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation.
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Her books include the short story collection The Glass City (Hollywood, CA: Winner, Prize Americana for Prose), and the novels We Arrive Uninvited (Steel Toe Books) and Chaos Magic (Kallisto Gaia Press).
Her first essay collection, At Work, will be released by Cornerstone Press UWSP in 2027.
Jen's writing has earned multiple awards. Her short stories, poetry, and essays have been featured in textbooks, classrooms, and publications in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Turkey, India, and Scotland. Her fiction appears in The Best Small Fictions (Braddock Avenue Books), The Adirondack Review, Sivana East, Ch -
Tim Burningham
Tim Burningham is an experienced leader and former CEO in the health care industry. He and the organizations he’s led have received multiple awards for outstanding performance including being recognized as a top 100 Health Care Center by U.S. News and World Report. Tim has created high-performing company cultures everywhere he’s worked, which has led to remarkable results.
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Currently, Tim is President of The Center for Company Culture, a management consulting firm committed to helping organizations and leaders build cohesive teams and create amazing company cultures. Tim’s practical and straightforward approach has assisted leaders and organizations across the country to improve performance and love what they do.
Tim is a sought-after speake