Thrity Umrigar
A journalist for seventeen years, Thrity Umrigar has written for the Washington Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and other national newspapers, and contributes regularly to the Boston Globe's book pages. Thrity is the winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Lambda Literary award and the Seth Rosenberg prize. She teaches creative writing and literature at Case Western Reserve University. The author of The Space Between Us, Bombay Time, and the memoir First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood, she was a winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. She has a Ph.D. in English and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. (from the publisher's website)"
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Vive con il suo adorato chihuahua, Claudio, in una piccola città sul litorale laziale.
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Veena Rao
Veena Rao is an award-winning journalist and author. Her debut novel Purple Lotus is a 2021 Georgia Author of the Year finalist, a 2021 American Fiction Award winner, and an award-winning finalist in the multicultural and women’s fiction categories of the 2021 International Book Awards.
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She is the founding editor of NRI Pulse, an Atlanta-based news publication.
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Matthew Daub
Matthew Daub's watercolors and drawings have been widely exhibited for over four decades. He's had more than twenty solo exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the United States, and his works have been included in exhibitions at venues such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and The National Academy of Design. In 1991, The Metropolitan Museum featured one of his watercolors in their annual engagement calendar. He is the author of the monograph, A CHARMED VISION: THE ART OF CAROLYN PLOCHMANN, as well as more than thirty articles published in nationally distributed art magazines. LEAVING EASTERN PARKWAY is his first novel. You can find out more about Matthew and
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Amanda Peters
Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaw and settler ancestry. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly Review, the Dalhousie Review, and filling station magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award (IVA) for unpublished prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers Trust Rising Stars program. Amanda has a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto and she is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe New Mexico. Amanda is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at Acadia University. She lives and writes in the Annapolis valley Nova Scotia with her fur babies Holly and Pook.
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Jun'ichi Watanabe
Junichi Watanabe ( 渡辺淳一, Watanabe Jun'ichi, October 24, 1933 – April 30, 2014) was a Japanese writer, known for his portrayal of the extra-marital affairs of middle aged people.
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His 1997 novel 'A Lost Paradise' became a bestseller in Japan and over Asia, and was made into a film and a TV miniseries. He has written more than 50 novels in total, and won awards including Naoki Prize in 1970 for 'Light and Shadow' (Hikari to kage), New Current Coterie magazine prize for Makeup, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize in 1979 for 'The Setting Sun in the Distance' (Toki rakujitsu) and 'The Russian Brothel of Nagasaki' (Nagasaki roshia yujokan).
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Inventor, author, public servant, and philanthropist on a mission to end blindness.
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Uday Prakash is the author of poems, short stories, non-fiction, films, and documentaries. In 2010 he received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi literary award in India. He is professor-in-charge, Department of Mass Communication, Media, and Journalism, Indira Gandhi Tribal University, Amarkantak. He lives in Ghaziabad, India.
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Gregory A. Kompes
Gregory A. Kompes (MFA, MS Ed.) has authored 19 books (fiction, poetry, nonfiction), contributed to over a dozen anthologies (including 4 Chicken Soup for the Soul volumes), and written hundreds of published articles and essays on a wide range of topics.
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Gregory is the founder and facilitator of The Writer Workshop and teaches for Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA program.
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Charif Majdalani quitte son pays en 1980 à destination de la France pour suivre des études de lettres modernes à l'université d'Aix-en-Provence. Il revient au Liban en 1993 après avoir soutenu sa thèse sur Antonin Artaud.
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Dans un premier temps, il occupe un poste d'enseignant à l'université de Balamand puis à l'université Saint-Joseph où il est professeur de lettres.
À partir de 1995, il participe à la revue d'opposition L'Orient-Express, en charge de la rubrique littéraire. Cette collaboration s'achèvera en 1998 année de la cessation de publication de ce journal.
En 1999, Charif Majdalani revient à l'enseignement dans l'université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth où il est en charge du département de Lettres Françaises. Ce poste lui permet d'accueill -
Anne Cherian
Anne Cherian was born and raised in Jamshedpur, India. She graduated from Bombay and Bangalore Universities and received graduate degrees in journalism and comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and visits India regularly.
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Jennifer Lang
American-French-Israeli hybrid; obsessed with identity, language, home, belonging
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1995-today: stories in Parenting, Woman’s Day, Baltimore Review, Under the Sun, Barren Magazine, Citron Review, Coachella Review, Consequence Forum, NPR
MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts; former Assistant Editor at Brevity Journal
Yogini, practicing since 1995, teaching since 2003, leads YogaProse
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AWARDS for Landed:
*Winner of Best Middle-or-Late-in-Life Coming-of-Age, Zibby Awards 2025
*Gold Book Award Winner, Literary Titan 2024
*Finalist for Adult Nonfiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2024
AWARDS for Places We Left Behind:
*Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword Review -
Sheila Flaherty
Sheila Flaherty is an Army brat who grew up to be a writer and clinical psychologist. She earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, and has had a thriving private practice in the Chicago area, except for one year spent in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While in Saudi, Sheila’s compassion led her to practice counseling secretly with American and Saudi women. This experience inspired her to write East of Mecca, a story about women within the confines of a violent, oppressive, male-dominated society. Sheila has placed in numerous screenwriting competitions, including the Nicholl Fellowship, Big Break, BlueCat, and Table Read my Script:London. East of Mecca was a Finalist in the 2018 Socially Relevant Film Festival
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Shona Patel
Shona Patel, the daughter of an Assam tea planter, drew upon her personal observations and experiences to create the vivid characters and setting for her critically acclaimed debut novel TEATIME FOR THE FIREFLY. Her second novel FLAME TREE ROAD was published in June 2015. An honors graduate in English literature from St. Xavier's College (Calcutta University) Ms. Patel has won several awards for creative writing and is a trained graphic designer.
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Kareena Kapoor
A member of the fourth generation in the Kapoor acting dynasty, Kareena Kapoor made her film debut in 2000. Kapoor has established herself as an award winning actress and style icon. Kapoor married actor and Nawab (honorary prince) of Pataudi, Saif Ali Khan in 2012.
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Angel Smits
I live in Colorado with my husband and daughter, as well as a constantly changing mixture of family and pets. I thought winning the Romance Writer's of America's Golden Heart Award was the highlight of my writing career, but seeing my first Harlequin book on the shelves topped that. My background as a social worker has helped fill my head with the stories of people, and inspired the characters whose stories I tell.
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Ursula Dubosarsky
Ursula Dubosarsky is an award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults. About The Golden Day, her first book with Candlewick Press, she says, "The little girls watch, wonder, respond, change, and grow — and then their childhood is gone, forever. This element of the story, I suppose, is at least partly autobiographical. But, as I say — all of our teachers come home safe and sound in the end." Ursula Dubosarsky lives in Australia.
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Charlotte French
Charlotte French is a contemporary fiction author who turned a lifelong dream into reality after decades of creative entrepreneurship—aka procrastination—such as award-winning teddy bear artisan and boutique/gallery owner. In her mid-fifties, Charlotte finally faced her deepest fear to pursue her passion for writing.
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After completing courses with Sydney's Writer's Studio and winning her first short story competition, this self-described control freak enthusiast decided to take the indie publishing route and published her debut novel Agnes Treading Water in 2023. Her second standalone novel The Secret Life of Jasper Scragg releases on September 1, 2025. Charlotte is writing her next novel which has thriller undertones.
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Jessica McCann
Reading and writing historical fiction is my passion, though I'm also drawn to memoirs, contemporary fiction, nonfiction, literary classics -- anything with a compelling story. I only review books I enjoyed reading, hence the abundance of 4- and 5-star ratings!
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Emmanuel Dongala
Emmanuel Dongala born July 14, 1941 is a Congolese Chemist ,short story writer, novelist and playwright, schooled in Brazzaville , and studied in the United States where he earned a BA in Chemistry from Oberlin College and an MA from Rutgers University . He then left the United States for France , where he was awarded a PhD in Organic Chemistry. Upon his return to the Congo he worked as a teacher and dean until 1998, when he was forced to leave because of the civil war. Helped by his friend, the writer Philip Roth, Dongala now lives in the United States , where he teaches at Bard College and holds the Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences.
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Dongala, who writes in French and whose books have been translated into a dozen languages, has pu -
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Loree Bohl
I hope to inspire people to look at plants differently and see their gardens through new eyes--to treat gardening as an adventure, to embrace the freedom to explore a new type of plant, and then to plant it just because they want to. Why not surround yourself with plants you love? Who cares if they're not supposed to be planted together, might eventually crowd each other, or aren't everyone's cup of tea? It's your garden and you should love it; you should be having fun.
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I've been writing about plants and gardening on my blog, danger garden, since 2009. I've also penned several magazine articles, perhaps to the horror of the college professor who chastised me for using comic-book English. Writing is how I share my plant passion with other gar -
Maria Imbalzano
Maria Imbalzano is an award-winning contemporary author who writes about strong, independent women and the men who fall in love with them.
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A member of New Jersey Romance Writers, Maria has received many honors for her work including the ACRA Readers’ Choice Heart of Excellence Award, the NEST (National Excellence in Story Telling) Award, Still Moments Magazine Readers’ Choice Award, Long and Short Reviews Book of the Month Award, and the Wisconsin Romance Writers Write Touch Readers Award. She was also a finalist for the New England Readers’ Choice Award, the NJ Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award, the RONE Award, the Beverley Award, the Carolyn Award, and the Book Buyers Best Award.
Maria graduated from Fordham University School of Law and pr -
Valerie Cantella
Valerie Cantella is an award-winning multipassionate communications and public affairs professional living a life beyond her wildest dreams. She is the author of Off-Script: a mom’s journey through adoption, a husband’s alcoholism, and special needs parenting. She shares her journey as a mother of teens with mental health issues, the struggles of special needs parenting, the effect of alcoholism on a marriage, and how she learned to embrace the unimaginable to create an extraordinary life.
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Valerie calls herself a recovering perfectionist and is passionate about using her experiences to help others. She volunteers with organizations supporting those with mental health and substance abuse issues and serves on the County’s Behavioral Wellness C -
Zvezdana Rashkovich
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Zvezdana Rashkovich was born in the former Yugoslavia and spent her childhood in Libya and Sudan before moving to the United States. -
Ray Jayawardhana
Ray Jayawardhana is a professor and the Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Originally from Sri Lanka, he is a graduate of Yale and Harvard. He is the co-author of more than one hundred papers in scientific journals. His discoveries have made headlines worldwide, including in The Times, The Economist, Sydney Morning Herald, and BBC News, and have led to numerous accolades such as the Steacie Prize, the McLean Award, the Rutherford Medal, and the Radcliffe Felllowship. He is an award-winning writer whose articles have appeared in the New Scientist, Times Higher Education, and others. He is the author of Strange New Worlds.
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