I was born in rural Georgia, where my dad worked as a country preacher. I was kind of a misfit growing up. In fact, the bigger I got, the more misfit I became. At age 8, I got a little brother, and he…
Jack Heath wrote his debut novel, The Lab, in secondary school and sent it to a publisher at age seventeen. He's now the award-winning author of forty novels for adults and children, including the int…
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Joy…
Laurie L. Dove is an author at Berkley / Penguin Random House, and an award-winning journalist with a master's degree from Harvard University. Her debut novel is MASK OF THE DEER WOMAN.
I am the author of six published novels, my latest being the crime thriller One Dark Night. I am releasing my first work of non-fiction, An Ocean and a Day, in 2026. This is a deeply personal memoir a…
Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, most recently Darling Girls. Sally’s novels have been called “darkly charming” and praised by authors Emily Giffin and Liane Mor…
Park Yeon-mi (Korean: 박연미) is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who escaped from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in …
Asako Yuzuki (柚木 麻子, Yuzuki Asako) is a Japanese writer. She won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers and the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. Asako has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and…
Grace L. Williams is a scholar of feminism and economics who moonlights as a financial reporter and podcast co-host. Whether it's shares of a company or this season's must have, Williams is passionate…
Kate Mildenhall is the author of Skylarking (2016) The Mother Fault (2020) and The Hummingbird Effect ((2023). She lives in Hurstbridge on Wurundjeri lands, with her partner and two children.
Number one internationally bestselling author Dervla McTiernan is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of six novels, including the much-loved Cormac Reilly series and two number 1 bestse…
Victoria Liiv is a writer, reader, nature lover and traveler at heart. She has been traveling through magical worlds since a very young age and wants more than anything to share the wonder with everyo…
Lauren Keegan is a psychologist and author of All The Bees In The Hollows (Affirm Press) which was voted Best Debut Fiction in the 2025 Indie Book Awards and longlisted in the ARA Historical Novel Pri…
Sofia Ajram (he/she) is a Bram Stoker Award-winning metalsmith, writer and editor of queer and speculative fiction. Their debut novella, Coup de Grâce, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievem…
Layla has been writing stories ever since she could pick up a pencil and shape words. The most memorable works of her tween and teen years included a rap version of 'Little Red Riding Hood' and an emb…
K.W. Foster is the author of deliciously haunting and spicy fantasy romances featuring morally grey women and the men (and women) who love them. Originally from the Midwest, she now resides in the Mid…
After a lifetime raising cattle on Queensland’s Granite Belt, my husband and I swapped the bush for the Sunshine Coast of Queensland Australia. I’m an award-winning Australian author who travels as of…
Madeleine's debut novel, The Butterfly Women (29 April 2025, Affirm Press), inspired by her family history, was chosen as Dymocks Fiction Book of the Month. Her writing was shortlisted for The Austr…
Now an author, Jessica Mansour-Nahra was a communications consultant and writer in Brisbane, London and Sydney, before tree-changing to a hamlet in Wiradjuri country, where she wrote her first novel, …
Kate Broadway lives in Melbourne with her husband and enjoys quiet afternoons with a good story—be it a book, movie, or TV series—and a cup of tea. A lifelong dog lover (Western Bulldogs included), sh…
