Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859)…
Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written n…
A person is not a list of accomplishments, and so I prefer not to introduce myself in that way. It is more accurate to say each of us is a collection of stories. Like others, I have more stories than …
I was born on the Isle of Wight and after attending school there, I trained to be a teacher. I worked for two years in a secondary school in Kent before re-training to teach English as a Foreign Langu…
When the World Trade Center was attacked on 9-11, it was as though the world stood still. It was a day that captured our full attention. Michael Hingson and his Guide Dog Roselle were on the 78th floo…
Bronwyn Rodden was born in Sydney, Australia, but now lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW. She won the Patricia Hackett Prize (for short fiction) and was selected for the first New Poets Program Works…
Tish Harrison Warren is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America. After eight years with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries at Vanderbilt and The University of Texas at Austin, she n…
Suleika Jaouad (pronounced Su-lake-uh Ja-wad) is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, artist, and advocate. She documented her odyssey of illness, healing, and self-discovery in the instant New Y…
Dan Walker is a homesteaders’ son who grew up to become a teacher and a writer. He spent most of his life in Alaska but went to college in Idaho and spent a year in Texas one summer. Dan has over thir…
Iida Turpeinen is a Helsinki-based literary scholar currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. As an author, she is intrigued by the literary potentia…
T.L. Bequette is a criminal defense attorney and award-winning author of psychological thrillers, mysteries, and crime fiction. Based in Lafayette, California, he draws on years of courtroom experienc…
Arthur Byrd is an award-winning author of Southern literary fiction and character-driven literary novels. His work explores themes of memory, loss, moral reckoning, and the quiet work of rebuilding a …
