Anastasia Aukeman's "Welcome to Painterland"

Anastasia Aukeman is an art historian and curator who teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She has contributed essays to ...

Yvonne Georgina Puig's "A Wife of Noble Character"

Yvonne Georgina Puig grew up in Houston, Texas. She currently lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband, Toben Seymour . About her...

Marc Raboy's "Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World"

Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studie...

Gerald Elias's "Playing with Fire"

A graduate of Yale, Gerald Elias has been a Boston Symphony violinist, Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony since 1988, Adjun...

Eleni N. Gage's "The Ladies of Managua"

Eleni N. Gage 's books include the travel memoir North of Ithaka , which describes her experience living in Lia, the small Greek village...

Erik Storey's "Nothing Short of Dying"

Erik Storey is a former ranch hand, wilderness guide, dogsled musher, and hunter. He spent his childhood summers on his great-grandfather’...

David Haven Blake's "Liking Ike"

David Blake has written extensively on the history of fame. He is the author of Walt Whitman and the Culture of Celebrity (Yale, 2006) an...

Jeff Somers's "The Stringer"

Jeff Somers is the author of the Avery Cates series, The Ustari Cycle, Lifers , and Chum (among many other books) and numerous short stori...

Barry Hankins's "Woodrow Wilson"

Barry Hankins is Professor of History at Baylor University, as well as a Resident Scholar with the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR...

Kodi Scheer's "Midair"

Kodi Scheer teaches writing at the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA. She was awarded the Dzanc Prize for Excellence in Lite...

Tom Bullough's "Addlands"

Tom Bullough grew up on a hill farm in Wales, where he still lives. He has worked as a sawmiller, a music promotor in Zimbabwe, a tractor...

Danny Johnson's "The Last Road Home"

Danny Johnson 's writing follows the tradition of Southern authors whose characters most often represent the disenfranchised in society,...

Yoav Alon's "The Shaykh of Shaykhs"

Yoav Alon is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialis...

Ellen Wittlinger's "Local Girl Swept Away"

Ellen Wittlinger is the author of over a dozen YA and middle-grade novels. Her novel Hard Love won both a Printz Honor Award and a Lambda ...

Mignon F. Ballard's "Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angel"

Mignon Franklin Ballard , an accomplished mystery writer, lives in Calhoun, Georgia. She is the author of several acclaimed mysteries, inclu...

Jacqueline Couti's "Dangerous Creole Liaisons"

Jacqueline Couti is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literat...

Heather Young's "The Lost Girls"

After a decade practicing law and another raising kids, Heather Young decided to finally write the novel she’d always talked about writing....

James Abel's "Cold Silence"

James Abel is the pseudonym for Bob Reiss, an accomplished author and journalist who has written extensively on the Arctic. He live...

Ashley Prentice Norton's "If You Left"

Ashley Prentice Norton is the author of If You Left and the critically acclaimed novel The Chocolate Money . She is a graduate of Exeter,...

Gareth Dale's "Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left"

Gareth Dale is senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Brunel University, London. His books include Karl Polanyi: The Li...

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai's "Northern Character"

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai is Assistant Professor of history at Angelo State University. He is co-editor (with Lorien Foote) of So Conceived ...

Shawna Yang Ryan's "Green Island"

Shawna Yang Ryan is a former Fulbright scholar and the author of Water Ghosts and Green Island . She teaches in the Creative Writing Progr...

Bill Broun's "Night of the Animals"

Bill Broun was born in Los Angeles to an English machinist and an American nurse. He was educated at University College London and Miami Un...

Bill Loehfelm's "Let the Devil Out"

Bill Loehfelm is the author of Doing the Devil’s Work , The Devil in Her Way , The Devil She Knows , Bloodroot , and Fresh Kills . He lives...

Catherine Egan's "Julia Vanishes"

Catherine Egan grew up in Vancouver, Canada – a beautiful city nobody in her right mind would ever leave, but leave she did, and you ma...

Janice Warman's "The World Beneath"

Janice Warman is a South African–born journalist whose career spans the Observer , the Guardian , the Spectator , the Daily Mail , and the ...

Sharon Potts's "Someone Must Die"

Sharon Potts is the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of five psychological thrillers, including In Their Blood —winner of the Ben...