Jaime Clarke's "Garden Lakes"

Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is a founding editor of the literary m...

Laura Williams McCaffrey's "Marked"

Laura Williams McCaffrey is author of Marked , Water Shaper , and Alia Waking . She is on faculty at Solstice, an MFA in Creative Writing P...

Brendan Jones's "The Alaskan Laundry"

Raised in Philadelphia, Brendan Jones took the Greyhound west at the age of 19, ending up in Sitka, Alaska. He graduated from Oxford Univ...

Hilary Green's "Educational Reconstruction"

Hilary N. Green is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama. Born in Bost...

Brenda Janowitz's "The Dinner Party"

Brenda Janowitz is the author of five novels, including The Dinner Party . Her work has also appeared in the New York Times , the Washingto...

Leila Meacham's "Titans"

Leila Meacham is a writer and former teacher who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of the bestselling novels Roses and Tumble...

Stephanie Kate Strohm's "The Taming of the Drew"

Stephanie Kate Strohm is the author of Pilgrims Don’t Wear Pink and the Confederates Don't Wear Couture . Here Strohm dreamcasts an ad...

Howard Blum's "The Last Goodnight"

Howard Blum is the author of New York Times bestsellers including Dark Invasion , the Edgar Award–winner American Lightning , as well as W...

Howard Means's "67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence"

Howard Means is the author or coauthor of many books, including Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story , the first biograp...

Christopher Morgan Jones's "The Searcher"

Chris Morgan Jones worked for eleven years at the world’s largest business intelligence agency, and has advised Middle Eastern governments,...

Karen Odden's "A Lady in the Smoke"

Karen Odden received her PhD in English literature from New York University. She has contributed essays and chapters to books and journ...

Alex Gordon's "Jericho"

Kristine Smith is the author of the Jani Kilian series and other science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories under her own name. A...

Billie Livingston's "The Crooked Heart of Mercy"

Billie Livingston is the award-winning author of four novels, a collection of short stories, and a poetry collection. Her novel One Good H...

Lucinda Riley's "The Storm Sister"

Lucinda Riley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid House , The Girl on the Cliff , The Lavender Garden , The Midnight Ro...

Tessa Arlen's "Death Sits Down to Dinner"

Tessa Arlen , the daughter of a British diplomat, had lived in or visited her parents in Singapore, Cairo, Berlin, the Persian Gulf, B...