Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award. Her lyric essay So Devilish a Fire won the Atlas Review chapbook contest. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the

Rachel Hawkins is the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books for young readers, and her work has been translated in over a dozen countries. She studied gender and sexuality in Victorian literature at Auburn University and currently lives

Jennifer Robson is the bestselling author of Somewhere in France, After the War is Over and Moonlight Over Paris. She holds a doctorate from Saint Antony’s College, University of Oxford. She lives in Toronto with her husband and young children.

Denise N. Wheatley is a lover of happily-ever-afters and the art of storytelling. She is an RWA member and received a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois.

Sophie Cousens writes romantic comedies. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a TV producer in London for more than twelve years, working on shows such as The Graham Norton Show, Russell Howard's Good News, and Big Brother.

Halley Sutton lives in Playa del Rey and spends her free time chasing Hollywood noir trivia. THE LADY UPSTAIRS, her first novel, is forthcoming from Putnam in 2020.

Emily Schultz is the co-founder of Joyland Magazine. Her newest novel, Little Threats, is forthcoming from GP Putnam's Sons. She lives in Brooklyn where she is a producer with the indie media company Heroic Collective.

Susie Yang was born in China and came to the United States as a child. After receiving her doctorate of pharmacy from Rutgers, she launched a tech startup in San Francisco. She has studied creative writing at Tin House and

Megan Rosenbloom is a librarian with a research interest in the history of medicine and rare books. She is a member of the Anthropodermic Book Project, a multi-disciplinary team scientifically testing alleged human skin books around the world to verify

Aimee Molloy’s debut novel, The Perfect Mother, was a New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her family.

Alix E. Harrow is an ex-historian with lots of opinions and excessive library fines, currently living in Kentucky with her husband and their semi-feral children. She won a Hugo for her short fiction and has been nominated for the Nebula,

Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning, New York Times, USA Today, Irish Times and international bestselling author. Hazel’s new historical novel, set in China during WW2