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

Wendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels All Is Not Forgotten, Emma In the Night, The Night Before and Don’t Look For Me. Her novels have been translated into 23 foreign languages

Susan Abulhawa is a novelist, poet, essayist, scientist, mother, and activist. Her debut novel Mornings in Jenin translated into 30 languages, is considered a classic in Anglophile Palestinian literature.

After a career in bookselling and publishing, Annie Lyons published five books in the U.K., including the bestselling Not Quite Perfect. When not working on her novels, she teaches creative writing. She lives in south-east London with her husband and

Alexandra Joel is a former editor of the Australian edition of Harper's Bazaar and of Portfolio, Australia's first magazine for working women. She is a keen student of art, fashion, history and politics and is exceedingly fond of Paris.

Peace Adzo Medie is a Ghanaian writer and Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol in England. Prior to that she was a Research Fellow at the University of Ghana. She has published several short

Suzanne Park is a Korean-American writer who was born and raised in Tennessee. Suzanne graduated from Columbia University and received an MBA degree from UCLA. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, female offspring, and a sneaky rat

Gill was born in Scotland and grew up there, apart from an eventful year at school in the US when she was ten. She studied Medicine at Glasgow University, then English Literature and History (she was a student for a