Sophie van Llewyn is the author of Bottled Goods, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019. Sophie also writes flash fiction, memoir, short stories, and she has recently finished a historical novel set during WW2.

Amy Poeppel grew up in Dallas, Texas. She graduated from Wellesley College and worked as an actress in the Boston area. While in Boston, she also got her M.A. in Teaching from Simmons College. Her novels are Small Admissions, Limelight

Lia Louis lives in the United Kingdom with her partner and three young children. Before raising a family, she worked as a freelance copywriter and proofreader. She is the author of Somewhere Close to Happy and Dear Emmie Blue.

Caroline Mackenzie is a freelance translator living in Trinidad. She was shortlisted for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and her nonfiction articles are regularly featured in regional magazines MACO People and MACO Caribbean Living. Her short fiction has been

Lee Conell was awarded The Story Prize's Spotlight Award. Her short fiction has received the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award and appears in the Oxford American, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere.

Diana Clarke is a New Zealander who now lives in Salt Lake City. Her work has been published in Glimmer Train, The Rumpus, Black Warrior Review, The Master's Review, and Hobart, among other places. THIN GIRLS is her first novel.

Talia Hibbert is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who lives in a bedroom full of books. Supposedly, there is a world beyond that room, but she has yet to drum up enough interest to investigate.

Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, Julie Clark grew up reading books on the beach while everyone else surfed. She now lives in Santa Monica, California with her two young sons and a golden doodle with poor impulse control.

Catherine Adel West was born and raised in Chicago, IL where she currently resides. She graduated with both her Bachelors and Masters of Science in Journalism from the University of Illinois - Urbana.

Jessica Barry is a pseudonym for an American author who grew up in a small town in Massachusetts and was raised on a steady diet of library books and PBS.

Sara Desai has been a lawyer, radio DJ, marathon runner, historian, bouncer, and librarian.

Jennifer Chiaverini is the New York Times bestselling author of several acclaimed historical novels and the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, as well as six collections of quilt patterns inspired by her books.