Maria Espinosa is an award-winning novelist. She was born on the East Coast but has lived in California most of her adult life. For the past eight years she has lived in Albuquerque. Many years ago she self-published two chapbooks of poetry, Love Feelings and Night Music. She mailed them to Anais Nin who responded. “They are… direct and rich in feeling—rare today— /Don’t let people tell you anything is too personal. I was accused of that for twenty years. Espinosa’s later publications include four novels: Dark Plums, Longing, Incognito: Journey of a Secret Jew, and Dying Unfinished In addition, she published a critically acclaimed translation of George Sand’s classic autobiographical novel, Lelia. Her latest novel, Suburban Souls is forthcoming in 2020 with Tailwind Press.
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Carolyn Porter
Carolyn Porter is a graphic designer, type designer, and author of ‘Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate’ (Skyhorse, 2017). Carolyn lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota with her husband and a gigantic black lab.
Theresa Kaminski
Theresa Kaminski holds a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of a trilogy of nonfiction history books on American women in the Philippine Islands during World War II, the most recent of which is Angels of the Underground. Theresa’s biography, Dr. Mary Walker’s Civil War, is forthcoming from Lyons Press, and she is currently completing the first full-length biography of America’s favorite cowgirl, Dale Evans.
Christina Lane
Christina Lane is the author of three books, including the recent Phantom Lady: HollywoodProducer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock, which Molly Haskell has called “a revelation” and “a riveting read.” In addition, she has written numerous articles on classical Hollywood stars, film history, and contemporary women directors. Chair of the cinematic arts department at the University of Miami, she makes frequent speaking appearances and has provided commentary to such media outlets as NPR, Air Mail, and the Daily Mail.
Christina Clancy
Christina Clancy is the author of the forthcoming novel The Second Home, out June 2020, St. Martin’s Press. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Sun Magazine, Glimmer Train Stories, Hobart, Pleiades, and on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Byron Lane
Byron Lane’s debut novel is called A STAR IS BORED, about a celebrity assistant struggling to manage his eccentric and hilarious movie star boss, inspired in part by Lane’s time as assistant to actress Carrie Fisher. Available 7/28 from Henry Holt.
Laurie Wallmark
Award-winning author Laurie Wallmark has written picture book biographies of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in fields ranging from computer science to mathematics to astronomy. Her books have earned multiple starred trade reviews, been chosen as Junior Library Guild Selections, and received awards such as Outstanding Science Trade Book, Cook Prize Honor, AAAS/Subaru Prize Longlist, and Parents’ Choice Gold Medal. Laurie has an MFA in Writing from VCFA. She is a former software engineer and computer science professor.
Gretchen Anthony
GRETCHEN ANTHONY is the author of Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners, which was a Midwestern Connections Pick and a best books pick by Amazon, BookBub, PopSugar, and the New York Post. Her forthcoming book, The Kids Are Gonna Ask, will be released on July 28, 2020. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Medium, and The Write Life, among others. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.
Steven Rowley
Steven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016 and The Editor, named by NPR and Esquire Magazine as one of the Best Books of 2019. His fiction has been published in nineteen languages. Lily and the Octopus is being developed as a feature film by Amazon Studios. The Editor was optioned by Twentieth Century for director Greg Berlanti. Steven has worked as a freelance writer, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Originally from Portland, Maine, he is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Palm Springs.
Dallas Woodburn
Dallas Woodburn is the author of the short story collection Woman, Running Late, in a Dress and the novel The Best Week That Never Happened. A former John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing and a current SF Writers Grotto Fellow, her work has been honored with the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award, the international Glass Woman Prize, second place in the American Fiction Prize, and four Pushcart Prize nominations. She is also the host of the popular book-lovers podcast “Overflowing Bookshelves” and founder of the organization Write On! Books that empowers youth through reading and writing endeavors. Dallas lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her amazing husband and adorable daughter.