Rhode Island native Tim Baker moved to Florida in October 2006 and has been writing ever since. His first novel, Living the Dream, was released in 2009 and he has since completed eight more novels. He primarily writes fast-paced crime stories that take place in the seaside community of Flagler Beach, FL.

Julie Elizabeth Powell has published 25 books to date, in a variety of genres and lengths. She is also a contributor to the Mind’s Eye series of anthologies of poetry…

Rana Abdulfattah is a Syrian writer in exile. She grew up in a Damascus suburb in Syria and studied English literature in Damascus and the USA. Her debut poetry collection, Tiger and Clay - Syria Fragments, is part memoir and reminiscence, part meditation and critique.

Wade Stevenson was born in New York City in 1945 and his first book Beds (McCall Publishing Co., 1970) was a poetry best seller. Other books followed, including The Little…

An avid reader of fantasy and science fiction novels all his life, J. Michael Radcliffe published his first novel The Guardian’s Apprentice in 2010. He lives with his family in…

Janet Calhoun spent five years writing her memoir and another five years deciding whether or not to “stand naked” in public by publishing it. Hoping that one revelatory journey might add perspectives that would soften the journeys of others, “standing naked” won out.

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and translator. She writes speculative fiction and poetry, and debuted as a writer in Sweden in the far-off era known as the 1980s. Since 1992 she lives in Canada, and is currently located just outside Vancouver with a husband, two kids, and a very large black dog.

Maria Savva is a lawyer and writer of various genres, including drama, psychological thriller, and family saga. Her keen insight and study of people - via her day job - shows in her stories filled with complex characters, plots, and style. Maria Savva lives in London.

Kim Schultz is a Chicago based author, actor and refugee advocate. In 2009, she traveled to the Middle East as an artist/activist to meet with Iraqi refugees, falling in love with Omar and forever changing her life.

Ronne Troup, daughter of legendary musician Bobby Troup and debutante Cynthia Hare, was handed her mother’s story when she was 35. Thirty year later, she transcribed her mother’s story and published it — it was a labor of love — discovering herself in the process.