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Michael Seth Starr covered television at the New York Post as a reporter, col
Erin Crosby Eckstine is an author of speculative historical fiction, personal essays, and anything else she's in the mood for.
Chi-ming Yang, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in histories of race, empire, and East-West cultural exchanges.
Former library school lecturer and public librarian Cindy Mediavilla is currently an author and independent scholar who retired from both the California State Library and the UCLA Department of Information Studi
Kate Maruyama was raised on books and weaned on movies in a small New England town.
Ava Morgyn grew up falling in love with all the wrong characters in all the wrong stories, then studied English Writing & Rhetoric at St. Edward's University.
Karen Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie, which won a 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize
After being hurled into the culinary limelight on BBC's Masterchef show, Orlando Murrin became editor of BBC Good Food magazine before setting up a gastronomic guesthouse in the southwest of France.
Arnold Hylen (1908–1987) trained at the Chouinard Art Institute, and found work as a photographer for the Fluor Corporation, where he worked from the early 1940s into the 1970s.









