Douglas Westerbeke es un bibliotecario que reside en Ohio y trabaja en una de las bibliotecas más grandes de Estados Unidos. Durante la última década, formó parte del jurado local del Premio Literario…
Christina Estes es una reportera galardonada que ha dedicado más de 20 años a cubrir temas de delincuencia, políticas públicas y economía en Phoenix, Arizona. Sus reportajes se han escuchado en la…
Tras dedicarse a estudiar astrofísica, graduarse en Derecho y abandonar su carrera legal para escribir libros, Sulari Gentill cultiva trufas negras francesas en su granja, en las faldas de las…
Hijo de inmigrantes en Monterey Park, California, Justinian Huang estudió inglés en Pomona College y guionismo en la Universidad de Oxford. Actualmente reside en Los Ángeles con Swagger, un perro…
Sophie Wan es originaria del Área de la Bahía y ahora lucha contra los inviernos en Filadelfia. Se graduó de la Universidad de California en Berkeley y pasa demasiado tiempo redactando correos…
Shubnum Khan es una autora y artista sudafricana. Sus escritos han aparecido en The New York Times; McSweeney's Quarterly; HuffPost; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Sunday Times (Londres); Marie Claire; y…
Izzy Wasserstein es una mujer trans queer que enseña escritura y literatura. Nació y creció en Kansas y obtuvo su Maestría en Bellas Artes en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Nuevo México. Es…
Rebecca Serle es la autora superventas del New York Times de Un verano italiano, En cinco años, La lista de la cena y las novelas juveniles Al filo de la caída y Cuando eras mía. Serle también…
Yangsze Choo es la autora superventas del New York Times de La Novia Fantasma (ahora una serie original de Netflix) y El Tigre de la Noche, una de las favoritas del Club de Lectura de Reese's y una de…
Kacen Callender es el autor más vendido y galardonado de múltiples novelas para niños, adolescentes y adultos, incluyendo la ganadora del Premio Stonewall Honor Book, Felix Ever After, y la ganadora…
In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022, Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...
In 1974, author and soon to be screenwriter and director Nicholas Meyer published his first novel: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. It was a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that not only covered the foiling of a kidnapping plot, but famously chronicled Holmes’ recovery from addiction, with the help of Sigmund Freud. Over the...
