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Send us Fan Mail Stuart Nadler is the author of Wise Men, The Inseparables, and Rooms for Vanishing, and the short story collection The Book of Life. His work has been named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Amazon, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writer selection, a finalist for the Mark Twain Prize for the American Voice, and has been translated across Europe. He is a recipient of the...

Send us Fan Mail A native of Traverse City, Michigan, STEPHANIE CARPENTER is the author of Missing Persons: Stories , which won the 2017 Press 53 Award in Short Fiction; her work has also appeared in journals including Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, and Witness . She's an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan Technological University. Moral Treatment is her debut novel.

Send us Fan Mail Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of More or Less Maddy , Still Alice , Left Neglected , Love Anthony , Inside the O’Briens , and Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar–winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, a...

Send us Fan Mail Jordyn Taylor is the former deputy digital editor at Men’s Health magazine and the award-winning author of the young adult novels The Paper Girl of Paris, Don't Breathe a Word, and The Revenge Game . She is also an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Jordyn was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and now lives in New...

Send us Fan Mail Kim (Freilich) Dower ( City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood from October 2016 – October 2018) has published six highly acclaimed collections of poetry all from Red Hen Press. Her most recent book, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria , was called “witty, sultry and thoughtful” by the Washington Post, and her bestselling, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mo...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Soffer is the author of This Is a Love Story and Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots . She grew up in New York City, attended Connecticut College, and earned her MFA at Hunter College. Her work has appeared in Granta , The New York Times , Real Simple , Saveur , The Wall Street Journal , Vogue , and on NPR’s Selected Shorts . She teaches creative writing to small groups and in...

Send us Fan Mail Philip Kenney is an author and psychotherapist. His most recent work is a novel entitled, The Mercy Dialogues . That work examines the power of dialogue, in the service of love, to bridge seemingly impossible divisions between people. Prior to that, in 2022, his chapbook of haiku entitled, Only This Step , was published by Finishing Line Press. In 2018, his first non-fiction book,...

Send us Fan Mail Rachel Kaplan, MA, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist with a thriving practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Creator and host of the acclaimed podcast Healing Feeling Sh*t Show , she is active on a variety of social media channels and has published multiple features in Common Ground. Kaplan has studied yoga, meditation, and hands-on healing practices in India and Nepal, earned a...

Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is the author of Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality & Spirit , now in its second edition; the novel Hannah, Delivered ; a collection of personal essays, On the Threshold:  Home, Hardwood, and Holiness ; the chapbook, A Map to Mercy , due out winter 2025; and three books on writing: Writing the Sacred Journey:  The Art and Practice of...

Send us Fan Mail Kate Winkler Dawson is a seasoned documentary producer, podcaster, and true-crime historian whose work has appeared in The New York Times , WCBS News and ABC News Radio, “PBS NewsHour,” and “Nightline.” She is the creator of three hit podcasts (BB has about 1.5 million downloads a month): “Tenfold More Wicked” and “Wicked Words,” and the cohost of the “Buried Bones” podcast on the...

Send us Fan Mail Nancy Slonim Aronie has been a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She was a Visiting Writer at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, wrote a monthly column in McCall’s magazine and was the recipient of the Eye of The Beholder Artist in Residence award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Nancy won teacher of the year award for all three years sh...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Kenower will be hosting an in-person Fearless Writing Retreat January 26-31 in Portland, OR. Space is limited! Hope to see you there: Bill's website: https://www.williamkenower.com/ Retreat website: https://www.portlandretreathouse.com/fearless-writing-with-bill-kenower

Send us Fan Mail GARY GOLDSTEIN is an award-winning writer for film, TV, and the theatre, with  more than 30 produced screen and stage credits. His first novel, the romantic  comedy The Last Birthday Party , won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Fiction. Gary's second novel, the family drama The Mother I Never Had , was named one of the "Must-Read Books of Fall 2022"...

Send us Fan Mail Since coming through Clarion West in 2005, Cat Rambo’s 300+ fiction publications have included stories in Asimov’s , Clarkesworld Magazine , and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , and frequently appear in year’s best of collections. They work across genre, writing literary, thriller, science fiction, slipstream, fantasy, magic realism, historical, and humor with fluid e...

Send us Fan Mail Georgia Jeffries is a writer of Emmy Award winning drama and critically acclaimed noir fiction. Honored with multiple Writers Guild Awards, Golden Globes and the Humanitas Prize, her work in film has been praised by the Los Angeles Times as “standing ovation television.” The Los Angeles Review of Books described her short stories in the national anthologies, Odd Partners and The L...

Send us Fan Mail Jan Gangsei is an award-winning author of books for young adults and tweens. Her debut YA thriller, Zero Day, was named to several state award lists and was one of Bank Street’s Best Books of the Year. She’s also penned several middle-grade books, including Project Me 2.0, The Wild Bunch, as well as series fiction under various pen names commissioned by book packagers and publishe...

Send us Fan Mail LILLY DANCYGER is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship (2024), which Leslie Jamison called "fiercely felt and finely etched;" and the memoir Negative Space (2021) , which was selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn It Down (2019), a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Adam Plantinga’s first book, 400 Things Cops Know , was nominated for an Agatha Award and won the 2015 Silver Falchion award for best nonfiction crime reference. It was hailed as “truly excellent” by author Lee Child and deemed “the new Bible for crime writers” by The Wall Street Journal . His second book, also nonfiction, is Police Craft . Plantinga is currently a sergeant with t...

Send us Fan Mail KIRBY LARSON is the acclaimed author of many books for young people, including the 2007 Newbery Honor Book Hattie Big Sky ; Dash , winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Duke ; Liberty ; Code Word Courage ; Audacity Jones to the Rescue , and Audacity Jones Steals the Show , and the new Shermy and Shake chapter book series, to name a few.  QUINN WYATT has lived wi...

Send us Fan Mail Cherry Lou Sy is a writer and playwright originally from the Philippines and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, where she has been an adjunct lecturer in the English and American Studies departments. Cherry is also a teacher with PEN America’s DREAMing Out Loud...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Bridgeman’s debut novel has it all – characters you fall in love with, a plot that keeps you racing from page to page, twists that leave you dumbfounded and thrilled, a satisfying conclusion, a final wish when you close the book that you could start all over again. Fortunate Son, by Andrew Bridgeman (Mission Point Press, September 24, 2024), a “propulsive, brilliantly execu...

Send us Fan Mail Sebastian Smee is an art critic for the Washington Post and the author of "Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism" (Norton) and “The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art” (Random House), which was translated into a dozen languages. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism while at the Boston Globe in 2011, after be...

Send us Fan Mail As a mythopoeic scholar, Nadia Salem researches mythic structures in narrative throughout literature and film. By understanding mythology’s influence in creating classics, bestsellers, and blockbusters, she studies cross-cultural, genre-bending, marginalized stories for popular and political impact. Nadia has a doctorate in Creative Writing and has taught mythic structure at Georg...

Send us Fan Mail David Rocklin is the author of The Luminist and Foreward LGBTQIA award-winning The Night Language . He also wrote The Write Formula: Twelve Weeks From Concept To Completion , a craft book which accompanies his editorial and book coaching services. He hosts and curates “Roar Shack,” a long-running Los Angeles reading series, and has established a writers’ retreat based in Idyllwild...

Send us Fan Mail Molly Giles is an award-winning fiction writer. Her first collection of stories, ROUGH TRANSLATIONS won the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction, the Boston Globe Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers award. Four subsequent collections—CREEK WALK, BOTHERED, ALL THE WRONG PLACES, and WIFE WITH KNIFE, have also won awards, including the Small Press Best Fiction Award, the Cali...