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PAULINE STEINHORN enjoys telling other people’s stories. Throughout her career as an award-winning filmmaker and writer, she has written and directed documentaries for PBS, Maryland Public Television, Sesame Street, Discovery Channel, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and Moment...

Rebecca Gould Baeurle has spent a lifetime helping others chase their missions — now she’s chasing one of her own. After a successful career in the nonprofit world spanning education, healthcare, disability inclusion and community- building, she’s traded grant proposal for plot twists with The Secrets Trilogy. Originally from a small town in North Jersey, Rebecca earned a degree in Communications...

Colette Lafia is an award-winning writer, retreat leader, and spiritual director living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has spent decades guiding individuals into deeper contemplative practice through workshops, retreats, and one-on-one spiritual direction. A former school librarian and regular presenter for Spiritual Directors International, she brings a rare blend of poetic sensib...

Peter Gribble is a writer and a lifelong student of history whose work explores the intersections of knowledge, power, and the human condition. His fantasy series, “The City of the Magicians,” is set in a civilization that rejects traditional warfare. The series examines how intellect, psychological strategy, and telepathic abilities can be both a society’s greatest strength and its most dangerous...

Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Jennie Byrne (Dr. B) is changing that conversation. In her book “ADHD in Professionals: Embracing Your Brain,” she reveals why ADHD is often missed in leaders, why stigma runs deep, and what actually helps. Dr. B is a refreshingly candid guest who blends real patient stories with sharp insights on leadership, gender differences, and the future of ADHD care. She...

Sharon Agar grew up in Hampshire, England, and later moved to the US to attend Yale. After business school, she worked in a variety of fields including both finance and not-for-profit. Her life took a major turn when she was diagnosed with a potentially fatal lung disease and, over the next two years, underwent two lung transplant operations. Her debut novel Out of Options , a business thriller, w...

A San Francisco Bay Area poet, Veronica Kornberg is a recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, and the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review , New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Catamaran, Indiana Review, Plume, Calyx, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Veronica co-founded a long-running poetry reading club on the Peninsula and is...

John Fadely lived in Asia for 30 years, including practicing law for 25 years in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, and wrote Before Leaving the Island , winner of the 2025 Trail to Table Book Award in Poetry, as part of a midlife journey. Before Leaving the Island was published in April 2026 and is available for purchase.  Grab a copy Before Leaving the Island - https://a.co/d/0hQWJV2C

John Winn Miller is an award-winning investigative reporter (Pulitzer finalist), foreign correspondent, editor, newspaper publisher, screenwriter, movie producer, and novelist. He was named to the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2026. The Lexington native also produced four indie films, including Band of Robbers, written and directed by Adam and Aaron Nee. Miller has taught media literacy clas...

MARY KEATING is a lawyer, disability advocate, and three-time Pushcart Prize nominated poet. After a car accident at fifteen changed the trajectory of her life, she went on to Yale Law School, worked as an attorney at IBM, founded her own law practice—twice—and was appointed by Governors Jodi Rell and Dannel Malloy to serve on, and later chair, the Connecticut State Rehabilitation Council. Keating...

Kenneth R. Lakritz, Ph. D. , author of Remembering Self: Seaons of the Soul Rediscovered through Mystical Experience and Depth Psychology is a licensed clinical psychologist with four decades of experience. Dr. Lakritz’s career has taken a winding path from clinical neuropsychology through his current dedication to long-term depth psychotherapy with an alchemical, Jungian orientation. He has devot...

Jason Irwin is the author of three books of poetry: The History of Our Vagrancies (Main Street Rag, 2020), A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost, 2016) and Watering the Dead, winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award (Pavement Saw Press, 2008). He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, writer Jen Ashburn. These Fragments I Have Shored is his debut work of nonfiction. Grab a copy of These Fragments I Have Sh...

Stacy Lee is an award-winning author from New England, best known for her Nubble Light Series and Prickly Pen Investigation Series . Her novel Operation Superglue won first place in Private Investigator Fiction at The BookFest and was featured on a billboard in Times Square, New York City. Stacy is also the Director of Client Education and Marketing at Legacy Care Law Firm, her family’s business,...

Don Schechter is an entrepreneur, filmmaker, writer, and professor at Tufts University. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Ascendants , a speculative sci-fi thriller that explores the intersection of humanity and technology. The story, which Don describes as one that has been “chasing him for years,” serves as the cornerstone of a multi-platform universe. The world of the novel is further...

Ralph DeFalco is a historian, writer, and national security intelligence professional with a career that spanned five decades and five continents. Retired from a 25-year career in the rank of Captain in the U.S.Navy, he also served as a civilian intelligence professional on the Pentagon staff of the Director of Naval Intelligence. He is a distinguished graduate and former faculty member of the Nat...

William Bernhardt is the award-winning author of more than sixty books, including the bestselling Ben Kincaid novels and the Daniel Pike legal thriller series. His latest release, “The Superman Wars,” continues his tradition of captivating storytelling that blends sharp legal insight with deeply human stakes. Bernhardt’s body of work also includes historical fiction, poetry, young adult novels, an...

Lori Carlson-Hijuelos is an editor, translator, and writer whose career began at the Americas Society in New York City. She is the anthologist of many books, most notable among them Cool Salsa and Red Hot Salsa . She is also the author of three novels, including The Sunday Tertulia . Oscar Hijuelos was one of America’s finest novelists of the late 20th century. He was the first American of Latino...

Ryan Pote is a twelve-year veteran Navy helicopter pilot who was part of a joint interagency special operations task force, deployed throughout Central and South America. He was medically separated after sustaining injuries during an emergency landing. Ryan currently works for the Department of Defense. Before the Navy, he worked as a scuba diving instructor in Hawaii and as a microbiology lab tec...

Rob Hart is the author of The Medusa Protocol, Assassins Anonymous, The Paradox Hotel , The Warehouse , the Ash McKenna crime series, and is the co-author of Scott Free with James Patterson. He’s worked as a book publisher, a reporter, a political communications director, and a commissioner for the City of New York. Hart lives in Jersey City. Grab a copy of Three Hitmen and a Baby- https://a.co/d/...

Alexandra Grabbe began her career in Paris, greeting listeners each evening with her signature line, “Good Evening, Paris!”. As one of the most popular FM hosts in the city, she connected French audiences to the latest American music while honing her lifelong love of writing. Even as a child, Alexandra wrote and staged skits with her brother – an early sign of the creative spirit that would define...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ward Larsen is an eight-time winner of the Florida Book Award. He has also been nominated for the Macavity Award. A former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Larsen flew twenty-two missions in Operation Desert Storm. He has served as a federal law enforcement officer and as an airline captain, and he is a trained aircraft accident investigator. Grab a cop...

In her novel Dominion: Ascension , D. A. imagines a world where women rule, men are controlled, and technology quietly shapes truth, identity, and control behind the scenes. What makes Murray especially compelling is her real-world experience as a tech executive. She understands how systems are designed, how algorithms influence behavior, and how easily progress can blur into control. As debates a...

JOANNE REDDING grew up in Brooklyn and eventually made her way to Manhattan, then the suburbs of Westchester County, and finally Greenwich, CT. She holds a bachelor’s degree in French and a master’s in finance from New York University and is a certified Master Gardener with a degree in landscape design. Over her career, she has worked at an airport and an engineering firm, spent over fifteen years...

Aaron Poochigian is a poet, classics scholar, and translator who lives and writes in New York City. His work has appeared in such newspapers and journals as The Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, and Poetry Magazine . He's the author of Four Walks in Central Park: A Poetic Guide to the Park , and his translations include Stung with Love (Penguin UK). His new translation is Marcus Aurel...

LAUREN C. JOHNSON holds a B.S. in Journalism from Emerson College and an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. Her work has appeared in such publications as Orion and The Rumpus. She is the co-host of Babylon Salon, one of the Bay Area’s longest-running literary and performance series, and the co-founder of Club Chicxulub, a journal and reading series featuring speculative fiction auth...