Blair Sorrel is an author, innovator, and animal lover. She was Free Time’s “Dollarwise Dilettante” columnist, Together Dating Service’s matchmaker, and New York Blood Services’ apheresis recruiter. She founded StreetZaps to protect dogs and people from stray voltage and was the first community representative invited by Con Edison to their annual Jodie S. Lane Stray Voltage Detection, Mitigation, and Prevention National Conference. Her memoir is A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving. Learn more at rockingtributes.com

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Kate Russo, author of Super Host, grew up in Maine but now divides her time between Maine and the UK. She has an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, and while living in London, she worked with the theatre group, Love Bites, who presented two of her short plays (“The Blind” and “Bernie's Night Off”) at the Calder Bookshop Theatre. She exhibits widely in the United States and England.

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Lisa Borders is the author of the novels Cloud Cuckoo Land, chosen by Pat Conroy as the winner of River City Publishing’s Fred Bonnie Award and a Massachusetts Book Awards honoree, and The Fifty-First State. A frequent humor contributor at McSweeney’s, her essays and short fiction have appeared in Past Ten, The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Black Warrior Review and other journals. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Somerville Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and residencies at the Millay Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Blue Mountain Center and St. Nell’s.

Lisa taught for many years at Boston’s GrubStreet, where she founded the Novel Generator program and co-founded the Novel Incubator program. She currently teaches her own Novel Reactor workshops and does private manuscript consulting.

After growing up largely in Central Jersey – a part of New Jersey whose very existence is the topic of much debate – Lisa moved to the Boston area many years ago and now lives in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two rescue cats.

Lisa’s new novel, Last Night at the Disco, will be published by Regal House on October 7, 2025.

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Dr. Jerry C. Drake is a career civil servant, former professor of history, all-around amateur detective, with a wide-ranging educational background to include degrees in anthropology and United States history. This is his first foray into true crime. His short stories have appeared in CLASH Books anthologies; Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath and Walk Hand In Hand Into Extinction: Stories Inspired by True Detective.

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Diane Christiansen has had a five-decade career as an actress, dancer, author, director, producer, writer, costume designer, and studio owner. As a professional showgirl she danced from Las Vegas to the Bahamas to Paris, from the famed Rudas Dancers to the Lido. She's now a top acting coach with students on tv shows like Euphoria, This is Us, and Stranger Things, and in countless popular movies. Her new book is The Last Real Showgirl: My Sequined ’70’s Onstage. Learn more at: http://www.thelastrealshowgirl.com

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Gina Goldhammer studied English and Creative Writing at Syracuse University, has a master’s degree in literature from Harvard, and after graduation worked briefly on Wall Street and at US News & World Report magazine. For the next twenty years, she was the personal editor of the former US Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger. Gina’s father was involved in Cold War geopolitics during the Cold War, attaining prominence in 1961 as the highest-ranking defector from a communist country—a story she is working into a novel. Gina lives between London and Florida.

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Claire Isenthal lives in the suburbs of Indianapolis with her husband, their soon-to-be three children, and their mutt. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Purdue University and worked in Big Tech for almost a decade before leaving her career in digital advertising. Her first novel, The Rising Order, was an Amazon bestseller. The New Order is her second novel and the final installment in her thriller duology. Claire is an International Thriller Writers (ITW) member and has a Substack for new authors — Rising Talent, Earning Your Space in the Publishing Industry.

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David Galef is an irresponsible eclectic who writes in too many directions for his own good. Author of over a dozen books, he’s published three novels with The Permanent Press: Flesh, which got half a page in The New York Times Book Review and was translated into Russian. His second, Turning Japanese, acquired a cult readership in Osaka. His third, How to Cope with Suburban Stress, was a Book Sense choice, was named by Kirkus as one of the Best

Books of the Year, and was optioned for a film. His fourth, Where I Went Wrong, is coming out with Regal House in May 2025. He has two short story collections out, Laugh Track from the University Press of Mississippi and My Date with Neanderthal Woman, winner of Dzanc’s inaugural short story collection award. He’s also published the children’s books The Little Red Bicycle with Random House and Tracks with William Morrow. His two books of poetry are Flaws from David Roberts Books and Kanji Poems from Word Poetry. His critical study The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters was published by Penn State Press.

Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook came out from Columbia University Press and is now in its seventh printing. Barnes and Noble published his edition of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. He co-edited the short story anthology 20 over 60 and edited the essay anthology Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading (Wayne State University Press). His translations include Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom, from Tuttle.

A co-founder of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Mississippi, he’s now a professor of English and creative writing program director at Montclair State University. He’s the editor in chief of Vestal Review, the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet.

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