Authors
Neil Theise is a doctor, researcher, and professor of pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an attending physician at NYU Langone Health. Theise is a global thought leader in the area of theoretical biology, helping define a “post-modern biology.” His work has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, and NPR, among many other outlets. Theise lives in New York City.
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Kristen Leigh Schwarz holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she received the MacDonald Harris Award for Fiction and a travel award from the International Center for Writing and Translation to work in Mexico. Her stories have appeared in the Santa Monica Review, Indicia, The American Literary Review, and St. Ann’s Review, among others. Her story, “Emperor of Umbrellas,” proudly represents Santa Ana in ORANGE COUNTY: A LITERARY FIELD GUIDE, and “Signs and Symptoms” was chosen for the June 2021 issue of One Story. She lives in Los Angeles.
Priya is the author of Vanessa and Her Sister, a New York Times Notable Book, as well as co-author of the London Old Vic musical, Sylvia. She divides her time between Hawaii and London.
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Kira Yarmysh (born 1989) has served as the press secretary to Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny since 2014. Due to her work alongside Navalny, she has been arrested multiple times. After his assassination, she continued her work with his wife, Yulia Navalnaya.
Yarmysh is the author of three novels, Incredible Incidents in Women’s Cell No. 3, Harassment and Just Nearby. Since 2022, her books have been banned in Russia. That same year, she was designated a “foreign agent,” and in 2024, she was added to the official list of “terrorists and extremists.” She is currently living in exile.
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Catherine Raven received her Ph.D. in biology from Montana State University and is a former National Park Ranger at Glacier, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Voyagers, and Yellowstone National Parks. Her natural history essays have appeared in American Scientist, Journal of American Mensa, and Montana Magazine; and her textbook, Forestry: The Green World, was published by Chelsea House. A member of American Mensa and Sigma Xi, she is currently a Professor at South University in Savannah, Georgia.
Mark began his career as a screenwriter, before turning to novels. His first book, Amagansett – a murder mystery set on Long Island in 1947 – won the British Crime Writers’ Association debut Dagger, and became a National Bestseller in the U.S.. His second mystery, The Savage Garden, took 1950s Italy as its setting, and was a No.1 Bestseller in the U.K.. Subsequent crime thrillers have included The Information Officer, set on the island of Malta during World War Two; House of the Hanged (retitled House of the Hunted in the U.S.), based in the south of France in 1935; and Where Dead Men Meet, a chase thriller that carries the reader on a breakneck journey across Europe in 1937, from Paris to Venice. He broke away briefly from the crime genre with Waiting for Doggo, a comedy about the troubled relationship between an advertising executive and a rescue dog.
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Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of eight books, most recently Beowulf: A New Translation, which came out in August, 2020. Her latest novel, The Mere Wife, an adaptation of the Beowulf poem set in suburban America, was named by the Washington Post as one of its Notable Works of Fiction in 2018.
She has written for young adults and adults in a variety of genres and forms. In 2013 she co-edited Unnatural Creatures with Neil Gaiman, an anthology of young adult monster stories. Headley’s short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards, and for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her essays on gender, chronic illness, politics, propaganda, and mythology have been published and covered in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Harvard’s Nieman Storyboard, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by The MacDowell Colony, Arte Studio Ginestrelle, and the Sundance Institute’s Theatre Lab, among other organizations. She’s taught in the master’s program in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and delivered masterclasses and lectures at Oxford University, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Wesleyan Nebraska, Newman University, Stanford, UCSD, and Texas A & M. She was also the McNeely Creative Writer-in-Residence at St. John’s University/The College of St. Benedict in Minnesota in February 2021. She grew up in the high desert of Idaho on a survivalist sled dog ranch, where she spent summers plucking the winter coat from her father’s wolf.
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Patrick Violas was a cowherd on a dairy farm in Fresnay l’Evêque, where he met his wife Francine. He then joined the Lamirault Automobiles group, rising through the ranks until finally becoming Sales Director. In the 80s, when cell phones were just starting to emerge, he founded 5/5, a mobile carrier. After selling the business, he and Francine rekindled their first love – for animals, with their animal refuge, the Tanière.
Jessie Inchauspé is a French biochemist, founder, and international bestselling author. She has devoted her career to translating cutting-edge science into easy tips to help people improve their physical and mental health. Through her books Glucose Revolution and The Glucose Goddess Method, which have sold over 3 million copies in 43 languages, she has reshaped the global conversation around blood sugar. Nine Months That Count Forever, her latest, breaks down the complex topic of pregnancy nutrition. Jessie is the founder of the wildly popular social community @GlucoseGoddess, where she reaches over seven million people across platforms. She holds a BSc in mathematics from King’s College, London, and an MSc in biochemistry from Georgetown University.
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Anne-Gaëlle Huon was born in 1984 in France, and she started writing when she moved to New York in 2014. She has a passion for lists and an affinity for old ladies (especially her grandmother). Her first novel Happiness Has No Wrinkles (2017) tells the story of Pauline, a feisty old lady who finds herself, against her will, in a care home full of secrets. Her subsequent novels, sometimes gleaned from her own family history, all share the same tender and joyful tone, and where hope and resilience triumph. Her two latest novels, Les demoiselles (2020) and its spin-off Ce que les étoiles doivent à la nuit (2021), published by Albin Michel, pay dazzling tribute to the Basque Country, its traditional espadrille sewing, and its gastronomy. Her novels have been awarded numerous prizes (Prix des Lecteurs U, Prix des lecteurs Culture Presse, Grand Prix de l’Innerwheel). She has over one million readers, and she has been published in many countries.
She is currently co-writing an international television series.