Authors
Scott Eden is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has focused on crime, corruption, injustice, business, science, technology, and the dark side of sports. He’s written for ESPN The Magazine, GQ, Wired, The Atavist, Inc., The Believer, and many other publications, and his stories have been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing and in The Believer’s best-of collection, Read Hard. He is the author of Touchdown Jesus (Simon & Schuster, 2005).
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Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn who descends from the first Mormons to occupy the West. Her memoir, Trespass, received the Orion Book Award and the Colorado Book Award. Her second book, Desert Cabal, is a feminist response to Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, and during lockdown, Pam Houston and Irvine coauthored the epistolary Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place. Irvine’s essays have appeared in both The Best American Science & Nature Writing and The Best American Food Writing, as well as Orion, Outside, High Country News, Lit Hub, and Backpacker. She lives and writes on a remote mesa in Colorado.
Sharanya Murali was born in West Bengal, India. She is a recipient of the London Writers Award for literary fiction (2021), a graduate of the Tin House Writers’ Workshop (2022), and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme (2022-23). She lives and writes in London.
Adèle Bréau is the author of eight novels, including the bestellers Frangines (Sisters) and L’Heure des femmes (The Time for Women), winner several prizes, including the Prix de of the Maison de la Presse, and the La Cour des grandes (With the Grown Ups) trilogy. The former editor-in-chief of Elle.fr, Bréau was the editorial director for fashion and food at French Gala. She is also a member of “Team Rom Com”, a collective of 6 authors, collaborating on to write innovative, collective novels.
Frangines, La Cour des grandes and L’Heure des femmes are each currently being adapted for screen and stage.
Logan Metcalf-Kelly’s debut novel is Resurrection Angels, a crime thriller set in Los Angeles. He won the J.D. Salinger Creative Writing Award to attend Ursinus College from 2010-2014. He has lived and worked in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York and California since. He resides in Philadelphia.
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Kasey Halpin was born and raised in Central New Jersey and holds master’s degrees in writing and mental health counseling. She has written four novels and countless poems about the absurdity of being human. Kasey is a big fan of cats and irony.
Emma Johnson-Rivard is a doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati with an emphasis on genre fiction and portrayals of violence and manifest destiny. Originally from Minnesota, she is an avid boxer, coffee fanatic, and can often be found curled up with a book. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Tales to Terrify, Red Flag Poetry, and others. She can be found @blackcattales on Bluesky and at emmajohnson-rivard.com.
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Charlotte Casiraghi holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy and is President of the Philosophical Encounters of Monaco. She co-authored Archipelago of Passions with Robert Maggiori, and runs Chanel’s “Les Rendez-vous littéraires” book club, featuring authors and talents such as Katie Kitamura, Rachel Cusk, Siri Husdvedt, Anne Berest, Marion Cotillard, and Tilda Swinton.
TRAVIS HOLP is an internationally recognized psychic medium and spiritual teacher. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he now resides in Tacoma, Washington.
Meghan Daum is the author of five books, including The Problem With Everything and The Unspeakable. She is also the editor of the bestselling anthology Selfish, Shallow and Self Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Meghan has written for numerous magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine and the Atlantic, and she was a Los Angeles Times opinion columnist for more than a decade. In 2020, Meghan launched a weekly interview podcast, The Unspeakable that now has 200+ episodes and millions of downloads. Her latest collection of essays, The Catastrophe Hour, won the Inaugural Airmail Tom Wolfe Prize for Reportage 2025. She lives in Los Angeles.