Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York City. She is a product of the Puerto Rican communities on the island and in the South Bronx. As a child she was sent to live with her grandparents in Puerto Rico…
Ira Marcks is a cartoonist living in Upstate New York with his wife, two cats, a dog, and lots of books he’s been meaning to read.
Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in the Hudson Valley. She has published five books of poetry including La noche de los bueyes (Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize), 62 brazadas (City of Buenos Aires Poetry Prize)…
Wally Lamb is the award-winning author of six New York Times bestselling novels: She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin’ & Hopin’, We Are Water,and, most recently, I’ll Take You There.
Patricia Marx, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1989. She is a former writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “Rugrats” and is the author of several books
Amber L. Bradbury is a mother of three with fond memories of her own mother and grandmothers.
Jennifer Dugan is a writer, a geek and a romantic, who loves writing stories about messy, complicated women and girls. Her debut novel, Hot Dog Girl, was called a “great fizzy rom-com” by Entertainment Weekly and “one of the best reads of the year, hands down” by Paste Magazine, although she is best known for Some Girls Do, her third young adult novel that took Tiktok by storm.
Michael Burns is a writer from Upstate NY. Nervous Rex was inspired by his daughter who asked him one day to sit down and draw with her. Michael’s first book centers around mental health and coping strategies for children and of course dinosaurs!
Emma Kress is an author and educator living with her family in Saratoga Springs, NY.
DANGEROUS PLAY is her debut novel.
Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a bacherlor’s degree in Creative Writing at Michigan State University in 1972, and Master of Fine Arts at Bowling Green State University in 1975.