Marcus Kwame Anderson is an illustrator, fine artist, and co-creator of the comic book series, Snow Daze...

Partners in life and in business, Chloe Barcelou and Brandon Batchelder have always been creative people...

Serena Burdick is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Girls with No Names...

Tim Cahill is currently an Associate Creative Director at Digitas

Bestselling author of a new fantasy series set a thousand years before The City of Brass.

Mai Corland is a Korean American attorney and writer, born in Seoul and adopted into New York.

Allyson Dahlin grew up on a farm, raised by a Francophile father...

Victoria Dalpe is a Providence-based horror writer and painter.

Nicolas DiDomizio is the author of Nearlywed, The Gay Best Friend, and Burn It All Down

Joe Donahue is a radio host and commentator on WAMC-Albany NPR. 

Dr. Jerry C. Drake is a career civil servant, former professor of history

When I was a kid, I wanted to be Princess Leia.

Juliette Fay is the bestselling, award-winning author of seven novels, including The Harvey Girls...

From the founders of the HGTV show and viral Instagram feed Cheap Old Houses...

Catherine J. Golden is professor of English and Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters (2017-22) at Skidmore College.

Katherine Harbour was born in Albany, NY, where she attended the Russell Sage Junior College of Albany...

Ron Hughes was born and raised in Troy, New York. He earned his Master’s from SUNY New Paltz.

Marjan Kamali is the award-winning author of The Lion Women of Tehran, an instant national bestseller...

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, literary curator Kristina Kulin ...

Bram Stoker Award®-nominated, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated, and Splatterpunk Award-winning Author

Emily Layden is a screenwriter and the author of the novels Once More From The Top and All Girls.

Kristina Libby is a writer, artist, storyteller and technology executive living in NYC.

Tiina Loite had a long career as a photo editor at The New York Times...

Matthew Lucas is a Professor of Business at Skidmore College, a former global executive and AI pioneer...

Halimah Marcus is the Executive Director of Electric Literature, a nonprofit digital publisher...

Cleyvis Natera is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic.

Trevor Oakley is the Head of Access and Outreach Services at the Saratoga Springs Public Library.

Margaret J. Pearson, Ph.D., studied Chinese literature with Hellmut Wilhelm, and history with Jack Dull and Chan Hok-la.

Piazza is a four-time winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing...

Sam Rad (Samantha Radocchia) is a lifelong student of humanity--futurist, anthropologist, and creative technologist...

Jack Rightmyer has published two books of nonfiction A Funny Thing About Teaching and It’s Not About Winning.

Gary Rivlin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter who has been writing about technology since the mid-1990s...

Saratoga Schaefer (they/them) has a background in marketing, PR, film, and wellness.

Michael J. Seidlinger is the Filipino-American author of Anybody Home?...

Jessica Shattuck is the author of the novels The Women in the Castle...

A delicious debut that combines the swoon-worthy romance of Bridgerton...

Caitlin Sheldon has been a full-time Adult Services Librarian for eleven years, and a Fantasy fan...

Originally from Laurens, NY, Spencer put down roots in the Capital Region right out of high school...

London Sperry is a New York based author of romantic comedies full of heart, humor, and hope who grew up in Saratoga Springs.

teve Stern's fiction, with its deep grounding in Yiddish folklore, has prompted critics...

Mason Stokes is a professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York

Abby Tegnelia is a world-renowned journalist who has interviewed celebrities such as Celine Dion and Robert De Niro...

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards...

Kim van Alkemade is the New York Times bestselling author of the historical novels Counting Lost Stars, Orphan #8 and Bachelor Girl.

Matt Witten is a TV writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who has written for many TV shows...