Authors

MICHAEL DILLOW is a lens-based artist born in Philadelphia. He earned a B.A. in film and media arts from Temple University and an MFA in studio art from Florida Atlantic University. His work examines the concept of place, questioning how identities are formed, modified, and attributed to specific locales. Most notably, his work has been shown at the Center for Fine Art Photography, the Sweetwater Center for the Arts, and the 2019 PhotoAlicante Festival, and featured in FotoRoom, C41 Magazine, Fisheye Magazine, and In the In-Between. Most recently, he participated in the Beyond Addiction Reframing Recovery exhibition held at Rochester Institute of Technology’s City Art Space, curated by Graham MacIndoe and Susan Stellin. Currently, he maintains a studio practice in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, and works as an instructor in Florida Atlantic University’s photography department.

MAYLÉN DOMÍNGUEZ MONDEJA. Poeta, narradora y editora cubana. Ha publicado para niños y jóvenes Evangelista y los recuerdos, A San Francisco no llegan los aviones, Último circo, Un circo de papel, Carpa de ensueño, Pasiones marineras, Mi amigo el corredor y Los poderes de Antonina entre otras obras. Ha sido incluida en diversas antologías y revistas en Cuba, Latinoamérica, España y Estados Unidos Autora de los poemarios Bajo la noche inmóvil, De lo que fue dictando el fuego, Noche magna, Los días sobre el polvo y Pasajero diciembre. Coautora de las antologías Queredlas cual las hacéis y Catedral sumergida: poesía cubana contemporánea escrita por mujeres.

SIMON DOONAN is the author of many books, including biographies of Keith Haring and Lou Reed, and DRAG, The Complete Story. His newest book is titled The Camp 100 - Glorious Flamboyance, from Louis XIV to Lil NasX. A long-standing member of the fashion community, he was awarded the prestigious CFDA award for his unconventional window design work as the longtime creative director of Barneys New York. A BBC TV comedy series based on his autobiography titled Beautiful People aired around the world. He is a regular guest at The MOTH, the well-known storytelling series, and a season regular on the Emmy-nominated NBC competition series Making It starring Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman.

VICTOR DOVER is founding principal at Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning in Coral Gables, Florida. The firm’s practice focuses on the creation and restoration of real neighborhoods as the basis for sound communities. He lectures around the world on the topics of livable communities and sustainable development, and is the co-author of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns (Wiley). He is a fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and Congress for New Urbanism.

A leading voice in Black speculative fiction, TANANARIVE DUE has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award. Her books include The Reformatory: A Novel, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and named a The New York Times Notable Book; The Wishing Pool and Other Stories; Ghost Summer: Stories; My Soul to Take: A Novel; and The Good House: A Novel. She and her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.

MARÍA DUEÑAS es doctora en Filología Inglesa. A lo largo de su carrera profesional ha sido docente universidades y ha participado en múltiples proyectos educativos, culturales y editoriales. Su pasión por la historia y la escritura la llevó a entrar en 2009 en el mundo de la literatura con El tiempo entre costuras, que se ha convertido en una de las obras más vendidas de la literatura española. Tras su gran debut siguieron Misión olvido, La templanza, Las hijas del capitán, Sira y su más reciente obra, Por si un día volvemos.

JOHN DUFRESNE is the author of six novels: Louisiana Power & Light: A Novel and Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel (both New York Times Notable Books of the Year); Deep in the Shade of Paradise: A Novel; Requiem, Mass.: A Novel; No Regrets, Coyote: A Novel; and I Don't Like Where This Is Going: A Wylie Coyote Novel. He also wrote two short story collections: The Way That Water Enters Stone: Stories and Johnny Too Bad: Stories, as well as three chapbooks: Lethe, Cupid, Time and Love; Well Enough Alone: Two Stories and Thirteen Poems; and I Will Eat a Piece of the Roof and You Can Eat the Window. He's also authored two books on writing and creativity: The Lie That Tells a Truth: a Guide to Writing Fiction and Is Life Like This?: a Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months. He wrote a full-length play, Trailerville, which was produced at the Blue Heron Theatre in New York in 2005, and the screenplay for the award-winning short film The Freezer Jesus. He also co-wrote the screenplay for To Live and Die in Dixie with Don Papy. He was a 2012-2013 Guggenheim fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.

DENISE DUHAMEL’s books include Pink Lady: Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press), Second Story: Poems, and Scald. Her poetry collection Blowout was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and In Which won the Rattle Chapbook Prize. She and the late Maureen Seaton co-authored six collections, most recently Tilt/Beautiful People. Duhamel’s collaborations with Julie Marie Wade include The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020 and THE UNRHYMABLES: Collaborations in Prose. A recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships, Duhamel teaches at Florida International University.

LACEY N. DUNHAM is the author of The Belles: A Novel (Atria Books). She has received support from The Elizabeth George Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams scholar, and Catapult as a merit scholar. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and more. She lives in Washington, D.C. Find out more at www.LaceyNDunham.com.

LACEY N. DUNHAM is the author of The Belles: A Novel (Atria Books). She has received support from The Elizabeth George Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams scholar, and Catapult as a merit scholar. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and more. She lives in Washington, D.C. Find out more at www.LaceyNDunham.com.

MARC J. DUNKELMAN is a fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and a former fellow at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. During more than a decade working in politics, he worked for Democratic members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives and as a senior fellow at the Clinton Foundation. The author of The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community, Dunkelman’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Politico. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

JOE DUNTHORNE is the author of Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance (Scribner), The Adulterants: A Novel, O Positive: Poems, Wild Abandon: A Novel, and Submarine, which was translated into 15 languages and made into an award-winning film. His work has been published in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Granta, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. He was born in Wales and lives in London.

GEOFF DYER is the award-winning author of many books, including The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings; Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence; Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It: Essays; Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room; See/Saw: Looking at Photographs; and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is a writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into 24 languages.

BOB ECKSTEIN is an award-winning illustrator, a New York Times bestselling author, and a New Yorker cartoonist. His books include Inspired by Cats: Writers and Their Mews(es) (Countryman Press); Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers; Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums; The Illustrated History of the Snowman; and The Complete Book of Cat Names (That Your Cat Won’t Answer to, Anyway). He is a contributing editor for Writer’s Digest and editor of The Bob Substack. He lives in New York.

JACK EL-HAI is an American journalist and the author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (PublicAffairs), the book on which the forthcoming Sony Pictures Classic film Nuremberg (November) is based. He is also an executive producer for the film. His writings cover history, science, medicine, and crime. His other nonfiction books include The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness and Face in the Mirror: A Surgeon, a Patient, and the Remarkable Story of the First Face Transplant at Mayo Clinic. Born in Los Angeles, he has contributed longform narratives and essays to many publications. He lives in Minneapolis.

Writer, mother, and reluctant socialite ASHA ELIAS is the author of Pink Glass Houses: A Novel. She graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in print journalism, has contributed to Cosmopolitan, and is the sex and dating columnist for Miami New Times. She lives with her family in Miami Beach.

J. ELLE is The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the House of Marionne series. Her other works include The Little Mermaid: Against The Tide and Wings of Ebony. Elle grew up in the South on comfort food and fairy tales. These days she writes from Texas, where she lives with so many animals and children, she’s lost count. When not writing, Elle can be found on the hunt for desserts without chocolate, drowning herself in Regency romance reads, and looking for any excuse to wear a tiara.

ALICIA ESCARDÓ es una escritora y gestora cultural uruguaya. Ha publicado varios libros de ficción, para jóvenes y para adultos. Su última novela es La trama violeta, un libro de suspenso que ha recibido mención ene l Premio Nacional de Narrativa. Ha organizado el Encuentro Internacional de novela policial en Uruguay durante 8 ediciones y Noir Week Miami junto con Koubek Center y Miami Book Fair. Se ha especializado en el género noir, coordinado concursos literarios y antologías de relatos policiales y tiene una columna semanal en Radio Sarandí, La columna negra.

EMILY EVERETT is an editor and writer from western Massachusetts. Her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Mississippi Review. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in fiction. Everett grew up on a small family dairy farm, studied English and music at Smith College, and studied abroad for a year at University College London. After graduating, she returned to London to complete her M.A. in literature at Queen Mary University of London. She lived and worked in the UK from 2009 to 2013. Everett has been managing editor of The Common, a literary magazine based at Amherst College, since 2016. There, she edits fiction, manages print and online production, and hosts the magazine’s podcast. All That Life Can Afford: A Novel (G.P. Putnam's Sons) is her debut novel.

SCOTT EYMAN is the author or co-author of 18 books, including the bestseller John Wayne: The Life and Legend; Pieces of My Heart: A Life; and You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age with actor Robert J. Wagner. Formerly the literary critic at The Palm Beach Post, Eyman also writes book reviews for The Wall Street Journal and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. He and his wife, Lynn, live in West Palm Beach, Florida. Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face (Simon & Schuster) is his latest book.

TAMSEN FADAL is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, producer of the globally recognized menopause documentary The (M) Factor, and The New York Times bestselling author of How to Menopause: Take Charge of Your Health, Reclaim Your Life, and Feel Even Better than Before (Balance). As the host of The Tamsen Show podcast and founder of Tamsen Fadal Media, she leads national conversations around midlife, menopause, and reinvention, reaching more than 4 million audience members across platforms. As a trusted media voice and keynote speaker, she advises global companies on women’s health equity and workplace wellness. She is also an investor in wellness brands and serves on the board of advisers for Let’s Talk Menopause.

KATE FAGAN is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen, which was a semifinalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for literary sports writing. She is also the author of three additional nonfiction titles and a former professional basketball player, and spent seven years as a journalist at ESPN. Fagan currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her wife, Kathryn Budig, and their dog, Ragnar.

JIBOLA FAGBAMIYE is a Nigerian-born visual artist. His work, inspired by African history and North American pop culture, has been exhibited in galleries across Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, and Lagos, Nigeria. Fagbamiye illustrated The New York Times bestseller Black AF: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America and Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar, and contributed to IDW's Full Bleed Vol. 4 anthology. While he has worked on many independent projects, the graphic novel Fela: Music Is the Weapon (Amistad) marks his debut. Fagbamiye lives in Toronto with his wife and son. You can find his work on www.jibolastudios.com.

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ARÍSTIDES FALCÓN PARADÍ es profesor, escritor y cineasta. Su poemario Tantra Tanka (2003) fue publicado en España, y traducido al japonés y publicado en Japón (2007), como también Las estaciones (2019). Las estaciones han sido traducidas al inglés por el poeta y traductor Pablo Medina y al japonés por Yoko Ogihara (ella y su esposo Fernando Cordobés han traducido la obra de Haruki Murakami al español). Escribió y co-produjo El Play (director Pablo Medina Jr.), premiado como Best Documentary Short Film en Urbanworld Film Festival 2008 en la ciudad de Nueva York y por Excellence in Filmmaking en el Baseball Hall of Fame Film Festival en Cooperstown, New York. Tiene un guión (Ashé Obanilú, 2004) y una novela (En clave blen blen, 2011) sobre la vida del famoso rumbero y compositor Chano Pozo que está en vía de publicación por la Editorial Hypermedia. Dirigió, escribió y produjo el documental Rumba Clave Blen Blen Blen (2013) que trata sobre el género de la rumba, sus orígenes y el ambiente que le rodea en la ciudad de Nueva York con sus mejores exponentes. En su momento lo presentó en festivales internacionales como todavía en prestigiosas universidades como Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Yale, Leigh, University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University, Florida International University, etc. Tiene una segunda novela El cocinero y sus invitadas (2015). La crueldad en el teatro de Matías Montes-Huidobro (2006) fue publicado por la Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies en Boulder, Colorado. Se doctoró en el GSUC (CUNY) en literatura hispana y luso-brasileña (1999). Vive en la ciudad de Nueva York por muchos años.

DARROW FARR is a Salvadoran American writer. She was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University from 2017 to 2019 and received an MFA in creative writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. The Bombshell: A Novel (Pamela Dorman Books) is her debut work of fiction. Farr was born and raised outside Philadelphia, where she now lives with her husband and son.

RICKEY FAYNE is a fiction writer from rural west Tennessee whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other publications. He holds an M.A. in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His writing embodies his Black, Southern upbringing in order to reimagine and honor his ancestors’ experiences.

REUVEN FENTON has been covering breaking news for the New York Post since 2007, and has earned national recognition for his exclusive reporting on myriad national stories. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University and Columbia University School of Journalism. Goyhood: A Novel (Central Avenue) is his debut.