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Joan Cohen
Genres: General Fiction, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Friendship, Religious & Inspirational, Jewish Fiction, Women's Fiction
Originally from Mount Vernon, New York, Joan Cohen received her BA from Cornell University and her MBA from New York University. Her career in sales and marketing at technology companies led to the executive level, and after retirement...
Dianne Romain
Genres: General Fiction, Friendship, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
Dianne Romain lives with novelist Sterling Bennett in Guanajuato, a colonial city in the central Mexican highlands. She grew up and went to college in Missouri before moving to Berkeley for graduate school. After completing her PhD in...
Amy Weinland Daughters
Genres: Fantasy, Humorous Fantasy, General Fiction, Women's Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel
A native Houstonian and a 1991 graduate of The Texas Tech University, Amy W. Daughters has been a freelance writer, focusing mostly on college football, for the past decade. You Cannot Mess This Up is her first published book, meaning...
Kimberly K. Robeson
Genres: General Fiction, Sagas, Women's Fiction, LGBT & Pride
Kimberly K. Robeson is a Greek-American assistant professor at Los Angeles Valley College, where she teaches world literature, creative writing, and composition, and is the coadvisor for the college’s LGBTQ+ Club. She grew up in...
Sande Boritz Berger
Genres: General Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Historical Fiction, Religious & Inspirational, Jewish Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
For as long as she can remember, libraries have been Sande Boritz Berger’s safe haven and books her greatest joy. After two decades as a scriptwriter and video producer for Fortune 500 companies, Sande returned to her other...
Judith Teitelman
Genres: General Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Visionary & Metaphysical
Judith Teitelman has straddled the worlds of arts, literature, and business since she was a teenager and worked her first job as a salesperson at a B. Dalton/Pickwick Bookstore. Life’s journeys took her from bookstores to...
Francie Arenson Dickman
Genres: General Fiction, Coming of Age, Religious & Inspirational, Jewish Fiction, Humorous Fiction
Francie Arenson Dickman has been using her family as the source of writing material her whole life. Her personal essays have appeared in publications such as The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Today Parents, Motherwell Magazine , and...
Alice Rosenthal
Genres: General Fiction, Coming of Age, Historical Fiction, Religious & Inspirational, Jewish Fiction
Alice Rosenthal was born and raised in 1941 in the same Bronx neighborhood as her protagonists, though a generation later. After receiving her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from NYU, she married, divorced, and settled in...
Kathryn Abdul-baki
Genres: General Fiction, Family Life, Literary Fiction, Romance
Kathryn Abdul-baki was born in Washington DC to an Arab father and an American mother. She grew up in Iran, Kuwait, Beirut, and Jerusalem, where she attended Arabic, British, and American schools. She attended the American University of...
Belle Brett
Genres: General Fiction, Coming of Age, Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers
Belle Brett is a graduate of Grub Street’s intensive Novel Incubator program. After a career in education as a teacher, career counselor, and evaluator of educational programs, she is now an artist and a writer, contributing to her...