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Teresa H. Janssen
Genres: General Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
Teresa H. Janssen is a career educator, essayist, and author of short fiction whose writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, including Zyzzyva, Catamaran, and Chautauqua. The Ways of Water is her debut...
Jennifer Hamm
Genres: General Fiction, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Literary Fiction, Sagas, Women's Fiction
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jennifer Hamm graduated with a BA in English at UCLA and began her writing career developing screenplays for movies and television. As a travel writer, she has covered the globe on assignment for various...
Kathryn Crawley
Genres: General Fiction, Coming of Age, Feminist, Women's Fiction
Kathryn Crawley was born of pioneer stock and raised in a small West Texas cotton town. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in speech pathology from Baylor University. Unforeseen events and an adventurous spirit led her to...
B. K. Oldre
Genres: General Fiction, Action & Adventure, Coming of Age, Historical Fiction, World War II
B. K. Oldre is a former librarian with a BA in English literature and an MLIS degree. She studied writing at the University of Minnesota and The Loft Literary Center, where she completed the year-long class The Novel Writing Project,...
Ann Putnam
Genres: General Fiction, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
Ann Putnam is an internationally known Hemingway scholar who has made more than six trips to Cuba as part of the Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium. Her forthcoming novel, Cuban Quartermoon (June 2022), came, in part, from those...
Sasha Paulsen
Genres: General Fiction, Absurdist Fiction, Satire, Romance, Action & Adventure Romance, Romantic Comedy, Humorous Fiction
Sasha Paulsen lives in Napa Valley, California, where she has written about food, wine, art, and travel for two decades. A graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, she published her first novel, Dancing on the Spider’s Web...
Victoria Lilienthal
Genres: General Fiction, Feminist, Literary Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical, Women's Fiction
Victoria Lilienthal has studied and practiced body-based work and has been certified in sound healing. Long captivated by myths, symbols, and rituals, her studies and mentorship with cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien, helped to...
Judith Berlowitz
Genres: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious & Inspirational, Jewish Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
Los Angeles–born author Judith Berlowitz had just retired from her Spanish-teaching position at Oakland’s Mills College when her genealogical research uncovered a Gestapo record mentioning a relative, Clara Philipsborn, who...
Leslie Johansen Nack
Genres: General Fiction, Biographical, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
Leslie Johansen Nack’s debut, Fourteen , received five indie awards, including the 2016 Finalist in Memoir at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Before she started writing, she raised two children, ran a mechanical engineering...
Patricia Ricketts
Genres: General Fiction, Friendship, Literary Fiction, Nature & the Environment
Patricia Ricketts taught English for many years in Chicagoland and Kansas City school districts. She received a lifelong love of music, the written word, the visual arts, and healthy arguing from her Irish Catholic household. She has...
