Piper Vaughn

Piper Vaughn is a queer, nonbinary, Latinx author and longtime romance reader. Since writing their first love story at age eleven, they’ve known writing in some form was exactly what they wanted to do. A reader at heart, Piper loves nothing more than getting lost in a great book and discussing their favorite authors.

Piper grew up in a diverse neighborhood in Chicago and loves putting faces and characters of every ethnicity in their stories, making their fictional worlds as colorful as the real one. Above all, Piper believes happy endings come in many shapes and varieties, and everyone deserves to see themselves reflected on the page.

Olivia Waite

Olivia Waite writes historical romance, fantasy, science fiction, and sharp critical essays. Her romance review column appears every Thursday at the Seattle Review of Books.

Dan Wilbur

Dan Wilbur is a stand-up comedian, author, and former bookseller living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the creator and editor of BetterBookTitles.com. His writing has been featured on CollegeHumor, McSweeney’s, The Onion News Network on IFC, and Someecards, where he also served as the Ecards Editor. He is always hungry.

Kimberly Welchons

Kimberly Welchons writes smart, compelling YA and women’s fiction. She is an experienced freelance editor with a background in market research, as well as a Dubsmash expert. She lives in Ventura, CA.

H.P. Wood

H. P. Wood is the granddaughter of a mad inventor and a sideshow magician. Instead of making things disappear, she makes books of all shapes and sizes. She has written or edited works on an array of topics, including the history of the Internet, the future of human rights, and the total awesomeness of playing with sticks. Her first novel, MAGRUDER’S CURIOSITY CABINET, will be published by Sourcebooks Landmark in June 2016. She lives in Connecticut with a charming and patient husband, a daughter from whom she steals all her best ideas, and more cats than is strictly logical.