Erin Rooney Doland

Erin Rooney Doland is author of Never Too Busy to Cure Clutter (2016, William Morrow) and Unclutter Your Life in One Week (2009, Gallery Books). Her hardcover, paperbacks, e-books, and audiobook have sold in the U.S. market and overseas in countries like France, the U.K., the U.A.E., Poland, Russia, and Korea. She also is an essay contributor to the 99U book series Manage Your Day-to-Day (2013, Amazon Publishing).

For years she appeared regularly in Real Simple magazine’s “Ask the Organizer” column and has contributed to Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, and Martha Stewart Living, among numerous other major media publications. Her books have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and she has been profiled in The New York Times. She has been a guest on The Today Show, The Rachael Ray Show, WGN Midday News, Martha Stewart Living Radio, and the CBC and BBC Radio networks.

She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism, and her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. She is a staunch promoter of minimalism and resides full time in an RV, traveling North America.

When she’s not writing, she’s training for adventure races, backpacking, and reading—always reading.

Kathy Flann

Kathy Flann’s fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, The North American Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, New Stories from the South, and other publications. A short story collection entitled Get a Grip won the George Garrett Award and was released by Texas Review Press in the fall of 2015. It was named a top book of the year by Baltimore Magazine and Baltimore City Paper. A previous collection, Smoky Ordinary, won the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award and was published by Snake Nation Press. For five years, she taught creative writing at the University of Cumbria in England, where she created mini-courses for the BBC’s Get Writing website and served on the board of the National Association of Writers in Education. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, and Le Moulin à Nef in France. She is an associate professor at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Jamie Madigan

Jamie Madigan

Jamie Madigan, PhD, has become an expert on the psychology of video games and seeks to popularize understanding of how psychology can be used to understand why games are made and why their players behave as they do. Madigan also writes, podcasts, and lectures on the subject for various magazines, websites, and his own site at www.psychologyofgames.com. He has consulted with game development companies and talked at conferences about how game developers can incorporate psychology principles into game design and how players can understand how it affects their play.

Madigan has appeared as an expert on the psychology of video games in dozens of print, web, and radio outlets, including The Washington Post, Wired, The Atlantic, the Chicago Tribune, BBC Radio 5, the BBC, The Guardian, Oprah Magazine, Official Playstation Magazine UK, The Verge, Livescience.com, The Escapist, MMORPG.com, Kotaku, The Gameological Society, Sky News HD, the Cited Podcast, the You are Not So Smart podcast, and Polygon.

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.

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.