Tamara Morgan

Tamara Morgan is a contemporary romance and cozy mystery author. She began her reading (and writing) career as an English literature major and ended as a lover of genre fiction in all forms. When she’s not rolling around with her two Akitas, she can be found hiking, biking, or with her nose buried in a book. For fast-paced action romance, try Tamara Morgan. For heartwarming stories of love and puppies, check out Lucy Gilmore. And if witty, cunning whodunits with a paranormal twist are more your style, visit Tamara Berry.

Sandra Owens

A best-selling, award-winning author, Sandra Owens lives in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Her family and friends often question her sanity, but have ceased being surprised by what she might get up to next. She’s jumped out of a plane, flown in an aerobatic plane while the pilot performed thrilling stunts, has flown Air Combat (two fighter planes dogfighting, pretending to shoot at each other with laser guns), and rode a Harley motorcycle for years. She regrets nothing.

Sandra is a 2013 Golden Heart® Finalist for her contemporary romance, CRAZY FOR HER. In addition to her contemporary romantic suspense novels, she writes Regency stories.

Roan Parrish

Roan Parrish is currently wandering between Philadelphia and New Orleans. When not writing, she can usually be found cutting her friends’ hair, meandering through whatever city she’s in while listening to torch songs and melodic death metal, or cooking overly elaborate meals. She loves bonfires, winter beaches, minor chord harmonies, and self-tattooing. One time she may or may not have baked a six-layer chocolate cake and then thrown it out the window in a fit of pique.

May Peterson

May Peterson lives in Kansas City with two dark wizards and their dog familiars. She is rumored to be some kind of magical creature, but exactly which kind is still debated by scholars. While they sort that out, May busies herself as a romance and fantasy author, as well as a freelance editor. She gravitates toward writing and reading stories that are magical, hopeful, and distinctive, as well as those that explore identity, queerness, and connection. May, who also writes as M.A. Peterson, believes that bringing a daydream to life with its own tale to tell is always a small miracle.

Kris Ripper

Kris Ripper lives in the great state of California and hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. Kris shares a converted garage with a toddler, can do two pull-ups in a row, and can write backwards. (No, really.) Kris is genderqueer and prefers the z-based pronouns because they’re freaking sweet. Ze has been writing fiction since ze learned how to write, and boring zir stuffed animals with stories long before that.

Crystal Schubert

Crystal Schubert is a reader, a writer, and a mother of two based in Richmond, VA. In 2019, she was awarded a spot in the inaugural class of the Unruly Retreat. Her short story “The Aviary” was published in the anthology Beware the Little White Rabbit out from Leap Books, and her other short works can be found in YARN and wicked alice.

Vicky Alvear Shecter

Vicky Alvear Shecter is the author of the young adult novels, CLEOPATRA’S MOON (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2011), based on the life of Cleopatra’s only daughter, and CURSES AND SMOKE (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2014), set in the ancient city of Pompeii. She is also the author of two award-winning biographies for kids on Alexander the Great and Cleopatra, as well as several books for middle-grade readers about mythology. She is a docent at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Antiquities at Emory University in Atlanta. The LA TIMES calls CLEOPATRA’S MOON, “magical” and “impressive.” PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY said it was “fascinating” and “highly memorable.” The WALL STREET JOURNAL called it “absorbing.” Visit her website at vickyalvearshecter.com.

Suleikha Snyder

Editor, writer, American desi and lifelong geek Suleikha Snyder is an author of contemporary and erotic romance. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusivity in publishing, Suleikha is frequently ranting when she should really be adding to her body of work—which includes multiple Bollywood-set romances and several shorts and novellas.

Suleikha lives in New York City, finding inspiration in genre fiction, daytime and primetime soaps, and anything that involves chocolate or bacon. Visit her at suleikhasnyder.com and follow her on Twitter @suleikhasnyder.

Brina Starler

Brina Starler writes, and reads, romance novels and romantic fiction— anything with kissing will do. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and a mix of both human and fur pups, and has finally resigned herself to a future of asking tall people to get stuff off the top shelf. Her debut romcom novel, Anne of Manhattan, a modern day, grown-up retelling of L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, is out now.

Charlotte Stein

Charlotte Stein is the RT and DABWAHA nominated author of over thirty short stories, novellas and novels, including entries in The Mammoth Book of Hot Romance and Best New Erotica 10. When not writing deeply emotional and intensely sexy books, she can be found eating jelly turtles, watching terrible sitcoms and occasionally lusting after hunks.