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.

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