David Smart is founding editor of Gripped, editorial director at Gripped Publishing, and author. His biography of Austrian solo climber Paul Preuss was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize, and his biography of Italian climber Emilio Comici won that prize along with the Banff Award for Climbing Literature.

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Smartypants Romance is an indie-minded collaborative writing universe started in 2017. For more information, visit smartypantsromance.com.

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Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic at the Washington Post and the author of The Art of Rivalry. Formerly the chief art critic at the Boston Globe and national art critic for the Australian, he has also written for the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian, among other publications. He lives in Boston.

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Max Smeets is a leading expert in cyber conflict and security. He holds research positions at ETH Zurich, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He also codirects the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative/Incubator.

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Kim Smejkal writes fantasy for young adults and not-so-young adults, always with a touch of magic. Her books include The Dandelion Riots, Ink in the Blood, and Curse of the Divine. When she's not writing, she's often lost in the woods, wandering a beach, or puttering around in her garden.

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Micalea Smeltzer is a bestselling young and new adult author from Winchester, Virginia. She's always working on her next book, and when she has spare time she loves to read and spend time with her family.

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Angie Smibert is the author of several young adult books, including Memento Nora, The Forgetting Curve, and The Meme Plague, numerous nonfiction books for children, as well as many short stories for both adults and teens. She also worked for ten years at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses and Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing. In 2010 Foreign Policy named him as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.

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David Smiley was a British special forces and intelligence officer. He fought in the Second World War in Palestine, Iraq, Persia, Syria, Western Desert, and with Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Albania and Thailand.

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Jane Smiley is the author of many novels, works of nonfiction, and books for young adults, including A Thousand Acres and the Last Hundred Years trilogy, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Victoria H. Smith has a bachelor's degree in political science. She puts it to good use writing romance all day. Her books include the Love in the City series and the Found by You series. Visit her at authorvictoriahsmith.com.

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