Eileen Bjorkman is a retired Air Force colonel. She was a flight test engineer during her Air Force career, flying more than 700 hours in twenty-five different types of military aircraft. She is also a civilian pilot and is the author of The Propeller Under the Bed and Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Hanna Bjørgaas is a biologist who has worked as a guide in the Arctic and Antarctic, led field courses in Norway, and worked with architects and artists to help communicate the joy of nature to others. She has written articles on popular science and contributed to conferences on ecology and farming.

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Genna Black is a romance author who juggles writing and raising her hell spawn alongside her aggressively supportive husband. She finds great joy in crafting stories that will make you giggle while keeping you on the edge of your seat.

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Persephone Black likes ice queens who melt behind closed doors, underworld empresses who protect what's theirs, and bad girls who stay bad to the end . . . but win the love of a good woman. Villains are (anti)heroines and danger is an aphrodisiac in Persephone Black's thrilling sapphic Mafia romance novels.

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Virginia Black (she/her) likes strong whiskey, loud music, and writing. When not penning dark speculative fiction, she is almost always reading. Born in California, Virginia escaped to the Pacific Northwest. She lives with her wife and their teenage daughter. Learn more at virginiablackwrites.com.

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Wayne Black has more than forty-five years of professional security experience in the public and private sectors. He is the founder and president of Wayne Black & Associates, Inc. For more than a decade, he was the security advisor/PSD lead for former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and the Rumsfeld Foundation.

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Alexis Black is an assistant professor of acting and movement at Michigan State University, an AEA actor, a fight director and movement specialist for regional, international, and Broadway productions, and a certified intimacy director and guest lecturer with intimacy directors and coordinators.

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Edwin Black is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of IBM and the Holocaust, The Transfer Agreement, and War Against the Weak.

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Jenna Black is the author of the Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist series; the Guardians of the Night series; and the Faeriewalker Trilogy.

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Shayla Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than ninety contemporary, erotic, paranormal, and historical romances. Her books have sold millions of copies and been published in a dozen languages.

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Louise Black was born in England in 1977 and spent her childhood in Africa, Bangladesh, Iran, and Indonesia. She has a first class honors degree in law from University College London. Her debut novel, Pomegranate Sky, won the inaugural Virginia Prize in 2009 and was reviewed in The Guardian and The Times

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Daniel Black was raised in Blackwell, Arkansas, and now teaches at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Daniel earned his PhD in African American studies from Temple University. He is the author of Listen to the Lambs, They Tell Me of a Home, Twelve Gates to the City, and The Sacred Place, among other books.

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