William M. LeoGrande is a professor of government, a specialist in Latin American politics and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, and a frequent adviser to government and private sector agencies. He has written five books, including Our Own Backyard.

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Cassia Leo is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance, including the Shattered Hearts series, the Luke series, and the Chase novels.

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Lyz Lenz has been published in the New York Times, Buzzfeed, Washington Post, the Guardian, and more. She is the author of God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America. Lenz holds an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University and is a contributing writer to the Columbia Journalism Review.

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Niki Lenz lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and children. She studied elementary education at Southwest Baptist University and taught kindergarten for six years. Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen is her first novel. Follow her on Twitter at @NikiRLenz or visit nikilenz.com.

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Eliza Lentzski is a historian with a passion for fiction. She writes love stories filled with angst, miscommunication, and the struggle to balance love and an ambitious career. Eliza calls the Midwest her home, which is often the center of her novels, along with her partner and their cat and turtle.

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As a life-long Alaskan, Hank Lentfer is familiar with much of the country Richard Nelson wrote about. A biologist by training, Lentfer currently works as a recordist and part-time land steward for The Nature Conservancy. He is the author of Faith of Cranes: Finding Hope and Family in Alaska, and lives in Gustavus, Alaska.

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Athena Valentine Lent is the founder of Money Smart Latina, a blog and financial education resource center. She leads workshops and classes on money management, financial resiliency, and navigating finances. She publishes a personal finance column at Slate.com.

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Jeffrey Lent's first novel, In the Fall, was a national bestseller. His other novels are Lost Nation, A Peculiar Grace, After You've Gone, and A Slant of Light, which was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Washington Post Best Book of 2015. He lives with his wife and two daughters in central Vermont.

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Michael Lenox is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. He is the coauthor of The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy by 2050 and Can Business Save the Earth: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability.

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Katrina Leno was born on the East Coast and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including You Must Not Miss, Horrid, and Sometime in Summer. The Umbrella Maker's Son is her middle grade debut. She has always loved the rain.

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Jeffers Lennox is an associate professor of history at Wesleyan University and author of Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763.

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Piper Lennox is the author of the Love in Kona series, All Mine, and more. Her favorite heroes are broken; her favorite heroines are feisty (and, usually, also broken). She lives in Virginia with her husband, their three children, and a Siberian Husky too smart for his own good.

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