Keith Van Sickle is a technology industry veteran and lifelong traveler who got his first taste of overseas life while studying in England during college. He now splits his time between Silicon Valley and Provence, delving ever deeper into what makes France so endlessly fascinating. Visit him at keithvansickle.com.

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Climber, tattoo-enthusiast, peanut-butter addict, and loyal shibe-minion, Xan van Rooyen is a genderqueer, non-binary storyteller from South Africa, currently living in Finland, where the heavy metal is soothing and the cold, dark forests inspiring.

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David Van Reybrouck is the internationally bestselling author of Congo, which was a finalist for the Cundill Prize for History, and an acclaimed playwright. He holds a doctorate from Leiden University and has taught at Bard College. He lives in Brussels, Belgium.

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Ruth E. Van Reken, herself an adult TCK and a parent and grandparent of TCKs, is the author of one of the first books written about the TCK experience, Letters Never Sent.

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James Van Praagh is a world-famous medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller Talking to Heaven.

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Scott Van Pelt is the associate director of the Wharton Graduate Communication Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a lecturer.

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Ash Van Otterloo is the author of Cattywampus. When they're not writing and freelance editing, they love gardening, hiking, exchanging playful banter, and collecting folklore stories. A longtime resident of the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, they now live in Washington with their spouse and four feral children.

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Pieter van Os writes for NRC Handelsblad and De Groene Amsterdammer. His published works include the books The Netherlands in Focus, and We Understand Each Other Perfectly, about his years as a parliamentary journalist. After having lived in Warsaw for four years, he now resides in Tirana, Albania.

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Carol Van Natta is a USA Today bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy, including Overload Flux, Minder Rising, Pico's Crush, and Jumper's Hope, the first four books of a space opera series; In Graves Below, a paranormal romance; and Hooray for Holopticon, a retro science fiction comedy.

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Bart Van Loo draws big crowds in the theatre and is also the author of the universally praised France a Trilogy and the bestseller Chanson. He is also author of The Burgundians, a book that takes the reader on a fascinating journey through a thousand years of European history.

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Pim van Lommel is a world-renowned cardiologist and medical expert on near-death experiences. For more than twenty-five years he worked as a cardiologist at an eight-hundred-bed teaching hospital in the Netherlands where he began studying near-death experiences in patients who survived a cardiac arrest.

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Fred Van Lente is the #1 New York Times bestselling writer of such comics as The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies, Deadpool vs the Punisher, GI Joe, Archer & Armstrong, and many more. He cowrote the graphic novel Cowboys and Aliens, which was made into a film starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.

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