USA Today bestselling author Lani Lynn Vale writes contemporary and romantic suspense, and has a love for all things romance. She lives with her husband and children in Texas. Visit her at lanilynnvale.com.

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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, the author of the national bestseller The Dirty Girls Social Club and Playing with Boys, was named one of the twenty-five most influential Hispanics in America by Time magazine.

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Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino is an independent researcher and author in the field of death-related experiences, notably near-death experiences (NDEs) and after-death communications (ADCs). She has written numerous books and articles on these subjects, including Lessons from the Light, coauthored with Kenneth Ring.

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Sheila P. Vakharia is a nationally recognized harm reduction expert with over fifteen years of combined experience in addiction treatment, harm reduction, higher education, research, and drug policy reform. She works at the Drug Policy Alliance, a national advocacy organization fighting to end the war on drugs.

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Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD, is the director of the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners. He is a neuropsychiatrist at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Duke University Medical Center, and is affiliated with Duke's Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine.

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Amanda Vaill is the author of Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War, the bestselling Everybody Was So Young, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.

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Alli Vail is a former journalist for national and provincial award-winning community newspapers. She is a content writer and marketer for literary festivals and nonprofits, and has worked in tech, video games, and politics. She studied creative writing at Simon Fraser University.

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José Vadi is the author of Chipped and Inter State: Essays from California. An award-winning essayist, poet, playwright and film producer, his work has been featured by the Paris Review, the Atlantic, the PBS NewsHour, Free Skate magazine, Alta Journal of California, and the Yale Review. He lives in California.

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While researching World War II in his capacity as a UK secondary school teacher, Stephen Uzzell stumbled upon the name Haim Michael Klar, a Jewish man who impersonated a Nazi officer in order to help those trapped in the ghettos and concentration camps. Uzzell's novel I Am Juden is inspired by Haim Michael's story.

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Ruth Uzrad was born in Berlin in 1925, the eldest of three daughters, to a religious Jewish family. During World War II she escaped to Belgium and continued her flight to the south of France, where she spent her teenage years before finally arriving in Israel in 1945. She passed away in 2015.

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Kelly Utt writes emotional, pulse-pounding fiction for readers who enjoy both suspense and sentimentality. Her books include the Past Life series and the Summer Isle series. Kelly lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and sons.

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Stan Utley has been a professional golfer on the PGA Tour for nearly two decades. He has coached many fellow pros, including Peter Jacobsen, Jay Haas, and Darren Clarke. His first book, The Art of Putting, was published by Gotham Books in June 2006 and had a third printing after just two months on sale.

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