Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD, is an oncologist and internal medicine physician on the faculty at Stanford Medicine. Her medical journalism has been published in the Atlantic, Scientific American, Undark, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

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Cari Z was a bookworm as a child and remains one to this day. She writes in a wide range of genres, but somehow 90% of what she produces ends up falling into the broad and exciting category of m/m erotica. There's a sprinkling of f/m and f/f and even m/f/m in her repertoire, but her true love is man love.

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Jan Zaanen is well known for his various groundbreaking discoveries in the field of physics, honored by a Spinoza ("Dutch Nobel") prize, a fellowship of the Dutch Royal Academy (KNAW), and visiting professorships at Stanford University, the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris and the Solvay Institute in Brussels.

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Bryce Zabel has created five primetime network series, notably NBC's Emmy-winning UFO series Dark Skies. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Anna Zabo writes contemporary and paranormal romance for all colors of the rainbow. She has an MFA in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University, where she fell in with a roving band of romance writers and never looked back. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Lieutenant Colonel Michael Zacchea (USMC-Ret.) led the Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis of the Iraqi Fifth Battalion and their U.S. advisers. He won two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and Iraq's Order of the Lion of Babylon. Zacchea is currently director of the UConn Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities.

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Narda Zacchino is a former deputy editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Anne H. Zachry, PhD, OTR/L, is a pediatric occupational therapist, child development specialist, and associate professor of occupational therapy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

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Richard Zacks is the author of History Laid Bare and An Underground Education.

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Richard Zacks is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Chasing the Last Laugh, Island of Vice, and An Underground Education. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, and many other publications.

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Alyssa Zaczek is an author, playwright, journalist, and a lifelong lover of words. Martin McLean, Middle School Queen is her debut novel. Originally from Chicago, Alyssa now lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Visit her online at alyssazaczek.com.

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Alicia Zadig is a leading Dominatrix and BDSM expert with years of firsthand experience. She has a degree in psychology and is a certified practitioner of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and Ericksonian hypnosis. She loves spending time with friends and family, participating in elite gymnastics, and traveling.

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