Ursula Vernon is the award-winning author and illustrator of the popular Dragonbreath series. Her Eisner-nominated comic Digger won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, and her children's book Dragonbreath won the Sequoyah Award in 2013. Ursula lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, where she works full-time as an artist, writer, and creator of oddities. Visit her at ursulavernon.com.

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Zackary Vernon is a writer and scholar based in Boone, North Carolina. His work has appeared in a range of magazines and journals, including The Bitter Southerner, Carolina Quarterly, and Southern Cultures, and he received the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review.

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Leslie Vernick, a popular speaker and relationship coach, is the bestselling author of many books, including The Emotionally Destructive Marriage. She received her master's degree in clinical social work from the University of Illinois and has completed postgraduate work in biblical counseling and cognitive therapy.

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French author Jules Verne (1828–1905) was the grand master of science fiction, publishing such notable works as Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and The Mysterious Island, as well as many historical fiction adventures.

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Throughout her twenty-year career in communications, Harmony Verna has worked with all media facets. She has written scripts for the Food Network and articles for Modern Bride Magazine, Connecticut Woman Magazine, and more. Daughter of Australia was a final round selection for the James Jones First Novel Contest.

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Adrian Vermeule is Ralph S. Tyler, Jr., Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. His many books include Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State and The Constitution of Risk.

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Geza Vermes's pioneering work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the historical Jesus led to his appointment as the first professor of Jewish studies at Oxford University, where he is now professor emeritus. He is the author of several books, including "The Authentic Gospel of Jesus."

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Jessica Verdi is the author of And She Was, What You Left Behind, The Summer I Wasn't Me, and My Life After Now. She is a graduate of The New School's MFA in writing for children program and lives in New York. Visit her at jessicaverdi.com.

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Margaret Verble is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She has authored many academic publications and television scripts, and her short stories have appeared in various publications, including the Saturday Evening Post and the Arkansas Review. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky, and Old Windsor, England.

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Lorenzo Veracini teaches history and politics at the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems. He has authored Israel and Settler Society, Settler Colonialism, The Settler Colonial Present, and The World Turned Inside Out.

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Aurora Venturini was an Argentinian author who wrote more than thirty books. In 2007, she received the Página/12 New Novel Award for Cousins. She died in 2015, in Buenos Aires, at the age of ninety-four.

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John Ventura is a bestselling author and a nationally board-certified bankruptcy attorney. John is the author of thirteen books on consumer and small business legal matters. He is also a regular speaker at law conferences around the country and serves on the Bankruptcy Council for the Texas Bar Association.

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