Jessamyn Violet is a writer and musician. She received her BFA in writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College, and her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco's California College of the Arts. Secret Rules to being a Rockstar is her debut novel. She currently lives in Venice Beach, California.

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Silvia Violet writes erotic romance in a variety of genres including paranormal, contemporary, and historical. When not writing, Silvia enjoys baking sinfully delicious treats, exploring new styles of cooking, and reading to her incorrigible offspring.

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Alessandra Viola is a scientific journalist, writer of documentaries, and a television scriptwriter. In 2011, she directed the Genoa Science Festival.

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Yuri Vinokuroff was born in 1976 in Sevastopol. An avid reader from an early age, he was especially fond of fantasy and science fiction. Already back then, he knew he wanted to write books rather than just read them.

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Laura Vinogradova (1984) is the author of a children's book (Baby Long Nose from the Long Nose Village) and two collections of short stories (exhalations and Bear Hill). River is her first novel and was shortlisted for the 2020 Latvian Literature Award, and received a 2021 EU Prize for Literature.

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Cynthia Vinney is a freelance writer and independent researcher who studies how audiences understand, engage with, and respond to popular media. She is co-author of the book Mad Men Unzipped.

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Season Vining is an author, a designer, a philanthropist, a bookworm, a cook, and a night owl. Season adores all form of art. She's a fan of live music, vintage cars, and people who know the difference between their, there, and they're. She writes contemporary and new adult romance, always with a bit of adventure mixed in.

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Stephen Vines is a Hong Kong-based journalist who hosts current affairs TV show The Pulse. The founding editor of the Eastern Express, and author of Hong Kong: China's New Colony among other books, he has worked for the BBC, The Observer, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, and The Sunday Times.

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David Vine is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia and an associate professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Guardian, among other publications. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Becca Vincenza is the author of the Rebirth series and the Mercenaries for Hire series. She lives in Michigan.

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Warwick Vincent is professor of biology at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, where he teaches limnology (lake science) and oceanography.

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Peggy Vincent is a licensed midwife and the author of Baby Catcher. She became a licensed midwife specializing in home births in 1980, after fifteen years as a delivery room nurse, ten years as a natural childbirth teacher, and three years as the director of the first alternative birth center in the East Bay.

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