Jeff Alworth has been writing about beer and brewing for twenty years. He is the author of The Beer Bible, Cider Made Simple, and The Beer Tasting Toolkit. A columnist for All About Beer, he has written for a number of magazines and newspapers, and blogs about beer at his popular site, Beervana.

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Götz Aly is the author of Hitler's Beneficiaries and Why the Germans? Why the Jews?, among other books. One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, he has received the National Jewish Book Award, the Heinrich Mann Prize, and the Ludwig Börne Prize, among numerous other honors.

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Dima Alzayat is an award-winning author. Her stories have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Bristol Short Story Award Anthology, Bridport Prize Anthology, and Enizagam. She was born in Damascus, Syria, and now lives in Manchester, UK.

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Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

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Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. The author of several books, including America's Unwritten Constitution, and winner of the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, Akhil lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

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HeatherAsh Amara is the founder of Toci—the Toltec Center of Creative Intent, based in Austin, Texas. She is the author of The Toltec Path of Transformation and No Mistakes: How You Can Change Adversity into Abundance.

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Astrid Amara lives in Bellingham, Washington. She's a former Peace Corps volunteer, an advocate for animal rights, and a bureaucrat by day. After work she can usually be found writing, riding horses, hiking, or sleeping. Her novel The Archer's Heart was a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Award.

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Carmen Amato is the author of romantic thrillers and the Detective Emilia Cruz mystery series (including Cliff Diver, Hat Dance, and Diablo Nights). Originally from New York, Carmen was educated there as well as in Virginia and Paris, France, while her experiences in Mexico and Central America inspire many of her books.

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Barbara Amaya is an internationally recognized advocate, speaker, and author. Her column about human trafficking appears in the Washington Times three times a week. The recipient of the 2014 James B. Hunter Human Rights Award, she lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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Ruth Ann Amberstone and Wald Amberstone are cofounders of The Tarot School. Together they teach, write, and publish about tarot on all levels from divination to psychology to esotericism and magical practice.

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Wald Amberstone and Ruth Ann Amberstone are cofounders of The Tarot School. Together they teach, write, and publish about tarot on all levels from divination to psychology to esotericism and magical practice.

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Susan A. Ambrose is Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Education at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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