Kennedy Layne is the USA Today bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Keys to Love series, the Paramour Bay Cozy Paranormal Mystery series, and the Red Starr series. She lives in the Midwest with her husband, their teenage son, and a menagerie of pets. Visit her at kennedylayne.com.

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Lauren Layne is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen contemporary romance novels, including the Stiletto series and the Redemption series. Prior to becoming a writer, she worked in e-commerce and web marketing. Lauren currently lives in New York with her husband and their spoiled Pomeranian.

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Tessa Layne is the USA Today bestselling author of the Heroes of Resolution Ranch series and the Cowboys of the Flint Hills series.

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Alexander Layne is an Australian author of both horror and fantasy. Path of the Knight is the first book in his Dark Ascension series. He is also the author of the Flayed Sun trilogy, starting with The Bone Spear. Learn more at alexander-layne.com.

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Kiese Laymon is a contributing editor at Gawker.com and has written for numerous publications, including Esquire and ESPN.com. He is also the author of a collection of essays entitled How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.

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Joseph P. Laycock is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University. His work explores American religious history and new religious movements. He is also a coeditor of the journal Nova Religio.

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Laurie Laybourn-Langton is director of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, which represents over 600,000 health professionals in the UK on climate change and a senior research fellow at IPPR.

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Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction, and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he wrote more than sixty books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs.

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Leah Lax has won awards in both fiction and nonfiction, and her work has been included in numerous anthologies and publications, both in print and online. Her work for stage has been reviewed in the New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine, and has been broadcast on NPR.

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Dan Lawton's short fiction, essays, and columns have appeared in several journals and periodicals since 2001. Above the Ground: A True Story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland is Dan's first work of nonfiction. Dan resides in San Diego, where he is a practicing lawyer and adjunct law professor.

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Nancy Lawson is the author of The Humane Gardener. A columnist for All Animals magazine, she founded Humane Gardener, an outreach initiative dedicated to animal-friendly landscaping methods. Her book and garden have been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other media outlets.

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Robert Lawson is Associate Professor in sociolinguistics at Birmingham City University. He is the editor of Sociolinguistics in Scotland and coeditor of Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact.

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