Robert Atkinson, PhD, award-winning author, educator, and developmental psychologist, is a 2020 Gold Nautilus Book Award winner as coeditor of Our Moment of Choice, and a 2017 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner for The Story of Our Time.
Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Ghanaian-born writer living in Senegal. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the author of three novels. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Elle Italia and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers' Anthology.
Attar was a Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.
Leylah Attar is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 53 Letters for My Lover and From His Lips. She writes stories about love—shaken, stirred, and served with a twist. Sometimes she disappears into the black hole of the internet, but can usually be enticed out with chocolate. Visit her at leylahattar.com.
Russell J. Atwater grew up in the Midwest enjoying a steady diet of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and The Rifleman. A lover of Western genre fiction, his passion is to write stories that celebrate life in the old west with the old-fashioned values of honesty, loyalty, and righteousness.
Jude Atwood grew up on a farm in small-town Illinois. After graduating from Bradley University and Chapman University, he became a community college professor in Orange County, California, where it hasn't snowed in over seventy years.
Devon Atwood lives in the mountains of Wyoming with her husband, their many children, and a menagerie of animals. Devon's favorite thing is writing in silence with a good playlist on in the background, but she will settle for her usual ambiance of bickering children, barking dogs, and cheerio crumbs under her butt.
Rachel Atwood is the author of Walk the Wild with Me. She grew up enchanted with British History and now writes historical fiction with enchantments. Every time she visits the British Isles, she basks in the shadows of standing stones and glories in ancient crypts while drinking in the lush accents of the people she meets.
James E. Atwood is pastor emeritus of Trinity Presbyterian Church of Arlington, Virginia. He has served as chair of the anti-gun violence group Heeding God's Call of Greater Washington, interfaith coordinator of the Million Mom March, and a member of the National Committee of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.
Jerry Aubin is a technology executive who runs a venture-backed start-up. A lifelong science fiction fan, he decided to write his own series when he became disenchanted with the stories available to read to his kids.
Edward Aubry is a novelist and a teacher of high school mathematics and creative writing. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he lives in rural Pennsylvania with his wife and three daughters.
MJ Auch is the award-winning author of One-Handed Catch, Ashes of Roses, Wing Nut, Guitar Boy, and numerous other books for young readers. She lives in upstate New York with her family.