Michael Bisping is a UFC Hall of Famer, former UFC middleweight champion of the world, an actor, television presenter, and podcaster. During his thirteen-year career as a professional mixed martial artist, his attacking style and quick-witted personality made him one of the UFC's biggest stars.

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Tom Bissell is the author of several books, including God Lives in St. Petersburg, The Father of All Things, and Extra Lives. He writes for multiple publications, including, Harper's Magazine, Slate, and The New Republic. He also contributes to Grantland and The New Yorker. Tom lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Lexi Bissen is a new adult and young adult romance author who aspires to write in all genres, including paranormal—which started her obsession with words and fictional characters she cares about more than real people. She's also a coffee snob, reader, far too sarcastic, and dog rescue advocate.

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Gabrielle Bisset is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sons of Navarus series. As K. M. Scott, she is the author of the Heart of Stone series. Loving what she does, her stories are filled with steamy sex, great dialogue, and happily ever afters that stay with readers long after they finish. Gabrielle lives in the United States.

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Shantelle Bisson is a producer, actress, parenting expert, and regular contributor to Everything Zoomer. She's also the owner of Shantilly's Place, a marina in Ontario's Kawartha region. She has raised three fully functioning young adults and splits her time between the lake, Toronto, and Los Angeles.

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Lucy Biven trained at the Anna Freud Centre in London, and has served as Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Leicestershire National Health Service in England. She is coauthor, with Jaak Panksepp, of The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions.

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Herbert P. Bix earned his PhD in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University. For the past thirty years he has written extensively on modern and contemporary Japanese history in leading journals in the United States and Japan.

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Eileen Bjorkman is a retired Air Force colonel. She was a flight test engineer during her Air Force career, flying more than 700 hours in twenty-five different types of military aircraft. She is also a civilian pilot and is the author of The Propeller Under the Bed and Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Hanna Bjørgaas is a biologist who has worked as a guide in the Arctic and Antarctic, led field courses in Norway, and worked with architects and artists to help communicate the joy of nature to others. She has written articles on popular science and contributed to conferences on ecology and farming.

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Persephone Black likes ice queens who melt behind closed doors, underworld empresses who protect what's theirs, and bad girls who stay bad to the end . . . but win the love of a good woman. Villains are (anti)heroines and danger is an aphrodisiac in Persephone Black's thrilling sapphic Mafia romance novels.

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Virginia Black (she/her) likes strong whiskey, loud music, and writing. When not penning dark speculative fiction, she is almost always reading. Born in California, Virginia escaped to the Pacific Northwest. She lives with her wife and their teenage daughter. Learn more at virginiablackwrites.com.

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Wayne Black has more than forty-five years of professional security experience in the public and private sectors. He is the founder and president of Wayne Black & Associates, Inc. For more than a decade, he was the security advisor/PSD lead for former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and the Rumsfeld Foundation.

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