Aurora Mattia is drawn to dim lights, velvet eyelashes, kaleidoscopes, semicolons, silk draping, cemeteries, and the blank page. Her influences range from the Psalms to the psych ward. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Catherine Mattice, MA, is the founder and CEO of Civility Partners, a consulting firm that has helped over 250 companies detoxify and create respectful, productive workplace cultures. Her online courses have reached over three million learners, and she's a widely regarded keynote speaker on building civil company culture.

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Peter Mattis is a research fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and a contributing editor at War on the Rocks. He previously was a fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He also worked as a counterintelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Mel Mattison is a writer and financial services veteran. Leveraging over twenty years' experience in the realm of high finance, he brings real-world authenticity to his fictional narratives. Mel holds an MBA from Duke University and studied creative writing at Loyola University Chicago. Visit him at melmattison.com.

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Greggor Mattson, PhD, is an author and professor of sociology at Oberlin College & Conservatory where he teaches courses on sexuality, nightlife, and cities. His work has appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology, as well as in Slate, Literary Hub, Business Insider, and the Daily Beast.

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Claire Matturro has been a journalist in Alabama, a lawyer in Florida, an organic blueberry farmer in Georgia, and taught at Florida State University College of Law and as a visiting professor of legal writing one snowy winter at the University of Oregon. She now lives with her husband and two rescued cats in Florida.

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Philip Matyszak holds a doctorate in ancient history from St John's College, Oxford University. He specializes in the history of Classical Greece and of the Late Republic and Early Imperial periods of Rome. Matyszak has personal military experience both as a conscript in Rhodesia and with the Territorial Army in Britain.

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Robert Matzen is the internationally bestselling author of Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe, and seven other books. He is a Hollywood historian specializing in Warner Bros. Studios, and his byline has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

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Paul Matzko is a historian who specializes in the intersection of politics, religion, and mass media in modern America. He currently works at the Cato Institute as the Editor for Tech and Innovation for Libertarianism.org and is the host of the weekly podcast Building Tomorrow.

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W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer whose most notable works include Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge, and The Gentleman in the Parlour.

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Joshua Mauldin is associate director of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. He holds a PhD in religious ethics from Southern Methodist University.

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Chris Maunder is a visiting fellow in theology and religious studies at York St John University. He is the author of Our Lady of the Nations: Apparitions of Mary in 20th-Century Catholic Europe. He lives in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, with his wife, Natalie.

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