Jeff Smoot is the founder of Camp Long's annual Mountain Fest, celebrating Seattle's rich climbing history and culture. A semi-retired attorney, he has served as Chair of the Washington State Bar Association Law Clerk Board and is a regular speaker at legal education seminars. Jeff lives in Seattle.

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Guido Smorto is a professor of comparative private law at University of Palermo, where he holds the EU Jean Monnet Chair in Comparative and European Digital Law. He has held research and visiting professor positions in several academic institutions in Europe, as well as in the US, Japan, and Latin America.

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Mark Smylie, the founder of Archaia Entertainment, LLC, has worked as a writer, illustrator, editor, and publisher for over a decade. His epic military fantasy comic book Artesia was published in 1999. He designed and illustrated a role-playing game based on Artesia that won the Origins Award for best role-playing game of 2006, as well as three Indie RPG Awards.

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Courtney Smyth (they/them) is a chronically ill writer of stories from Dublin, currently living in the West of Ireland. They have had a number of short stories published in Paper Lanterns Literary Journal and appeared in The Last Five Minutes of a Storm anthology. They can be found on Twitter and Instagram @cswritesbooks.

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O. Carter Snead is William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, professor of law, and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and the principal bioethics advisory body to Pope Francis.

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Donald C. Snedeker is a second-generation Blackhorse trooper. For the past thirty years, Don has served as the historian for the 11th Armored Cavalry Veterans of Vietnam and Cambodia. He is also the author of The Blackhorse in Vietnam.

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Rick Snedeker was born in Rockville Centre, New York, in 1950, but grew up in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the headquarters of the Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco). Snedeker, a journalist and public relations professional during his career, retired in 2011 and now has plenty of time to write every day.

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Christine Sneed, winner of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, is the author of the novel Little Known Facts and the story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, which was a 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize winner and a finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Award. She lives in Illinois.

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Scott A. Snell is professor at University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He teaches courses in strategic management and works internationally with senior executives to help their companies align strategy, organizational capability, and investments in top talent.

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Mark A. Snell is the director of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War and professor of history at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Mark has written or edited several books about the Civil War, including From First to Last and Unknown Soldiers.

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Dennis Snelling is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Pacific Coast League Historical Society. He is the author of Lefty O'Doul: Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador (Nebraska, 2017), Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life, and The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903–1957.

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Lauraine Snelling is the award-winning author of over fifty books, including Blessing in Disguise and Believing the Dream. She won a Silver Angel Award and a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart. She also writes for a wide range of magazines. Lauraine lives in California.

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