Anthony Alves is the author of the Blood and Qi series.

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Aaisha Alvi is a postpartum psychosis awareness advocate. She volunteers with various maternal mental health organizations, including Postpartum Support International.

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Liz Alvin has loved to read and write for as long as she can remember. Over the years, she has won numerous awards and writing contests. Her favorite stories to share are those with love, happy endings, and lots of humor.

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Brandon Alvis is a star of the A&E program Ghost Hunters. He has used his scientifically oriented techniques to investigate more than 200 public and private locations with his team, the American Paranormal Research Association. Visit him online at brandonjalvis.com.

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Jeff Alworth has been writing about beer and brewing for twenty years. He is the author of The Beer Bible, Cider Made Simple, and The Beer Tasting Toolkit. A columnist for All About Beer, he has written for a number of magazines and newspapers, and blogs about beer at his popular site, Beervana.

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Götz Aly is the author of Hitler's Beneficiaries and Why the Germans? Why the Jews?, among other books. One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, he has received the National Jewish Book Award, the Heinrich Mann Prize, and the Ludwig Börne Prize, among numerous other honors.

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Dima Alzayat is an award-winning author. Her stories have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Bristol Short Story Award Anthology, Bridport Prize Anthology, and Enizagam. She was born in Damascus, Syria, and now lives in Manchester, UK.

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Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

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Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. The author of several books, including America's Unwritten Constitution, and winner of the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, Akhil lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

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Astrid Amara lives in Bellingham, Washington. She's a former Peace Corps volunteer, an advocate for animal rights, and a bureaucrat by day. After work she can usually be found writing, riding horses, hiking, or sleeping. Her novel The Archer's Heart was a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Award.

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HeatherAsh Amara is the founder of Toci—the Toltec Center of Creative Intent, based in Austin, Texas. She is the author of The Toltec Path of Transformation and No Mistakes: How You Can Change Adversity into Abundance.

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Carmen Amato is the author of romantic thrillers and the Detective Emilia Cruz mystery series (including Cliff Diver, Hat Dance, and Diablo Nights). Originally from New York, Carmen was educated there as well as in Virginia and Paris, France, while her experiences in Mexico and Central America inspire many of her books.

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