Inara Verzemnieks teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa. She has won a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD, trained in neurosurgery with brain surgeon Peter Jannetta at the University of Pittsburgh. After completing his residency, Dr. Vertosick spent the next fifteen years at Pitt as a surgical neuro-oncologist. He worked in other areas of medicine from 2002 until his retirement in 2013.

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Cia Verschelden has worked in higher education for over three decades. Her research and writing related to equity in educational opportunity led to publication of her bestselling book, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization.

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Thomas R. Verny is a clinical psychiatrist and the author of eight books, including The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, which was published in twenty-seven countries and forty-seven scientific papers. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, York University (Toronto), and St. Mary's University.

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David Vernon is senior lecturer in psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research interests include a wide range of anomalous phenomena and the implications they have for models/theories of consciousness.

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Ursula Vernon is the award-winning author and illustrator of the popular Dragonbreath series. Her Eisner-nominated comic Digger won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, and her children's book Dragonbreath won the Sequoyah Award in 2013. Ursula lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, where she works full-time as an artist, writer, and creator of oddities. Visit her at ursulavernon.com.

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Zackary Vernon is a writer and scholar based in Boone, North Carolina. His work has appeared in a range of magazines and journals, including The Bitter Southerner, Carolina Quarterly, and Southern Cultures, and he received the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review.

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Leslie Vernick, a popular speaker and relationship coach, is the bestselling author of many books, including The Emotionally Destructive Marriage. She received her master's degree in clinical social work from the University of Illinois and has completed postgraduate work in biblical counseling and cognitive therapy.

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French author Jules Verne (1828–1905) was the grand master of science fiction, publishing such notable works as Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and The Mysterious Island, as well as many historical fiction adventures.

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Throughout her twenty-year career in communications, Harmony Verna has worked with all media facets. She has written scripts for the Food Network and articles for Modern Bride Magazine, Connecticut Woman Magazine, and more. Daughter of Australia was a final round selection for the James Jones First Novel Contest.

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Adrian Vermeule is Ralph S. Tyler, Jr., Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. His many books include Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State and The Constitution of Risk.

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