Radha Vatsal grew up in Mumbai, India, and came to the United States to attend boarding school when she was sixteen. Her fascination with the 1910s began when she studied women filmmakers and action-film heroines of silent cinema at Duke University, where she earned her PhD from the English Department.

See Full Bio

Christine Vatovec is a research assistant professor at the University of Vermont, an award-winning lecturer, and a fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment.

See Full Bio

Ana Maria Vasquez is a multi-sensory animal and nature intuitive, and a shamanic practitioner. As a natural energy reader, she lifts the veil between what's occurring in the physical world and the energetic patterns behind it. Ana Maria helps others understand the spiritual messages coming from nature.

See Full Bio

Andrey Vasilyev is a much-celebrated Moscow-based author, as well as one of the originators of the relatively new, yet insanely popular genre that blends cyberpunk, classic sci-fi, and fantasy. He is the author of several LitRPG books, including The Litworld Duo: More Than a Game and Becoming a Dragon and Raven's Castle.

See Full Bio

Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian. He is most known today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.

See Full Bio

Fredrick E. Vars is the Ira Drayton Pruitt, Sr., Professor of Law at the University of Alabama, where he specializes in mental health law. He works with numerous suicide-prevention organizations and is a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Gun Violence.

See Full Bio

Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of numerous award-winning books, including Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy.

See Full Bio

Jodi Varon is professor emeritus of writing and English at Eastern Oregon University, where she directed the low residency MFA in creative writing and served as editor-in-chief of basalt. She is the author of Drawing to an Inside Straight and her work has been published in the Northwest Review, Boulevard, New Letters.

See Full Bio

Frank P. Varney teaches United States and classical history at Dickinson State University of North Dakota, where he is also the director of the Theodore Roosevelt Honors Leadership Program. General Grant and the Verdict of History is his first book.

See Full Bio

Brandon Varnell is the author of the Executioner, American Kitsune, and Journey of a Betrayed Hero series, among other titles. Visit him at varnell-brandon.com.

See Full Bio

John Varley is the author of Slow Apocalypse, the Gaean Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Red Thunder, Mammoth, Red Lightning, and Rolling Thunder. He has won both the Nebula and Hugo awards for his work.

See Full Bio

Dina Vargo has been a lover of history and tri-corn hats since dressing up as Betsy Ross for our nation's bicentennial. She is a volunteer tour guide for Boston By Foot, where she has developed an expertise in and giving "off-beat" walking tours. Dina is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.

See Full Bio