Ersilia Vaudo has a degree in astrophysics and a thirty-year career at the European Space Agency. She has written and presented widely on science and space topics for a general audience. She lives in Paris.

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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.

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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.

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Victoria Vassallo can be described in many ways. However, the most accurate would be a tea-loving storyteller obsessed with creating worlds inspired by ancient myths and legends. She is also an Australian solo mother-of-two.

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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.

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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.

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P. A. Vasey was born in Newcastle, UK, and moved to Australia in 2004. He is a practicing medical oncologist and clinical researcher at a hospital in Brisbane. After a serious cycling accident, writing science fiction became his therapy. His books include the Vu-Hak War Trilogy and Harbinger.

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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.

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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.

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Georgios Varouxakis is professor of the history of political thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London and codirector of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought. He is the author of Mill on Nationality, Victorian Political Thought on France and the French, and Liberty Abroad.

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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.

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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.

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