Dr. Ellen Wachtel, the author of Treating Troubled Children and Their Families, is widely known for her work in the field of marriage and family therapy.

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Peter Wacht's novels focus on the fantasy and young adult fiction genres. He is the author of The Legend of the Kestrel, the first book in The Sylvan Chronicles Series. When he's not writing, Peter runs a nonprofit, coaches soccer, is in a PhD program for writing and rhetoric, and still finds time to be with his family.

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Stephanie Wittels Wachs is a writer, theater artist, educator, and voice actor. She is the Executive Director of Rec Room Arts in Houston, Texas, and cohost of the weekly podcast Hands Off Parents.

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Stuart Vyse is a behavioral scientist, teacher, and writer. He holds PhD and MA degrees in psychology and BA and MA degrees in English literature. He taught at Providence College, the University of Rhode Island, and Connecticut College, where he was Joanne Toor Cummings '50 Professor.

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Iryna Vushko is assistant professor of history at Princeton University and the author of The Politics of Cultural Retreat: Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772–1867, which won the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies. She lives in Kingston, New Jersey.

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Éric Vuillard is an award-winning author and filmmaker who has written eleven books, including Conquistadors (winner of the 2010 Prix Ignatius J. Reilly), and La bataille d'Occident and Congo (both of which received the 2012 Prix Franz-Hessel and the 2013 Prix Valery-Larbaud).

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Jason Vuic is the author of The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History and The Sarajevo Olympics: A History of the 1984 Winter Games. A lifelong Buccaneer fan with degrees from Wake Forest University, the University of Richmond, and Indiana University, he now lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Peter Vronsky, a filmmaker and investigative historian, is the author of several books, including Ridgeway. In addition, he is coeditor of the Crimes Canada series with RJ Parker. Peter holds a PhD in the history of espionage in international relations and criminal justice history from the University of Toronto.

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Pam Vredevelt is a Licensed Professional Counselor, popular inspirational speaker, and bestselling author of the Espresso for a Woman's Spirit series, Angel Behind the Rocking Chair, and Empty Arms: Hope and Support for Those Who Have Suffered a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Tubal Pregnancy.

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Rudolf Vrba was born in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1924. As a teenager, he was deported to Auschwitz. He was interned there from April 1942 to June 1944, when he and fellow prisoner Alfred Wetzler escaped. He and Wetzler's report of the atrocities of Auschwitz alerted authorities across the world.

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A. J. Vrana is a Serbian-Canadian academic and writer from Toronto, Canada. Her doctoral research examines the supernatural in modern Japanese and former-Yugoslavian literature and its relationship to violence.

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Thao Votang's work has been published in Salon, Hyperallergic, Sightlines, Southwest Contemporary, and Lucky Jefferson. She coedited Conflict of Interest, an arts and lit publication, and cofounded the Tiny Park arts space. Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine is her debut novel.

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