Yulia Konstantinovna Zhukova spent her early years in Uralsk but her parents moved from city to city through their work for the secret police, the NKVD. She eventually enlisted and trained to be a sniper. After the war she finished her studies at Moscow University Pedagogical Institute.

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Yijie Zhuang obtained his PhD from the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. He is now a senior lecturer in Chinese archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He edited 30 Second Ancient China.

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Petr Zhgulyov had never tried to write a book himself until he began his IT studies. This is when he discovered Russia's biggest online writing community, Samizdat. His first book received a warm welcome from his online audience.

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Peter Zheutlin, the author of Around the World on Two Wheels, is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared regularly in the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor. Peter has also written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, AARP The Magazine, and other publications. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts.

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Xin Zhang is the author of Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900–1937. He is professor of history at Indiana University Indianapolis and a member of the Association for Asian Studies.

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Jenny Zhang, a writer and poet based in New York City, is the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find and the story collection Sour Heart. She is the recipient of the Pen/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

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Monika Zgustova is an award-winning author whose works have been published in more than ten languages. She was born in Prague and studied comparative literature in the United States. She then moved to Barcelona, where she writes for El País, The Nation, and CounterPunch, among others.

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Niklas Zetterling is a military historian and researcher at the Swedish Defense College. His books include Bismarck, The Korsun Pocket, and The Drive on Moscow, 1941.

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Chris Zett lives in Berlin, Germany, with her wife. Television inspired her to study medicine, but she found out soon enough that real life in a hospital consists more of working long hours than performing heroic rescues. The part about finding a workplace romance turned out to be true, though.

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Emma Zeth is the author of The Lucky Prepper: A Gardener's Story of Surviving a Pandemic.

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Phoebe Zerwick is an award-winning investigative journalist, narrative writer, and college teacher. She is the director of the journalism program at Wake Forest University.

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