Catherine Yu writes dark speculative fiction. She was born in Nanjing and is now based in New York. She is a graduate of Odyssey Writing Workshop. Direwood is her debut novel.

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Jennifer Yu is the author of Four Weeks, Five People, and Imagine Us Happy. When not writing, you can find her weeping intermittently about the Boston Celtics, photos of the Earth from outer space, and the etymology of the word disaster.

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Ovidia Yu has had more than thirty plays produced and is also the author of a number of mysteries. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Iowa's International Writers Program and has been a writing fellow at the National University of Singapore.

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Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children (winner of the 2016 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Reader's Choice Award), the novel Dora: A Headcase, and three books of short fiction. She lives in Oregon with her husband, Andy Mingo, and their son, Miles.

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Erin Yun received her BFA in English from New York University and is currently pursuing her Masters in creative writing at Cambridge. Erin is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She developed the Pippa Park Author Program, an interactive writing workshop.

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Nicolás Yunes is professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and founding director of the Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe. Before joining Illinois, he was an associate professor at Montana State University, where he cofounded the eXtreme Gravity Institute.

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Ginny Yurich is a homeschooling mother of five and founder of 1000 Hours Outside, a global movement designed to reclaim childhood. Along with her husband, Josh, Ginny is a full-time creator and curator of the 1000 Hours Outside lifestyle brand, which includes a robust online store, an app, and books.

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Sol Yurick (1925–2013) was a left-wing, radical writer. Best known as the author of The Warriors, he wrote three great novels of social realism in the 1960s which demonstrated his flair for satire and acid-sharp observation about the social structure of his home city, New York.

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Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD, is an oncologist and internal medicine physician on the faculty at Stanford Medicine. Her medical journalism has been published in the Atlantic, Scientific American, Undark, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

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David A. Yuzuk was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He received a scholarship to play football for the University of Stony Brook. After college, David became a police officer. After almost twenty years of police work, David retired and now pursues his passion in writing, producing, directing, and acting.

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Celeste Yvonne is a writer, mom, and marketing professional. Her work on parenting, the mental load of motherhood, mommy wine culture, and sobriety has been featured in the Washington Post, Good Morning America, the Today show, and Refinery 29, among others. She lives in Reno, Nevada, with her husband and two boys.

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