Lieutenant Colonel Michael Zacchea (USMC-Ret.) led the Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis of the Iraqi Fifth Battalion and their U.S. advisers. He won two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and Iraq's Order of the Lion of Babylon. Zacchea is currently director of the UConn Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities.

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Anna Zabo writes contemporary and paranormal romance for all colors of the rainbow. She has an MFA in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University, where she fell in with a roving band of romance writers and never looked back. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Bryce Zabel has created five primetime network series, notably NBC's Emmy-winning UFO series Dark Skies. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Jan Zaanen is well known for his various groundbreaking discoveries in the field of physics, honored by a Spinoza ("Dutch Nobel") prize, a fellowship of the Dutch Royal Academy (KNAW), and visiting professorships at Stanford University, the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris and the Solvay Institute in Brussels.

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Cari Z was a bookworm as a child and remains one to this day. She writes in a wide range of genres, but somehow 90% of what she produces ends up falling into the broad and exciting category of m/m erotica. There's a sprinkling of f/m and f/f and even m/f/m in her repertoire, but her true love is man love.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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