HOWARD YARUSS is an economist, professor, attorney, businessman, and activist who has taught a variety of courses on economics and business and currently teaches at New York University. Prior to teaching, he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Radian Group, one of the largest guarantors of debt in the world. Yaruss graduated from Brown University, studied at the London School of Economics, and earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Manhattan.

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Leslie A. Rasmussen was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. She went on to write television comedies for Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, Drew Carey, The Wild Thornberrys, and Sweet Valley High. After leaving the business to raise her boys, Leslie obtained a master’s degree in nutrition and ran her own business for ten years. Leslie has been published in the Huffington Post over twenty times and speaks on panels discussing female empowerment. She’s a member of the Writers Guild of America, Women in Film, and the UCLA Alumni Association. Her debut novel, After Happily Ever After, has won over fifteen awards, and her second novel, The Stories We Cannot Tell, has won eleven awards. Leslie’s newest novel, When People Leave, was released in May 2025. She has appeared in numerous media outlets and been interviewed by the likes of NPR and XM Radio.

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Jill G. Hall is author of the award-winning Anne McFarland Series about women searching for their place in the world connected by vintage finds. The Black Velvet Coat, The Silver Shoes, and The Green Lace Corset are bestselling book club favorites. Hall’s poems and personal narratives have appeared in a variety of publications and on her blog Creativity, the art of practicing a creative lifestyle.

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Abby Rosmarin has spent the last nine years as a professional writer. Her work has been featured on HuffPost, Bustle, Thought Catalog, Elite Daily, The Bangalore Review, Chaleur Magazine, Hello Giggles, Elephant Journal, Literally Darling, and more. A former model and current grad student, Abby has navigated through the highs and lows of trauma recovery, self-discovery, and becoming comfortable with one’s own company. She is the author of The Ballerina’s Guide to Boxing, Venom, and other independently-published works. Her new book is The Year of Dating Myself: How My Solo Tour Healed More Than Just My Heartbreak (July 8, 2025). Learn more at abbyrosmarin-author.com.

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Blair Sorrel is an author, innovator, and animal lover. She was Free Time’s “Dollarwise Dilettante” columnist, Together Dating Service’s matchmaker, and New York Blood Services’ apheresis recruiter. She founded StreetZaps to protect dogs and people from stray voltage and was the first community representative invited by Con Edison to their annual Jodie S. Lane Stray Voltage Detection, Mitigation, and Prevention National Conference. Her memoir is A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving. Learn more at rockingtributes.com

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Kate Russo, author of Super Host, grew up in Maine but now divides her time between Maine and the UK. She has an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, and while living in London, she worked with the theatre group, Love Bites, who presented two of her short plays (“The Blind” and “Bernie's Night Off”) at the Calder Bookshop Theatre. She exhibits widely in the United States and England.

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Lisa Borders is the author of the novels Cloud Cuckoo Land, chosen by Pat Conroy as the winner of River City Publishing’s Fred Bonnie Award and a Massachusetts Book Awards honoree, and The Fifty-First State. A frequent humor contributor at McSweeney’s, her essays and short fiction have appeared in Past Ten, The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Black Warrior Review and other journals. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Somerville Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and residencies at the Millay Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Blue Mountain Center and St. Nell’s.

Lisa taught for many years at Boston’s GrubStreet, where she founded the Novel Generator program and co-founded the Novel Incubator program. She currently teaches her own Novel Reactor workshops and does private manuscript consulting.

After growing up largely in Central Jersey – a part of New Jersey whose very existence is the topic of much debate – Lisa moved to the Boston area many years ago and now lives in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two rescue cats.

Lisa’s new novel, Last Night at the Disco, will be published by Regal House on October 7, 2025.

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Dr. Jerry C. Drake is a career civil servant, former professor of history, all-around amateur detective, with a wide-ranging educational background to include degrees in anthropology and United States history. This is his first foray into true crime. His short stories have appeared in CLASH Books anthologies; Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath and Walk Hand In Hand Into Extinction: Stories Inspired by True Detective.

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