Anna Burke is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Nottingham, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and winner of Foreword Reviews INDIES LGBTQ+ Book of the Year (Silver Medal), and Thorn, which received an IPPY Silver Medal in Fantasy, a Foreword Reviews INDIES LGBTQ+ Book of the Year (Gold Medal), and was long-listed for the ALA Over the Rainbow Fiction Award. Her other novels include In the Roses of Pieria, Compass Rose and Sea Wolf, and the two previous Seal Cove Romance series. Her writing interests include feminist retellings and queer fiction.
ANN McMAN is the author of fourteen novels and two short story collections. She is a two-time Lambda Literary Award recipient, a six-time Independent Publisher (IPPY) medalist, a Foreword Reviews INDIES medalist, and a laureate of the Alice B. Foundation for her outstanding body of work. She splits her time between Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Grand Isle, Vermont.
JENN ALEXANDER holds an MS in Counseling from the University of North Texas. She is a graduate of the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Writing Academy, for which she was the recipient of the Sandra Moran Scholarship. She lives in Edmonton, Canada, with her partner, two beautiful daughters, and one sweet and amazing dog.
VIRGINIA BLACK (she/her) is the author of Consecrated Ground and No Shelter But the Stars. She is a two-time winner of Golden Crown Literary Society Awards, and has been selected to participate in the 2024 Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Born in California—where even green is brown—Virginia escaped to the rain showers and vibrant greens of the Pacific Northwest. She lives with her wife of more than twenty years and their savagely witty teenage daughter. Learn more at virginiablackwrites.com.
CATHY PEGAU grew up in New York State reading horror, science fiction, and fantasy novels, and playing RPGs. Her science fiction romances have won RWA Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal (FF&P) Chapter Best Futuristic Romance and Best of the Best Prism Awards and a Golden Crown Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy. She lives in Alaska with her spouse, two dogs, and numerous roaming moose.
