Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels (including The Homewreckers; The Santa Suit; The Newcomer; Hello, Summer; Sunset Beach; The High Tide Club; The Weekenders; Beach Town; Save the Date; Ladies’ Night; Christmas Bliss; Spring Fever; Summer Rental; The Fixer Upper; Deep Dish; Blue Christmas; Savannah Breeze; Hissy Fit; Little Bitty Lies; and Savannah Blues), and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook.
A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she earned a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction.
Andy Davidson is the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of The Hollow Kind, The Boatman’s Daughter, and In the Valley of the Sun. His work has been listed among NPR’s Best Books of the year, the New York Public Library’s Best Adult Books of the Year, and Library Journal’s Best Horror. Born and raised in Arkansas, Andy makes his home in Georgia with his wife, Crystal, and a bunch of cats.
Marlena Frank has always been fascinated by monsters, and now gets to write about them. She is the author of young adult fantasy and horror novels, short stories, novellas, and series. Many of her books have hit the Amazon bestseller charts, including her debut novel, Stolen, and her latest book release, The Impostor and Other Dark Tales. In 2022, she kicked off her young adult dark fantasy series The Wolves of Kanta featuring mad scientists, hunters, and werewolves.
Julia Franks is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Say So and Over the Plain Houses, a debut that was included in many “best of” lists, including NPR’s Notable Books of 2016. Her work has received a half dozen prestigious literary prizes (The Townsend Prize, The Thomas Wolfe Award, The Southern Book Prize, Georgia Author of the Year, The IPPY Gold, and An Earbuds Award from Library Journal’s Audiofiles Magazine). She has also published stories in The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Lit Hub, and The Bitter Southerner. Her family roots are in the Southeast, though she was raised as an army “brat” and has lived in many places. For years she taught high school in the US and abroad. She and her husband live in Decatur, Georgia.
Anthony Grooms teaches fiction writing, literature, and American Studies, and directs the M. A. in Professional Writing program at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Also, he has taught in Ghana and Sweden, and lectured in Morocco and the U.A.E. His fiction, poetry and essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad. His novel Bombingham, set against the Civil Rights Movement, is often taught in high schools and colleges and was a Washington Post notable book and was chosen as a city-wide common read for D. C. In 2019, his most recent novel, The Vain Conversation was designated an Honor Book for Fiction for 2019 by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Grooms has twice won the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Foundation award. He holds fellowships from Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright.
L.D. Lewis (she/her) is an editor, publisher, and Shirley Jackson award-nominated writer of speculative fiction. She serves as a founding creator and Project Manager for the World Fantasy and Hugo Award0winning FIYAH Literary Magazine. She also serves as the founding Director of (Hugo-nominated) FIYAHCON, Researcher for the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, and pays the bills as the Director of Programs and Operations for Lambda Literary. She frequently bothers the publishing industry by authoring studies about the treatment and experiences of racially.ethnically marginalized authors in speculative literature. She is the author of A Ruin of Shadows, and her published short fiction and poetry includes appearances in FIYAH, PodCastle, Strange Horizons, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Lightspeed, Fireside, Neon Hemlock, and Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming, among others. She lives in Georgia, on perpetual deadline, with her coffee habit, two cats, and an impressive LEGO build collection.
DL Mitchell is the author of Trust the Terrier: A Coral Shores Veterinary Mystery and a practicing small animal veterinarian. Her motto—It’s never too late! Leaving a successful marketing career to attend vet school in her thirties was an easy decision. Life as a small animal veterinarian was a dream come true, but after years spent working in busy hospitals in Miami and Northern Virginia, it was time for a change. She opened a veterinary house call practice offering concierge care, including acupuncture services, for her feline and canine patients in the Atlanta area. On a daily basis, she is inspired by the bond between her clients and their furry family members. Combining amusing and heartwarming true-life cases with a love of mystery novels became the inspiration for Trust the Terrier. Remember, it’s never too late.
Born and raised in Georgia, James Tuck grew up drawing and reading from a wee lad. A steady helping of Robert E. Howard stories, Golden Age comics, and books he was far too young to have been reading, combined with a very Southern involvement in church and watching horror movies, became the bedrock of his creativity. He grew up, became a tattoo artist, and now a writer of dark fantasy.
Andrew Diaz Winkelmann is a Cuban-American novelist born, raised in Atlanta, GA. Growing up in a multi-cultural family where cuentos of the glory years in Cuba abounded, his love for storytelling flourished. Andrew was writing and selling short stories to the employees at his grandfather’s business (and to his classmates at school) since he was six years old, realizing early on that writing was his favorite form of expression.
One of the cuentos shared with him by his Abuelo Rene and Abuela Ines, the story of the day his family left Cuba, is what first became the short-story, The Cuban Dream, and eventually inspired his debut novel, The Guava Tree.
Andrew continues to write fiction (with a second novel in-progress) and is passionate about uplifting the Latino community in the United States, having served at the board or committee level of multiple non-profits, and currently serves as the Vice Chairman of HoPe (Hispanic Organization Promoting Education), the largest Latino/Hispanic educational leadership program in the US. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, and their two young children.
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