Maggie Shipstead is an American novelist, short story author, essayist, and travel writer.

Percival Leonard Everett II is an American author and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor.

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist.

Gregory Scott is a city police detective, digital forensics examiner, and software developer who also works as an author. He is known for the Blake Brier series, which began in 2020 with *Unmasked* and currently spans eight novels, with *Quarry* being the most recently released. His background in the entertainment industry has given him a lasting appreciation for the arts.

Donna Balon is a former certified public accountant and tax attorney based in Las Vegas who turned to fiction writing. She is the author of *Sam Time* (Desert Day Press LLC, September 2023), a historical fiction novel about a history professor who befriends Ulysses S. Grant. Inspired during a trip to Colorado's old mining towns, she immersed herself in researching Grant and Victorian customs to bring the story to life.