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Kathy Caprino
Kathy Caprino is a career coach and author. Her popular Career Bliss blog on Forbes.com has over 30 million views to date. She’s a LinkedIn Influencer with 900,000 followers, and a VIP voice on Thrive Global. As a top media source on women’s career and entrepreneurial issues and trends, and a sought after speaker, Kathy has appeared in over 200 leading newspapers and publications including the Wall Street Journal, Oprah Magazine, L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, SELF, Glamour, MORE, and on national radio and television. In 2018, she launched the Finding Brave podcast, which already has 35,000 downloads.
Jon Carling
Jon Carling is a pen and pencil artist in Northern California, taking inspiration from the natural world and beyond.
Gale Christianson
Gale Christianson (1942-2010) was an internationally known and honored historian of science. He grew up in Iowa and Nebraska, received a BA in political science from the University of Iowa in 1964, a MA in social science from the University of Northern Iowa in 1966, and a DA in history from the Carnegie Mellon University in 1971. He joined the faculty at Indiana State University in 1971, was promoted to professor in 1979, and was named a Distinguished Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1987. He retired in 2003. Christianson demonstrated the uncommon ability to combine prodigious research and analysis with topics and a writing style that gave his work a broad audience. This combination was particularly evident in his highly regarded biographies that were popular with both academic and non-academic audiences. Edwin Hubble was chosen one of the Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times, and one of the year’s five best books in science by Carl Sagan in the Washington Post. Among his many other publications were articles and essays in Earth Matters, the New York Times, the International Social Science Review, and the Los Angeles Times. Christianson was also a frequent lecturer across the country and around the world, and a regular consultant and guest on television and radio. These appearances included the Environmental News Network, “The Milt Rosenberg Show” on WGN Radio in Chicago, CNN Interactive, “A Science Odyssey” on NPR, and “Isaac Newton: Dark Heretic” with the BBC and NPR. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (for his biography of Edwin Hubble) and a Fletcher Jones Fellowship at the Huntington Library, among numerous other grants and honors.
Mark Coleman
Editor and journalist Mark Coleman has written for Rolling Stone, Details, CNN.com, The Village Voice, Mojo, and other US and UK publications. Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 years of Music, Machines and Money is his first book. He lives in New York City.
Evan S. Connell
Evan Connell (1924-2013) was the author of eighteen books (from novels and short stories to essays and narrative historical nonfiction) including Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, Son of the Morning Star, Deus lo Volt!, and Francesco Goya. He received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Lifetime Achievement award from the Lannan Foundation.
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Lex Covato
Lex Covato is a practicing artist and illustrator who specializes in neopop surrealism. Lex does commercial work as well as Art Festivals, Comic Cons, DIY events, and gallery shows. Her work has been featured in various publications, including "Edgycute" from Random House, which showcases contemporary surrealist artists. Her art blends pop culture with historical, religious, and social themes. The most well-known body of paintings are Tattooed Iconic Figures. This series celebrates individuals (real or fictional) who are iconic for whatever their given fields or accomplishments are, including such notable figures as Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie, and Jesus Christ. The figures are adorned with tattoos which act as symbolism to form visual CliffsNotes on their bodies. In addition to painting, Lex has taught in museums and schools and been invited to be a guest speaker at several universities and live events.
Robert P. Crease
Robert P. Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York, and former chairman of the department. He has written, translated, or edited over a dozen books on history and philosophy of science. Crease is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Physics in Perspective, and writes a monthly column, “Critical Point,” for Physics World magazine, on the philosophy and history of science. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday and elsewhere.
Stephanie Stein Crease
Music journalist and historian Stephanie Stein Crease is the author of Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America; Gil Evans: Out of the Cool, winner of the prestigious ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award and nominated for Best Jazz Book by the Jazz Journalists Association; Music Lessons: Guide Your Child to Play a Musical Instrument; and Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz. She is a contributor to the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford University Press) and the Oxford Companion Guide to Jazz. A 2020 Scholar-in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and 2018 Berger-Benny Carter-Berger Research Fellow at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, Crease lives in New York City.
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Sarah Curtis
Sarah Curtis’s debut memoir, Daughter of a Song, is forthcoming in fall ’25 from the University of Texas Tech Press. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Creative Nonfiction, Salon, the Colorado Review, the American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. Her work has been noted in the Best American Essays series, nominated for a Pushcart, and anthologized in River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction. She holds a master’s in journalism from Boston University and an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing experience spans the spectrum, from newspaper reporting to public relations and marketing to web content. She serves on the board of Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers, one of the nation’s longest-standing professional modern dance companies. A native Southerner, Sarah lives with her family in a 170-year-old Michigan farmhouse.