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Catherine Todd
Catherine Todd grew up in Southern California and was educated at Occidental College and Stanford University. She lived for several years in Costa Rica and Italy, and for extended periods in France and Mexico. She has taught English literature and French in the United States and abroad. She and her husband currently live in San Diego, California, where, in addition to fiction, her business is writing highly specialized permanent residency petitions for exceptionally talented immigrants to the United States (see Secret Lives of Second Wives). In addition to her works of women's fiction (Secret Lives of Second Wives, Exit Strategies, Making Waves, and Staying Cool), she is the author of three Regency Romances (as Elizabeth Jackson) and two historical novels published in Britain.
Alessandra Torre
A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Alessandra Torre has written twenty-three novels, including multiple New York Times bestsellers. Her books focus on romance and suspense, all with a strong undercurrent of sexuality. Torre has been featured in such publications as Elle and Elle UK, co-hosted Dirty Sexy Funny with Jenny McCarthy, as well as guest blogged for the Huffington Post and RT Book Reviews. She is also the Bedroom Blogger for Cosmopolitan.com. You can find her on Twitter (@ReadAlessandra) or her Facebook fanpage.
François Truffaut
François Truffaut (1932-1984), perhaps the most respected member of the New Wave group of French moviemakers, left a legacy of beloved and influential films that include The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night, and The Story of Adele H. Equally fascinating is the very large body of film criticism Truffaut wrote over many years for Cahiers du Cinema and other leading film journals. Wonderfully varied, personal, and informal, these reviews all communicate unabashed love for and an enormous excitement about the movies. The Films in My Life is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel. He was also the author of HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT, based on the famous series of dialogues between himself and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s. The book moves chronologically through Hitchcock’s films to discuss his career, techniques, and effects he achieved. It changed the way Hitchcock was perceived, as a popular director of suspense films – such as Psycho and The Birds – and revealed to moviegoers and critics, the depth of Hitchcock’s perception and his mastery of the art form.
Samantha Tucker Iacovetto
Samantha Tucker is an anti-racist teacher in Columbus, Ohio. Her first book, Collective Chaos: A Roller Derby Team Memoir, co-authored with Amy Spears, was published in Spring 2023 from Swallow Press. Sam has written for Lithub, Ecotone, Bust, The American Literary Review, The Toast, Columbus Alive, and Guernica. Her essay "Fountain Girls" is a listed notable in Best American Essays 2017 and is included in Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: An Anthology.