Author of the award-winning memoir The Year After (2013), Ashley Warner is a licensed clinical social worker and board certified psychoanalyst specialized in trauma, anxiety, transitions, loss and sexual assault recovery. In The Year After she offers a rare and intimate portrait of her emotional journey following a rape at the age of 24 and

In his first year of high school, Ari Magnusson was bullied and endured what felt like an eternity of fear, anxiety and dread — until the day a bystander intervened. Ari then put into practice the technique the bystander used to render the aggressor’s bullying behavior ineffective, and was never bullied again. His book, Bitopia

Author of the critically acclaimed novel The Bookie’s Son (SixOneSeven Books, 2012), Andrew Goldstein is a former Breadloaf fellow and co-publisher of the small press Sixoneseven Books. For the past 34 years, Andrew has been a partner at the award-winning construction firm Thoughtforms. Earlier, Goldstein held a variety of day jobs compatible with writing, from

Alexis Rankin Popik, author of Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate (Aucoot Press, 2013), is an award-winning short story writer whose work has appeared in The Berkshire Review and Potpourri Magazine. She has penned numerous articles about local history that have been published in Connecticut Explored and the University of Connecticut School of Law and

1) The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Cambodia to Costa Rica
2) Unaccompanied Minors

Award-winning mystery and true crime writer Kate Flora is the author of 14 books, including the true crime story Death Dealer and the novel And Grant You Peace, both published in the fall of 2014. Her book Finding Amy (true crime), co-written with a Portland, Maine deputy police chief, was a 2007 Edgar Award nominee.