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Kathleen Fox is a former teacher, school librarian, and corporate trainer. She developed games, children’s books, and music for the school library market, and founded a local art school in her community. She also helped co-founder a digital platform to help children elevate their innovative thinking. When she isn’t writing, Fox can usually be found cruising around the country in her Sprinter van with her husband and two dogs. She’s navigated her van “Grey” through most of the continental US, the Canadian providences, and Alaska. She prefers rural towns and scenic routes. Kathleen calls the coast of South Carolina home, and her debut novel is Evie Walters Takes the Wheel.  Learn more at kathleenfoxbooks.com Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Jonathan Edward Durham (@thisone0verhere) was born in Eastern Pennsylvania where he read voraciously through his youth and beyond. He studied literature at William and Mary while pursuing a degree in neuroscience, and now writes to bridge the wonder of his favorite childhood books with the pop sensibilities of the classic thrillers he grew up with. He still lives in the Lehigh Valley with his husband and a house full of animals. His debut novel is Winterset Hollow.  Learn more at jonathanedwarddurham.com  Follow him on social media at @thisone0verhere Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Sara Z. Carson is a public relations professional who lives with her family in Brooklyn. Dark Messiah is her first book.  Learn more at sarahzcarsonauthor.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Laleh Khadivi is the author of The Kurdish Trilogy. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Oakland, California with her family and teaches fiction at the University of San Francisco. Her latest novel is FEMALE LIFE ON PLANET EARTH.  Learn more at LalehKhadivi.com Thank you, NetGalley for an early copy of Female Life on Planet Earth.  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Charlotte Lillie Balogh is an author, a screenwriter, and a comic book writer born and raised outside Boston. She self-published her first book at sixteen years old and later graduated as a Remembrance Scholar from Syracuse University. CLB is a lifelong superhero fanatic, and she launched into the television and film industry by working at DC Entertainment on projects including Wonder Woman 1984 and the CW’s Stargirl. When she’s not writing, CLB mentors young women through RowLA and WriteGirl, helping to create the next generation of real-life superheroes. She is the author of KILL THE LAX BRO (available now). Her next novel, CAPSIZED is currently adapting a pilot for Hulu.  Learn more at CharlotteLillie.com  View the table reading Charlotte mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYItQ6FEN9k&t=3s  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

USA Today bestselling author HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the author of 17 thrillers, including her newest, the instant USA today bestseller ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS, which just won the coveted 2026 Mary Higgins Clark Award and has been nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Year. • Her books have won every major mystery award in the industry and have been translated into multiple languages throughout the world. • Her fiction is inspired by a lifetime of investigating true crime during her storied career as an on-air television reporter. She’s been awarded multiple honors for her groundbreaking journalism, including an unprecedented 37 Emmy Awards. • Her work has resulted in new laws, people sent to prison, homes removed from foreclosure, and millions of dollars in refunds and restitution for victims. • A TedX speaker and in-demand literary moderator, national reviewers have hailed her a as “master of suspense” and “a superb and gifted storyteller.” • • A native of Chicago with roots in Indianapolis, Ryan lives in Boston with her husband, a nationally renowned civil rights and criminal defense attorney. Her next standalone cat-and-mouse thriller, MOTHER DAUGHTER SISTER STRANGER, comes out Sept. 1.  Learn more at hankphillippiryan.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Rebecca Stafford is a YA author, poet, and writing teacher. Her debut novel, Rabbit and Juliet, was named a Best YA Book of 2024 by both Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal. Her second novel, The Ending You Deserve, is forthcoming from Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins in September 2026. She is also the author of four poetry collections — Fair Copy, Vow, Gloss, and Generic Husband — and a two-time Pushcart Prize winner whose poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry. She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD from Florida State University, and has been teaching writing for twenty years, currently as a Professor at North Central College. Her latest novel is The Ending You Deserve.  Learn more at rebeccastaffordauthor.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 25 novels, and the EMMY® award winning co-host of the literary TV show A WORD ON WORDS. She also writes urban fantasy under the pen name Joss Walker. With millions of books in print, her work has won critical acclaim, prestigious awards, been optioned for television, and has been published in 28 countries. J.T. lives in Nashville with her husband and twin kittens, where she is hard at work on her next novel. Her latest novel is You Know Why.  Learn more at JTEllison.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Leslye Penelope has been writing since she could hold a pen and loves getting lost in the worlds in her head. She also writes award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance as L. Penelope. Equally left and right-brained, she studied filmmaking and computer science in college and sometimes dreams in HTML. She hosts the My Imaginary Friends podcast, co-hosts the Ink and Magic podcast, and lives in Maryland with her feline dependents. Her latest novel is: THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS.   For more on Leslye Penelope, follow her on Instagram: @leslyepenelope Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Jess Row is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine, the essay collection White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, and two collections of short stories, The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Tin House, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, Granta, n+1, and elsewhere, has been anthologized three times in The Best American Short Stories, and has won two Pushcart Prizes and a PEN/O. Henry Award. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA fellowship in fiction, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. In 2007, he was named a “Best Young American Novelist” by Granta. His nonfiction and criticism appear often in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Threepenny Review, and Boston Review, among other venues. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program in the Department of English at NYU and lives in New York City and Plainfield, Vermont. His latest is the shortstory collection titled, Storyknife.  Learn more at jessrow.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 26 books ranging from literary fiction, historical fiction, thrillers, and (on occasion) ghost stories. His work has been translated into 35 languages and become three movies and an Emmy-winning TV series. He is a playwright and has two other novels in development for TV series as well. His books have been chosen as Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Hartford Courant, and more. His novel, MIDWIVES was a selection of Oprah’s Book Club, and his novel, HOUR OF THE WITCH, was a Barnes & Noble Book Club pick. He is a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Cosmopolitan among others. Chris graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Amherst College. He has been awarded Honorary Degrees as well from Amherst, Champlain College, and Castleton University. He lives in Vermont with his wife, the photographer Victoria Blewer.  Learn more at chrisbohjalian.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Lisa Roe graduated from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and spent many years as an advertising creative director and copywriter in New York City before she accepted the tougher job of stay-at-home mom and turned to writing fiction —mostly to entertain her kids, but then to tell her own stories. A classic first born, reluctant empty nester, and Dr. Doolittle wannabe, Lisa lives in New Jersey with her husband, David and three incorrigible dogs. Her latest novel is Big & Lily.  Learn more at lisaroe.com  Special thanks to NetGalley for early previews.  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Victoria Lavine’s love of romance novels started in high school with a crate of old bodice rippers and a wink from her local librarian. Now, she writes her own Happily Ever Afters when she’s not enjoying the great state of Maine with her husband and daughter, taking orders from her two cats, or coming up with excellent reasons to make her next latte. Her latest novel is Not that Kind of Proposal.  Learn more at victorialavine.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

Sarah Flocken is an upmarket fiction author. She is also a public relations professional, comedian, improviser, and pun contest host (yes, it’s a thing). Sarah’s poetry, essays, and short stories were published in school literary journals throughout her teen and early adult years. After that, she turned her attention to building a career in public relations, where she’s written millions of words for other people in the form of op-eds, speeches, press releases, whitepapers, sponsored articles, talking points, Senate floor remarks, and more. She is currently the owner and principal of SLH Communications, a PR consultancy in San Diego, California. Outside of her day job, Sarah has written short plays, sketch comedy and stand-up routines for over 10 years, including a run with the Edinburgh Revue at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Additionally, she is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. She currently performs with two improv comedy groups in San Diego, and hosts Pundemonium! San Diego’s Only Pun Competition. Sarah received her bachelor’s degree in English and Comparative Literary Studies from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and a master’s in Literature & Modernity: 1900-Present from the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. She lives in San Diego with her husband. Her new novel is Be Well.  Learn more at SarahFlocken.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].

David Ellis is a judge and an Edgar-award-winning author of ten novels of crime fiction, as well as eight bestselling books co-authored with James Patterson. His novels have been translated into more than ten languages worldwide. In December 2014, Dave was sworn in as the youngest-serving Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District. He lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children.  Learn more at davidellis.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].