Marisa de los Santos

is an award-winning poet. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Poetry and Southwest Review. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware with her husband and two children. Love Walked In is her first novel.

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Julia Scheeres

author of the memoir Jesus Land, which made both the New York Times and London Times bestseller lists and has been translated into Norwegian and Swedish. Scheeres is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and is working on a novel. She lives in San Francisco.

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Kemble Scott

author of the novel SoMa, is the pen name of a longtime print and broadcast journalist. Using this pseudonym, Kemble is a writer and editor at San Francisco's subculture e-zine, SoMa Literary Review, and editor of the San Francisco Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter. In the non-fiction world of television news, he has been honored with three Emmy awards and is an alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Carolyn See's

most recent book is There Will Never Be Another You. She is the author of many novels, including The Handyman and Golden Days, as well as the nonfiction works Making A Literary Life: Advice For Writers And Other Dreamers and Dreaming: Hard Luck And Good Times In America. She is a book critic for The Washington Post and has served on the boards of the National Book Critics Circle and PEN/West International. She has won Guggenheim and Getty fellowships and currently teaches at UCLA.

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Jennie Shortridge

is the author of the novel Eating Heaven, a Book Sense Notable, and Riding with the Queen. She lives with her husband and kitty in Seattle, WA, which is the setting for her next novel.

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Robert Anthony Siegel

was born in New York City and educated at Harvard, the University of Tokyo, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. All Will Be Revealed is his second novel, following All the Money in the World.

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Julia Flynn Siler

writes for The Wall Street Journal. The House Of Mondavi: The Rise And Fall Of An American Wine Dynasty, which will be published in mid-June, grew out of a front-page story about the turmoil within the Mondavi family's wine empire. She lives in Northern California.

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Karen Stabiner's

anthology, The Empty Nest, is one of three books she has written about the relationship between parents and their adolescent children, following the memoir My Girl: Adventures With A Teen In Training, a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award, and All Girls: Single-Sex Education And Why It Matters. Her landmark book about breast cancer, The New York Times Notable Book, To Dance With The Devil, is a provocative analysis of efforts to cure breast cancer.

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Kira Stevens

is co-author of Good Books Lately and co-founder of GoodBooksLately.com, a book group resource. After years as a bookseller and college English instructor, she now works at Crown Publishing while finishing her dissertation - on book groups!

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Ellen Sussman's

anthology, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, will be published by W.W. Norton in July, 2007. She is the author of the novel, On a Night Like This, (Warner Books, 2004) which became a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller and has been translated into six languages. Ellen teaches private classes in the San Francisco Bay area.

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