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Lucy Jane Bledsoe

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The New York Times wrote that Lucy Jane Bledsoe's novel, A THIN BRIGHT LINE, "triumphs." Ms. Magazine called her novel, THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE, "fabulous feminist fiction." Her collection of stories, LAVA FALLS, is being released Fall 2018. Bledsoe loves good food, wilderness, friends, and all felines and sea mammals. She's been to Antarctica three times and stayed in all three American stations, as well as in field camps where scientists are studying penguins, the Big Bang, and climate change. She loves to read and believes that the best novels engage both the mind and the heart.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

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According to geographers, the American West begins at the 100th longitudinal meridian. Thanks to the fact that this meridian is the main street of her hometown in Nebraska, Kirstin Cronn-Mills grew up six blocks east of the West. Yes, there were cowboys around.Kirstin is a self-proclaimed word nerd. She learned to read when she was three (according to her mother) and she hasn't stopped since. Her grandmother and her father passed on their love of language to her, and that love became a love affair when she started writing poems in the sixth grade. She still writes poems, but now she focuses on young adult...