Our Clients

Sangu Mandanna is the author of the critically acclaimed Celestial series, a YA SFF trilogy. She’s also the author of the MG Kiki Kallira duology and forthcoming Vanya and the Wild Hunt. She’s also the author of adult fantasies which include The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and A Witch’s Guide to MagicalInnkeeping.

Ndaba Mandela is the founder and chairman of the Africa Rising foundation, executive director of MM Afrique Investments, and a global ambassador for UNAIDS. The grandson of Nelson Mandela, he lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Bob Mankoff is the author of How About Never? Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons, published by Henry Holt in 2014. Mankoff was the cartoon editor for The New Yorker for twenty years, and before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for the magazine for twenty years. He is now the humor and cartoon editor at Esquire.

Joe Manning’s interests range from the deep history of climate and volcanoes to mountain climbing and ancient Greek and Latin.  He is William K. & Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics & History and School of Forestry, Yale and is writing a book currently titled Thin Ice: Science, History, and the Fate of the Earth for Liveright.

Rue Mapp is the Founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro, a national not-for-profit organization with offices in Oakland, CA, and Washington, D.C. She oversees a national volunteer leadership team of nearly 90 men and women who represent 30 states around the US, and shares opportunities to build a broader community and leadership in nature. Mapp’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Backpacker Magazine, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, Ebony Magazine, Outside Magazine, Sunset Magazine, NPR, among many others.

A much sought after yoga instructor in LA and around the globe, with a list of devoted celebrity clients, Andrea Marcum’s classes also appear on My Yoga Gaia. She has been featured in Shape, Self, Yoga Magazine, Jessica Alba’s Honesty Company Blog and Mind Body Green. She contributes regularly to the lululemon blog, Elephant Journal, and Origin.

Leonard J. Marcus, Ph.D. is the founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and an internationally recognized authority on leadership during times of crisis and change.

A former equestrian and an accomplished editor and writer, Halimah Marcus is the Executive Director of Electric Literature and the Editor-in-Chief of its weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading. Her short stories and essays have been published in One Story, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, the Out There Podcast, and by Amazon Original Stories. She has an MFA from Brooklyn College and is editing a collection called Horse Girls about women, wildness, and power forthcoming from Harper Perennial.

Andrea Mariana is a queer Historical Fiction author (aroace) originally from Tennessee, now living in the Washington, D.C. area. She has been enthralled by history throughout her life and came to adore the Historical Fiction genre as a teenager. That devotion never faded, and she went on to earn her B.A. in European History and Political Science. She has since become an analyst, focused on energy and climate change issues. Despite the twists and turns of her professional career, her love for historical narratives never faded in the grind to adulthood. Understanding her identity was the final piece of the puzzle, prompting her to pursue creative writing as a Historical Fiction author centering stories like her own. The vast history of the queer community has been a guiding influence for all of her manuscripts, and drives her work in researching and sharing that history on her author blog and her TikTok channel.

Hugo Huerta Marin is a multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer based in New York City whose work centers on gender and cultural identity. Since moving to New York in 2012, he has worked for cultural institutions in the United States and Mexico, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Most recently, Hugo has joined the studio of the performance artist Marina Abramović as an art director, with whom he has collaborated internationally for venues across the globe. Hugo's solo exhibitions have been featured at The Hole Gallery in New York, Never Apart Gallery in Montreal, Canada, and MUAC museum in Mexico City. He was also part of the prestigious Casa Nano art residency in Tokyo, Japan in 2019.

Sabrina Orah Mark is the acclaimed and award-winning author of the book-length poetry collections The Babies (2004) and Tsim Tsum (2009), as well as the chapbook Walter B.’s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit & Other Tales from Woodland Editions. Her collection of stories, Wild Milk, was a winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story Collection. Mark’s poetry and stories most recently appear in American Short Fiction, The Bennington Review, Tin House (Open Bar), The Believer, and she writes a monthly column for The Paris Review. She lives in Athens, Georgia with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons. Her essay collection, Happily, as well as a forthcoming collection of fiction, will be published by Random House.

Ann Marks spent thirty years as a senior executive in large corporations, including Kraft General Foods and American Express Publishing, serving as Chief Marketing Officer of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal for the last decade of her career. She has BS and MBA degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and has since put her research and analysis skills to use in unearthing the untold story of the renowned 'nanny photographer' Vivian Maier. Vivian Maier Developed is her first book.

Trained as an historian, sociologist, and in business administration, Christopher Marquis’s work aims to show business leaders, policy makers, employees, investors, and consumers a new way to think about our economy and their role init. The award winning author of Better Business, he is currently a professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, and previously held faculty positions at Cornell University, and Harvard Business School. A frequent contributor to Forbes, his work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Fortune, The Hill and Harvard Business Review as well as many academic journals ranging from the Academy of Management Journal, American Sociological Review, to Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Anthony Marra is the bestselling author of the novels A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Mercury Pictures Presents, both New York Times bestsellers, and the short story collection The Tsar of Love and Techno.

The Washington Post hailed A Constellation of Vital Phenomena as “a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.” The San Francisco Chronicle called TheTsar of Love and Techno “Genius…a stunning masterpiece.” And the New York Times Book Review hailed Mercury Pictures Presents as “a gorgeous book,” and from the Chicago Tribune, “dazzling.”

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Among Marra’s many awards and honors are a Whiting Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; two awards from the National Book Critics Circle; the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award; the Rosenfield Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the National Book Award long list; and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction.

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His forthcoming new novel, Red Flags, is the story of a retired fact checker for a national magazine, who discovers that an error she had overlooked had profound consequences during the McCarthy era.

Amanda Marrone has authored four books for teens, Uninvited, Revealers, Devoured, and Slayed and the middle-grade series The Magic Repair Shop Books: The Multiplying Menace, The Shape-Shifter’s Curse and Master of Mirrors.

Kieran Marsh's short fiction has appeared in the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and he has had his work read by professional actors on RTE radio. He was a finalist in the Hennessy New Irish Writing competition and has been featured in many other publications. He is currently working on his first novel.

Stephanie Marston is a pioneering psychotherapist with more than 30 years experience and is a widely recognized stress and work-life expert and corporate consultant. She is the founder of 30 Days to Sanity, a stress and work/life online platform. She has published five previous books and has appeared frequently on shows such as The Oprah Show, The Today Show, CNN Headline News and numerous other radio and TV shows. Stephanie has also served on the WebMD clinical advisory board. She consults with some of the world’s most prestigious corporations including Whirlpool Corporation, H.J. Heinz Company, Xerox Corporation, Mattel Inc., Prudential Insurance, Morgan Stanley, and The Mayo Clinic. Stephanie lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Ama Marston is an international strategy and leadership expert as well as a recognized thought leader focused on Transformative Resilience and inclusive and purpose-driven leadership and business. She is the founder of Marston Consulting, which has provided services to Fortune 500 and FTSE companies, the United Nations, Oxford University and numerous others. Her work with leaders like Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first female President and Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist and as a top advisor to the UN and international NGOs has placed her at dozens of decision-making tables and taken her to work in countries around the world. Ama has long been hailed as a leader and original thinker and has won several awards, including a Council of Women World Leaders Fellowship and Phi Beta Kappa national honors, and was nominated as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and currently splits her time between the UK and the US.

Joan Martelli is a seasoned journalist with more than twenty years of experience writing and producing investigative news programs and documentaries on a wide range of topics including European and American politics, climate change, migration, child labor, along with features on the arts and culture. She have reported for ABC News, CBS News, and PBS from dozens of countries including Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Argentina, France, Italy, Ukraine, Greece, and the United Kingdom, earning many prestigious awards along the way. A graduate of Dartmouth College, she spent a semester studying international politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2007-2008, she was honored with a Harvard Nieman Journalism Fellowship.

Jessica Martin is a lawyer by trade, a writer by choice, and a complete smartass by all accounts. Based in the suburban wilds of Boston, Jess shares her life with a finance geek, a precocious preschooler, and a pair of dogs named after Bond characters. She is not to be trifled with when it comes to trivia, poker, or mini golf.

Brian F. Martin is the founder and CEO of the international nonprofit Children of Domestic Violence, producer of the award-winning documentary The Children Next Door, and author of the New York Times bestseller Invincible: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up with Domestic Violence, and the Truths to Set You Free (Perigee Trade).

A photographer with work in the collections of The Guggenheim, The Whitney, The New Museum, and The Saatchi Collection, Craig-Martin has taught at the School For Visual Arts and had solo shows at PS1/MOMA, White Columns, and throughout Europe. Her photography has appeared in Vogue, New York, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.

Robert Martin is A. Watson Armour III Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago. An eminent primatologist and evolutionary biologist, he has taught at Yale, University College London, the Musée de l’Homme and the Anthropological Institute in Zürich. He is the author of How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction (Basic Books).

S.I. Martin works with museums, archives and the education sector to bring diverse histories to wider audiences. He has published five books of historical fiction and non-fiction for adult and teenage readers.

He founded the 500 Years of Black London Walks in response to the low profile given to the Black historical presence on the capital's streets and has consistently encouraged and championed the provision of plaques, street names and street furniture to this end. He has worked with and for the Black Cultural Archives, National Maritime Museum, the V&A, Tate Britain, London Metropolitan Archives, National Portrait Gallery, Horniman Museum, the National Archives, the RAF Museum, Wellcome Trust and many others. He regularly provides workshops and sessions for heritage institutions, schools, borough councils and community groups across the country.

With Michael Ohajuru their ground-breaking The Guide to Black London will be published in 2024 by September Publishing.

His highly praised Incomparable World was re-released by Penguin in 2021 as a flagship title in their Black Britain Writing Back series, curated by Bernadine Evaristo.

J.J. Martin is a Los Angeles-born editor turned entrepreneur and founder of the hugely successful Milanese lifestyle brand La DoubleJ. With collections sold in more than 200 stores worldwide, La DoubleJ's first flagship store opened in Milan's high-end fashion district in 2021, complete with a dedicated floor offering a spiritual haven for shoppers and venue for female empowerment workshops. Martin lives in Milan.

Amanda R. Martinez is a science writer, playwright, and multimedia producer. She is the author of Battle at the End of Eden, about the fight to preserve the most delicate environments on earth. Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker online, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and elsewhere. Her new book, The Power of Nostalgia, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press.

Claudia Guadalupe Martínez’s debut novel, The Smell of Old Lady Perfume, received the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book Award, and an Americas Award Commendation.  Her sophomore novel Pig Park won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book and the NACCS Tejas Foco Young Adult Fiction Award. Her debut picture book, Not A Bean, illustrated by Laura González received multiple starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by Bank Street College of Education. She also authored The Movie Novel for DreamWorks’ animated film, Spirit Untamed.   Claudia grew up in sunny El Paso, Texas, where she learned that letters form words from reading the subtitles of old westerns with her father. She now lives and writes in Chicago.

Lucía Alba Martínez was born in Madrid in 1992. At the age of 5 she moved to Tunisia, where she lived until she was 18. Back in Spain, she studied Comparative Literature at the UCM. For the last few years she has been working as a literary translator - from English, French and Italian. She has published articles on literature in media such as Quimera and CTXT.

Leigh Marz is a leadership coach and collaboration consultant specializing in work with scientists, engineers, and mission driven organizations. She has led and delivered multi-day training programs for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to promote collaboration among climate change teams; she has partnered with the Green Science Policy Institute as a facilitator of cross-sector initiatives to reduce toxic chemicals in products. She is a faculty member with the international training company CRR Global and her work has been published in Time and Harvard Business Review among other venues.

A longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker, Maslin had his first cartoon published in the magazine in 1977. He’s married to fellow cartoonist for The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly.

Lina Maslo is an author, illustrator, and designer. Her debut, FREE AS A BIRD: THE STORY OF MALALA, was a Library Guild Selection, as well as a CCBC Choice and the winner of the Living the Dream Book Award. She is also the author and illustrator of THROUGH THE WARDROBE: HOW C. S. LEWIS CREATED NARNIA and THREADS: ZLATA’S UKRAINIAN SHIRT. 

Lina has a Degree in Art from New College of Florida and currently resides in South Carolina with her husband and children. 

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Christopher Mason writes frequently about art, design, and society for New York magazine and The New York Times and is the author of The Art of the Steal (Putnam).

Mark Mason’s non-fiction includes Walk the Lines, for which he walked the entire London Underground system overground ('awesome' - BBC6 Music; 'an extraordinary odyssey' - Robert Elms), and The Importance of Being Trivial, a look at why we’re fascinated with trivia ('an irresistibly hapless charm' - The Guardian ; 'I loved the book' - Richard and Judy).

Mark has written for most national newspapers, as well as magazines from The Spectator to Four Four Two via The Oldie. He has also addressed the nation on many radio and TV networks, occasionally on subjects he knows something about.

His Move Along Please: Land's End to John O'Groats by Local Bus, was praised by Steve Wright as 'a good source of factoids, I'm thinking'. Mason is also the author of the Bluffer’s Guide to Bond and the Bluffer’s Guide to Football. Orion published his book on postcodes Mail Obsession in 2015 and Question Time on our national craze for quizzes in 2017. His The Book of Seconds on the glorious (or inglorious) individuals from history who came second was published by Orion in 2018.

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Oksana Masters is a Paralympian on Team USA. She currently competes in Biathlon, Cross Country Skiing, and Road Cycling. Though, she began her athletic career in rowing. She is an eight-time Paralympian medalist (2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze) and winner of four Nordic skiing world titles. She was Team USA's flagbearer for the 2018 PyeongChang Paralympics closing ceremony, Among her many honors, she received the enormously prestigious Laureus World Sports Award for a Sportsperson with a Disability in 2020.

Spencer Matheson is a novelist and poet. His short story “Glenn Gould Syndrome” was included in Conjunctions 66: “Affinity: The Friendship Issue,” edited by Bradford Morrow, and his poem “Remembrance Day” appears in the Fall 2021 Paris Review. An avid music fan, he wrote the libretto for Patrick Zimmerli’s opera about Lucia Joyce and also writes about jazz for Music & Literature. Born in Calgary, raised in Vancouver, he now lives with his wife and three children in Paris, where he teaches at the École normale supérieure. His novel-in-progress is set in Paris, featuring a ten-year-old boy, half French and half American, on a search for clues to the mysterious disappearance of his mother.

Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian award-winning musician and photographer who rose to acclaim as the bassist for Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins before launching her solo career in 2001. Now based in New York, in 2010, Melissa co-founded Basilica Hudson, a multidisciplinary arts center in the Hudson Valley.

Laura Mauro was born and raised in south east London and currently lives in Essex under extreme duress. When she's not making things up she enjoys reading, travelling, watching wrestling, playing video games, collecting tattoos, dyeing her hair strange colours and making up nicknames for her cats. She's a sometime pro wrestling journalist, and current Women’s Wrestling Editor at Steelchair Magazine.In 2018, her short story “Looking for Laika” won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.

Roger’s first career was in advertising: he founded his own agency and went on to handle clients such as Honda, Burberrys, Minolta and Diageo. After ten years, he sold the business and became Chief Executive of Granada Group’s leisure division. There he led the pitch for the company’s takeover of the Forte Group – still the biggest hostile takeover bid in British commercial history.

In 2002, he was made Chairman of Citigate PR and in 2006 he became Chief Executive of Terence Conran’s group of businesses.

He left the Conran Group in 2013 to concentrate on writing and photography. His photography has been exhibited in London, Paris, Brussels, Ghent and Amsterdam, and he is a Trustee of Pallant House Gallery. His first book, ‘Life’s a Pitch’, written with Stephen Bayley, became an international bestseller and has just been re-launched in an extended ten year anniversary edition. His second book, ‘The Rule-Breakers Book of Business’, came out in 2013, and he is now working on a book on Creativity, to be published by Penguin in 2018.

Mark Mayer is the award-winning author of the debut story collection Aerialists. In her praise of the collection, Marilyn Robinson wrote, “Mayer writes with a luminous, wistful, elegance.” For Carmen Maria Machado Aerialist was “one of the best collections I’ve read in years.” And Emily Ruskovich called Mayer “a magician of the American sentence.”

Mayer's new story collection, About, Above, Around: 50 Prepositions, is the winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize, judged by Kaveh Akbar, who calls it “thrillingly ambitious and deliciously readable, a remarkable vortex of place and mind and spirit illuminating how our lives are shaped, and how we're held within them. Mayer has given us one of the most dextrous, impressive books I've read in ages.

Mayer holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the University of Denver, and he was awarded the Dana Emerging Writer residency at Cornell’s Center for the Literary Arts. His stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, Guernica, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and The Best American Mystery Stories. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Memphis.

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Jeff Maysh is a writer based in Southern California. His stories about crime, espionage, and identity theft have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the Daily Beast, among other publications, and he has worked as a correspondent for the BBC.

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Anna Mazhirov received her MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she won the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Fiction. She is at work on a short story collection, Annals of Our Springs. The stories feature the lives of young women whose families fled the former Soviet Republics in the wake of the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s. Set in the poorer sections of Brooklyn, her stories are the first to emerge from this new wave of immigrants, introducing us to characters we have never met before: young women–most of them Ukrainian by birth and of Jewish heritage–who are determined to navigate their way through the sometimes harsh realities of the present.

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Grace Dane Mazur was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of the literary non-fiction work, Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination; the novel, Trespass; and a collection of stories, Silk. She received her MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson, and has taught at Harvard College, Harvard Extension School, and Emerson College. She served as fiction editor at Harvard Review for a decade and at Tupelo Press for seven years. Currently she is on the fiction faculty at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. She lives in Cambridge and Westport, Massachusetts, with her husband, the mathematician Barry Mazur.

Elaine McArdle is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience. She has written for the Boston Globe and Boston Globe Magazine, Harvard Law Bulletin, Northeastern Law Magazine, and many others.

Roisin McAuley grew up in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland and now lives in Belfast.

She was a reporter and documentary filmmaker for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 before beginning a second as a novelist. She is the author of the acclaimed novels Singing Bird, Meeting Point, French Secrets and Finding Home.

Bogman, her detective story set in Denmark, was written under the pseudonym R.I. Olufsen.

Sophie McBain is a multi-award-winning longform features writer, and was formerly Associate Editor of the New Statesman. She writes on psychology and society, and has reported for the New Statesman from the US and Middle East. She has received two British Society of Magazine Editors awards, and in 2016 was awarded the Amnesty International Award for best feature. She also writes for The Times (London), and the Guardian.

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Shane McBride is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and one of New York's most accomplished chefs. He began his career with esteemed chef Charlie Palmer at Aureole, then went on to work with Chef Christian Delouvier at the world-renowned Lepinasse. Shane was Executive Chef at Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak for many years, followed by a long tenure as Executive Chef at famed Soho brasserie Balthazar. Although his expertise has been in haute cuisine, his passion is in American barbecue. He leads the multiple award-winning Ribdiculous Bar-B-Krewe competition team. Shane is currently the Executive Chef and a Co-Owner of Pig Beach.

Regina McBride is the author of three novels, each published by Simon and Schuster, one Young Adult novel, published by Random House, one book of poetry, and a memoir, Ghost Songs, published by Tin House. Her latest novel Stranger Across the Sea is to be published by Green City Books in 2024. She is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and NYFA, and teaches fiction writing at Hunter College in New York City.

Andrew G. McCabe served as deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from February 2016 to January 2018. He began his career at the FBI in 1996, working first as a street agent on the Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force. Later, he led the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, the National Security Branch, and the Washington Field Office, and was the first director of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which developed new methods for lawfully and effectively questioning suspected terrorists.

Will McCants is a scholar of militant Islamism, a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and founder of Jihadica.com. He is also the author of The Isis Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (Palgrave).

Andrew McCarthy is a director, an award-winning travel writer, and—of course—an actor. He made his professional début at 19 in Class and has appeared in dozens of films, including such iconic movies as Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire, Less Than Zero, and cult favorites Weekend At Bernie’s and Mannequin. Both his travel memoir The Longest Way Home (Free Press, 2012) and YA novel Just Fly Away (Algonquin, 2017) were New York Times bestsellers. His latest memoir, Brat: An ’80s Story, will be published by Grand Central on May 11, 2021.

With Superchunk bandmate Laura Ballance, Mac McCaughan founded the eminent independent label Merge Records, whose bands include Arcade Fire, Spoon, and Neutral Milk Hotel, among many others.

Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland is an expert on defense, national security and leadership who has taught at Dickinson College, the Army War College, and the U.S. Naval Academy. A national correspondent for CBS radio, Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army who held senior positions during the Kosovo War and the 1990-1991 Gulf War. As CEO of Diamond6 Leadership, he is the organizer of leadership workshops at battlefields including Gettysburg, Yorktown and Pearl Harbor.With Tom Vossler, he is the author of the forthcoming book Battle Tested.

Elly McCausland is a cook and food writer whose recipes are inspired by fruit, seasonal produce, her garden and her travels in Asia. She is currently based in Aarhus, Denmark, where she also works as a postdoctoral researcher on children's literature. In 2016 her blog, Nutmegs Seven, was awarded Food Blog of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards.

Kelly McClorey is a graduate of the MFA at the University of Montana. She lives in Massachusetts, and Placebo, forthcoming from Ecco, is her first novel.

Patricia McConnell, Ph.D., is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and an internationally renowned authority on dogs; a longtime co-host of Calling All Pets, which was syndicated on NPR; and the author of The Other End of the Leash and, most recently, For the Love of a Dog (Ballantine). Dr. McConnell is also an Adjunct Professor in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr Una McCormack is a New York Times bestselling science fiction author. She is passionate about women’s writing, science fiction, and helping people find their words and voices. Her latest release, the Star Trek: Picard novel The Last Best Hope, became a USA Today bestseller. Una is well known for her TV tie-in work. She has published more than a dozen novels set in franchises such as Doctor Who, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Discovery. Her audio work with Big Finish has been set in licensed properties such as Doctor Who and Blake’s 7. Her story ‘Taking Flight’ (2017) was shortlisted for the BSFA award for short fiction, and her novel Star Trek: Discovery – The Way to the Stars for a Dragon Con Award. In 2017, she was a judge for the Arthur C Clarke Award.

Byron McCray is a freelance illustrator, graphic designer, and author hailing from Brooklyn, New York. Greatly influenced by a strong passion for music and the rich, diverse history of black culture, his mixed media paintings have been recognized by the Fort Greene Association, Art Students League of New York, and various publications. Local artists and organizations such as the Movement Theatre Company and the National Black Theatre have commissioned Byron, as well as major recording labels including Universal Music Group and Motown Records.

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