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Diane and Bernie Lierow live outside of Nashville, Tennessee. The story of their daughter, Dani, was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the St. Petersburg Times.

Brian Lies is the author/illustrator of over 30 children’s books, including his NY Times best-selling bat series (Bats at the Beach, etc.), his 2019 Caldecott Honor-winning The Rough Patch, and 2025’s Cat Nap. His work in book and editorial illustration has won many awards, and he is acclaimed as a visiting author, working with elementary schools throughout the United States.  

He was the featured artist at the 2023 Abilene CALF Festival (www.abileneCALF.org). A graduate of Brown University, Brian lives with his family and two cats in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where he works, tends a large vegetable garden, and enjoys reading, cooking, and woodworking.

Alan Light has appeared as a music and culture expert on numerous television and radio programs, and was the director of programming for Live from the Artists Den, a concert series on PBS. As former editor-in-chief of Spin and Vibe magazines as well as the founder and editor of Tracks, Light has written for countless publications. A former senior writer at Rolling Stone, he won two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for his work. Light wrote What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography (Crown 2016); the oral history of The Beastie Boys, The Skills to Pay the Bills (Three Rivers 2005); and edited The Vibe History of Hip Hop (Crown 1999) and the New York Times bestseller Tupac Shakur (Crown 1997). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Rolling Stone and hosts the SiriusXM music talk channel VOLUME. Light is based in New York City.

Pamela Lilly holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University. Formerly a professor of English at Frederick Community College, she is now a full time writer.

Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer and translator, the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize, and four chapbooks: Vigil, Tropicália, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize, Amblyopia, and Translation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Common, Witness, and elsewhere. For her fiction, she was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, and an early version of CRAFT was named a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA from Rutgers University, Newark. Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lives in Chicago. Her first collection of fiction, CRAFT, is forthcoming from Tor.

Patty Lin is a writer and producer known for Freaks and Geeks, Friends, Desperate Housewives, and Breaking Bad. She has also written pilots for Fox, CBS, and Nickelodeon. Her Breaking Bad episode, “Gray Matter,” was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. She retired from TV writing in 2009 to pursue other interests and occasionally appears in background acting roles.

Yiming Lin is a food ethnographer behind the highly popular social media platform yiming.cooks, a human interest food account that he started in the summer of 2022 as a means of understanding his personal relationship with food. In less than a year, the account has garnered more than 3 million subscribers with tens of thousands of comments and likes. The account has been featured on CBS This Morning, Buzzfeed, First we feast, World Journal, and Fox News along with a number of other publications.

Yiming graduated with a dual bachelors degree in history and business focusing on commerce and food systems in South Africa. His first foray into food ethnography was working in Cape Town as a consultant at Pioneer foods - the largest fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) in Africa; understanding pan-continental trends in consumer taste. He’s also lived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to learn about human-centric design in restaurant technology.

During a brief step away from ethnography, Yiming started his professional career in enterprise sales inside Google Earth - helping cities achieve their carbon reduction and sustainability goals through urban planning and generative AI.

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Liz Linden is an artist whose work uses language, photography, and feminist art strategies to reconsider popular culture. Her art has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and she publishes her writing about contemporary art in journals, magazines, and books. She currently lives in Northern California.

I was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford, where I read English. In 1977 I published my first full-length collection of poems, Fools’ Paradise. That book has been followed by five other books of poems: Tourists (1987), A Prismatic Toy (1991), Selected Poems (2000); then – published by Wave Books in Australia – the first four sections of my long poem-in-progress on the life of the Buddha, Touching the Earth, and another collection of poems, Playing With Fire, from Carcanet Press in 2006. My new collection, Luna Park, was published by Carcanet in 2015.

In the late 1970s I became interested in Thomas De Quincey, ‘the English Opium-Eater’, essayist and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge. I wrote a biography of him, published in 1981 as The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. Later I edited his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings for the Oxford World’s Classics series in 1985, and later still I piloted The Works of Thomas De Quincey, a 21-volume complete edition of his writings, produced by a team of eleven editors under my direction and published in 2000-03.

Alongside this work I published in 1993 A Literary Guide to the Lake District, a systematic guide to the area’s literary connections from the earliest times to the present day. It won the ‘Lakeland Book of the Year’ award in 1994. It has been repeatedly updated, and a new edition was published by Sigma Press in 2015.

My travel book, Travels on the Dance Floor was chosen as a Radio 4 Book of the Week and shortlisted as Authors’ Club Best Travel Book.

Mysterious Wisdom: The Spiritual Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats will be published by Oxford University Press in 2026.

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Meghan Linehan is an artist, illustrator, and former New York Magazine visual columnist.Has use of 10% verbatimmaterial from the book in podcasts been discussed with the publisher?

Alan is a former staff writer for SNL. Claire is an improv and writing teacher at The Second City.

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Josh Linkner is the founder and president of ePrize.com, a successful four-time entrepreneur and CEO, the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a jazz musician, and weekly contributor to Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and the Detroit Free Press. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention (Jossey-Bass). He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is a President Obama Champion of Change Award recipient.

Ben Lippett is a chef, food writer and recipe developer, and the powerhouse behind the hugely popular @dinnerbyben social media accounts (where he has accrued over 400,000 followers) and the How I Cook Substack, which currently ranks 20th on the global food and drink leaderboard. He’s a firm believer that one of the most important things you can do whilst cooking is ask why? Why am I adding salt now and not later? Why am I patting this chicken breast dry before I cook it? Why has my chocolate mousse split? How do certain flavours develop? Understanding the whys and hows behind your cooking is akin to holding the keys to the culinary kingdom and will ultimately make life in the kitchen a fulfilling and enjoyable one.

Ben’s debut book, How I Cook was published by HarperCollins in September 2025 and was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller.

Barbara K. Lipska, a neuroscientist, is the director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Emily Listfield is the author of seven novels, including a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her books have been published in numerous foreign countries. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Fitness Magazine and Executive Editor of Parade's HealthyStyle. Her writing appears frequently in Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, The New York Times, and many other national publications. She has served as a panelist at SXSW, worked across media platforms and is the co-founder of Jyst, a crowd-sourced relationship advice app for women. She lives in New York City, where she raised a pretty great daughter.

John Lithgow is a Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winner, a bestselling author, a talented humorist, and a renowned performer. He is best known for his time on the mega-hit NBC comedy 3rd Rock From the Sun, his performances in The Crown and Dexter and his starring roles in The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Pelican Brief, This is 40, Interstellar, Pet Sematary, Bombshell, and Late Night, among many others.

Bruce Littlefield, national television personality and author of numerous lifestyle books, including Merry Christmas, America and Airstream Living, has most recently written The Bedtime Book for Dogs, an illustrated read-aloud book for the canine community (Grand Central). He is the co-author of Bravo TV star Fredrik Eklund’s The Sell (Avery).

Natalia Litvinova (Gómel, Bielorrusia, 1986) is an Argentinean writer and editor, specialized in poetry and translation. She was born five months after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In the 90s, when she was about to turn ten, her family decided to emigrate to Buenos Aires. She has published several poetry collections, Todo ajeno (Vaso Roto, 2013), Siguiente vitalidad (La Bella Varsovia, 2016), and Soñka, manos de oro (La Bella Varsovia, 2022). Her poetry has been published in Germany, France, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Colombia and the United States. She’s currently working on her debut novel.

Mara Livermore is a writer, researcher, and workshop facilitator working in Citizens' Juries and participatory democracy. She has supported and led Citizens' Jury processes covering climate change, air quality, community safety, and the UK's first heritage sector Citizens' Jury for Birmingham Museums Trust.

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As a facilitator, she hosts the Birmingham Writers' Retreat for Writers HQ and her experience covers democracy, climate justice, entrepreneurship, African Traditional Religions, and personal empowerment. 

She is currently studying for an MRes in Social Research and Social Justice at the University of East London exploring the impact of African Traditional Religious beliefs on today's UK-based African Diaspora. Her work has been shared by institutions such as the British Academy, National Museums Liverpool, and Stylist magazine.

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My Nameis Venus Black is Heather K. Lloyd’s debut novel. She spent many years working as a freelance editor and book doctor. After raising her children on the West Coast, she and her husband recently moved to New York City where she is at work on her second novel.

John Lloyd was the Founding Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is now Senior Research Fellow. He is contributing editor to the Financial Times, chairman of the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies and a columnist for Reuters.com and La Repubblica of Rome. He has won awards for journalism, including 'Specialist Writer of the Year' in the British Press Awards and 'Journalist of the Year' in the Granada What the Papers Say Awards.

Jason Lloyd is a lifelong resident of Northeast Ohio. He has covered the World Series, the NCAA Tournament, the BCS National Championship Game and the NBA Finals, and he has won several state and national awards for his work covering the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Cleveland Cavaliers. He has also worked for ESPN.com, Lindy’s Sports Annuals, Cleveland Magazine, and CBSSports.com.

Will Lloyd is a columnist at The Times (London) and a reporter at the Sunday Times (London), having formerly worked as a Commissioning Editor and Writer at the New Statesman and Staff Writer/ Commissioning Editor at UnHerd.

Ricardo P Lloyd is a British actor, writer, presenter and producer whose work spans film, television, theatre and broadcasting. His career combines performance, writinh and public speaking, with a commitment to creating stories that inspire, challenge and leave a lasting cultural impact.

Ricardo’s screen and stage work includes productions with the BBC, Shakespeare’s Globe, Creation Theatre and the National Maritime Museum. His television credits include portraying Johnny Smythe in the Royal Air Force historical docudrama Flying for Britain, alongside further work across British television and radio, including BBC Radio 4.

Alongside his acting career, Ricardo has established himself as a writer, contributing features and commentary for Radio Times, The Independent, The Big Issue, Student Pocket Guide and The Stage. His writing explores the arts, culture, entertainment and the creative industries.

Ricardo is currently seeking a publishing partner for his forthcoming book, Breaking the Mould, an inspirational work exploring resilience, purpose, identity and the mindset required to forge an unconventional path. He is also developing further literary projects across memoir, children’s fiction and screen storytelling.

As a speaker and creative advocate, Ricardo works with organisations that champion creativity, representation and opportunity, encouraging audiences to think beyond convention and recognise the power of storytelling to shape lives and communities.

Represented by Aevitas Creative Management UK, Ricardo continues to expand his work across acting, publishing, broadcasting and international speaking, building a career that bridges entertainment, literature and cultural leadership.

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Top Chef Masters finalist and award-winning chef, Lo worked at Bouley and Chanterelle before opening the Michelin-starred restaurant annisa in the heart of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in 2000, which she ran until it closed in 2017. Food & Wine named her one of ten Best New Chefs in America, and the Village Voice proclaimed her Best New Restaurant Chef; in 2015, she became the first female guest chef to cook at the White House.

Bruna Dantas Lobato is a novelist and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, The Common, and other publications, and it has been recognized with fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Jentel, A Public Space, NYU, and Disquiet International. Her literary translations include Caio Fernando Abreu's seminal story collections Moldy Strawberries (longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize) and No Dragons in Paradise, among others. Other translations from Portuguese have appeared in Bookforum, Vogue, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The American Scholar. She serves on the Board of the Directors of the American Literary Translators Association, and holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University, and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and, like the protagonist of her forthcoming novel, TWO LIVES (Grove, 2024), she attended undergrad in Vermont. Originally from Brazil, she lives in St. Louis with her partner and pet bunny.

Tom LoBianco is a White House reporter for The Associated Press. He has covered Mike Pence from his first campaign rally for governor in Pence’s native Columbus, Indiana to his return to Washington to take the oval office. LoBianco worked the halls of the Indiana Statehouse and Congress for a combined seven years with the AP, the Indianapolis Star and CNN. He is a regular political analyst on national television and radio, including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR and more.

Dr Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, and Director of American Studies at the University of Essex. He teaches European, American and Japanese art, architecture, visual culture and theory from the late 19th century to the present, specialising in the art history of tattoos. He has given invited lectures at venues including the V&A, the National Museum of Scotland, and the Museum of London, and has published academic papers in venues including the Sculpture Journal, and contributed forewords for over a dozen popular books on tattooing. He has contributed articles to the Royal Academy Magazine, History Today, The Guardian and others, and appeared on broadcast media across the globe. His first monograph, on the history of Western tattooing, is currently in production. His latest major exhibition, 'British Tattoo Art Revealed', began at the National Maritime Museum Falmouth in March 2017 and is currently on tour nationwide through 2021. Matt also serves as the presenter of the landmark television series "Art of Museums" / 'Magie des Grands Musées' / 'Magie der Museen', airing across Europe and beyond in late 2018 and early 2019.

Kurt Loder is a longtime film critic, music journalist and television presence and the author of I, Tina, with Tina Turner, and a collection of his work from Rolling Stone where he was an editor for nine years. He was an anchor and correspondent for MTV News, as well as the writer and host of MTV’s The Week in Rock for more than a decade. He currently writes about movies for Reason Online and has also guest-starred as himself in numerous films. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Details, New York Magazine, and Time. He currently lives in New York City.

Mike Lofgren is a former senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Party Is Over and The Deep State (Viking).

Elizabeth Loftus, who holds the title of Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, is one of the most respected memory researchers of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. At UC Irvine, she holds positions in two departments: Psychological Science and also Criminology, Law, and Society. She received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University.

Dr. Tim Lomas is one of Europe's leading experts on positive psychology and the program leader at the University of East London's MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (one of the most highly respected post-graduate courses in Europe). He has written for the Guardian and has published numerous academic papers in high-profile journals, including Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Mindfulness, Psychology and Health and the Journal of Happiness Studies.

Ernesto Londoño is a journalist for The New York Times. He joined the newspaper in 2014 as a member of the editorial board and served as Brazil bureau chief from 2017 to 2022. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where his assignments included covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and the Pentagon. He was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia.

John Long is the Strategic Professor of Paleontology at Flinders University in Adelaide and part of the largest paleontological research team in Australia. He has held several research positions at major museums including several years as Vice President of Research and Collections at the Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County in California. Over the course of his career, he has discovered and described more than 85 extinct creatures in remote locations ranging from Antarctica, China, Iran, Thailand, and his native Australia, published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous pieces in Scientific American and Nature, and writes regularly for The Conversation, where his piece about Megalodon has been read by close to a million people.

Eva Longoria is an American actress, producer, director, activist and businesswoman, best known for her role on the popular television series Desperate Housewives. Besides acting Longoria has ventured into business and has released various books, including Eva’s Kitchen, taking readers on her culinary journey—from the food she was brought up on to the recipes inspired by her travels abroad to the dishes she serves during casual nights at home.

Azul López (FKA Andrés López) is a Mexican author and illustrator of picture books. Her books have been published in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, South Korea, The Netherlands, USA, Germany, Greece and Sweden. Her stories and drawings have received multiple international awards. Most recently, she received the International Award for Illustration from the Bologna Children's Book Fair and the Green Island award from the Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours in South-Korea.

Azul uses emotions, memories, and metaphors to tell the stories she imagines. She is happy to collaborate on stories that others imagine, too. When she’s not working at her studio, she likes to walk among flowers, and to spend a lot of time looking at the sky, enjoying how, by just paying attention, we can witness the beautiful wonder of seeing things change.

Emily Lordi is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University and a writer-at-large for the New York Times’s T Magazine. She has published three acclaimed books on Black artistry, with Rutgers University Press, Bloomsbury’s 33⅓ series, and Duke University Press, and her writing as appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and elsewhere.

Vicky Lorencen loves to write for children, not because she’s trying to recapture her childhood, but because she’s never quite left it. Her sense of humor—and the age of her inner child—lend themselves to contemporary MG fiction and non-fiction. Vicky has been in healthcare communication for 16 years, writing about everything from allergies to Zika virus. Vicky’s work for young readers has appeared in Highlights for Children, Ladybug and Girls’ Life. Her first nonfiction book, THE BIG BOOK OF BARF: A Spewnami of Sick Science, Hurled History, and Body Oddities, was published by Bright Matter Books/Random House Children's Books in 2025.

Jessica Lott, a graduate of the MFA Program in Fiction Writing at Boston University, is the author of the novel The Rest of Us (Simon & Schuster).

Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member Mike Love is a founding member and lead singer of the legendary rock group The Beach Boys. In addition to a Grammy Award, he has received an Ella Award from the Society of Singers and has co-authored more than a dozen Top 10 Singles. He is the author of Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Blue Rider Press), co-authored with James Hirsch.

Widely considered the Godfather of Biodiversity, Thomas Lovejoy is a pioneering biologist who coined the term “biodiversity” and is credited with founding the field of climate change biology. He is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and the world’s leading authority on conservation ecology.

Henrietta Lovell left a career in corporate finance to found the Rare Tea Company in 2004 and is now known around the world as the Rare Tea Lady. Since establishing her award-winning brand, she has been at the forefront of the tea revolution and works with chefs and sommeliers to pair tea with food. She has created bespoke blends for some of the best restaurants in the world including Noma in Copenhagen, Momofuku in New York and Claridge’s in the UK and her teas are available globally from Waitrose to China.

Henrietta travels the world working directly with small independent tea gardens from the Shire Highlands of Malawi to the foothills of the Himalayas. By sourcing direct from the farms, she is able to secure unique harvests and ensure that they are crafted using sustainable practices to benefit both the land and the people who live on it.

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Valentine Low is a writer and journalist who was for many years Royal Correspondent for The Times (London). He covered his first royal tour in 1994, when he accompanied the Queen on her historic state visit to Russia. He has written about the royal family since 2008, and during that time has produced a number of exclusives, including the inside story of the ousting of the Queen’s private secretary. In March 2021 he wrote an exclusive about bullying allegations against the Duchess of Sussex which made headlines around the world.

Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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James Lowell is the editor of Fidelity Investor, a mutual fund advisory newsletter published by Phillips, and has spent the last decade covering mutual funds for all media. A feature columnist for the Dow Jones Investment Advisor Magazine, he is the author of Investing from Scratch and How to Survive in the Real World. He lives in Massachusetts.

David Loyn has been a foreign correspondent for 30 years, mostly with the BBC. Among other prizes he is one of only two journalists to have won both of Britain’s leading awards in television and radio news – Sony Radio Reporter of the Year and Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year.

His first book, Frontline, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2006. His reporting highlights include the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in East Germany, Hungary and Romania. After reporting on India since the assassination of Indira Gandhi and riots in India in 1984, he later returned to succeed Mark Tully as the BBC Correspondent in Delhi. He has spent long periods travelling with guerrilla forces including separatists in Kashmir and Sri Lanka, Maoists in India and Nepal, and the Taliban in Afghanistan since their origins in the mid-90s.

He was the only foreign correspondent with the Taliban when they took Kabul in 1996 and returned to spend time behind enemy lines reporting with the Taliban in Helmand in October 2006. He had several assignments in Iraq, including a two-month embed with US Marines during the invasion in 2003, and had several embeds with British forces, including the deployment of the Black Watch to Camp Dogwood in October 2004.

David Loyn’s acclaimed The Long War – The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11 was published by St Martin's Press in the US and UK in 2021.

Elliott & Thompson will publish his Mapmakers – How Britain Drew the Borders of the Modern World in 2025.

Lydia Lukidis is an award-winning author of 60+ trade and educational books for children. Her titles include UP, UP HIGH: The Secret Poetry of Earth's Atmosphere (Capstone, 2025), DANCING THROUGH SPACE: Dr. Mae Jemison Soars to New Heights (Albert Whitman, 2024), and DEEP, DEEP, DOWN: The Secret Underwater Poetry of the Mariana Trench (Capstone, 2023) which was a Crystal Kite winner for the Canada and North America division, Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Honor, a Cybils Award nominee, and winner of the Dogwood Readers Award. A science enthusiast from a young age, Lydia now incorporates her studies in science and her everlasting curiosity into her books.

Lydia is very involved in the kidlit community. She volunteers as a judge on Rate your Story, co-hosts the annual Fall Writing Frenzy competition, and is an active member of SCBWI, CANSCAIP, 12 x 12, and The Authors Guild. Another passion of hers is fostering a love for children’s literacy through the writing workshops she regularly offers in elementary schools across Quebec with the Culture in the Schools program.

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Violet Lumani writes romantic comedies with just enough heat to make you text your ex (don’t). She has degrees from Barnard College of Columbia University and UCONN and lives in Connecticut with her family. When she’s not writing, she’s probably plotting global (marketing) domination, rearranging her bookshelves, or spinning chaos into comedy.

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Erika Lust is an award-winning indie erotic filmmaker. Her sex-positive adult cinema features relatable characters with an everyday look and realistic sex, transgressing gender stereotypes and fetishisations to offer a groundbreaking alternative to mass-produced mainstream porn. Erika Lust has reshaped the landscape of adult filmmaking, challenging societal norms and paving the way for a new era of empowered sexuality. With her unique storytelling approach, she has captured hearts and minds, showcasing eroticism in a way that is authentic, inclusive, and respectful. Erika Lust has been a beacon of change throughout her journey, championing body positivity, consent, and diverse representations of pleasure.

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Andrew Lycett is a biographer, author and broadcaster. He also writes and reviews for a large number of newspapers and magazines. Lycett lectures and speaks at schools, universities and literary festivals. He recently finished a stint on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). 

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Monty Lyman is a medical doctor, author and research fellow at the University of Oxford. His clinical, research and writing interests focus on the relationship between mind and body.

He won the 2017 Wilfred Thesiger Travel Writing Award for his report on a dermatological research trip to Tanzania.

Following global research, his first book, The Remarkable Life of the Skin was published by Bantam Press in the UK and by Grove Atlantic in North America in 2019. Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, it was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' and a Sunday Times 'Book of the Year'. The Remarkable Life of the Skin has been translated into nine languages.

His acclaimed The Painful Truth, on the new science of why we hurt (and how we can heal), was published by Bantam Press in 2021 and was a Top 10 Amazon bestseller. It has been translated into five languages. His essay based on research for The Painful Truth won the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine essay prize.

The Immune Mind, Dr Lyman’s third book on the relationship between the immune system and our mental health was published in 2024.

Robert Lyman was born in New Zealand and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia.  He was an officer in the British Army for twenty years, being commissioned into the Light Infantry from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in April 1982.  He has a First-Class Honours degree in History from the University of York and Master’s degrees in Strategic Studies (University College of Wales, Aberystwyth), War Studies (King’s College, London) and Military Studies (Cranfield).   He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2009.  A critically acclaimed historian, his interest to date has been the experience of both warfare and of military command during the Second World War, producing narrative studies that explore campaigns in the Middle East, Far East and North Africa.

His Under A Darkening Sky - Americans at War, 1939-1941 was published by Pegasus in the US in 2018.  A War of Empires on the Japanese invasion of South-East Asia was published by Osprey / Bloomsbury in 2021 and praised by James Holland as 'a superb book'.

Co-written with General Lord Dannatt, his acclaimed Victory to Defeat, on why the British Army was catastrophically unprepared for the Second World War and the lessons we must learn, was published by Bloomsbury / Osprey in 2023.

Co-authored with Richard Dannatt, his His Korea – A War Without End will be published by Bloomsbury / Osprey in 2023.

Sean Lynch is a senior consultant at leadership firm Lead Star and the author, with Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). He has also served as an F-16 fighter pilot in the United States Air Force.

Courtney Lynch is a founding partner of the leadership consulting firm Lead Star. She is the bestselling co-author of Leading From the Front (McGraw-Hill) and the author, with Angie Morgan and Sean Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She is a recipient of the National Stevie Award for Best Female Entrepreneur. Her efforts to spark a national dialogue on the topic of leadership have been featured by CNN, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, Businessweek, and many other media outlets.

Olesya Lyuzna is a historical fiction writer with a passion for queer noir. She holds an Honours BSc in Math and Economics and worked in Digital Strategy Consulting for several years before focusing on writing. Her debut novel was selected for a 2020 Pitch Wars mentorship by Layne Fargo and Halley Sutton and workshopped in the selective 'Writing a Novel' course at the Faber Academy. Olesya was born in Odesa, Ukraine, and has lived most of her life in Toronto. In her time away from writing, she enjoys volunteering as a Prose Reader at the Adroit Journal, hosting Pre-Code movie nights, and scouring the Toronto archives for unsolved crimes.Has use of 10% verbatim material from the book in podcasts been discussed with the publisher?