Mason Deaver is a bestselling and award-winning young adult novelist. Their first book, I Wish You All the Best was an instant bestseller, being nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards and winning the Pink News Best Young Adult Book Award, as well as being named one of Cosmopolitan's 100 Best YA Books! Their second novel, The Ghosts We Keep earned a starred review from Booklist, as well as praise from Publisher's Weekly. Their third novel, The Feeling of Falling In Love received a starred review from Bookpage as well as critical acclaim from Publisher's Weekly and Booklist. Their fourth novel, Okay, Cupid is expected to release Winter 2024. They are also a contributor to several anthologies, as well as the author of the Audible Original Another Name For the Devil. They currently live in San Francisco.

Jonathan Lenore Kastin (he/they) is a queer, trans poet with an MFA in Writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poems can be found in Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit, Liminality, and Abyss & Apex. His short stories can be found in Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, as well as the anthologies: Ab(solutely) Normal, Transmogrify! and We Mostly Come Out at Night. He lives with two mischievous cats, more books than he could ever read, and a frightening number of skulls. He is trying to write a novel. Pray for him. Image by Percy Edwards @Designs20Jaeger

Saundra Mitchell is the author of SHADOWED SUMMER, THE VESPERTINE, THE SPRINGSWEET, THE ELEMENTALS and MISTWALKER. In non-fiction, she’s the author of the THEY DID WHAT!? series for middle grade readers. She’s also the editor of the YA anthology DEFY THE DARK. IN 2018, HarlequinTEEN will publish her next anthology, ALL OUT. Writing as Jessa Holbrook, she published her first romantic contemporary YA with Razorbill, WHILE YOU’RE AWAY. In summer 2014, she debuted WILD, her first YA novel writing as Alex Mallory. SHADOWED SUMMER was the 2010 winner of The Society of Midland Authors Book Award for Children’s Fiction and a 2010 Edgar® Award Nominee. It was chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection and an ALAN Pick in 2009. Her short story “Ready to Wear” was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize after appearing in Vestal Review Issue 27. Her short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in anthologies including A TYRANNY OF PETTICOATS, FORETOLD, GRIM, TRUTH & DARE and DEAR BULLY. For twenty years, she was the head screenwriter and an executive producer with Dreaming Tree Films on their various teen filmmaking programs, including the largest teen filmmaking program in the United States, Fresh Films. They produced more than four hundred films from her screenplays, and she earned Academy Award eligibility ten times during her tenure. In other arenas, Ms. Mitchell was interviewed by the New York Times and the BBC for her part in exposing the Kaycee Nicole hoax, and she’s been tapped by morning radio shows all over the United States as a guest expert on Urban Legends & Folklore. In her free time, she enjoys fandom, studying history, papermaking, and spending time with her wife and her daughters.

CORY (previously Cori) …earned degrees in poetry and screenwriting before falling in love with writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. They have authored four acclaimed YA novels, with a middle grade series, young adult contemporary, and nonfiction picture book forthcoming. Cory coauthored the bestselling ONCE & FUTURE, a finalist for the New England Book Award, with their spouse A.R. Capetta.