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Carol writes fiction (mostly science fiction and fantasy with strong mystery elements) and selected non-fiction. As a Computer Scientist (BS, Stanford University; PhD, Florida Institute of Technology), she honed skills in analysis and attention to detail necessary to understand complex, interconnected systems and to explain specific, emergent software behaviors. She applies these same skills to…

Patrick Malloy holds a Ph.D. in African History from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently a professor in the Humanities Department at Hawkeye Community College, where he teaches introductory courses in Africa, the Middle East, cultural anthropology, and history. His current research interests include the colonial history of medicine, the spread and…

Hamish Williams holds a PhD in Classical Literature from the University of Cape Town (2017) and is currently a guest researcher at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has previously held a Junior Fellowship at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies in Warsaw (2021-2022) and a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of English…

Will Sherwood is currently writing his PhD thesis ‘I sit beside the fire and think’: J.R.R. Tolkien, British Romanticism, and their Cultural Legacies at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Professor Dimitra Fimi and Professor Matthew Sangster. Previously, his MbyRes thesis The Romantic Faëry: Keats, Tolkien, and the Perilous Realm was supervised by…

Will Estes inhabits the liminal space between country music and Greek tragedy. When he is not chronicling the Nova Roman revival, he applies his Masters of Mathematics to speculative travel: He acts as captain of a galactic space ship with his wife and children, focusing on increasing understanding between inhabitants of gas giants, especially if…

Knewbetta is a walker-between-worlds like Glorfindel. He was raised in a lower income African-American neighborhood of wealthy eastern Long Island. He’s a man from the hood and a Tolkien lore expert. He was a kid taking detention in the library… where a friend handed him a copy of The Hobbit. He fell in love with…

Praise Moyer holds a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Visual Art from Point Loma Nazarene University, where she honed her love of working with her hands. Since her days as a fine art student, she has freelanced as an artist and craftsperson, including teaching private art classes, illustration, concept art, graphic design, and…

Nancy “Anni” Foasberg is a scholarly communication librarian at Queens College, CUNY, where she previously served as a humanities librarian with subject responsibility for English and a few other departments. She received her MA in English and her BA in English and Spanish from California State University, Chico, and her MLS from Drexel University. Before…

Catherine graduated from Central Michigan University in 2019 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Education, as a double major in English and History. She earned her M.A. in Educational Leadership from Western Michigan University in 2022. She spent four years working in university writing centers, has taught students ranging from preschool to college, and currently…