JD Glass
Former Managing Editor for The Advocate, artist, musician, and author JD Glass is an American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award Finalist for her novel Punk Like Me. Other novels have been shortlisted for Lambda Literary and Ben...
Mala Kumar
MALA KUMAR is the author of The Paths of Marriage. The Advocate, USA Today, and The Animal covered Mala’s perspectives on intersectional LGBTQ+ issues, as well as her debut novel. Her second novel is What it Meant to Survive will be published by Bywater Books on...
Virginia Black
VIRGINIA BLACK likes strong whiskey, loud music, and writing, though not necessarily in that order. When not penning angsty speculative fiction, she is almost always reading. Born in California (“where even the green is brown”), Virginia escaped to the...
MB Austin
Born and raised in Delaware, MB Austin’s childhood getaways all took her to the water: days at the blistery beach, weeks on the chilly Maine coast, and never enough time sailing on the Susquehanna River. Then she headed south for four long years, making good...
Diana DiGangi
DIANA DIGANGI was born and raised in the suburbs outside Washington D.C. She pursued a bachelor’s and master’s in journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where she started her journalism career in television news, then returned to the D.C. area to...