Jay Brandon is the award-winning author of many novels and short stories acclaimed both critically and by readers. His first novel, DEADBOLT, was awarded Booklist magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award, after a starred review. His first legal thriller, FADE THE HEAT
Kiran Bhat is a global citizen formed in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, to parents from Southern Karnataka, in India. An avid world traveler, polyglot, and digital nomad, he has currently traveled to over 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages.
Betsy Wagner is a native Texan. She retired from public education in Texas after a career that also took her to schools in Louisiana, Hawaii, and Germany.
Dr. Howard is a Texas native and Baylor graduate. After many years of working with at-risk and adjudicated youth, she began her transition to specialize in trauma and eating disorders and completed her Postdoctoral residency at the Eating Disorder Center at San Antonio. Dr.
This event is the official launch of Wendy Barker's seventh poetry collection, Gloss. But we're also featuring poets Jo-Reyes Boitel and Joshua Robbins, and introductions by Natalia Trevino.
John Casey grew up in New Hampshire and earned a Master of Arts from Florida State University in 1994, then began his flying career as an airlift and developmental test pilot.
Dr. Melissa Moncrieffe, who writes under the pen name “L. Samuels”, grew up in Texas and appreciated the valuable lessons she learned throughout her childhood. She spent summers traveling or studying abroad, enjoying the wonderful cultures and places of different people and lands.
A daughter of the borderlands, scholar and creative writer Norma Elia Cantú currently serves as the Norine R.and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio.
“REQUIRE MORE OF YOURSELF!” has been my motivation and has now become my daily mantra. Now I help people require more of themselves. Your current level of success in personal relationships, education, business, or physical shape is only your current state. You can require more of yourself.
Jack Carr is an author and former Navy SEAL. He lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. He is the author of The Terminal List and True Believer.
