Christine Pride is a writer, editor and fifteen-year publishing veteran. She has held editorial posts at various Big Five imprints, including Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, and Hyperion. Her first novel, We Are Not Like Them, written with Jo Piazza, was recently published.

Britt Tisdale is a writer and psychotherapist with an MFA from Seattle Pacific University. A fellow of Hambidge Center, Wedgwood Circle, and Buinho Creative Hub, she has taught for Rollins College and the Abroad Writers Conference. Her work has appeared in Sonora Review and Pleiades.

Alka Joshi has has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick and was longlisted for the Center for FIction First Novel Prize. Her second book was released in June 2021.

Brenda Copeland is an editor with more than twenty years’ experience at the big five publishers and over ten years as an adjunct professor in the graduate publishing program at NYU. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors of all levels, helping them reach their creative potential.

Iwalani Kim represents adult upmarket and literary fiction and select narrative nonfiction at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. As the senior assistant and foreign rights liaison to Heide Lange, Iwalani has the pleasure of working with extraordinary clients such as Dan Brown and Brad Thor.