Annessa Ann Babic is a freelance writer, adjunct professor, and lecturer in New York. She specializes in women's studies, American social and cultural history, public health narratives, and transnational studies, emphasizing the modern Middle East and US-Turkish relations. She is the author or co-editor of several books and has produced numerous book chapters, reference entries, book reviews, and journal articles. Her publications deal extensively with nationalism, women's rights, women's liberation, Turkish-US relations, transnational feminism, and travel literature. Her most recent book is America's Changing Icons (FDU Press, 2018). She has also guest-edited a special edition of the Journal of American Studies in Turkey focusing on travel narratives; previously, she co-edited an issue of Food and Foodways (with Tanfer Emin Tunc). Recent book chapters on Chinese American takeaway dinners, one concerning travel narratives, war, and literary icons (i.e., Anne of Green Gables), and co-written pieces on food narratives and activism (with Tunc) have populated her publishing landscape.

She has also taught courses ranging from American History to Environmental History. Her passions reside in cultural products and conflicts concerning consumption, geopolitical politics, and gender issues. She has won teaching fellowships as well as writing and research accords.

Aside from discursive teaching and looking at the popular culture venues of food and food products, Dr. Babic has also published rather heartedly on the manifestation, evolution, and incorporation of modern cultural artifacts into our daily lives. Additionally, she has an active publishing career outside of academia, as she writes travel and lifestyle pieces alongside fiction, and she works as an activist for women’s and social causes. Currently, she is finishing a discursive project on travel literature and the perceptions of place and space (looking at Greece and Turkey) and working on a travel narrative book for the popular press.

I'm a Fiction/Fantasy, Script, Travel and Experiential writer whose mind is roughly stuck together with strong coffee, duct tape, and chocolate. 

Tina Sequeira wears many hats, including author, marketer, blogger, founder, and mentor. Winner of the Rashtriya Gaurav Award (2019) in association with the Government of Telangana for Bhumi (2019), the Orange Flower Award (2017) by Women’s Web, Literoma Nari Samman Award (2020), and GrandQueens Leadership Award (2020) by Lions Clubs International, Women Lit of the Year Award by I.N.S.P.I.R.E Beyond Motherhood, and more, Tina has published several short stories and poems in international anthologies and literary journals. She is also the founder of ‘Write Away,’ a creative writing workshop. ‘The Tina Edit’ is among the Top 100 Writing Blogs & Websites for Authors in 2020 in the world and Top 100 Indian Lifestyle Blogs by Feedspot. Find her at http://www.thetinaedit.com or on most social media spaces @thetinaedit.

Pooja Priyamvada is an author, columnist, professional translator, content & language consultant. Currently she is Academic Director at International Institute of Mass Media (IIMM) Delhi. She has been a facilitator of an online course- “Leadership & Management in Health” offered by University of Washington since 2021.

She has translated Manav Kaul’s Rooh: A novel to English (2023) & Joseph Murphy's The Power of the Subconscious Mind to Aapke Avchetan Mann ki Shakti (2022) published by Penguin, A Night in the Hills, a collection of short stories by Manav Kaul published by Westland Books (2019) and Caregivers' Handbook for Down's Syndrome published by Sangati Foundation (2021). Her ebooks Mental Health: A Primer and Lessons for Life from Death:Papa & I and translation Land of Ghosts: Iceland & JP: From Nayak to Loknayak are available on Amazon Kindle.

She has been awarded 50 Inspiring women 2022 award by Fox Story India and India Prime Women Icon awards 2022 by Foxclues. She has also been awarded Shiksha Gaurav Puruskar by Universal Mentors Association in 2023.She is a part of the organising team of Kritya International Poetry Festival and has been actively organising theatre and reading workshops at the National Museum, New Delhi

She is also an awarded bi-lingual blogger, formerly also radio announcer and lecturer. She is a trained psychological/mental health first aider, emotional wellness corporate trainer, mindfulness and grief facilitator, reflective listener, mental health researcher and suicide prevention and awareness activist. She has been associated and published at reputed national & global portals and anthologies. Both her blogs have been awarded several times consecutively at the Orange Flower Awards.

She has an M.Phil. in English from Panjab University and speaks vociferously about issues of gender, identity, and marginalisation at several International platforms and mediums.She has taught Disability Competencies using poetry to Medical Students in UCMS Delhi and actively conducts mental health awareness and emotional wellness talks, webinars, workshops and programs at several forums. She has been featured amongst “10 Indian Women Bloggers you must follow” and “25 writers whose work readers enjoyed the most” at Women’s Web in 2018 and also in “Most empowering moments by Indian women” by SheThePeopleTV.

Deborah Dubas Groom is a Canadian West Coast author. She’s published work in over 23 anthologies in Canada, the U.S, the U.K. and Australia, with more in the works.

Canadian Stories Magazine

Stormy Island Publishing - Fear and Fables

WPC Press - Circle of Magic, Holiday Spirit, and Love in the Dark

Raven and Drake - April Horrors, Candy Capers

Black Ink Fiction -New Tales of Old, New Tales of Old Volume 2, The Mummy, Once Upon a Drabble, Pestilence, Heartless,

Reaperman, Winter Shocks

Breaking Rules Europe Publishing - Lost Lore and Legends, Rise and Fall, Adventure Awaits Volume 3

Iron Faerie Publishing - Elven, and Merfolk

Indie Blu(e) Publishing - But You Don't Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Superheroes Battling Invisible Illness.

There are more soon to be released.

She’s a member of the Langley Writers’ Guild and the Federation of B.C.Writers.

She has degrees in history and medical social work, and considers anything after the industrial revolution to be current events. She’s mom to an outstanding human being, Joshua, and grateful to be the daughter of Helen and Stan and sister of Heidi and Krista.

She’s a sci fi/fantasy/vintage monster movie geek who loves humour, the doors that shouldn't be opened, the bizarre, agoraphobic vampires, dragons with balance issues and tentacles. Lots and lots of tentacles.

She is also a secret super hero fighting the tyranny of every day cooking.

Grace R. Reynolds is a native of the great state of New Jersey, where she was first introduced to the eerie and

strange thanks to local urban legends of a devil creeping through the Pine Barrens. Since then, her curiosity with

things that go bump in the night bloomed into creative expression as a dark poet, horror, and thriller fiction

writer.

When Grace is not writing she can be found dreaming up macabre scenarios inspired by the mundane realities of life. Her short fiction and poetry has been published by various presses, including Brigid's Gate Publishing, Creature Publishing, Dark Matter Magazine, Death Knell Press, and more.She is the author of two poetry collections, Lady of The House (2021) and The Lies We Weave (2023), both released by Curious Corvid Publishing.

Connect with Grace on Instagram and Twitter as @spillinggrace, or her website: www.spillinggrace.com.

Megha Sood is a Pushcart Nominated Award-Winning Poet, Editor, Author, and Literary Activist based in New Jersey, USA. She is an Associate Editor at MookyChick(UK), Life and Legends (USA), and Literary Partner in the project “Life in Quarantine'' with Stanford University, USA. Works featured in journals, including Poetry Society of New York, New York Public Library zine, NPR, WNYC Studio, PBS American Portrait, American Writers Review, Stanford Daily, Kissing Dynamite, Rising Phoenix Review, and many more.Blogs at https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.Tweets at @meghasood16

Co-Editor of anthologies ( “The Medusa Project”, Mookychick) and (“The Kali Project, Indie Blu(e) Press).“The Medusa Project” has been selected as a digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2023 as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX.

She is a recipient of Poet Fellowship 2021 MVICW (Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing), 2020 National Level Winner Spring Mahogany Lit Prize, and Three-Time State-level winner of NJ Poetry Contest. Recipient of “Certificate of Excellence” from Mayor, Stephen Fulop, Jersey City. New Jersey.

She is a member of the United Nations Association- US Chapter (UNA-USA), National League of American Pen Women ( NLAPW), and Women’s National Book Associations (WNBA).

Performing venues includes New York Poetry Festival, Paterson Poetry Festival, Nuyorican Cafe, Hudson County Community College, Historic Apple Tree House, Newark Arts Festival, Panorama International Literary Festival, FEMINEN Turkey Arts Festival, and many more.