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...
Renee James
RENEE JAMES is a confessed English major and out transgender author who is also a spouse, parent, grandparent, and Vietnam veteran. She took up fiction writing after a long career in magazines. She has published six novels and a biography along with short stories...
Kate Rounds
My name is KATE ROUNDS. My best friend’s mother owned a typewriter. I was mesmerized by the keyboard and the hum of the machine. I could make it work, but I couldn’t make it write. That was my first introduction to the machinery of journalism. My first story was about...
Irwin & Faderman
PHYLLIS IRWIN, a professor of music emerita, is the author of two college music textbooks and the co-author of a music education textbook. (As a teenager, she wrote short adventure stories in which she flew an airplane to rescue beautiful damsels in distress—never...
K. M. Soehnlein
K. M. SOEHNLEIN is the author of three novels: his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut, The World of Normal Boys, a story of sexual awakening and family tragedy, now in its tenth printing; You Can Say You Knew Me When, set in San Francisco during the Beat era of 1960...