Month: January 2022

J.P. O’Connell is the author of Hotel Portofino, a heady historical fiction drama about a British family who open an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the ‘Roaring 20s.’ He has worked as an editor and writer for a variety of newspapers and magazines including Time Out, The Guardian, The Times, and the Daily Telegraph. JP has also written several books including a novel, a celebration of letter-writing, a spice encyclopedia, and, most recently, an analysis of David Bowie’s favorite books and the ways they influenced his music. JP lives in London.

Leah Angstman is the author of the debut novel of King William’s War in 17th-century New England, OUT FRONT THE FOLLOWING SEA (Regal House, January 2022), and the editor-in-chief of Alternating Current Press and The Coil magazine.

Steven Schwartz’s first novel, Therapy, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Selection and a finalist for the Harold U. Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine. His second novel, A Good’s Doctor’s Son, won the Colorado Book Award for the Novel. His stories, collected in four volumes, have received two O.Henry Prize Story Awards, the Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, the Foreword Review Gold Medal, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.