Writing Class

Lisa Kessler is a Best Selling author of dark paranormal fiction. She’s a two-time San Diego Book Award winner for Best Published Fantasy-Sci-fi-Horror and Best Published Romance. Her books have also won the PRISM award, the Award of Excellence, the National Excellence in Romantic Fiction Award, the Award of Merit from the Holt Medallion, and an International Digital Award for Best Paranormal.

Lori Duffy Foster is a former crime reporter who writes fiction and nonfiction from the hills of Northern Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and four children. She was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, where a part of her heart remains.

Her short fiction has appeared in the journal Aethlon, and in the anthologies Short Story America and Childhood Regained. Her nonfiction has appeared in Healthy Living, Running Times, Literary Mama, Crimespree and Mountain Home magazines.

Her first serious venture into writing was at age four, when she wrote a love letter to a little boy named Timmy. Several years later, she submitted her short story, "Palettes and Brushes", to Jack and Jill Magazine. Now, as an author, all of her writing...and her life in general...are intertwined with the arts.

Suzanne Mattaboni dispense her multi-decade information on Public Relations to you so you can get your book noticed by the Media.

Athena Dixon is a poet, essayist, and editor. She is the author of The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press 2020) and No God In This Room (Argus House Press 2018). Her work also appears in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books).

Dr. Connors teaches courses on young adult literature and graphic novels. He also works with English education interns in the Master of Arts in Teaching program.

Tracee Lydia Garner is a best-selling author, speaker, writing coach, and course–creator. Tracee’s first book came out when she was twenty-three. Published by the, then named, Black Entertainment Books (BET), this book helped launch her career as one of the youngest African-American writers. Tracee has served as an adjunct professor at the Northern Virginia Community College’s both Loudoun and Annandale campuses teaching How to Write the Novel, Self Publishing Boot Camp, Small Business Marketing, and PR classes

Connie is a business owner and the assistant of a consistent New York Bestselling author. Connie also makes amazing costumes. She is also the event planner behind many literary events.