BENJAMIN ROESCH is an award-winning young adult and middle grade author of stories for young readers and the young at heart. His debut novel, Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze, won the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award. A veteran English teacher with an MFA from Lesley University, Benjamin is passionate about helping young writers find their voices. He also co-hosts the writing podcast Perspectives on Pages. He lives in Burlington, Vermont, where he writes, teaches, and plays dad to two teenage sons and a scrappy dog named Shiloh. Oh, and his name is pronounced “Rush,” like the band from Canada.
Aaron lives in California, working as a software developer while muttering enviously about the superiority of walkable communities and countries with vastly better support for raising children.
Having had the Path of the Writer unlocked by the mid-life acquisition of an awesome rainbow hat, Aaron is now trying to inflict thirty years of arguing about civics and public policy at the Shabbat table onto readers seeking fantasy novels. Rumors that the devastating smirk masks a series of deep, dark secrets are entirely unsubstantiated—all such secrets are all-too-shallow and prone to being shared at the drop of a pin.
Des DeVivo is a queer writer of queer stories that transmute pain into beauty. Born and raised in small-town Ohio, they now reside in Los Angeles with their husband and three cats.
