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Robert Lyman was born in New Zealand and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia.  He was an officer in the British Army for twenty years, being commissioned into the Light Infantry from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in April 1982.  He has a First-Class Honours degree in History from the University of York and Master’s degrees in Strategic Studies (University College of Wales, Aberystwyth), War Studies (King’s College, London) and Military Studies (Cranfield).   He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2009.  A critically acclaimed historian, his interest to date has been the experience of both warfare and of military command during the Second World War, producing narrative studies that explore campaigns in the Middle East, Far East and North Africa.

His Under A Darkening Sky - Americans at War, 1939-1941 was published by Pegasus in the US in 2018.  A War of Empires on the Japanese invasion of South-East Asia was published by Osprey / Bloomsbury in 2021 and praised by James Holland as 'a superb book'.

Co-written with General Lord Dannatt, his acclaimed Victory to Defeat, on why the British Army was catastrophically unprepared for the Second World War and the lessons we must learn, was published by Bloomsbury / Osprey in 2023.

Co-authored with Richard Dannatt, his His Korea – A War Without End will be published by Bloomsbury / Osprey in 2023.

Sean Lynch is a senior consultant at leadership firm Lead Star and the author, with Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). He has also served as an F-16 fighter pilot in the United States Air Force.

Courtney Lynch is a founding partner of the leadership consulting firm Lead Star. She is the bestselling co-author of Leading From the Front (McGraw-Hill) and the author, with Angie Morgan and Sean Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She is a recipient of the National Stevie Award for Best Female Entrepreneur. Her efforts to spark a national dialogue on the topic of leadership have been featured by CNN, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, Businessweek, and many other media outlets.

Alec MacGillis covers politics and government for ProPublica, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, New York, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. MacGillis was previously a reporter for the New Republic, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun, and was awarded the 2016 Robin Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the 2017 Polk Award for National Reporting.

Siobhan MacGowan is from a family of great storytellers, the most prominent of which is her brother Shane MacGowan (of the Pogues fame) and it’s clear from this debut that she too has inherited the writer’s gene. Siobhan is a journalist and musician who lived and worked in London for much of her life but returned to Tipperary, Ireland, several years ago.

Debora MacKenzie has been covering emerging diseases for more than 30 years as a science journalist for outlets like New Scientist magazine. She has been reporting on COVID-19 from the start, and she was among the first journalists to suggest that it could become a pandemic. From SARs to rabies and Ebola to AIDs, she's been on the frontline in reporting on how pandemics form, why they spread, and how to stop them throughout her career. In addition to infectious disease, she also specializes in reporting on the science of complexity and social organization. In 2010, she won the American Society for Microbiology Public Communication Award. Before becoming a journalist, she worked as a biomedical researcher.

Patricia MacLachlan, the bestselling author of beloved books for young readers, was best known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL, and its sequels SKYLARK, CALEB’S STORY, and MORE PERFECT THAN THE MOON.

Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Patty graduated from the University of Connecticut and lived with her husband on a mountain top in Williamsburg, Massachusetts where she wrote and welcomed visits by her children and grandchildren.

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Brian MacQuarrie is an award-winning journalist. His first book, The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father’s Journey from Rage to Redemption, about the 1997 murder and abduction of ten-year-old Jeffrey Curley, has been called a "fascinating story of loss, profound anger, pain, and the difficult, soul-searching aftermath of trauma" (The Boston Globe) and "a first-rate combination of true crime and social history" (Kirkus).

Kim MacQuarrie is a writer, a four-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and an anthropologist. He is the author of four books on Peru and lived in that country for five years. During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently-contacted tribe of indigenous Amazonians called the Yora. MacQuarrie currently divides his time between the U.S. and Peru and is directing a 3D IMAX film. He is represented in association with Lucas Alexander Whitley in the UK.

Tom Macher is the author of the memoir Halfway, recounting his time in a halfway house in Louisiana. National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon proclaimed, “I felt an exhilaration, even a joy, in coming across a voice so brilliantly calibrated to make this life visible from inside. Tom Macher invented a unique language for the job…broken in pieces, muttered, slangy, more spat out than sung, yet eloquent, poetic in its way, and devastatingly clear.” Macher received his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has twice been a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His short stories have appeared in the Mississippi Review, Slice, Day One, and other magazines.

Since 2003, Jeff Mack has written and illustrated more than forty picture books, chapter books, early readers, and graphic novels. Some of his books have been awarded Junior Library Guild Selections, New York Public Library Best Books of the Year, Bank Street Books of the Year, and various state awards including the Colorado Bell and three Texas 2x2 awards.

From his home in Western Massachusetts, he travels both nationally and internationally visiting schools and libraries where he shares his passion for creating books with young readers, writers and artists.

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Polly Mackenzie is a writer, broadcaster and keynote speaker, and is the Chief Social Purpose Officer of the University of the Arts London. Previously, she was chief executive of Demos, the UK's leading cross-party think tank. She started her career in business journalism, moving into politics as an adviser to the Liberal Democrats, where she had various roles culminating in five years as Director of Policy to the Deputy Prime Minister during the coalition government. After leaving government, she helped to set up the Women's Equality Party and went on to found the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, a charity working to break the link between mental health problems and financial difficulties. She blames nominative determinism for her polymathic interests, ranging from politics to religion, consumer rights to Tudor history and wellbeing to data protection. She has been a visiting fellow at Kings College London and is a regular contributor to UnHerd, Sky News and the BBC. She lives in London with her husband and three children.

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Don Macpherson is a British mind coach who combines mind management techniques and hypnosis with an in-depth knowledge of modern neuroscience. His most high-profile work has been coaching dozens of world-class sports professionals, including F1 racing drivers, Premiership footballers, international rugby players and Wimbledon tennis champions. Over thirty years Don has also helped countless other people with a diverse range of issues such as anxiety, stress, lack of confidence and relationship problems. Don takes challenging mind-management concepts, and makes them easy to understand and to put into practice.

Gary Madden was a Metropolitan Police officer in London for 30 years. He has worked in a number of specialised units, based at New Scotland Yard, including counter-terrorism; hostage negotiation; kidnap and extortion; and international organised crime. Towards the end of his service he specialised in witness protection, in which he worked for seven years. During that time, he looked after a number of high profile cases, including the family of Stephen Lawrence, a war criminal involved in the Yugoslavian civil war and, in conjunction with the intelligence services, a high level IRA informant. He retired in 2009 and is available to work as a Series and Script Consultant.

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Dario Maestripieri is Professor of Comparative Human Development and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and the author of Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships (Basic Books).

A bi-weekly magazine, New York covers life, culture, politics, and style with a particular emphasis on New York City. In the past decade, New York has won 34 National Magazine Awards, including six General Excellence awards.

An online magazine for teenage girls, Rookiemag.com received more than one million page views within six days of its debut in 2011. It was founded by eighteen-year-old media entrepreneur, writer, actor, and tastemaker Tavi Gevinson.

David Magee is the director of institute advancement at the University of Mississippi, helping create the William Magee Center for Wellness Education at the university (www.magee.olemiss.edu), named after his late son William who died of an accidental drug overdose. Magee, whose website is www.daviddmagee.com, is author of multiple books including How Toyota Became 1 (Portfolio), named a Booklist best business book of the year, and The Education of Mr. Mayfield, named an IPPY best non-fiction book in the South.

Detective Kim Mager is a 27-year law enforcement officer who has been with the Ashland Ohio City Police Division for 23 years.

Doma Mahmoud received his MFA in fiction writing from NYU, where he taught Introduction to Creative Writing. He is a writing instructor at the American University in Cairo.

Aaron Mahnke is the creator of the award-winning "Lore" podcast; scary, true-life stories based on global superstitions and the frightening folklore surrounding them. Lore's growing platform includes an upcoming television series on Amazon streaming content and a 3-book series to be published by Del Rey/Random House.

Trans right advocate and activist known for her work as TV’s first trans superhero, Nia Nal, on Supergirl, The Flash, and D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow.

Illyanna Maisonet is the author of Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook (Ten Speed). She was the United States’ first Puerto Rican food columnist for a major newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, and is an IACP award winner for narrative food writing. She has sold-out pop-up dinners across the San Francisco Bay Area and has collaborated with Jose Andres for Steven Speilberg’s West Side Story wrap party.  Illyanna has contributed recipes to Rancho Gordo, authored a crowdfunded cookbooklet, and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Bon Appetit, Saveur, Food52, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, and more.

Sara Majka earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and was a fiction fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Her short stories have been published in The Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, PEN America, A Public Space, VQR, American Short Fiction, and BRICK, among others. She is the author of the critically acclaimed debut collection Cities I’ve Never Lived In, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of The Millions’ Most Anticipated books of 2016 (Graywolf/A Public Space).

Antonia Malchik is the managing editor of STIR. She has worked as a journalist in Austria and Australia, and her writing has appeared in Aeon, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed Ideas, and Orion, among other places, and she is a regular contributor to Full Grown People. Her debut book project is A Walking Life, a nonfiction book about walking: how it relates to our health and creativity, how we have lost it through a century of car-centric design, and how we can regain it.

Declared one of America’s most influential women by Vanity Fair, Malcolm is the founder and chairwoman of the venerated political action committee EMILY’s List. Malcolm has been named a Woman of the Year by Glamour and one of the 100 Most Important Women in American by Ladies’ Home Journal.

Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster. He is a columnist for the Observer and an occasional columnist for the New York Times and Göteborgs-Posten. He studied neurobiology (at the University of Sussex) and history and philosophy of science (at Imperial College, London). He has lectured at a number of universities in Britain, Europe, Australia and the USA. His main areas of academic interest are the history of ideas, the history and philosophy of science, the history and philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mind, theories of human nature, moral and political philosophy, and the history and sociology of race, immigration and identity. Not So Black and White was selected as one of the 'Books to Read in 2023' in the Financial Times and The Irish Times and was rated one of the 'Best Books of 2023 So Far' in the New Statesman.

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Lauretta Malloy is a critically acclaimed performer, writer, vocalist, musician, and producer and a visual artist who has illustrated and published children’s books. As a research writer she worked with Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University Chair of Sociology and Criminology.  

Nana Malone is a USA Today bestselling author whose novels are enjoyed by diverse audiences around the world. She is also the creator of the Brown Nipple Challenge, an online bookclub that celebrates representation in commercial fiction.

Sangu Mandanna is the author of the critically acclaimed Celestial series, a YA SFF trilogy. She’s also the author of the MG Kiki Kallira duology and forthcoming Vanya and the Wild Hunt. She’s also the author of adult fantasies which include The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and A Witch’s Guide to MagicalInnkeeping.

Ndaba Mandela is the founder and chairman of the Africa Rising foundation, executive director of MM Afrique Investments, and a global ambassador for UNAIDS. The grandson of Nelson Mandela, he lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Bob Mankoff is the author of How About Never? Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons, published by Henry Holt in 2014. Mankoff was the cartoon editor for The New Yorker for twenty years, and before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for the magazine for twenty years. He is now the humor and cartoon editor at Esquire.

Joe Manning’s interests range from the deep history of climate and volcanoes to mountain climbing and ancient Greek and Latin.  He is William K. & Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics & History and School of Forestry, Yale and is writing a book currently titled Thin Ice: Science, History, and the Fate of the Earth for Liveright.

Rue Mapp is the Founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro, a national not-for-profit organization with offices in Oakland, CA, and Washington, D.C. She oversees a national volunteer leadership team of nearly 90 men and women who represent 30 states around the US, and shares opportunities to build a broader community and leadership in nature. Mapp’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Backpacker Magazine, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, Ebony Magazine, Outside Magazine, Sunset Magazine, NPR, among many others.

A much sought after yoga instructor in LA and around the globe, with a list of devoted celebrity clients, Andrea Marcum’s classes also appear on My Yoga Gaia. She has been featured in Shape, Self, Yoga Magazine, Jessica Alba’s Honesty Company Blog and Mind Body Green. She contributes regularly to the lululemon blog, Elephant Journal, and Origin.

Leonard J. Marcus, Ph.D. is the founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and an internationally recognized authority on leadership during times of crisis and change.

A former equestrian and an accomplished editor and writer, Halimah Marcus is the Executive Director of Electric Literature and the Editor-in-Chief of its weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading. Her short stories and essays have been published in One Story, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, the Out There Podcast, and by Amazon Original Stories. She has an MFA from Brooklyn College and is editing a collection called Horse Girls about women, wildness, and power forthcoming from Harper Perennial.

Hugo Huerta Marin is a multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer based in New York City whose work centers on gender and cultural identity. Since moving to New York in 2012, he has worked for cultural institutions in the United States and Mexico, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Most recently, Hugo has joined the studio of the performance artist Marina Abramović as an art director, with whom he has collaborated internationally for venues across the globe. Hugo's solo exhibitions have been featured at The Hole Gallery in New York, Never Apart Gallery in Montreal, Canada, and MUAC museum in Mexico City. He was also part of the prestigious Casa Nano art residency in Tokyo, Japan in 2019.

Sabrina Orah Mark is the acclaimed and award-winning author of the book-length poetry collections The Babies (2004) and Tsim Tsum (2009), as well as the chapbook Walter B.’s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit & Other Tales from Woodland Editions. Her collection of stories, Wild Milk, was a winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story Collection. Mark’s poetry and stories most recently appear in American Short Fiction, The Bennington Review, Tin House (Open Bar), The Believer, and she writes a monthly column for The Paris Review. She lives in Athens, Georgia with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons. Her essay collection, Happily, as well as a forthcoming collection of fiction, will be published by Random House.

Ann Marks spent thirty years as a senior executive in large corporations, including Kraft General Foods and American Express Publishing, serving as Chief Marketing Officer of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal for the last decade of her career. She has BS and MBA degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and has since put her research and analysis skills to use in unearthing the untold story of the renowned 'nanny photographer' Vivian Maier. Vivian Maier Developed is her first book.

Trained as an historian, sociologist, and in business administration, Christopher Marquis’s work aims to show business leaders, policy makers, employees, investors, and consumers a new way to think about our economy and their role init. The award winning author of Better Business, he is currently a professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, and previously held faculty positions at Cornell University, and Harvard Business School. A frequent contributor to Forbes, his work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Fortune, The Hill and Harvard Business Review as well as many academic journals ranging from the Academy of Management Journal, American Sociological Review, to Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Anthony Marra is the bestselling author of the novels A Constellation of VitalPhenomena and Mercury Pictures Presents, both New York Times bestsellers, and the short story collection The Tsar of Love and Techno.

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The Washington Post hailed A Constellation of Vital Phenomena as “a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.” The San Francisco Chronicle called TheTsar of Love and Techno “Genius…a stunning masterpiece.” And the New York Times Book Review hailed Mercury Pictures Presents as “a gorgeous book,” and from the Chicago Tribune, “dazzling.”

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Among Marra’s many awards and honors are a Whiting Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; two awards from the National Book Critics Circle; the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award; the Rosenfield Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the National Book Award long list; and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction.

Amanda Marrone has authored four books for teens, Uninvited, Revealers, Devoured, and Slayed and the middle-grade series The Magic Repair Shop Books: The Multiplying Menace, The Shape-Shifter’s Curse and Master of Mirrors.

Kieran Marsh's short fiction has appeared in the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and he has had his work read by professional actors on RTE radio. He was a finalist in the Hennessy New Irish Writing competition and has been featured in many other publications. He is currently working on his first novel.

Stephanie Marston is a pioneering psychotherapist with more than 30 years experience and is a widely recognized stress and work-life expert and corporate consultant. She is the founder of 30 Days to Sanity, a stress and work/life online platform. She has published five previous books and has appeared frequently on shows such as The Oprah Show, The Today Show, CNN Headline News and numerous other radio and TV shows. Stephanie has also served on the WebMD clinical advisory board. She consults with some of the world’s most prestigious corporations including Whirlpool Corporation, H.J. Heinz Company, Xerox Corporation, Mattel Inc., Prudential Insurance, Morgan Stanley, and The Mayo Clinic. Stephanie lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Ama Marston is an international strategy and leadership expert as well as a recognized thought leader focused on Transformative Resilience and inclusive and purpose-driven leadership and business. She is the founder of Marston Consulting, which has provided services to Fortune 500 and FTSE companies, the United Nations, Oxford University and numerous others. Her work with leaders like Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first female President and Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist and as a top advisor to the UN and international NGOs has placed her at dozens of decision-making tables and taken her to work in countries around the world. Ama has long been hailed as a leader and original thinker and has won several awards, including a Council of Women World Leaders Fellowship and Phi Beta Kappa national honors, and was nominated as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and currently splits her time between the UK and the US.

Joan Martelli is a seasoned journalist with more than twenty years of experience writing and producing investigative news programs and documentaries on a wide range of topics including European and American politics, climate change, migration, child labor, along with features on the arts and culture. She have reported for ABC News, CBS News, and PBS from dozens of countries including Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Argentina, France, Italy, Ukraine, Greece, and the United Kingdom, earning many prestigious awards along the way. A graduate of Dartmouth College, she spent a semester studying international politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2007-2008, she was honored with a Harvard Nieman Journalism Fellowship.

Jessica Martin is a lawyer by trade, a writer by choice, and a complete smartass by all accounts. Based in the suburban wilds of Boston, Jess shares her life with a finance geek, a precocious preschooler, and a pair of dogs named after Bond characters. She is not to be trifled with when it comes to trivia, poker, or mini golf.

Brian F. Martin is the founder and CEO of the international nonprofit Children of Domestic Violence, producer of the award-winning documentary The Children Next Door, and author of the New York Times bestseller Invincible: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up with Domestic Violence, and the Truths to Set You Free (Perigee Trade).

A photographer with work in the collections of The Guggenheim, The Whitney, The New Museum, and The Saatchi Collection, Craig-Martin has taught at the School For Visual Arts and had solo shows at PS1/MOMA, White Columns, and throughout Europe. Her photography has appeared in Vogue, New York, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.

Robert Martin is A. Watson Armour III Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago. An eminent primatologist and evolutionary biologist, he has taught at Yale, University College London, the Musée de l’Homme and the Anthropological Institute in Zürich. He is the author of How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction (Basic Books).

S.I. Martin works with museums, archives and the education sector to bring diverse histories to wider audiences. He has published five books of historical fiction and non-fiction for adult and teenage readers.

He founded the 500 Years of Black London Walks in response to the low profile given to the Black historical presence on the capital's streets and has consistently encouraged and championed the provision of plaques, street names and street furniture to this end. He has worked with and for the Black Cultural Archives, National Maritime Museum, the V&A, Tate Britain, London Metropolitan Archives, National Portrait Gallery, Horniman Museum, the National Archives, the RAF Museum, Wellcome Trust and many others. He regularly provides workshops and sessions for heritage institutions, schools, borough councils and community groups across the country.

With Michael Ohajuru their ground-breaking The Guide to Black London will be published in 2024 by September Publishing.

His highly praised Incomparable World was re-released by Penguin in 2021 as a flagship title in their Black Britain Writing Back series, curated by Bernadine Evaristo.

Amanda R. Martinez is a science writer, playwright, and multimedia producer. She is the author of Battle at the End of Eden, about the fight to preserve the most delicate environments on earth. Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker online, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and elsewhere. Her new book, The Power of Nostalgia, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press.

Claudia Guadalupe Martínez’s debut novel, The Smell of Old Lady Perfume, received the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book Award, and an Americas Award Commendation.  Her sophomore novel Pig Park won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book and the NACCS Tejas Foco Young Adult Fiction Award. Her debut picture book, Not A Bean, illustrated by Laura González received multiple starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by Bank Street College of Education. She also authored The Movie Novel for DreamWorks’ animated film, Spirit Untamed.   Claudia grew up in sunny El Paso, Texas, where she learned that letters form words from reading the subtitles of old westerns with her father. She now lives and writes in Chicago.

Lucía Alba Martínez was born in Madrid in 1992. At the age of 5 she moved to Tunisia, where she lived until she was 18. Back in Spain, she studied Comparative Literature at the UCM. For the last few years she has been working as a literary translator - from English, French and Italian. She has published articles on literature in media such as Quimera and CTXT.

Leigh Marz is a leadership coach and collaboration consultant specializing in work with scientists, engineers, and mission driven organizations. She has led and delivered multi-day training programs for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to promote collaboration among climate change teams; she has partnered with the Green Science Policy Institute as a facilitator of cross-sector initiatives to reduce toxic chemicals in products. She is a faculty member with the international training company CRR Global and her work has been published in Time and Harvard Business Review among other venues.

A longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker, Maslin had his first cartoon published in the magazine in 1977. He’s married to fellow cartoonist for The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly.