Tim Murphy’s novel Christodora, about a New York family’s 40-year saga through the city’s AIDS years & their aftermath, will be published by Grove on August 2. Tim has reported on HIV/AIDS for twenty years, for such publications as POZ Magazine, where he was an editor & staff writer, Out, Advocate, & New York Magazine, where his cover story on the new HIV-prevention pill regimen PrEP was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Journalism. He also covers LGBT issues, arts, pop culture, travel & fashion for publications including The New York Times & Condé Nast Traveler. He has published two previous novels, Getting Off Clean & The Breeders Box. He lives in Brooklyn & the Hudson Valley.

John Reed is the author of Snowball’s Chance, All The World’s a Grave, and other works; Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poemsis forthcoming from C&R Press (2016).

Winner of the 2015 PWA Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award for Best Original Paperback Novel, Vincent Zandri is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon No.1 bestselling author of more than 20 novels including The Remains, Moonlight Weeps, Everything Burns, Orchard Grove, and When Shadows Come. His list of publishers include Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer and Polis Books. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, Zandri’s work is translated in the Dutch, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese. Recently, Zandri was the subject of a major feature by the New York Times. He has also made appearances on Bloomberg TV and FOX news. In December 2014, Suspense Magazine named Zandri’s, The Shroud Key, as one of the Best Books of 2014. A freelance photo-journalist and the author of the popular lit blog, The Vincent Zandri Vox, Zandri has written for Living Ready Magazine, RT, Newsday, Hudson Valley Magazine, Times Union (Albany), Game & Fish Magazine, Suspense Magazine, and many more. He lives in New York and Florence, Italy.

Lee Matthew Goldberg graduated with an MFA from the New School. His fiction has appeared in Essays & Fictions, The New Plains Review, Orion headless, Verdad Magazine, BlazeVOX, and on Amazon. His debut novel Slow Down is a neo-noir thriller published by New Pulp Press in January 2015.

Marco Rafalá is a writer and a nerd for narrative games. His short fiction has appeared in theBellevue Literary Review, and he is a contributing writer for The One Ring Roleplaying Game, an award-winning tabletop game based on the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. Marco holds an MFA in Fiction from The New School and has just completed his first novel.

Nicole Audrey Spector is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She is a weekly contributor to the New Yorker’s nightlife section, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Guernica, theLondon Times, and Salon, among other publications that are arguably more compelling, likeGrocery Headquarters and Pet Elite. Her first novel, the parody Fifty Shades of Dorian Graywas published in 2013.

Camellia Phillips is a longtime grantwriter with social and economic justice organizations. Her fiction has appeared in CALYX Journal and Cream City Review, and her nonfiction has appeared in Voices of a New Generation: A Feminist Anthology (Allyn and Bacon). She holds an MFA from the New School and received a writing residency at Blue Mountain Center.