Carl Lee is a writer of Paranormal Fantasy. He has been a member of the PNWA for the past twelve years. He has also been a member of the Flamingo Critique Group for the past three years. Carl co-hosts the podcasts, A Novel Talk and Flamingos Write Now. Available on YouTube.

Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches atop a hill in the Pacific Northwest. Her 200+ fiction publications include stories in Asimovís, Clarkesworld Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and five collections to date. An Endeavour, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee, she has also edited Fantasy Magazine, Women Destroy Fantasy, and Ad Astra: The SFWA 50th Anniversary Cookbook. Her popular online writing school, The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, has been in operation since 2010. She is the current President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Damon Suede grew up out-n-proud deep in right-wing America and escaped as soon as it was legal. Beyond romance fiction, Damon has been writing for print, stage, and screen for almost three decades. He has won some awards but counts his blessings more often: his amazing friends, his demented family, his beautiful husband, his loyal fans, and his silly, stern, seductive Muse who keeps whispering in his ear, year after year.

Carlos Mojica earned a B.A. in legal studies and an M.A. in public administration. He worked as a child protective services investigator and case manager, homeless shelter case manager, and probation officer before accepting the position of special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1997. He served as an undercover agent and worked on numerous violent crimes, terrorism, and white-collar crime investigations. In 2007, Mr. Mojica transferred to the Tacoma, WA, FBI office, and in 2012, Mr. Mojica was promoted to assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) for the Seattle Field Office, making him second in command for the FBI in the State of Washington. In that capacity, he served as the executive manager responsible for the FBI criminal program, the cyber program, and the counterintelligence program. Mr. Mojica was responsible for nine FBI satellite offices, three gang task forces, three innocence lost (child prostitution) task forces, one cyber task force, and all criminal investigations in the State of Washington. In 2017, Mr. Mojica retired from the FBI and accepted a position with Sullivan Cove Consulting as a senior financial investigator. He is now responsible for identifying assets acquired through ill-gotten gains that will later be subject to criminal and civil forfeiture. Mr. Mojica is the proud husband of Tanisha Mojica and the father of two children. He enjoys practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu during his free time.

Christine M. Fairchild is a former journalist who's worked as an editor and writer for over 35 years, from marketing to high-tech to executive communications. Now she uses her powers for good as an author of romantic suspense (The Goliath Conspiracy Series) and editing books (The Editor Devil Guides), as an instructor for writing organizations (Sisters In Crime, RWA) and conferences (Las Vegas Writers Conf, PNWA, Emerald City Writers Conf) and as a book doctor in the fiction world. She loves to help authors take their talent and their manuscript to the next level.

PNWA Board Trustee, DARCY CARSON, is an award winning author and is currently working on multiple projects—her fourth dragon paranormal romance, a new anthology romance, and a Regency romance. Darcy is the Sponsor Chair for the Literary and Nancy Pearl Contests. She asks people for money and she’s fearless about doing so!

Carrie Wachob loves comedy and horror. Her scripts and short films have been recognized by numerous festivals including Cinequest, Sidewalk, and Catalina. Her short film "Crazy Cat Lady,” which she wrote and co-directed, won the international Create50 filmmaking competition (UK), and will be included as a scene in the upcoming 2020 feature film The Impact, written by Joe Eszterhas (Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct), and starring Olivia Williams (Hanna, Maps to the Stars.) For the last 10 years she’s also worked as a video editor and multimedia coordinator for Seattle Children’s Hospital. She studied digital video at the Art Institute of Seattle and has a B.A. in Journalism-Communications from the University of Washington.

Cissy Hartley is the owner of Writerspace. Writerspace offers online promotion, advanced mailing list management, web design, and hosting for writers and publishing professionals. Founded in 1998, Writerspace is the home for over 1000 authors, primarily romance, women's fiction, and mystery, of the best fiction on the market today. Writerspace reaches an active mailing list of almost 150,000 readers, and its communities are familiar places for readers to gather, talk to each other, learn about releases, and communicate with authors.

David B. Schlosser is an award-winning fiction and non-fiction author and an award-winning editor. His fiction has appeared in university literary journals and online magazines. His non-fiction and journalism have run in business and trade publications, academic and scientific journals, and print and online news outlets. His most recent short story, “Pretzel Logic,” originally appeared in 2019’s Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan. It will be republished in The Best American Mystery Stories 2020. He also runs www.PromptInspiration.com, a website that delivers daily, genre-specific prompts to sustain a daily writing habit.