Noelle Salazar is a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest and a lifelong storyteller. In 2011, Noelle discovered a book about the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II, which set off six years of research into the program, the women who were part of it, and what their service meant to their country. She has met and interviewed some of the last living WASPs as well as their family members, and visited the training facility—now a museum dedicated to the WASP—in Sweetwater, Texas. Her debut novel, The Flight Girls, shines a light on this little-known piece of history.

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle, which has sold more than 6 million books worldwide. He is also the author of The Charles Jenkins espionage series, and the David Sloane legal thriller series. He is also the author of several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and the literary novel, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, for which Dugoni’s narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award; as well as the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Several of Dugoni’s novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and a two-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He is also a two-time finalist for the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. Robert Dugoni’s books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Follow him on twitter @robertdugoni and Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorRobertDugoni

I am just a guy who really enjoys a handful of things. You could even say I get passionate about it, geek out on it. Art... art is amazing. I love to paint and enjoy doing murals, digital, and traditional illustration and get lost in the letterform. Story... you can't live life without it. I'm a total fan of the craft of writing and love all forms of it. Novels, movies, and gaming. Design... an interesting beast. I have run through many forms of design. From print to web: animation, motion design, and visual effects.

Pam Binder is a USA Today and New York Times Bestselling author of eleven novels, and four novellas, a teacher of two-year long novel-writing courses: After the First Draft; and Write Your Story. Pam loves Irish and Scottish myths and legends, and traveling all over the world. She writes historical, contemporary, fantasy, time travel, and young adult fiction. Pam is the president and program director of PNWA.

Robert Lopresti is a retired librarian who lives in Washington state. His most recent novel, Greenfellas, is a comic tale of Mafiosi trying to save the environment. More than seventy of his stories have been published in Alfred Hitchcock, Ellery Queen, The Strand, Black Cat, and other magazines, as well as anthologies. He has won the Derringer Award (three times), the Black Orchid Novella Award, and been nominated for the Anthony Award. He is the president of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and blogs at SleuthSayers.

An award-winning instructor at the University of Washington, Scott Driscoll holds an MFA from the U W and has been teaching creative writing for 25 years. He is the author of the novel Better You Go Home, winner of the Foreword First Debut Fiction award, and has published stories and essays in literary journals and written feature articles for commercial magazines and has won numerous Society of Professional Journalism awards.

Active in her profession, Peggy works with financial literacy organizations, writes a column for the Journal of Financial Planning, and is a member of the Women in Finance (WIN) Initiative. However, perhaps Peggy’s greatest shaping of the profession has come through staying in education. She has taught literally thousands of financial advisers in classes covering advanced certifications, the CFP exam, and master’s level courses in financial planning. Although Peggy Doviak can’t keep every consumer safe, she keeps trying. Her book, 52 Weeks to Prosperity, was published just this summer.

Sandy McCormack's labor of love, Night Witch, was published in 2015. Currently she is working on another historical fiction about aviationís first female ace. Passionate about flying, Sandy is a flight instructor and speaker at the Museum of Flight. She has become an avid seeker of the unsung heroines of WWII. On the ground she does voice-over work, including book trailers and industrials. A member of PNWA since 1998 she has been Volunteer Chair, Literary Contest Co-Chair and Chair, and works occasionally at the Cottage. Sandy feels that her most important job is encouraging, nurturing and supporting writers in their journeys.

Scotti Andrews is an award-nominated writer of thrillers and horror, as well as romances written under the pen name Elise Covert. While she may look like the sweet California girl that she is, her heart is dark and her imagination is even darker. Her female characters are talented with both men and knives and her stories explore the wonder, fear and despair of life. With her stories, she promises to scare you and then beckon you to delve deeper into your own dark side.