Aifric Campbell is an Irish writer living in the United Kingdom and the author of three previous novels. She spent many years at Morgan Stanley, where she became managing director on the London trading floor.

Walter Mosley is the author of more than 40 books: five in the Leonid McGill Mysteries; 11 Easy Rawlins Mysteries; 18 books of other fiction; five nonfiction; a play; and even an original e-book. He has won numerous awards, including an O’Henry, a Grammy and Pen America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ru Freeman's On Sal Mal Lane begins the day the Herath family moves onto the lane. Their street, a quiet peaceful place inhabited by Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese, is edged by lovely scents and flowering trees at one end and a busy road at the other.

In This I Know Susannah Conway tells her story of bereavement and her journey through grief, and yet it is not a sad book, but rather a most inspiring one.

With her memoir The Tribal Knot, Rebecca McClanahan did what many of us wish to do — to do something with all those family memorabilia and documents that are tucked away in closets and trunks.

Oonya Kempadoo's third novel, All Decent Animals, set on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, was published earlier this year.

In her third novel, The Mothers, Jennifer Gilmore traces with unflinching candor the long and painful quest of a New York couple, Jesse and Ramon, to adopt a baby.

Virginia Pye’s debut novel, River of Dust, is an Indie Next Pick for May, 2013. Her short stories have been published in numerous literary magazines, including The North American Review, Failbetter, The Baltimore Review and Tampa Review.