GIOVANNI ALABISO gives tours & lecturers on the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials. A former journalist, he’s worked for the Woburn Daily Times, Boston Globe & Boston Herald. He’s performed standup, improv & sketch comedy in New England & NY. He is a SAG-AFTRA actor, having been in movies & on stage.
Julie Bonetti writes nonfiction, fiction as “J.E. Bonetti,” and collaborates as “Polonious.” As an author, podcaster, producer, and publisher, Julie writes and talks about energy and shares her explorations about energy and relationships, while investigating mind, body and soul wellness.
Author
Gary Braver
About the author
Gary Braver, pen name of Gary Goshgarian, is the internationally best-selling and award-winning author of 10 critically acclaimed mysteries and medical thrillers including Elixir, Gray Matter, Choose Me (co-written with Tess Gerritsen), and Flashback, the first thriller to have won a prestigious Massachusetts Book Award. thriller FLASHBACK (starred review in Publishers Weekly) is the only thriller to have won the prestigious Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Gary’s novels have been translated into 18 languages, and three have been optioned for movies. His latest mystery, RUMOR OF EVIL –which Bookreporter called “a phenomenal thriller”– has several scenes set in Woburn. Under his own name Gary Goshgarian, he is professor Emeritus of English at Northeastern University where he won an Excellence-in-Teaching Award and taught Fiction Writing, Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, Detective Fiction, and Bestsellers. Gary holds degrees in physics (WPI), a MA in English (UConn), and a Ph.D. in English (U. of Wisconsin). He lives in Arlington with his family.
Kimberly Delude is a speech-language pathologist, author, creator and continuing education presenter. She is the author of the Freddie the Fly series and soon to be released Digital Red. She believes every kid should have their voice heard and that both books and activities are better with humor and when they are filled with fun so kids forget that they’re learning.
I’m Sophia Desmornes — a children’s book author, Christian content creator, and proud mom of four boys. Through my writing, YouTube channel, and speaking, I encourage families to build faith, strengthen identity, and grow in confidence. As a wife and Christian mother, I share my story to inspire others — reminding parents and children alike that they are loved, valued, and created with purpose.
Carol was a passionate elementary teacher for 35 years. At the end of her career she began writing unexpectedly. Now retired, she’s grateful she can continue communicating with children. Carol is traditionally published with six books so far and some awards. She’s very dedicated to her writing life.
Author
Jeanne Freeman
About the author
Katie’s Pond is a children’s book geared to the elementary level. It tells the story of Katie Stevens, a young student at the former Clapp Elementary School on Horn Pond. Katie’s teacher brings the class on a walk around the pond where the children learn interesting facts about the flora and fauna found there. The book is beautifully illustrated by watercolorist Anne Recchia and written by former Clapp School teacher Jeanne Freeman.
Author & Photographer
John Garp
About the artist
John Garp, after graduating from Bentley University in 1970, went into the U. S. Navy and was stationed with the Naval Security Group at NAVCOMMSTA Sidi Yahia, Morocco for an enriching two years. Upon returning to the USA, he founded EPILOG ENTERPRISES in 1975, a book distributing business of which he has been president since. It is this business that has brought him into the orbit of the authors in this book. Garp has always been interested in photography but Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the wildlife opportunities there gave his love of photography direction. His photographs have been published by Mass Audubon, The Humane Society of the U. S., Project Coyote in CA, and in books, magazines, newspapers and websites. He presents wildlife power point programs at schools and for senior citizen groups, and has authored THE MEDFORD WILDLIFE WATCH blog for the Medford Transcript newspaper for many years.
Lucy Gould is the author of The Rescue, Things Unsaid, and The Perfect Gift. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Psychology and Creative Writing with honors. Her favorite genres are fantasy and romance.
Laura was born in NJ, which means she has to fight her genetic predisposition for big hair and pork roll. After attending Rutgers University, she moved to Massachusetts with her high school sweetheart. They’ve been married since 1997. Awwww. Old people are so cute. She got her Masters degree at Harvard University and taught high school history for several years. It was while teaching the Holocaust curriculum, Facing History and Ourselves, that she learned about the story of Terezin, the camp on which Drawn from Memory is based. She left the workforce to care and advocate for her two children, Bella and Jake—no Twilight relation—both of whom are on the autism spectrum. She lives in Massachusetts and is currently eating a pork roll sandwich.
Raised in the wilds of Western Massachusetts, Via Luino is the author of over 25 published short stories and poems and has been a Pushcart Prize nominee. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of New Hampshire and has worked as an English teacher overseas. She is now a youth services librarian by day and an avid reader and writer of all kinds of fantasy by night. She lives just north of Boston with her spouse and their two dogs, an elderly seeing-eye dog flunky and a spry young rescue. All the Scattered Stars is her debut novel.
Barbara Matteson is the closed-door author of three books, with her fourth to be published in Fall 2026. The picturesque New England states serve as the setting of her stories which are all centered on “silver-lining romances for the midlife woman.”
Author
Barbara Ellen Mawn
About the author
Author
Dan Mazur
About the author
Dan Mazur is artist and co-writer of Will Eisner: a Comics Biography, with collaborator Stephen Weiner. His previous graphic novels are Lunatic (2020) and Hannabell Hobb and Her Horrible Heads (2021). His comics have appeared in numerous anthologies.
Elizabeth MeLampy is a lawyer, scholar, and writer whose work focuses on animal rights and protection.
Author & Photographer
Kim Nagy
About the author
Kim Nagy has made the natural world both her profession and her hobby. She is an author and widely-traveled wildlife photographer. She published Dead in Good Company: A Celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery with John Harrison and the True Wildlife Adventure Series for children.
Kenzie (AKA, K. Nies) is a Boston-based writer who has been curating stories her whole life. What started as emotional survival, turned into a full-force love affair with writing, especially romance. She writes messy, heartfelt books about emotionally complex people, layered plots, and trauma/mental health representation. Basically, if it hurts a little and also makes you swoon, she probably wrote it. She is a mom to three mischievous fur-children (Sylvester, Eleanor, and Penelope), and self-proclaimed Taylor Swift enthusiast. When Kenzie’s not writing, she enjoys taking pictures of old architecture, perusing local indie bookstores and scoring her next caffeine fix!
Derek Robinson lives in Woburn with his wife Kathryn and new baby daughter Quinn. When he’s not crafting page-turners like Forever After, he works in software as a technical learning content developer. He’s a dedicated Boston sports fanatic in his free time.
Author & Poet
Ann Taylor
About the author
Ann Taylor’s most recent collection, Horn Pond: The Way I See It, is influenced by one New England pond, just an easy walk from where I grew up and now live again. More than just a simple location, it is a universe unto itself.
Tara L. Thompson is an award-winning author whose stories explore love, loss, and family dynamics. She is the author of Before I Say I Do, Divided Souls, and Clara’s Curse. In 2019, she was honored as Queen City Author of the Year. She is an avid reader and enjoys spending time with her daughter.
Maria Vetrano is a PR consultant and writer who lives in Woburn with her human and animal family. Her first novel, Queen Bess: A Tudor Comes to Save America, is published by Regalo Press in print/eBook; the audiobook is published by Tantor Audio. Maria is hard at work on the sequel to Queen Bess.
Holly Walters originally hails from a small, rural, town in Minnesota but has lived in Woburn for over a decade. A life-long storyteller, Holly is also a cultural anthropologist who works in the high Himalayas of Nepal on ritual practices involving sacred fossil ammonites called Shaligram Stones.
Stephen Weiner has been writing about graphic novels since 1992 and spearheaded the movement to bring graphic novels into public libraries. His books include: 100 Graphic Novels for Public Libraries, The Will Eisner Companion (with N.C. Christopher Couch) Will the Real Will Eisner Please Stand Up & Other Adventures in Comics, The 101 Best Graphic Novels, Faster than a Speeding Bullet: the Rise of the Graphic Novel (with an Introduction by Will Eisner), Analysis of BONE: A Look at the Jeff Smith Graphic Novel Masterpiece, and Hellboy: the Companion. He is co-editor of the 7-volume series, Graphic Novels: A Critical Survey. His novel, Briandigo’s Dagger, is available from Haverhill House Press. He lives outside of Boston.
