Interviews and profiles
Featured Authors
A full interview, a bibliography, and the publishers each author actually worked with — cross-linked into the directory.
TraditionalAlaa Al-Barkawi
Young adult · Contemporary fiction · United States
First-generation Iraqi American writer centering SWANA and diaspora stories in her 2026 debut, In the Country I Love.
IndieKatherine Pickett
Contemporary fiction · Women's fiction · Silver Spring, Maryland
A Maryland-based author and editor whose debut novel follows a widowed mother with multiple sclerosis training for a 150-mile cycling event.