Interviews and profiles
Featured Authors
A full interview, a bibliography, and the publishers each author actually worked with — cross-linked into the directory.
Small pressNomineeKalie Holford
Young adult · Contemporary romance · British Columbia, Canada
Canadian YA and contemporary-romance writer whose 2024 debut, The Last Love Song, launched with independent publisher Blackstone.
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.