Our Authors

Elaine Shpungin, Ph.D.

Elaine Shpungin, Ph.D., is the director of the Psychological Services Center, an outpatient community and mental health clinic and the training site for doctoral students in the clinical/community program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She shares House’s knack for reading people quickly, but usually manages to speak her mind with slightly more tact and diplomacy.

Joel N. Shurkin

Joel N. Shurkin is currently Snedden Chair in Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is former science writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer and at Stanford University, was founder of Stanford’s science journalism internship program, and a freelance writer. He has written nine published books. He was a member of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Three Mile Island for the Inquirer. He is based in Baltimore.

Frank Sibila

Frank Sibila (pseudonym) is educated to degree level and started FakeAlibi.com in 2005. The company has served more than 7,000 clients and operates a global stable of 700 undercover agents willing to take casework at a moment’s notice. With 10,000 registered users and an average of 20,000 visitors a month to FakeAlibi.com, business is booming, and keeping a low profile is no easy task for Frank. Frank lives in the U.K.

David B. Sicilia

David B. Sicilia is an associate professor in the department of history and Henry Kaufman Chair of Financial History at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. His research and teaching center on business, economic, and technology history, with a special emphasis on the history of capitalism and finance. He divides his teaching between the history department and the Smith School.

Books by David B. Sicilia

Stephen I. Sideroff, PhD

Dr. Stephen Sideroff is an internationally recognized clinical psychologist, executive and medical consultant, and expert in resilience, longevity, optimal performance, addiction, neurofeedback, and mental health. He has published pioneering research in these fields. Dr. Sideroff’s work focuses on the two most important and difficult modern issues we all face: stress and resilience, and achieving permanent change and transformation. His approach is focused not only on providing useful information, but presenting it in a way that generates change in the recipient.

Dr. Sideroff is an associate professor in the departments of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and rheumatology at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine. He was the founder and former clinical director of the Stress Strategies program of UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and former clinical director of Moonview Sanctuary’s Treatment and Optimal Performance Center. He has helped establish innovative training and treatment approaches in optimal functioning, mind-body medicine in the US, China, and Europe. His book, The Path, has been hailed as “a true Bible for living in balance and spirituality.”

Books by Stephen I. Sideroff, PhD

Katie Silcox

Katie Silcox, MA, is the New York Times bestselling author of the book Healthy, Happy, Sexy: Ayurveda Wisdom for Modern Women. She is the founder and executive director of The Shakti School, a premier online certification school for women-centered holistic wellness. Her business focuses on the convergence of ancient holistic medicine, modern science, and heart-centered spirituality. In a former life, she was a cover model for Yoga Journal magazine, and was named one of “San Francisco’s Best Yoga Teachers” and one of “100 Trailblazers in Yoga and Ayurveda.”

Books by Katie Silcox

Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is the author of dozens of science fiction novels and more than 500 short stories. He is a many-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and in 2004 was designated a Grand Master, one of 21 named so far, by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Judy Simon, RDN

Judy Simon, RDN, is a registered dietitian nutritionist who specializes in reproductive health. She is the founder of Mind Body Nutrition, LLC, clinical instructor, and staff dietitian at the University of Washington. Judy has held leadership roles in the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Nutritional Special Interest Group, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Judy’s inclusive approach to health is to meet people where they are. She helps them find small changes in their daily habits which can inch toward better health. Integrating mindfulness, planning, and accountability all while taking a nonjudgmental, down-to-earth approach allows Judy to help many women have healthier, more fertile lives.

Books by Judy Simon, RDN

David Sinclair, PhD

David Sinclair, PhD, is an American alcohol researcher who has worked for the Finnish National Health Institute (formally Alko Labs) in Helsinki, Finland.

Bradley H. Sinor

Bradley H. Sinor has had three collections of his short stories published: Dark and Stormy Nights, In the Shadows and Playing with Secrets (co-written with his wife Sue). His latest fiction can be found in the anthologies Space Cadets, The Grantville Gazette, Places to Go, People to Kill, Ring of Fire 2 and Houston, We Got Bubbas. He has also seen his nonfiction appear in a variety of magazines and anthologies such as Stepping through the Stargate and The Cherryh Odyssey. Visit his Web site at www.zettesworld.com/Sinor/index.htm.