Roxanne Longstreet Conrad is a worrisome confabulation of persons, including Rachel Caine, Julie Fortune, Roxanne Longstreet, Roxanne Conrad and Ian Hammell (she has no idea what Ian writes, actually, and that’s probably for the best). She has Web sites, the most prominent of which is www.rachelcaine.com. Until recently, she was a recovering Harry Potter addict. Sadly, the recovery process ground to a halt after she was discovered gazing dreamily at her lenticular Sirius Black wanted poster and her autographed photo of Snape while holding her Hermione Granger wand and wearing her Time Turner pendant. She also was honored by being appointed Head of Slytherin House at The Witching Hour, a 2005 Harry Potter symposium in Salem, Mass. Blackmail photos abound.
Andrew R. A. Conway is a cognitive neuroscientist who conducts research on individual differences in memory capacity, cognitive control and intelligence. He earned his B.S. in computer science and psychology from Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.) in 1991, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a lecturer in the Psychology Department at Princeton University where he teaches courses on statistics for psychologists. He also serves on the editorial board of the scientific journal Memory & Cognition. He is single (with no legal right to marriage in his state) and resides in Manhattan.
Gerry Conway has worked in comics since the age of 16 and is best known in Spider-Man circles for scripting the death of Gwen Stacy and for his co-creation of the Punisher. In addition, Conway has written several novels and worked in both film and television as a writer and producer. He lives in Los Angeles.
Tanya Cook, PhD, (she/her) is a sociology professor at the Community College of Aurora near Denver, CO. In 2019, Cook was one of 26 community college faculty awarded a research grant from Mellon/ACLS to support sociological research on fandom. Her research and writing interests include social movements, sociological theory, and popular culture. Cook has written articles for The Journal of Fandom Studies and The Journal of Screenwriting that feature Game of Thrones and Wynonna Earp, respectively. She was named the Inclusive Excellence Faculty of the Year in 2018 by her college for her efforts to engage diversity in the classroom.
Carol Cooper is a New York-based journalist and cultural critic who has been writing professionally about books, music, film, pop trends and social issues for over 20 years. Her work has been published in various national and international publications, including Essence, Elle, Latin N.Y., The Face (England), Actuel (France), the Village Voice, the New York Times and Rolling Stone. Her work has been cited in academic journals, and her critical and sociological essays have been included in a number of anthologies, including Rolling Stone: The ’70s (Little, Brown and Company), Brooklyn: A State of Mind (Workman Publishing Company), Dark Matter 2: Reading the Bones (Warner Aspect) and The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock (Random House). She is a member of the national nonprofit comics advocacy group Friends of Lulu and a 1974 graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop for Fantasy and Science Fiction. She is widely traveled and holds both B.A. and M.A.L.S. degrees from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Harris Cooper is professor of psychology and director of the program in education at Duke University. He studies research methodology and applications of social psychology to educational policy and practice. Dr. Cooper was raised by Fritz Freiling, Hannah Barbera, MGM and the Warner Brothers, while his mother must have been doing something more important. When not watching “The Simpsons,” he is editor of the Psychological Bulletin, the premier journal publishing research syntheses in the social sciences.
Gwen Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat and Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat; the novels Love Saves the Day and Diary of a South Beach Party Girl; and the crowd-sourced collection of cat selfies, Kittenish (a send-up of Kim Kardashians Selfish), 100% of the proceeds from which were donated to support animal rescue in Nepal following the 2015 earthquake. Her work has been published in nearly two-dozen languages and territories around the world. She is a frequent speaker at shelters and fundraisers, and donates 10% of her royalties from Homer’s Odyssey to organizations that serve abused, abandoned, and disabled animals. Gwen lives in Manhattan with her husband, Laurence. She also lives with her two perfect cats Clayton the Tripod and his litter-mate, Fanny, who aren’t impressed with any of it.
Brandon Copeland describes himself as a Christian, husband, father, son, and brother, and wears many purpose-driven hats when it comes to how he invests his working hours. The 31-year old stars on the Netflix show Buy My House while running his own real estate companies, one of which is building a 41-unit property with affordable housing in Newark, New Jersey where he’s set up his entrepreneurial headquarters. He also co-hosts the Money Music Culture podcast on SiriusXM and for the past five years has taught a financial literacy course at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, called Life 101, which has spun off into its own digital platform available to audiences nationwide. This has led to his partnership with financial tech startup MoneyLion, pushing out a growing library of content featuring Brandon to six-million users. He is a ten-year NFL veteran, having played with the Tennessee Titans, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots, New York Jets, and Atlanta Falcons.
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Dr. Loren Cordain is the founder of The Paleo Diet, a New York Times bestselling author, and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University. Over his celebrated 33-year career, Dr. Cordain has contributed to more than 68 peer-reviewed publications in medical, nutritional, and scientific literature, focusing on the many forms of the ancestral human diet and exploring which modern foods are healthy and unhealthy (all available free on ResearchGate.com). Dr. Cordain is author or coauthor of seven books, including The Paleo Diet, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, Real Paleo Fast & Easy, and The Real Paleo Diet Cookbook, as well as dozens of incisive articles on ThePaleoDiet.com.
Don DeBrandt has been accused of authoring The Quicksilver Screen, Steeldriver, Timberjak, V.I. and the “Angel” novel Shakedown, as well as writing two books under the pseudonym Donn Cortez: The Closer, a thriller, and The Man Burns Tonight, a mystery set at Burning Man (to be published in August 2005). He does not deny these charges. His two current novels are CSI: Miami—Cult Following and CSI: Miami—Riptide.
Stepping Through the Stargate
