Our Authors

Diego Garijo was born in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, and smuggled into the United States when he was seven years old. He lived undocumented in the US before receiving his green card as an adult. Diego is a multidisciplinary artist, professional fighter, and drag queen who has been featured in a number of print, radio, podcast, and television news and feature stories, most recently in VICE magazine and on BBC radio. He has participated in almost all types of combat sports over the last twenty years, but most notably in the sport of mixed martial arts and bare-knuckle boxing, which up until recently had not been legal since the 1800s. Along with his fighting career, Diego is a lifelong artist. He experiments with many media and themes, but mostly focuses on abstract expressionism that explores the darker emotions of the human psyche. Another artistic outlet for him is his performances in the drag scene, where he uses drag to challenge the roles of the masculine and feminine and combat toxic masculinity.

Madeleine Garner is a Brooklyn-based writer. Her play, I Ragazzi, cowritten with her father, Broadway writer David Goldsmith, was published in 2023 by the Dramatists Play Service and is now available for licensing. Garner was accepted into the Spring 2023 Woodward Residency in RIdgewood, Queens where she worked on her children’s books. Garner currently works at Pentagram Design and received her BA in art history and Italian studies from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 2012. She resides with her husband, baby, and cat.

Susan M. Garrett is a lifelong television addict with a fascination for bizarre television trivia. Okay, so who else knows that Jaime Sommers and Jim Rockford had the same telephone number but different area codes? A long history of writing fan fiction resulted in the assignment of a TV tie-in novel—Forever Knight: Intimations of Mortality was published by Boulevard Books, a division of Berkeley/Penguin/Putnam, in 1997.

Dave Garrison is the CEO of GarrisonGrowth, dedicated to unlocking potential through human strategy. Dave is a seasoned executive with experience as a board member at organizations like Ameritrade and as CEO as public and venture backed firms. Dave is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader. He has led hundreds of sessions for profit and non for profit organizations and for members of Young Presidents Organization both globally and locally. These sessions are top rated and have been attended by thousands worldwide. He has also been a guest lecturer at leading business schools. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is the vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the author of My Year Inside Radical Islam.

Amy Garvey is a former editor who now works on the other side of the desk as an author. Writing romance spiced with mystery gives her a chance to make up stories featuring dead people, hot sex and humor, which seems like a pretty good way to make a living to her. Check out her Web site at www.amygarvey.com.

Whitney Gaskell briefly—and reluctantly—practiced law before publishing her first book, Pushing 30. She is also the author of True Love (and Other Lies), She, Myself & I and the forthcoming Testing Kate. Whitney lives on the Treasure Coast of Florida with her husband and son. She is currently at work on her fifth book. Whitney wishes she could be more like Bree—or, at least, she’d like to have an immaculate house and serve a gourmet meal every night—but sadly doesn’t have the time or energy to do much more than run the vacuum once a week and order take-out.

Roberta Gellis has a varied educational background—a master’s degree in biochemistry and another in medieval literature—and working history: 10 years as a research chemist, many years as a freelance editor of scientific manuscripts and well over 30 years as a writer. One of the most successful writers of historical fiction of the last few decades, she has published about 25 meticulously researched historical novels since 1964. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the Silver and Gold Medal Porgy for historical novels from West Coast Review of Books, the Golden Certificate and Golden Pen from Affaire de Coeur, The Romantic Times Award for Best Novel in the Medieval Period and Lifetime Achievement Award for Historical Fantasy, and Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.