Our Authors

Karen Haber is the author of eight novels including Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts, co-author of Science of the X-Men, and editor of the Hugo-nominated essay collection celebrating J.R.R. Tolkien, Meditations on Middle Earth. Most recently she has helmed Kong Unbound, a book of essays and an official tie-in to the new movie, published by Pocket Books in October 2005. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s science fiction magazine, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and many anthologies. She reviews art books for LOCUS magazine and profiles artists for Locus publications including Realms of Fantasy. She also co-edits the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy anthologies series with Jonathan Strahan. Her newest science fiction novel, Crossing Infinity, a tale of gender confusions between worlds, was published in November 2005.

Vernell Hackett is a freelance journalist in Nashville, Tenn., who has covered the Nashville music scene for a number of magazines, including Country Weekly, Classic Country & Western Music Magazine, the Home Services Guide, Bluegrass Unlimited, American Cowboy, Billboard Magazine, Country Song Roundup, Working Cowboy and Venues Today. A native of Riesel, Texas, Vernell moved to Nashville in 1973 to write articles about country music. She has interviewed many country, bluegrass, western and Christian artists, including Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, Michael W. Smith, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Don Edwards, Del McCoury, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Merle Haggard, Michael Martin Murphey, Waddie Mitchell, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Stephen Curtis Chapman, Amy Grant, Larry Stephenson, LeAnn Rimes, Alan Jackson, Montgomery Gentry and Hanna McEuen. Vernell helped establish American Songwriter magazine in 1984, which she edited until 2004. She graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, with a B.S. degree in journalism. Vernell has written about a variety of subjects during her career, including music, art, and entertainment, travel, pets, food, legislation, characters, home décor, crafts, history, video and business.

Lynnette Hafken, MA, IBCLC is a hospital and private practice lactation consultant, former La Leche League Leader, and advocate for family-centered lactation and infant feeding support. Lynnette’s goal throughout her 20-year vocation has been to help families breastfeed in a safe, enjoyable, and sustainable way; and in some cases transition to infant formula while knowing their babies would thrive from being loved and fed. As the Foundation’s director of support services, Lynnette applies her gift for listening to and connecting with parents to the advancement of the Fed Is Best vision for inclusive infant feeding support.

Rich Hagberg, Ph.D., often referred to as “Silicon Valley’s CEO Whisperer,” is a trained psychologist who has spent the last 40 years of his career as an executive management coach for over 6,000 executives. Since 2009 he has worked with companies like Tinder, Twitter, Dropbox, MixPanel, Zendesk, Quora, Asana, Pinterest, Salesforce, Munchery, Reddit, Gusto, Cruise, Tinder, Optimizely, Instacart, Patreon, Nerdwallet, and Super Evil Megacorp (it’s a gaming company). Dr. Hagberg is often quoted in the business and general media and has been featured in publications such as Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., Entrepreneur, The Information, Business Insider and CNN.

Dr. Joshua Halberstam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at Bronx Community College, and has taught at New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the author of eight books, including Everyday Ethics and Acing College and has recently published his first novel, A Seat at the Table.

Adam Hall was one of many pseudonyms for the English writer Elleston Trevor, who wrote 19 Quiller novels, including Quiller Balalaika.

Sherry Hamby, Ph.D., is research associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is co-author of The Conflict Tactics Scales handbook, and author or co-author of more than 50 other publications on victimization, assessment and other topics. Dr. Hamby is a recipient of awards from the National Register for Health Service Providers in Psychology and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She has been principal investigator on grants from the National Center for Health Statistics, Indian Health Service and other agencies. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist.

Paranormal thriller writer Laurell K. Hamilton is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of two series. The first Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novel, Guilty Pleasures, was published in 1993. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, published in 16 languages. A Kiss of Shadows introduced Merry Gentry, a Fey Princess of the Unseelie Court and Los Angeles Private Investigator.Hamilton currently resides in St. Louis with her husband, daughter and pampered pug.