Our Authors

Harry Harrison is the author of numerous books including Make Room! Make Room!, Return to Eden and The Stainless Steel Rat series. He lives in New York City.

Maryelizabeth Hart is co-owner of Mysterious Galaxy, an independent genre bookstore in San Diego. She co-authored companion books to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” with husband Jeff Mariotte and regular Smart Pop contributor Nancy Holder. Her regular writing jobs are editor of the store’s newsletter, and reviews contributor. She has been reading her whole life and remains passionate about books.

Carol Hart, Ph.D., is a freelance health and science writer based in Narberth, Pa., just outside of Philadelphia. She is the author of Good Food Tastes Good: An Argument for Trusting Your Senses and Ignoring the Nutritionists (forthcoming, SpringStreet Books) and Secrets of Serotonin (St. Martin’s Press, 1996, with a revised and expanded second edition forthcoming in early 2008).

Brent Hartinger is the author of many books, mostly for teenagers, including the gay teen novel Geography Club (soon to be a motion picture) and its four sequels. His other books include Shadow Walkers, a paranormal romance, and the forthcoming Three Truths and a Lie, a psychological thriller. Visit Brent online at brenthartinger.com.

Alyxandra Harvey is the author of the Young Adult vampire series The Drake Chronicles. She likes tattoos, cinnamon lattes, and Mr. Darcy. Visit her at www.thedrakechronicles.com.

Jesse Hassenger was born in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a small town without an Irish mafia or a biker gang. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 with a major in English, and currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. His reviews have appeared in PopMatters, The L Magazine, and on filmcritic.com; his fiction has appeared in Me Three and Dirt, and he is a member of the Blackout Writing Collective. He enjoys many types of pie and rarely writes in the third person.

Richard Hatch has portrayed “Battlestar Galactica’s” Apollo and Tom Zarek. A Golden Globe Award nominee, he is a veteran actor on screen—films and television—as well as the stage.

Holt Medallion and double RITA finalist Candace Havens is the author of Charmed & Dangerous, Charmed & Ready, Charmed & Deadly and the upcoming Like a Charm (Berkley, 2008). A syndicated entertainment columnist, Havens is the managing editor for FYI Television, Inc. She is also the author of the BenBella biography Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy and a contributor to the anthologies Five Seasons of Angel and Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6.

Heather Havrilesky grew up in Durham, N.C., and graduated from Duke University. In 1996, she and illustrator Terry Colon created “Filler,” a popular cartoon that ran for five years on Suck.com, one of the Web’s first pop culture magazines. She’s written for the LA Times, the Washington Post, New York, Spin, BookForum and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She is currently a TV critic for Salon.com and maintains the Rabbit Blog. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Bill and their two dogs.