Heidi R. Kling is an author of books for teens and adults. Her debut novel, Sea, a romantic adventure story of hope after tragedy, takes place in the aftermath of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. Sea, a Summer 2010 IndieNext pick, is available at bookstores now. Kling earned an MFA in Writing from The New School, directed children’s theatre for years, and is an avid Vampire Diaries fan. Visit Heidi at heidirkling.com for touring information and upcoming projects, and be sure to follow her on Twitter @heidirkling, where she hopes @iansomerhalder will one day tweet to her.
Geoff Klock (D.Phil., Oxford University) is the author of How to Read Superhero Comics and Why (Continuum 2002) and Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets (Continuum 2007). The first applies Harold Bloom’s poetics of influence to comic books; the second argues that the bizarre portrayal of historical writers in 19th- and 20th-century poetry constitutes a genre (and will be followed by a companion book on film). For BenBella, he has written on “Veronica Mars,” “Firefly” and “House.” His blog—Remarkable: Short Appreciations of Poetry, Comics, Film, Television and Music—can be found at geoffklock.blogspot.com. He lives in New York City, where he is a freelance academic.
E. David Klonsky, Ph.D., received his B.A. in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia. He is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, where he is also director of the Personality, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory. His research examines the personality traits and emotion processes that lead to psychopathology and maladaptive behaviors. He wishes to thank his wife Alexis for her love, support and numerous Harry Potter insights. David and Alexis would both like to thank J.K. Rowling for bettering the world through her books and example.
Kelly P. Knight has served as EOS Worldwide’s Integrator since 2016. She’s worked with eleven Visionaries to date in her career and credits her father for being the first person to show her how to take an idea and make it real.
Prior to joining EOS, Kelly honed her skills as an expert team-builder for over 20 years while leading dynamic organizations in the financial services industry. Hardwired to find talented people and guide them to reaching their full potential, Kelly harmonizes the major functions of EOS while driving accountability and organizational clarity. Her gift is leading with positivity and heart, with a passion for uniting teams to achieve the extraordinary.
Today, Kelly’s focus is sharing EOS® with the world in a meaningful way, growing the EOS community with people who are passionate about helping entrepreneurs get more of what they want from their businesses.
Kory Kogon is the Global Practice Leader for Productivity, focusing her research and content development around time and project management, and communication skills.
Before joining FranklinCovey, Kory spent more than six years as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations for AlphaGraphics, Inc. She was responsible for the teams helping franchisees start up their business, develop staff, and reach profitability in a highly competitive, commodity-driven industry. She also led the implementation of ISO 9000, supervised the move of the corporate headquarters from Tucson to Salt Lake City, and managed the installation of the first company-wide global learning system. In 2005, Utah Magazine honored Kory as one of the “Top 30 Business Women to Watch” in Utah.
Csaba Konkoly was born and raised in Hungary, and launched his first business as a teenager, importing cars from Italy after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. While studying economics at university, he taught himself to trade bonds and currencies, and spent the next 17 years building and running hedge funds around the world, culminating in a $2.3 billion global macro fund. Since then, he has shifted his focus to early-stage tech investments, five of which have become unicorns—valued at over $1 billion each.
JA Konrath writes the pretty funny Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels mystery series. Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary and Rusty Nail are currently in print, with threats of more coming soon.
Dr. Steven E. Koonin is a leader in science policy in the United States. He served as Undersecretary for Science in the US Department of Energy under President Obama, where he was the lead author of the Department’s Strategic Plan and the inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review (2011). With more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of physics and astrophysics, scientific computation, energy technology and policy, and climate science, Dr. Koonin was a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, also serving as Caltech’s Vice President and Provost for almost a decade. He is currently a University Professor at New York University, with appointments in the Stern School of Business, the Tandon School of Engineering, and the Department of Physics. Dr. Koonin’s memberships include US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the JASON group of scientists who solve technical problems for the US government. Since 2014, he has been a trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses and chaired the National Academies’ Divisional Committee for Engineering and Physical Sciences from 2014-2019. He is currently an independent governor of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and has served in similar roles for the Los Alamos, Sandia, Brookhaven, and Argonne National Laboratories.
Books by Steven E. Koonin
Wesley A. Kort is professor in and chair of the Department of Religion and a member of the Graduate Faculty of Religion at Duke University. He has his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago, and before joining the faculty at Duke, he taught in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He was born in Hoboken, N.J., and he did his undergraduate work at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. He is the author of many articles and of nine books, the most recent of the being Place and Space in Modern Fiction (University of Florida Press, 2004) and C.S. Lewis Then and Now (Oxford University Press, 2001). At the present time he is working on a book that will address the question of religious identity and its relation to autobiography. Professor Kort has given lectures at many universities; within the last year he presented papers at Claremont University, at the University of Calgary and at Trinity College, Oxford. He is the recipient of a distinguished teaching award at Duke University.
Julia Blackshear Kosatka was in her 30s before she realized that everyone else didn’t have “daydreams” that ran for months with plots and subplots and several generations of characters. The year 2000 really was the end of things as we know them because that was the year she sold her first story (“Bones of the Dead,” Black Gate, Summer 2001). Her most recent fiction sale is “Ned and the Cookie Girls” (The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, Yard Dog Press). Julia works at the University of Houston, doing computerish things and counting down the months until her pension is ripe. She lives inside the Loop with her insanely bright 10-year-old daughter and two cats who hate each other with a passion. Life is never dull.
