Paul Levinson’s The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. He has since published Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003) and The Plot to Save Socrates (2006). His science fiction and mystery short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar and Sturgeon Awards. His eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003) and Cellphone (2004), have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, WIRED and Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into eight languages. He appears on “The O’Reilly Factor,” “The CBS Evening News,” “Scarborough Country” and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. He is professor and chair of communication & media studies at Fordham University in New York City.
Lawrence P. Levitt, M.D., is Senior Consultant in Neurology Emeritus at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa. He founded the neurology division at that hospital and assisted the effort to transform it into the largest teaching hospital in Pennsylvania. He is professor of clinical medicine (neurology) at Penn State College of Medicine. He is co-author of Neurology, one of America’s most popular neurology texts. The book is now in its seventh edition and has been translated into eight foreign languages including Russian, Chinese and Japanese. He lives in Allentown, Pa.
Gary Lewandowski Jr., Ph.D., originally from Fairless Hills, Pa. (a suburb of Philadelphia), received his bachelor’s degree from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He received his master’s and Ph.D. in social/health psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Long Island, N.Y. He is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Monmouth University (the alma mater of former “Survivor” contestants Katie Gallagher and Stephenie LaGrossa) in West Long Branch, N.J. His research focuses on romantic relationships, including interpersonal attraction, relationship maintenance and breakups.
Jamie Librot is an executive coach with over 20 years of experience helping leaders thrive and cultures transform. As a former Gallup consultant, she partnered with Fortune 500 companies to elevate engagement, including programs that won a Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award. She later served in senior leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase and Sabert, where she built award-winning global talent programs. Jamie holds a master’s degree in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University, where she was graduation speaker. She is a sought-after coach, speaker, and thought leader on leadership and employee engagement. Jamie lives in the New York metropolitan area with her husband Daniel (who is her greatest Goby) and their daughters Lucy and Lydia.
Romantic Times award–winning author Jacqueline Lichtenberg is the primary author of Star Trek Lives!, the Bantam paperback that revealed the existence of “Star Trek” fandom and looked in-depth at the motivations behind fan involvement in the television series. She is featured in the docudrama film “Trekkies Two.” Her first published novel, House of Zeor, was the first novel in the legendary Sime Gen universe—a series that sparked its own outpouring of fan activity. She has two occul/SF novels in print, titled Molt Brother and City of a Million Legends, and BenBella Books has recently reprinted her vampire romance Those of My Blood and its companion novel Dreamspy. www.simegen.com/jl/ provides details.
Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD is a clinical professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University and SVP of mental health at Hims & Hers Health. Dr. Lieberman is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a recipient of the Caron Foundation Research Award, and he has published over 50 scientific reports on behavioral science. He has provided insight on psychiatric issues for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Commerce, and the Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy, and has discussed mental health in interviews on CNN, C-SPAN, and PBS. Dr. Lieberman studied the Great Books at St. John’s College. He received his medical degree and completed his psychiatric training at New York University.
Books by Daniel Z. Lieberman
Jon Lieff, MD, brings to bear 40 years as a nationally recognized neuro-psychiatrist, during which he was president of a national medical subspecialty organization, founded a major scientific journal, and was the medical director for 25 years of a large network of psychiatric care for the elderly. He was a pioneer in several medical fields—geriatric psychiatry, brain injury, computer applications in psychiatry, and the integration of medicine, psychiatry, and neurology.
Starting with an interest in brain cell communication, Dr. Lieff found similar signaling among all cells in nature. Five years ago, he established his acclaimed and popular scientific website, Searching for the Mind, about the topic of cellular communication. With weekly posts, he reviewed and synthesized the latest scientific literature in neuroscience and cell biology.
Maria Lima writes dead people . . . no, really. Author of the Blood Lines series from Pocket/Juno and an Agatha-nominated short story, "The Butler Didn’t Do It" (Chesapeake Crimes), Maria keeps one foot in the real world and the other in the make believe. Her role models include Tanya Huff, Joss Whedon, Christopher Golden, and Charles deLint. She has a soft spot for both the Trickster and the Winchester Boys. Like Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, Maria also hails from Texas, but now lives elsewhere. Visit her at www.thelima.com.
Brad Linaweaver is an award-winning science fiction writer whose novel Moon of Ice was endorsed by Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, William F. Buckley Jr. and Isaac Asimov. Before collaborating with Richard Hatch on three “Battlestar Galactica” novels, he hit the bestseller lists as co-author (with Dafydd ab Hugh) of four novels based on the Doom video game—the game that inspired the movie starring the Rock. Linaweaver also wrote the “Sliders” novel based on the Universal television series and is a prolific writer of short stories and articles. He has original story credits on some films as well as two nonfiction books to his credit, co-edited a major science fiction anthology Free Space with Ed Kramer, and also publishes a magazine, Mondo Cult.
Sue Linder-Linsley is currently the executive director for the Chickasaw Cultural Center, which is presently being built by the Chickasaw Nation in Sulphur, Okla., and will open in the fall of 2006. She has an M.A. from Southern Methodist University and specializes in the conservation, preservation and care of collections, as well as North American historic and prehistoric archaeology. She is a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) and the managing editor of their professional publication, RPA Notes, as well a Communications Committee member, Archives Committee chair and Web site developer. She is a member of the Society of Professional Archaeologists and the Council of Texas Archaeologists.
