Author bio examples for the back cover

Marcus Bell is a certified financial planner who has helped more than 400 families pay off debt. He writes plain-English guides to money and lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and two sons.

Alicia Moreno is a sleep researcher at a university hospital in Boston. She has studied insomnia for fifteen years and still sometimes lies awake wondering why.

Kenji Ito has trained more than 2,000 rescue dogs and their owners. He runs a training school in Sacramento, California, and has never met a dog he couldn’t teach to sit.

Fatima Hassan has run small restaurants in three countries. She writes about food and business from Manchester, England, where she now teaches new chefs to cook for a profit.

Ruth Okoye is a pediatrician who has answered parents’ questions about sleep for twenty years. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and three children who never slept through the night.

Lena Hartwell spent ten years as a newspaper reporter in rural Wisconsin. She now writes mysteries about the secrets small towns keep, and she lives in Milwaukee with her partner.

Jordan Ellis worked as a software engineer for twelve years before writing science fiction full-time. Jordan lives in Seattle and still debugs the coffee maker every morning.

Nadia Rahman writes slow-burn romance from a small apartment in Toronto. Her books have been translated into six languages, and her mother has read every one.

Theo Marsh writes horror from a sunny kitchen in San Diego, which he says keeps him sane.

Mara Quinn writes the Harbor Lights mysteries. She lives on Cape Cod, where she gets most of her ideas while walking the dog.

Ruth Adeyemi’s essays have appeared in Lantern Quarterly and The Driftwood Review. A former hospice nurse, she lives in Evanston, Illinois, and teaches memoir writing at a community college.

Sam Whitaker won the Lakeshore Fiction Prize for his first novel. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota, close enough to the lake to hear it at night.

Daniel Okafor’s first novel was a finalist for the Riverbend Book Award. He teaches high school English in Columbus, Ohio.