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Brooke Warner landed her first job in publishing at the tender age of twenty-three. She has worked across many segments of the publishing industry since then, and because of her experience bringing books to market across all publishing paths, she’s publishing agnostic. She supports writers to get published—traditionally and independently (hybrid or self-publishing).
She started her publishing career in 2000, and worked for traditional publishers for thirteen years at both North Atlantic Books and Seal Press. In 2012, she left her job as Executive Editor of Seal Press to co-found She Writes Press with Kamy Wicoff, founder of SheWrites.com. She tells the story of why she left traditional publishing in her TEDx talk: “Green-Light Revolution.”
Brooke is the author of six books, and a proud former Chairperson of The Independent Book Publishers Association and The Bay Area Book Festival. In 2024, she was awarded the Publishing Professionals Network’s Distinguished Service Award.
She earned her B.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University, and her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Francisco State University. She writes a weekly Substack newsletter, Writerly Things, which focuses on publishing and memoir.
Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of 100 Word Story, an executive producer on the upcoming TV show America’s Next Great Author, and the former Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
He has published three books on writing: The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story; Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo; and Brave the Page, a teen writing guide.
He’s also published All the Comfort Sin Can Provide, a collection of short stories, Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story.
His stories have been widely anthologized and his essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer.
He serves on the National Writing Project Writers Council, Litquake’s Board of Directors, the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Words’ Creative Council, and Left Margin Lit’s Advisory Board. He also frequently teaches writing.
He writes a weekly newsletter, Intimations: A Writer's Discourse.
Clara Woolf likes to say she was born from a fever dream her great-great-grandmother Virginia Woolf had. She likes to tease Grant for being William Faulkner’s grandson (he’s not, but … ). We’re not sure where the mythology ends and the reality begins with Clara, but she can quote long passages of Woolf’s writing as if channeling it from the other side.
She is known to go on long, meandering “street haunts” in London, where she currently resides. She was educated in seven different countries growing up—her parents were nomads, always searching for a better life, or “running away from something,” Clara notes, perhaps themselves. Her favorite subject was math growing up, but she studied Latin at the University of Upper Lower Middleton.
She likes to nickname people after the animals they remind her of, and she calls Brooke The Eagle and Grant The Crow. She says she’d write a memoir, but she hasn’t lived enough yet. We disagree.