Amy Newmark is Chicken Soup for the Soul’s author, editor-in-chief, and publisher, after a 30-year career as a writer, speaker, financial analyst, and business executive in the worlds of finance and telecommunications. Amy is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, where she majored in Portuguese, minored in French, and traveled extensively. She and her husband have four grown children and grandchildren.

After a long career writing books on telecommunications, voluminous financial reports, business plans, and corporate press releases, Chicken Soup for the Soul is a breath of fresh air for Amy. She has fallen in love with Chicken Soup for the Soul and its life-changing books, and really enjoys putting these books together for Chicken Soup’s wonderful readers. She has co-authored and/or edited the last 196 Chicken Soup for the Soul titles, all the ones published since mid-2008.

Follow Amy on Twitter @amynewmark. Listen to her free podcast — Chicken Soup for the Soul with Amy Newmark — on Apple, Spotify, Google, or by using your favorite podcast app on your phone.

Peyton Woodson Cooper is the author of children’s books and inspirational reads. She is an award-winning communicator who has worked for some of the nation’s leading media outlets, universities and corporations. As Peyton D. Woodson, her byline appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Austin-American Statesman, Associated Press and other national media outlets.

Kate Fellowes is the author of six mysteries, most recently A Menacing Brew. Her short stories and essays have appeared in several anthologies, as well as Victoria, Woman's World, Brides, Romantic Homes and other periodicals. In 2020, she won the San Diego Public Library's Matchbook Short Story contest, meeting the challenge to craft a story only 50 words long. A member of the national organization Sisters in Crime, she is a founding member of the Wisconsin Chapter. Her working life has revolved around words—editor of the student newspaper, reporter for the local press, cataloger in her hometown library. A graduate of Alverno College in Milwaukee, she blogs about work and life at http://katefellowes.wordpress.com and shares her home with a variety of companion animals.

Christina Ryan Claypool is an award-winning freelance journalist and inspirational speaker who has been featured on Joyce Meyer Ministries Enjoying Everyday Life TV show and on CBN's 700 Club. She is a past National 1st Place Amy Writing Awards recipient and Chicken Soup for the Soul contributor.

Her fictional, "Secrets of the Pastor's Wife: A Novel," is an entertaining and inspiring read, designed to be used for Inspirational book clubs or women's ministry groups to promote emotional and spiritual healing. Claypool is also an Ohio Associated Press Media Editors' award-winning newspaper columnist, former TV reporter, and the author of several Christian recovery books. The autobiographical title, "Seeds of Hope for Survivors," chronicles the writer's own amazing journey of surviving a near fatal suicide attempt and confinement in a state mental institution as a teen to having a successful life today.

Christina has a B. A. from Bluffton University and an M.A. from Mount Vernon Nazarene University, where she served as an adjunct instructor in the Communications Department. She is married to a public school administrator, and has an adult son. Besides her "boys," she adores coffee and chocolate. Her website is www.christinaryanclaypool.com.

Pauline is a former tenure-track professor turned full-time mom and freelance writer based in Northern California. Pauline obtained her Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and her Doctoral degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her most recent essay has been featured in the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul book series.

Freelance writer and coauthor of The Kitchen Decoded Cookbook, Hilary Hattenbach is the winner of the 2016 Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Magazine, Business Insider, Emmy Magazine, Closer Weekly, Where LA Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Entropy, and Eastsider.com. As a live storyteller, Hilary performed in KPCC’s UnheardLA Storytelling series and was featured in a radio segment on KPCC’s Take Two radio show.

Kristi Adams is a USA Today Bestselling Author, USAF veteran, and military spouse. She began her writing career as a technical writer in the military, and started writing short stories and fiction in her spare time.

Kristi's work has been featured in several international and award-winning publications, including 12 books in the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies, Stars and Stripes, Military Spouse magazine (Eddie & Ozzie-award nominated) and more.

When she's not writing, Kristi loves traveling with her husband of 15 years, wine tastings, yoga --- and practicing being an old lady by spending evenings cuddling with the family cat and crocheting.

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