Authors

Fred Venturini, Author of The Samaritan

Fred was our debut author and we couldn’t have been more excited about getting his first novel, The Samaritan, out into the world. He’s a prolific short story writer with 19 stories published including two shortlisted for inclusion in Chuck Palahniuk anthologies. He writes literary fiction as well as noir, horror, speculative and paranormal fiction. Basically, if it requires words, Fred can write it. He’s currently hard at work on his second novel.

Find out more about Fred here.

Anene Tressler, Author of Dancing with Gravity

Anene is an award-winning  writer whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals. She has attended the Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers, the University of Iowa’s summer program, Wellspring House, Sewanee, Breadloaf, and others and has studied with literary luminaries like Richard Bausch, Nicholas Delbanco, Claire Messud, and Lorrie Moore. Her first novel, Dancing with Gravity, won the Literary Fiction category – 2011 International Book Awards.

Find out more about Anene here.

Steve Wiegenstein, Author of Slant of Light

Steve has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri, Columbia and is currently the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at Columbia College in Columbia, MO. Since learning about an 1840s-era commune situated among the Comanches in north Texas, he has been fascinated by Utopian societies. In Slant of Light, he has combined his academic interest with his passion for history, fiction writing, and his long family heritage deep in the Missouri Ozarks. Slant of Light is his first novel.