Authors
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Letizia Firmani
Letizia Firmani is an Italian neurodivergent author of fantasy, romance, and speculative fiction. A Photography graduate and lifelong storyteller, she began writing novels during the pandemic after years of creating fan fiction and songwriting. She divides her time between Italy and Canada with her partner and three cats, and can usually be found dreaming up fictional characters, adding hot sauce to foods that don't need it, and crafting her next book adventure.
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Gemma Cleary
Gemma Cleary is a speculative and fantasy author currently living in the rainy Pacific Northwest. You can always find yearning, angst, overthrowing tyrannical governments, societal critiques, mental health, creepy medieval vibes and kind-hearted girls against the world in her books. When she isn't writing, you can find her walking along the beach, rewatching Requiem for a Dream for the millionth time, making sourdough bagels, or drinking a strawberry rose matcha at her favorite cafe.
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Aaron Jura
Aaron Jura is a historian, educator, and writer based in New Orleans whose work explores the intersections of World War II, identity, memory, and community. Drawing on extensive archival research and personal correspondence, he focuses on recovering overlooked stories that illuminate how ordinary people navigated extraordinary moments in history.
His current projects include Vice and Virtue, which examines how LGBTQ people in wartime New Orleans built community, resisted persecution, and laid the foundations for activism decades before the Stonewall uprising and Compton’s Cafeteria riot, and The Lives They Wrote, a narrative history built from a remarkable collection of wartime letters exchanged among a network of gay servicemen and civilians. Through these works, Aaron seeks to bring hidden voices to the forefront and demonstrate how personal stories can deepen our understanding of the past. He works with educators nationwide through The National WWII Museum, helping connect audiences with history through storytelling, inquiry, and primary sources.
