Mandana Faridani
An Iranian author who loves stories — the more they take her away from the world, the better.
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Courtney Farr
Courtney Farr is a queer person (they/them) from Lawrence, Kan. They helped found the local LGBTQ+ non-profit Lawrence Pride that organizes our annual parade and festival, as well as creating regular events throughout the year. They are a poet and stage story teller, crafting stories about their life for multiple venues and events in eastern Kansas. They host Queer Voices, a seasonal storytelling evening featuring all LGBTQ+ speakers. They have a shockingly large collection of shirts with cats on them and one very grumpy old cat with extreme tortitude.
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; as well as his As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). His short story “A Rose for Emily” was his first story published in a major magazine, the Forum, in 1930.
Kurt Fawver
Kurt Fawver is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer of horror, weird fiction, and literature that oozes through the cracks of genre. His stories have been previously published in venues such as Nightmare, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Vastarien, Best New Horror, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. His short story collections include Forever, in Pieces, The Dissolution of Small Worlds, and the forthcoming We are Happy, We are Doomed. He lives in northeast Ohio and teaches college courses in writing.
Mark Felps
Mark is a writer living in the DFW Metroplex of Texas. He was born with a congenital mood defect, but neurolinguistic shamans from Zeta Tau taught him special writing techniques to help compensate for his hideous deformities of character.
He is rumored to be owned by the goddess of spring from a particularly disreputable pantheon and two cats, with pretensions of godhood.
Ed Ferrara
Edward “Ed” Ferrara is an American former professional wrestling booker, writer and agent for the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, often co-working alongside Vince Russo.
Sam Ferree
Sam Ferree lives in the Twin Cities where he writes grants for a small nonprofit by day and stories and plays by night. He co-produces Story Club Minneapolis and encourages performance story tellers to come check out the show and share.