Andrew Hilleman was born in Omaha, Nebraska, where he earned his MA in English from Creighton University with a concentration in creative writing. This summer he will receive his M.F.A. in fiction from Northern Michigan University where he taught creative writing, composition, and narrative and descriptive writing. He has been published in Fiddlehead magazine and was a finalist for Glimmer Train's 2011 short fiction award. Andrew's tastes are wide and varied, with a special interest in historical fiction, crime fiction and literary fiction, as well as anything and everything political. He en...

Erin Wilcox is a writer and editor of ten years’ experience with a background in journalistic, scholarly, and creative writing. Since 2004, she has worked mostly with fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Between her three-year stint as copyeditor for Alaska Quarterly Review and her current position as assistant nonfiction editor of Drunken Boat: An Online Journal for the Arts, she has edited some of the most talented literary writers of our day, including Grace Paley, Abigail Thomas, Marie Sheppard Williams, and Dorianne Laux. Yet she has always kept one foot solidly planted in sp...

TED's Director of Development John Robert Marlow is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and adaptation consultant whose nonfiction articles have appeared in the Novel and Short Story Writer's Market and the Screenwriter's and Playwright's Market (both published by Writer's Digest Books), The Writer, Writers' Journal, Backspace, Women On Writing, Writer's World, Urban Muse, Fellow Script, Parade, and numerous other print and online publications. His first novel, Nano, was immediately recognized as cinematic ("Marlow's debut is a real page-turner"—Kirkus Reviews; "Reads like a big...

Kate Joy Steele joined TED in the spring of 2008.  Kate has been researching, writing, ghostwriting, and teaching in business and professional settings since 1979 and has, in that time, translated innumerable pages of corporate-speak to cogent English and written "how-to" manuals on a number of business and academic subjects. Along with being our go-to consultant on business and academic books of all descriptions, she is also a skilled proofreader and copyeditor who has helped bring a number of TED authors to print readiness. Kate is a native of Oklahoma and now resides in the Pacifi...