Jennifer Johnson-Blalock founded HYPHEN Editing in 2017. She was previously a literary agent at Liza Dawson Associates, where she sold works of women’s fiction, young adult fiction, and narrative nonfiction to major publishers. Jennifer has also worked as an agent’s assistant at Trident Media Group.

At the 2023 PWW, Jennifer is offering virtual add-on manuscript critiques for attendees.

Jennifer graduated with honors from The University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in English and earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Before working in publishing, she practiced entertainment law and taught high school English and debate.

Jennifer started HYPHEN because she believes that in a rapidly changing publishing industry, the smartest thing authors can do is to put forth the best possible version of their work. With her experience in New York publishing and knowledge of effective teaching practices, Jennifer can help writers do just that. 

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Suzanne Mattaboni is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer of women’s fiction and horror. She’s a podcaster, Newsweek Expert Forum contributor, and former Newsday reporter. Her 2022 debut novel Once in a Lifetime is the winner of a Pencraft award and a Paris Book Festival award.

Suzanne has been published in Seventeen, The Huffington Post, Mysterious Ways, Guideposts.com, Motherwell, and Child. Her work has appeared in anthologies including the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, Pizza Parties and Poltergeists, the Scars anthology, and the upcoming new wave “fanthology” Howard Jones – We’re In This Together. Suzanne is a past winner of Seventeen magazine’s Art and Fiction Contest and a National Council of Teachers of English Award, and was named one of Lehigh Valley Business’ “Women of Influence” in 2022. She won honorable mention in the 2018 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition and was named a finalist in the 2018 New Millennium literary awards. She was editor for the 2021 Writes of Passage anthology, which hit #17 in Amazon’s anthology category and won a first place designation from the BookFest Awards.

At the 2023 PWW, Suzanne is teaching a class. She is also coordinating the day’s volunteers from the local PennWriters chapter.

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Julie Eshbaugh is a published novelist. She lives with her husband and fur babies in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

At the 2023 PWW, Julie is teaching. She is also offering add-on in-person critiques for attendees.

Early on, she focused her artistic energies on filmmaking and online video. Julie made two short films and spent several years producing a web series for teens that became an early YouTube hit and received several honors from the Webby Awards. Julie’s latest YA fantasy, Crown of Oblivion, was released by HarperTeen in November 2019. She is also the author of Ivory and Bone, (HarperTeen 2016) and its sequel, Obsidian and Stars (HarperTeen 2017.)

Julie is a member of the group writing blog Pub(lishing) Crawl. You can also add Julie on Goodreads, and follow her on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook.

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S.Z. Estavillo is a writing coach, social media instructor, and former literary agent.

At the 2023 PWW, she is virtually critiquing manuscripts as an add-on for conference attendees.

She has a master’s degree in television, radio, and film and a bachelor’s degree in film. She has also worked with studios and agencies critiquing manuscripts and greenlighting film screenplays.

“My specialty is directing content from concept through completion. I have extensive professional writing experience that marries well with content direction, management, strategy, and social media marketing. The content creation, production process, and utilizing social media for marketing are what I absolutely love to do. I not only direct, write, create multi-media and social content for companies but also in my free time because it is my passion.”

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Gregory Frost is the author of Shadowbridge–an ALA Best Fantasy Novel pick. He is an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. His latest novel, Rhymer, set in 12th century Scotland, is the first in a three-book series, just out from Baen Books in June 2022.

At the 2023 PWW, Gregory is teaching a class. He is also offering add-on manuscript critiques for attendees.

His collaborative SF short story with late author Bill Johnson, “Boomerang,” (their 3rd together) is in the May/June issue of Asimov’s Magazine. Frost has won an Asimov Readers Award (with Michael Swanwick) and been a finalist for Best Novel and/or Best Short Story for the World Fantasy, Stoker, Nebula, Hugo, James Tiptree, International Horror Guild and Theodore Sturgeon Awards.

He taught the Fiction Writing Workshop at Swarthmore College for eighteen years, and is a founding member of the Philadelphia Liars Club.

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Gabrielle Prendergast is the bestselling author of numerous books for children and teens. She is the author of many books for kids (young adult, middle grade, and picture books).

She studied at the University of New South Wales in Australia, at San Francisco State University and the University of British Columbia. After years of working in the music industry, in social welfare, and the film industry, Gabrielle began writing books when she became a mother, so she could work from home. Her books have received nominations for the White Pine Award, the Canadian Library Association Award, the Vancouver Book Prize and several other honors. She won the BC Book Prize for her YA sci-fi Zero Repeat Forever and the Westchester Award for her YA novel in verse Audacious. Born in the UK and both an Australian and New Zealand citizen, Gabrielle now lives in East Vancouver in a permanent state of “under-construction”.

At the 2023 PWW event, she is offering virtual critiques for attendees as an add-on element for attendees.

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