The GenZ Authors
Meet the amazing minds behind your favorite works.
Galanty Miller
Galanty Miller is the author of the magical realism novel, Believe What Your Breathe.
Galanty Miller
Galanty Miller lives in upstate New York with his strife and two couches. A comedic sociology professor and serious comedy writer, his existential work has appeared on the Independent Film Channel, Comedy Central, and the Onion News Network, as well as some of the most highly recognized magazines and websites.His theatrical plays are performed throughout the nation; excerpts from his dramatic work were published in the prestigious The Best Stage Scenes of 2000. When he’s not writing, Miller enjoys taking walks, spending time with family and friends, and not writing.Galanty Miller is based on a true story. Believe What You Breathe is his first novel.
David Metzger
Nurse Papa is David Metzger.David has worked as a pediatric oncology nurse at UCSF Children’s Hospital for thirteen years now.
David Metzger
Nurse Papa is David Metzger.David has worked as a pediatric oncology nurse at UCSF Children’s Hospital for thirteen years now. The bravery, laughter, perseverance, and the many smiles of the children and their parents who he has worked with have inspired this book.David is also the host and creator behind Nurse Papa the podcast. In each episode, he takes a deep dive into a story of parenthood and comes out on the other side with a better understanding of what makes kids AND their parents tick. In the second half of each episode, David answers a parenting question from one of his loyal listeners. He would love to hear from you.
Write to [email protected] with your own parenting conundrum or anything else.David’s inspiration in life and art is his wife Kaveena, an asylum attorney with the soul and skill of a master chef, and his two adorable children, Szivika and Dayus, who are still figuring out what they are passionate about.
Shannon Marks
Shannon is the Editorial Manager at GenZ. She oversees our hard-working editing interns and manages the editorial timeline with our authors.
Shannon Marks
Shannon is the Editorial Manager at GenZ. She oversees our hard-working editing interns and manages the editorial timeline with our authors. Starting as an intern with GenZ, Shannon comes to us with a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s in degree in Computational Linguistics, and abundant passion for all things language and books!
Chad T. Nelson
Chad Nelson has had an affinity for surreal quotes, as far back as high school. He is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, and of course Robert Frost. He lacked the confidence to pursue publishing a book, until he heard an interview with Stephen King, where he said that every aspiring artist will put a novel down or stop a movie and say ‘I can do better.’Chad shortly found his voice, and wrote his first short novel over the next year called “The Luminously Lurid Legends of Lewiston Idaho.” Chad was born and raised in Lewiston, Idaho and attended Lewiston High School. He spent over 12 years as an auto parts technician.
Kenechukwu Obi
Kenechukwu Obi is the author of Taste For Change: The Girl, The Snake, and The One Who Returned.
Kenechukwu Obi
Kenechukwu (Ken) Obi is a Canadian writer with an obsession for uncaged creativity. On the literary side of things, of which there is more from him to come, he loves to put his imagination to work by creating novels, short stories, articles, plays, poetry and song lyrics.He is studying business administration at the University of Regina in Canada and the author of the novels End It by the Gun (Amazon bestseller) and Taste for Change.He started life as a class clown; he loved the laughter of his classmates. His entertaining demeanor even got him banned from school plays and field days, poor little kiddo. As schooling went on, he wised-up and quieted down for conformity’s sake.He then picked up a pen and treated it like his best friend and nemesis. Happily and angrily stroking pages faster and faster until a new dimension opened up.Well, this new dimension did open up for him; many years later he now writes poetry and performs rhyming comedy. In his book you’ll find expressions of humorous encouragement, to shocking moments of “Did I really just read that?”Adrian received his first honorable mention in poetry at the age of 17 and tried out for the Denver Nuggets in the early 2000s during an open tryout. He is a huge proponent of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Within the past four years, he’s completed online courses to strengthen his writing, learn web development, strengthen his graphic design, and problem solving more effectively.When Adrian is not at the pad and pen, he’s usually building gaming computers, on the basketball court, reading, shooting pool, learning how to rap or laying it down at yoga.
Brad Perry
Brad Perry is the author of a short story collection called Strawberry Hill, and is an English teacher originally from the mighty mitten of Michigan. He wrote his first stories in the 3rd grade, which were shameless rip-offs of popular horror movies. Since those days of crayon-composed carnage, his style has fortunately changed.While an English major at Central Michigan University, Brad won the Gow Litzengurger Award for Undergraduate Fiction for his story “Itching and Echoes,” so he began writing more seriously. Although he is now a teacher, he still spends lots of free time writing, revising, and querying.His stories run the gamut from the realistic to the surreal, emphasizing both humanity and imagination. Tales circle around failed writers and forgotten soldiers, insanity and nostalgia, returning home and going to Hell. His work has been published in Pidgeonholes, Page & Spine, and Channillo.Brad currently lives in Arizona with his awesome wife, Megan. He’s obsessed with literature, film, and music, so he blogs about them when he can. You can also follow him on twitter, where you’ll find, among other things, lots of quotes from The Simpsons.
K.W. Peery
Americana songwriter and Kansas-City-based storyteller K.W. Peery is the author of seven poetry collections: Tales of a Receding Hairline; Purgatory; Wicked Rhythm; Ozark Howler; Gallatin Gallows; Howler Holler; Bootlegger’s Bluff.Tales of a Receding Hairline was a semifinalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards – Best in Poetry 2016. Peery is a regular contributor in Veterans Voices Magazine. His work is included in the Vincent Van Gogh Anthology Resurrection of a Sunflower and the Walsall Poetry Society Anthology, Diverse Verse II & III.In 2018, Peery is scheduled to have poems published in The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Big Hammer, San Pedro River Review, The Gasconade Review, Blink Ink, Rusty Truck, Mad Swirl, Outlaw Poetry, Mojave River Review, The Asylum Floor, Horror Sleaze Trash, Ramingo’s Porch, From Whispers to Roars, The Rye Whiskey Review, Under The Bleachers and Apache Poetry.Credited as a lyricist and producer, Peery’s work appears on more than a dozen studio albums over the past decade.
W. Bradley Phares
W. Bradley Phares is the author of the American poetry collection, Celtic Cowhunter.
W. Bradley Phares
Rancher… Artist… Poet… Writer… Attorney…Any and all of these words combine to describe Brad Phares and are the reasons he’s something beyond your typical cattleman. He is the author of Celtic Cowhunter.Brad Phares is an 8thgeneration rancher living in Okeechobee, Florida with his wife, Sam, and children Jacqueline and Jared. This is where he channels his multi-faceted background into his oil paintings and writings to provide a perspective on ranch life unlike any other.Brad grew up working on his family’s ranch with all that time and experience becoming the source of inspiration for his early drawings, paintings, and poetry. Upon graduating from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s of Science in Agriculture (animal sciences) and then from St. Thomas University School of Law with a Juris Doctor, he chose instead to focus on his art. He hopes that his representations of contemporary Florida ranch life, along with his writings, will serve to enlighten others of the invaluable benefits that Florida ranches provide to the state’s ecosystem and economy.Having encountered a wide array of people throughout the metropolitan areas of coastal Florida, Brad recognized the disconnect between Florida’s coastal population and those in the rural back country. In the fall of 2012, he launched a blog, RanchSoul.com, as a platform with which to bridge that gap and educate others by sharing his cowboy poetry, stories about Florida’s ranching lifestyle-both past and present.While Brad does include some historical and nostalgic subject matter, the majority of his work captures and represents a realist view of ranch life in America today rather than an overly romanticized version that so many people in urban areas hold.
Brad has exhibited throughout the southeastern United States and his paintings are collected by private corporations, public institutions (such as the University of Florida), as well as the Seminole Tribe of Florida. His writings have appeared monthly in the Florida Cattleman & Livestock Journal.Brad is also one of the founding members of the Cowboy Artist’s Association of Florida (CAAF) and he participated with other members of CAAF in an exhibit at the Northeastern Nevada Museum as part of the 26th Annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
Esabella Strickland
Esabella Strickland is the author of the children’s fantasy series Orabella the Oracle. The first is Then and There, Here and Where, released March 2021.
Esabella Strickland
Described as a “Renaissance Girl” for her multitude of talent, 15-year-old Esabella Anna Karena Strickland is a Multi Award-Winning Filmmaker, Award-Winning Writer, Award-Winning Actress, Award-Winning Media Host, Artist, and GenZ Influencer based out of Vancouver, BC. She is a young, raw talent who is a learning disability advocate and empowering figure against bullying through the arts.Esabella starred in local indie short film’s Enlightenment, Things You Take, and Arthur’s Gift. She also co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the Short Film “My Red Ball” and “The Notebook” through the Young Movie Makers Program. “My Red Ball” handles themes of bullying, written from Esabella’s own life experience, it has gone to appear in 60 International Film Festivals, winning at 10 of them.
Esabella has also made appearances on local productions of Travelers, Goodboys, and Series of Unfortunate Events. Esabella is also the youngest member and supporter of Women in TV and Film Vancouver.Esabella is also an Award-Winning Filmmaker and Writer for her feature-film screen adaptation of her Novel, Then and There, Here and Where, which has won at several film festivals for Best Script. She was also behind the camera for “A Conversation with E,” which was made through the CineLab Filmmaking Camp this summer.
“A Conversation with E” is already an official selection of the 2021 Cannes Short Film Festival and has won at several film festivals. This lead to her writing and producing her first Independent film called “A Dialogue with Pandora” this fall with the support of Actor Paul Greene.Esabella recently joined Graisland Entertainment as a GenZ Script Consultant and is collaborating with Producer and Screenwriter Michael Grais on the next generation of Horror Films.Esabella had the honour of co-hosting the 53rd and 54th annual Variety Show of Hearts Telethon as their Youth Ambassador and was recently invited back to host the 55th Telethon in 2021. Esabella was also an EveRiathing red carpet host to support the 2019 Joey awards. Esabella was the ambassador and host for Geektopia 2019 to help raise money for the Amanda Todd Legacy. Esabella is also the ambassador and virtual host for the 2020 Meowfest to help raise money for the Langley Animal Protection Society, and Regional Animal Protection Society.Esabella was invited to the 2019 Adobe Summit as an Adobe insider and speaker. She was the youngest influencer to attend the Las Vegas event and was in the top 10 in Social Media Engagement during the week of the Summit. Many were impressed by her empathy, compassion, and insight into the life of a Genz’r.Esabella has finished co-writing her first children’s novel, Then and There, Here and Where, out March 2nd, 2021. The main character of the book, Orabella, has a learning disability while learning to become a heroine. Esabella’s goal is to have girls feel connected and empowered by Orabella. As an artist, she is a painter, drawer and a jean pocket painter for celebrities and special orders of which 10% of sales go towards local charitiesEsabella has worked hard to train herself with techniques she uses to deal with both her anxiety, Adhd, and dyslexia, Through this process she’s discovered what she calls her two superpowers, memorizing and a higher level of sensitivity towards others, including the characters she plays, She has also trained herself with mindfulness and grounding techniques to cope with her anxiety – something she hopes to pass onto those who she works with.
Morissa Schwartz
The founder of GenZ Publishing, Morissa Schwartz is the bestselling author of Writing for The New Generation.
Morissa Schwartz
Morissa Schwartz is a best-selling Author and Guinness World Record breaker. She is the author of Writing for the New Generation and the founder of GenZ Publishing.As The Voice of Generation Z, Morissa uses her position as a young bestselling author and media personality to advocate for the new generation. She helps new and young writers share their work through GenZ Publishing, in addition to her own writing, and media appearances.Morissa has been highlighted on MTV, News 12, Fox, Teen Kids News, Let’s Chat, and Unfamous.She has also been featured in The Huff Post, Yahoo Finance, and US News and World Report. You may have read her writing for Entertainment Weekly, Cambio, Nerd Approved, Medium, Hello Giggles, Fashionably Geek, Writers’ Cafe, Nerdalicious, I Left Venus for This, The MPulse, BuzzFeed, College Times, Next Step, Inside Jersey, Discovery Girls, Mad, Scholastic, and more.A literary prodigy, Morissa had her first national article published in Discovery Girls Magazine at age 12, landed her first job as an adviser to Junior Scholastic Magazine at age 13, and had her first book published at age 17.She earned the position of top-rated editor on Fiverr by the time she graduated high school and gained dozens of writing and editing credits through college. Morissa won the prestigious Chapman Award in poetry twice by the time she graduated from Drew University.Her creative non-fiction book, Notes Never Sent, was ranked in Amazon’s Top 200 Books in the school-age children category.Morissa graduated as the president of the Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society from Drew University, completed her Master’s Degree studies at Monmouth University in corporate and public communication, and earned her Doctorate in Literature at Drew University.
E.A Stripling
E.A Stripling is a screenwriter, aspiring actress, and author of the sinfully hot romance, Internal Conflict, part of the Internal Conflict Series. She was born in New York City, but is now soaking up the sun in Florida with her family.Raised in an entertainment background with a former model mother and dancer father, she knew she was born to entertain. In college, she studied screenwriting, motion picture production, and photography, while also completing degrees in criminal justice and crime scene investigation.E.A Stripling is a very passionate woman and an incurable romantic who loves to create stories that allow her readers to take a break from the world around them and indulge in a world of awe-filled moments and devilishly handsome men.
Courtney Sweeney
Courtney Sweeney, author of High Intensity Interval Training & How it Can Help You Fight Diabetes, was inspired by his son to help others. His son, AJ Sweeney, was diagnosed with diabetes and Courtney Sweeney was encouraged to find ways for his son to deal with it.As a result, he was able to come up with training that will help those diagnosed take care of and cope with it. Courtney Sweeney uses his experiences to educate himself and spread that knowledge in hopes of helping someone else.