Kristen McCallum, MA ’25, is the author of Free Girls, to be published by Flatiron Books in 2026.

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Joyce Hinnefeld, PhD ’95, is the author of short story collections Tell Me Everything and The Beauty of Their Youth, and the novels Hovering Flight and Stranger Here Below. Her newest novel, The Dime Museum, was published in August 2025. Hinnefeld is a program facilitator for Shining Light, professor emeritus of English at Moravian University and founder of the Moravian Writers’ Conference.

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Tony Silber ’83, former news editor of Albany Student Press, is the author of Twelve Days (Potomac Books, 2023). The book describes the first two weeks of the Civil War. It was widely reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Civil War Monitor, Shepherd Press, and Army Magazine.

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L. Syd M. Johnson, MA ’02, PhD ’09, is the author of Three Pillars of Ethical Research with Nonhuman Primates (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Johnson is a professor at Upstate Medical University.

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Licensed psychologist Kathy Wu ’05 published The Self-Regulation Handbook for Teens and Young Adults (Ulysses Press). Wu shares evidence-based strategies for young people to cope with unique challenges such as perfectionism, behavioral addictions, loneliness, grief, mass trauma, eco-stress and other issues.

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Sean (Whipple) Bagan ’11 is the author of the post-apocalyptic novel On Ravens & Riddles: From the Shelves of the Noktern. Bagan is a French teacher at Cranford High School in Cranford, N.J.

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Whitney Sperrazza ’09 is the author of Anatomical Forms: The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women's Poetry (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Sperrazza is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University.
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