[Teresa Edgerton]

I count eight other authors in the description you posted, Alia.

Not to drop names, but all except Berg and Edelman are local writers (Kate Elliott used to be) and/or used to particpate in the long-defunct and much-mourned Science Fiction Round Table on GEnie. So I can vouch for the fact that there are some very interesting people in that group, both as writers and as knowledgable and eloquent individuals.