The Wicked Wallflowers Club Creators & Guests

JENNY NORDBAK earned a B.A in Interdisciplinary Archaeology from the University of Southern California. After graduating, she spent two years leading a double life, working in healthcare construction by day, while secretly working as a Dominatrix at a dungeon in LA by night. Her memoir, The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an LA Dungeon (St. Martin's Press, 2017), is a candid look into that time in her life. She hosts a popular weekly podcast called The Wicked Wallflowers Club that focuses on the romance genre, but engages with broader topics that impact women. The show was described by Entertainment Weekly as "a compelling reminder of why the oft dismissed genre is such a force in cultural conversations" and it has an engaged community of thousands of listeners who are some of the most hardcore readers on the planet.Jenny is an advocate for sex positivity and female empowerment. She writes the Stocks and Bondage column for Penthouse and has been featured as a sex expert on The Doctors. She contributes to Men's Health and Bustle and has appeared in numerous publications including Newsweek, Women's Health, Cosmopolitan, and Redbook. She is currently finishing her next book, a romance novel.

Sarah Hawley is a freelance writer and former archaeologist who writes fantasy, romance, and science fiction. She has excavated at an Inca site in Chile, a Bronze Age palace in Turkey, and a medieval abbey in England. She's the co-host of a popular podcast about the romance genre, The Wicked Wallflowers Club, which features interviews with bestselling authors. Berkley Romance has recommended the podcast, and Entertainment Weekly has featured it on their Must List. She's also written satirical articles for The Belladonna Comedy, Slackjaw, and Points in Case and has had short stories published in two anthologies through NaNoWriMo.

Christina Hobbs is one half of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling writing duo, Christina Lauren. Along with her longtime writing partner Lauren Billings they have published twenty-seven novels including the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You / Hating You, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating, The Unhoneymooners, In A Holidaze and The Soulmate Equation.

Jenny Holiday is a USA Today-bestselling and RITA-nominated author of romance novels.

Adriana Herrera was born and raised in the Caribbean, but for the last 15 years has let her job (and her spouse) take her all over the world. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her people, getting unapologetic happy endings.When she’s not dreaming up love stories, planning logistically complex vacations with her family, or hunting for discount Broadway tickets, she’s a trauma therapist in New York City, working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence.Her debut novel, American Dreamer, has been featured on Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and was one of the TODAY Show on NBC’s Hot Beach Reads picks. She’s one of the co-creators of the Queer Romance PoC Collective and serves as the president for the Romance Writers of America New York City Chapter.

Award-winning romance writer. Nerd of all trades. NYT Notable Book: A Princess In Theory. Out now: The AI Who Loved Me. She/her. Repped by @luciennediver.

Lauren Billings is one half of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling writing duo, Christina Lauren. Along with her longtime writing partner Christina Hobbs they have published twenty-seven novels including the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You / Hating You, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating, The Unhoneymooners, In A Holidaze and The Soulmate Equation.

Jen’s lifelong romance habit began in 7th grade when she found a bag of remaindered romance novels in her grandmother’s basement. Jen reviews romance for The Book Queen, Kirkus, and whoever follows her on Twitter. Jen not only teaches middle school English, but she also teaches graduate students how to be middle school English teachers. It’s all very meta. She lives in Chicago with her husband, son, and two cats. She’s ridiculously proud of the fact that she makes an honest living talking about books all day.

Sarah MacLean is a New York Times bestselling American author of young adult novels and romance novels. Her first adult romance novel, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it stayed for four weeks. Since then, all of her adult romance novels have been on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Since February 2014, MacLean has written a monthly romance novel review column for The Washington Post. She is a two-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance for A Rogue by Any Other Name in 2013 and No Good Duke Goes Unpunished in 2014. She's also the co-host of the Fated Mates podcast.