Chad Dickerson

CEO of Etsy

N. Katherine Hayles

Postmodern Literary Critic

Gerald Vizenor

Writer, Scholar & Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

Thomas C. Foster

Authority on Reading and Understanding Literature

Alice Munro

Canadian Author and 2013 Nobel Prize Winner

Gregory Maguire

Award-winning, Best-selling Author of the Wicked Years Novels

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Award-Winning Voice in Chicana Literature, Feminist & Activist Poet

Helena María Viramontes

Author of "The Moths and Other Stories"

David Mitchell

New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Bone Clocks & Cloud Atlas

Jean Pfaelzer

Professor of English, Asian Studies, Women’s Studies American Studies at the University of Delaware.

Daniel Albright

American literature Professor, Harvard

Kevin Henkes

Kevin Henkes is a Caldecott Medal children's author and illustrator. He is known for his famous mouse books where he has created a group of adorable characters like Lily and Wemberley.

Judith Butler

Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Who's Afraid of Gender?

R. Dwayne Betts

Founder of Freedom Reads, Poet, Author, Memoirist & Teacher

Tananarive Due

American Book Award-Winning Author

Lauren Oliver

Author, Known for "Before I Fall"

Ron Rosenbaum

Journalist & Author of "Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil"

Paul Auster

American Author

Lucy Calkins

Robinson Professor in Children's Literature; Founding Director of the Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University's Teachers College

Megan McDonald

Children's Literature Author; Known for her Judy Moody Series of Books

Michael Nagler

Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature

Rommi Smith

Writer, Poet, Performer

Porochista Khakpour

Author of "The Last Illusion"

Rita Golden Gelman

American Writer of Children's Literature and Travel Literature for Adults

Carolina De Robertis

Award-Winning Author Known for "The Invisible Mountain"

M.T. Anderson

Novelist, Winner of the National Book Award

Rafael Campo

Physician, Poet & Scholar

Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016

Sonya Walger

Actress Known for her Roles in the ABC Series "Lost," ABC's "FlashForward" and "Common Law"

Jill McCorkle

Short Story Writer & Novelist

Paul Muldoon

Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish Poet