Judith Viorst

Poet, Writer & Children's Author

Clifton L. Taulbert

Author, Business Consultant, & Speaker; Best Known for "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored"

Dr. Stephen Owen

Harvard University Professor, Expert in Classic Chinese Literature

N. Katherine Hayles

Postmodern Literary Critic

Gerald Vizenor

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

Gregory Maguire

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

W.F. Strong

Author, Professor & Radio Personality

Lorna Dee Cervantes

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

Kathryn Erskine

Children's Author, Best Known For "Mockingbird"

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?

William Schaefer

Professor of Chinese Arts at the University of Rochester

Eric Jager

Professor of English at UCLA, Literary Critic & Specialist in Medieval Literature

Meg Medina

Award-Winning Cuban American Children's Author

Morgan Jerkins​

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

M. NourbeSe Philip

Award-Winning Poet, Novelist & Essayist

R. Dwayne Betts

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

Meredith Talusan

Artist, Performer & Critically-Acclaimed Author of "Fairest"

Ashley Hope Pérez

Literary Scholar, Educator & Author of "Out of Darkness"

Banned Book Author Ashley Pérez

Jerry Craft

New York Times Bestselling Graphic Novelist Known for "New Kid," "Class Act" & "School Trip"

Jerry Craft and New Kid

Paul Voss

President of Ethikos & Associate Professor at Georgia State University

Joseph Luzzi

Cultural Commentator, Writer & Professor

Ron Rosenbaum

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

Jon Scieszka

Children's Writer; Best Known for Picture Books Created with the Illustrator Lane Smith

Kay Hymowitz

William E. Simon Fellow, The Manhattan Institute; Author, Manning Up

Lucy Calkins

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

Ann Clurman

Ann Clurman is a Partner at Yankelovich Partners, Inc., a leading U.S. marketing research and consulting firm.

Patrick Phillips

American Poet, Professor & Translator; Finalist for National Book Award

Michael Nagler

Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature

Domingo Martinez

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Boy Kings of Texas"