Gregory Maguire

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

Jean Pfaelzer

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

William Dalrymple

Award Winning Best Selling Author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Asiatic Society, Founder and Co-Director of the Jaipur Literature Festival

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?

Morgan Jerkins​

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

Wole Soyinka

Nobel Laureate for Literature; International Best-Selling Author

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

Jon Scieszka

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

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

Domingo Martinez

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

Erica Jong

Feminist, Social Critic, Poet & Author of "Fear of Dying"

Kim Stanley Robinson

Bestselling & Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

Dana Gioia

Poet; Former Chairman, National Endowment of the Arts

Rita Golden Gelman

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

Deirdre Bolton

ABC News Economic & Business Correspondent

Bart Ehrman

New Testament Scholar