HG Bissinger

Honored and Distinguished Writer

Carlos Eire

Cuban American Prof. of History & Religion at Yale. Waiting for Snow in Havana won the 2003 National Book Award

Emily Giffin

NYT Best-Selling Author of "Something Borrowed" & "Heart of the Matter"

Samuel Shem

Medical Expert, Psychiatrist, Acclaimed Novelist, Playwright, Essayist & Activist

Daniel Woodrell

Novelist and Short Story Writer; Author of "Winter's Bone"

Allan Gurganus

Novelist, Short Story Writer & Essayist

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Arundhati Roy

Essayist, Activist, Author Known for "The God of Small Things"

Jenny Han

Author of the #1 NY Times Best-Selling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series

TJ Klune

NYT Bestselling Author of "In the Lives of Puppets," "Under the Whispering Door" & "The House in the Cerulean Sea"

Wolfsong

Saira Rao

Co-Founder, Race2Dinner; Co-author of the New York Times Bestseller "White Women"

Chambermaid: A Novel

Erika Sánchez

New York Times Bestselling Author, National Book Award Finalist, and 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry

Lancelot Schaubert

Novelist of "Bell Hammers," Editor, Performer, Artist Chaplain

Howard Michael Gould

Author of the Charlie Waldo Novels, Screenwriter, Producer, Director & Playwright

Jay Bonansinga

NYT Best-Selling Author of "The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury"

Paulette Jiles

American Poet, Memoirist & Novelist

Nadifa Mohamed

Award-Winning Novelist; Known for "Black Mamba Boy"

Benjamin Lerner

Novelist, Poet, Critic & Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College

Dolores Barclay

Author, Professor at Columbia School of Journalism & Former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Author of Bestselling Novel, "The Nest"

Laura Esquivel

Mexican Novelist, Essayist & Screenwriter; Known for Bestselling Novel "Como Agua Para Chocolate"