Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Yuyi Morales

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

Jeff Hobbs

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

Marisa Silver

New York Times-Bestselling Author; Known for "Mary Coin"

Melissa Baron

Author of "Twice in a Lifetime"

Zakiya Dalila Harris

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Other Black Girl"

Ari Popper

Founder & CEO of SciFutures

Daniel Gumbiner

Author of "The Boatbuilder"

Kristen Roupenian

Author of the New Yorker's Viral "Cat Person"

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Kim Fu

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Mira T. Lee

Author of "Everything Here is Beautiful"

Cleo Wade

Artist, Poet & Author

Alissa Nutting

Author & Creative Writing Professor; Best Known for "Tampa" & "Made for Love"

Abigail Johnson

Contemporary Young Adult Author, Known for "If I Fix You"

Kwame Alexander

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Susanna Clarke

Author of Award-Winning Book, "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell"

Mary Pope Osborne

Children's Author Known for "The Magic Tree House" Series

John Cantwell

John Cantwell, Guest Writer / United States / Superscript. He currently lives in San Francisco and writes for Facebook.

Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl is an American writer best known for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

J.K. Rowling

Author of the "Harry Potter" Series

Grant Faulkner

Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month; Co-Founder of 100 Word Story; Co-Host of Podcast "Write-minded"

Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story

Leah Scheier, MD

Novelist & Pediatrician

Peter H. Reynolds

Author, Illustrator & Founder of FableVision

Lucy Ellmann

Award-Winning Author & Lecturer in Creative Writing

Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Writing for a Broken World: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor

Dolores Barclay

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

Gail Honeyman

Award-Winning Author Best Known for "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine"

Jill Santopolo

Best-selling Author Best Known for "The Light We Lost"