Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Writing for a Broken World: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor

André Aciman

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

Caroline Elkins

Professor of African Studies at Harvard University & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Imperial Reckoning"

Enuma Okoro

Nigerian-American Author and Lecturer; Columnist, Financial Times; Global Citizen

Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent

Afaa Weaver

Award Winning Poet, Playwright & Translator

Oyinkan Braithwaite

Award-Winning Author, Writer & Feminist Known for "My Sister, the Serial Killer"

Nadifa Mohamed

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

Deborah Levy

British Playwright, Novelist & Poet

M. NourbeSe Philip

Award-Winning Poet, Novelist & Essayist

Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Woody Allen

Legendary Director, Screenwriter & Actor

Ishmael Reed

Novelist, Poet & Playwright

N. Scott Momaday

Kiowa Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist & Poet

House Made of Dawn

Melissa L. Cooper

Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark; Author of "Making Gullah" & African American History Expert

Michèle Root-Bernstein, Ph.D.

Professor at Michigan State University, Poet & Writer; Author of "Inventing Imaginary Worlds, From Childhood Play to Adult Creativity"

Christopher Paul Wolfe

Army Veteran, Writer & Inaugural Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University

Hanif Abdurraqib

Poet, Essayist & Cultural Critic

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Felwine Sarr

Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University

Afrotopia

Shawna Kay Rodenberg

Author

Graham Swift

Author

Minna Salami

Writer, Lecturer, Feminist, Gender Equality Activist & Founder of Award-Winning Blog MsAfropolitan

Ana Castillo

Chicana Author, Essayist & Poet

Remi Adeleke

Former Navy Seal, Actor & Author of "Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds"

Heather Harpham

Award-winning Memoirist & Playwright

Diana Khoi Nguyen

Award-Winning Poet & Multimedia Artist

Kim Fu

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

Siphumeze Khundayi

Founder & Artistic Director of HOLAAfrica

Derek Peterson

Professor & Historian at the University of Michigan

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Painter and Multi-Media Artist

Alissa Nutting

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