Heather Harpham

Award-winning Memoirist & Playwright

Laurie Frankel

New York Times Bestselling Author Best Known For "This Is How It Always Is"

Family Family: A Novel

Kelly Notaras

Founder of kn literary arts

Anna Burns

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author

Justin Phillip Reed

National Book Award Longlisted Poet

Kobi Yamada

Children's Book Author; President & CEO at Compendium Inc.

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Nadifa Mohamed

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

Naima Coster

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Morgan Jerkins​

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

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

Speaker & Performer

Ali Smith

Scottish Author, Playwright, Academic and Journalist

Fiona Mozley

British Author

Emily Fridlund

Author of 'History of Wolves'

Annie Proulx

New York Times Best Selling Author, Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Best Known for "Brokeback Mountain" and "Barkskins"

David Ebershoff

Author of "The Danish Girl" and the #1 Bestseller "The 19th Wife"

Emily Henry

Author of “Happy Place;” Known as The Queen of Romance

David Whyte

Poet, Author, Naturalist & Organizational Thinker

Elmaz Abinader

Writer, Performer, Poet

Mia Alvar

Author Best Known For "In the Country: Stories"