Kim Fu

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

Alissa Nutting

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

James Dashner

Author of Many Children's Fantasy Series and Adult Books, Including "The Maze Runner" Series

Cassandra Clare

Author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal & Publishers Weekly Bestselling "Mortal Instruments" Series

Jill Santopolo

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

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

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

Emily Henry

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

Funny Story

Julia Alvarez

Award-Winning Poet, Novelist & Essayist

Jeff Hobbs

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

Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal is an editor for The New York Times Book Review

Mary Pope Osborne

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

Abigail Tarttelin

Author of "Golden Boy" and "Flick"

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

Melissa Baron

Author of "Twice in a Lifetime"

Leah Scheier, MD

Novelist & Pediatrician

Zakiya Dalila Harris

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

Leigh Stein

Author, Activist, Teacher & Book Coach

Lucy Ellmann

Award-Winning Author & Lecturer in Creative Writing

Ari Popper

Founder & CEO of SciFutures

Julie Murphy

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "Puddin',"Dumplin'" & "Side Effects May Vary"

Kelly Notaras

Founder of kn literary arts

Diana Khoi Nguyen

Award-Winning Poet & Multimedia Artist

Tahereh Mafi

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Shatter Me" Series

Daniel Gumbiner

Author of "The Boatbuilder"

Mira T. Lee

Author of "Everything Here is Beautiful"

Yuyi Morales

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Morgan Jerkins​

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

Ali Smith

Scottish Author, Playwright, Academic and Journalist