Nadifa Mohamed

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

Wayne Gladstone

Writer, Humorist & Novelist; Best Know for "Notes from the Internet Apocalypse"

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

Speaker & Performer

Bonnie Rochman

Award-Winning Journalist; Best-Selling Author of "The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids - And the Kids We Have"

Maggie O'Farrell

Contemporary Fiction Author Best Known for "The Hand That First Held Mine"

David Ebershoff

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

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Susanna Clarke

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

Jenny Blake

Career & Business Strategist; Author of "Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One"

How to Be Agile in Work & Life - YouTube

Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Laura Snyder

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Derek Blasberg

Director of Fashion at YouTube

Michael Nielsen

A physicist turned writer, Michael Nielsen believes online communication and collaboration tools are revolutionizing the way we make scientific discoveries.

Michael Rogers

Award-Winning Journalist, Novelist & Dynamic Futurist Exploring Technology, Culture & Human Nature; Author of "Email from the Future: Notes from 2084"

Gaia Vince

Award-Winning Science Writer; Environmental Journalist, Anthropocene Researcher & Broadcaster

Climate Migration and the Nomad Century with Gaia Vince

Liu Cixin

Computer Engineer & Award-Winning Science Fiction Author Known for "The Three-Body Problem"

Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)

Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Charles Portis

Cult Novelist Best Known for "True Grit" & "Norwood"

Geoff Rodkey

Emmy Award Winning Screenwriter & Children's Book Author Known for "The Tapper Twins" Books & "Daddy Day Care" Films

Mark Brake

Award-Winning Popular Science Author Best Known for "Science of Superheros" & "Science of Harry Potter"

Dolores Barclay

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

Catherine Steadman

English Actress & Author Best Known for "Downton Abbey"

Sandie Jones

Journalist & Novelist Best Known For "The Other Woman"

Bradley Hope

Pulitzer Prize-Nominated Reporter at The Wall Street Journal & Co-Author of "Billion Dollar Whale"

Nicole Chung

Author of "All You Can Ever Know;" Contributing Writer for The Atlantic; Asian-American Activist

Kristan Higgins

New York Times Bestselling Author

Michiko Kakutani

Bestselling Author & Former Chief Book Critic at The New York Times

Yuyi Morales

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Meg Medina

Award-Winning Cuban American Children's Author

Rinker Buck

Award-Winning Author; Known for "Flight of Passage"