Kim Fu

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

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

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Christine A. Platt

Author & Managing Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University

Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Mira T. Lee

Author of "Everything Here is Beautiful"

Morgan Jerkins​

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

Cleo Wade

Artist, Poet & Author

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

Mohsin Hamid

Author, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia"

Sherman Alexie

Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Performer

Damon Young

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

Raquel Salas Rivera

Poet Laureate of Philadelphia

Diana Khoi Nguyen

Award-Winning Poet & Multimedia Artist

Tahereh Mafi

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

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Daniel Gumbiner

Author of "The Boatbuilder"

Aaron Samuels

Co-Founder & COO of Blavity

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Naima Coster

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

Yuyi Morales

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

David Whyte

Poet, Author, Naturalist & Organizational Thinker

Elmaz Abinader

Writer, Performer, Poet

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"

Roxy Azari

Spoken Word Artist, Slam Poet & Social Justice Activist

Danielle Evans

Author of "Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self" & Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Warsan Shire

Award-Winning Poet' Displacement & Belonging Advocate; Author of "Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth"

Masiela Lusha

Actress, Author, and Philanthropist

Parul Sehgal

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