Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Writing for a Broken World: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor

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"

Dolores Barclay

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

Nicole Chung

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

Wayne Gladstone

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

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

Speaker & Performer

Jingfang Hao

Founder of WePlan; Science Fiction Writer

Laura Esquivel

Mexican Novelist, Essayist & Screenwriter; Known for Bestselling Novel "Como Agua Para Chocolate"

Maggie O'Farrell

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

Jenny Blake

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

Lois Lowry

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" and "The Giver"

Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Amanda Lindhout

Executive Director of The Global Enrichment Foundation; Captivity Survivor, Inspirational Speaker & Author of "A House in the Sky"

Myla Goldberg

Acclaimed Author, Best Known for "Bee Season"

Jonathan Eig

Journalist & Bestselling Author Known for his Biographies

The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Jonathan Eig in Conversation

Sam Chege

Associate Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications at Kansas State University

Oyinkan Braithwaite

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

Fatima Mirza

New York Times Best-Selling Author

Charles Portis

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

Laurie Frankel

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

Family Family: A Novel

Bradley Hope

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

Kristan Higgins

New York Times Bestselling Author

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Author of "Small Fry"

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

Beth Clark

Founder of Thinkspot Communications

William J. Federer

Nationally Known Speaker, Bestselling Author & President of Amerisearch, Inc.