Justin Phillip Reed

National Book Award Longlisted Poet

Morgan Jerkins​

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

Cleo Wade

Artist, Poet & Author

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

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

Joseph Han

Writer, Editor & Author of "Nuclear Family"

Zakiya Dalila Harris

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

Peter H. Reynolds

Author, Illustrator & Founder of FableVision

Ari Popper

Founder & CEO of SciFutures

Kelly Notaras

Founder of kn literary arts

Diana Khoi Nguyen

Award-Winning Poet & Multimedia Artist

Daniel Gumbiner

Author of "The Boatbuilder"

Kristen Roupenian

Author of the New Yorker's Viral "Cat Person"

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Kim Fu

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

Yuyi Morales

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Abigail Johnson

Contemporary Young Adult Author, Known for "If I Fix You"

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

David Whyte

Poet, Author, Naturalist & Organizational Thinker

Elmaz Abinader

Writer, Performer, Poet

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

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"

Danielle Evans

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

John Cantwell

John Cantwell, Guest Writer / United States / Superscript. He currently lives in San Francisco and writes for Facebook.

Mason Currey

Writer & Editor; Author of the "Daily Rituals" Books

Stuart Dybek

Poet, Fiction Writer & Professor at Western Michigan University

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver was born September 10, 1935 and is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Bill Bryson

Best-Selling Author Known for "A Short History of Nearly Everything" & "A Walk in the Woods"

Enuma Okoro

Nigerian-American Author and Lecturer; Columnist, Financial Times; Global Citizen

Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent