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Kim Stanley Robinson

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Orson Scott Card

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T.C. Boyle

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Gregory Maguire

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Alice Walker

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Wally Lamb

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Mary Karr

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Erica Jong

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Peter Diamandis

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Ashley Hope Pérez

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Enuma Okoro

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Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent

Sejal Shah

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Patrick Rosal

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Gabe Howard

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Christopher Paul Wolfe

Army Veteran, Writer & Inaugural Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University

Allegra Hyde

Novelist & Creative Writing Professor at Oberlin College

Jen Maxfield

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