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Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III’s books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His novel, Gone So Long, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal and has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including selection for The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018” and “The Best Books of 2018”, “Top 100”, Amazon. He has three new books out or forthcoming, his novel Such Kindness, June 2023, a collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, due winter 2024, and, as editor, Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories, (Godine).

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Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet is the author of A Children's Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 book of 2020, among other works of fiction. She has won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and been shortlisted for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Conner Habib
Conner Habib

Conner Habib the host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, an author, a lecturer, and a sex workers’ rights advocate. Conner gives lectures around the world about sexuality, spirituality, pornography, science, and art. He served for two years as the elected Vice President of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee and is a member of PEN America. His essays and poetry have appeared in dozens of print and online publications, including CR Fashion Book, The Stranger, Vice, Salon, Slate, and several anthologies. Hawk Mountain is his debut novel.

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Jenny Mollen
Jenny Mollen

JENNY MOLLEN is a writer, actor, Instagram personality and New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections I Like You Just the Way I Am and Live Fast Die Hot. Heralded by The Huffington Post as one of the funniest women on both Twitter and Instagram and named one of “Five to Follow” by T Magazine, Jenny wrote a regular column for Parents magazine and has contributed to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, New York, Elle.com, “Wake-Up Call with Katie Couric,” and Playboy online. Her debut novel City of Likes just published, and Dictator Lunches, a cookbook inspired by her Instagram account @dictatorlunches, is set to publish September 2022. With her Instagram handles @jennymollen and @dictatorlunches, Jenny has more than half a million followers.

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Natashia Deón
Natashia Deón

Natashia Deón is a two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, and college professor at UCLA, Antioch University and Yale summer program. Author of the critically acclaimed novels, THE PERISHING and GRACE, which was named a Best Debut Fiction by The American Library Associations, Black Caucus and was named Best Book by the New York Times, Deón is a Los Angeles native, wife, mother of two.

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Jason Mott
Jason Mott

Jason Mott is a Bestselling author, National Book Award Winner, Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Winner, Pushcart Prize nominee, and Carnegie Medals For Excellence Longlist nominee, His poetry and fiction has appeared in various literary journals, and Entertainment Weekly listed him as one of their 10 “New Hollywood: Next Wave” people to watch.

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Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and, most recently, Bottle Grove.

As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award.

Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, was published by Liveright/W.W. Norton.

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David Laskin
David Laskin

David Laskin is the author of a number of award-winning books of narrative nonfiction, including The Children's Blizzard, The Long Way Home, and The Family. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Seattle Met, the Seattle Times and American Ancestors. He and his wife, retired law professor Kate O'Neill, are the parents of three grown daughters. They live in Shoreline, WA.

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Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell has sold over 100 million books. She sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working as a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. Postmortem, was the first bona fide forensic thriller. It paved the way for an explosion of entertainment featuring in all things forensic across film, television and literature.

Postmortem would go on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize – the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. To date, Cornwell’s books have sold some 100 million copies in thirty-six languages in over 120 countries. She’s authored twenty-nine New York Times bestsellers.

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