Andrew Lipstein is a writer based in Brooklyn. His debut novel Last Resort is out now from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and is coming March 17 from Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK.
His second novel Flash & Yearn will be published in 2023, also by FSG and W&N.
Read MoreJason 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.
Read MoreSabrina Benaim is a poet, performer, and workshop facilitator. She is one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time & is the author of the best-selling collection of poetry, Depression and Other Magic Tricks. Her videos have reached over 100 million people.
Read MoreDaniel 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.
Read MoreRichard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His last novel, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His latest novel is Bewilderment. He lives in the Great Smokey Mountains.
Read MoreTANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of "The Twilight Zone" on CBS All Access.
Read MoreKatherine Jegede is a British television presenter and author with a background in science. She was first introduced to metaphysics as a teenager by her mother, a former yoga teacher and education specialist. She developed a penetrating and enduring fondness for the self-empowering teachings of Neville Goddard, and remains just as steadfastly devoted to spreading his message today.
Read MoreChris Power is a British writer and literary critic for The Guardian. He was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Surrey. He studied English and American literature at Swansea University, graduating in 1998. He has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director. He is the author of the short story collection Mothers, and the novel The Lonely Man.
Read MoreTess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), The Bone Garden (2007), The Keepsake (2008; UK title: Keeping the Dead), Ice Cold (2010; UK title: The Killing Place), The Silent Girl (2011), Last To Die (2012), Die Again ( 2015), Playing With Fire ( 2015), I Know A Secret (2017) and The Shape Of Night (2019). Her books have been published in forty countries, and more than 30 million copies have been sold around the world.
Read MoreAnna Sale is the host and managing editor of Death, Sex & Money, WNYC's interview show about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Recently named New York Magazine's number one podcast, the show has also been featured by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, Fast Company, and Real Simple.
Read MoreDavid 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.
Read MoreMartha Beck is a PhD, a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author. She has published nine non-fiction books including Expecting Adam, Leaving the Saints, and Finding Your Own North Star, one novel, Diane, Herself, and more than 200 magazine articles. Her latest book is The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self.
Read MoreKami Garcia a #1 New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
Read MoreKristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, Winter Garden, Night Road, and Firefly Lane.
Read MorePatricia 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.
Read MoreReza Farazmand lives and draws in Los Angeles. Best known for his comic series Poorly Drawn Lines, his work has been featured in and around such places as televisions, websites, magazines, and now the books Poorly Drawn Lines and, most recently, City Monster. When he’s not writing or drawing, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens.
Read MoreLee Gutkind, recognized by Vanity Fair as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction,” is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, and editor of more than 25 books. He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University and a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.
Read MoreJason Reynolds is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audiences, including Ghost, a National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. His popular Track series follows a different protagonist in each novel, all of whom are members the Defenders, an elite track team.
Read MoreBruce Van Dusen directed his first commercial when he was twenty-three. He’s gone on to direct a thousand more. He also directed three movies and a feature documentary. Being a director is a weird gig. When you work, you give orders, and people and objects do what you tell them. When you’re not working, you still give orders, but nobody listens. Born in Detroit, Van Dusen lives in New York City. 60 Stories About 30 Seconds is his first book.
Read MoreBorn and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 awardee, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays are featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.
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