Dani Shapiro is the author of eleven books, and the host and creator of the hit podcast Family Secrets. Her most recent novel, Signal Fires, was named a best book of 2022 by Time Magazine, Washington Post, Amazon, and others, and is a national bestseller.
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists.
Elisa Albert is the author of the novels Human Blues, After Birth, and The Book of Dahlia, the story collection How This Night is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot. Her fiction and essays have been widely published in many languages.
Eric Banks is a writer and editor and the director of the New York Insitute for the Humanities. A former senior editor of Artforum, Banks relaunched Bookforumin 2003 and served as the publication’s editor in chief until 2008.
Julia Bartz is the New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, a practicing therapist, and a creative coach.
Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) is an acclaimed children’s book author, poet, novelist, and storyteller, as well as a scholar of Native American culture.
Ann Dávila Cardinal (she/her) is the Nuyorican, Vermont-based novelist of the magical realism novel The Storyteller’s Death and the forthcoming We Need No Wings (2024), as well as the young adult novels Five Midnights, Category Five, and Breakup from Hell.
Roz Chast’s work has appeared in numerous magazines through the years, including The Village Voice, National Lampoon, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, Redbook and Mother Jones, but she is most closely associated with The New Yorker.
Lyndall Clipstone is the author of eerily vivid (Marissa Meyer, internationally bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles), bloodied but gorgeous (Victoria Mier, bookseller at The Spiral Bookcase) gothic romance, with prose that reads like a hypnotic incantation (Kirkus).
Armando Lucas Correa is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and the recipient of several awards from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the Society of Professional Journalism.