Taylor
Candacy Taylor is an award-winning cultural documentarian, photographer, and the author of the bestselling book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Books). Taylor is also the curator of The Negro Motorist Green Book exhibition which is being toured to 13 museums by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition […]
Howell
Rebecca Gayle Howell is an award-winning poet, translator, and editor of place-based literature. As the granddaughter of Appalachian subsistence farmers, she centers the hope that ecological, economic, and human rights can offer those living in vulnerable regions. Howell regularly presents to audiences at venues like the Edinburgh Book Festival, the American Academy of Poets, No […]
Mitchard
Jacquelyn Mitchard is the New York Times bestselling author of 23 novels for adults and teenagers, and the recipient of Great Britain’s Talkabout prize, The Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards, and named to the short list for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural […]
Tate
As the national bestselling author of more than 50 books, ReShonda Tate has the credentials, and the passion, to bring stories to life. That’s exactly what she does in her latest novel, The Queen of Sugar Hill (William Morrow, Jan. 30, 2024), a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood’s most prolific […]
Robson
Jennifer Robson is the acclaimed author of seven historical novels, all of them international number-one bestsellers: Somewhere in France, After the War is Over, Moonlight Over Paris, Goodnight from London, The Gown, Our Darkest Night, and Coronation Year. Her books have been translated into 17 languages and several have been optioned for film and television. […]
Shaw
Hank Shaw is an award-winning author and chef who has written five cookbooks on wild foods, including fish, game and edible wild plants. He runs the website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, the internet’s largest source of wild foods recipes. That website won the James Beard Award in 2013, and has won numerous other awards over […]
Venable
Colleen AF Venable is the author of indie bestseller Katie the Catsitter graphic novel series with Stephanie Yue (nominated for 14 state awards), as well as the National Book Award Longlisted Kiss Number 8, a graphic novel co-created with Ellen T. Crenshaw. Her other books include The Oboe Goes Boom Boom Boom with Lian Cho, […]
Varon
Jamie Varon is a bestselling non-fiction author, executive producer, novelist, course creator, designer, branding expert, and writer whose work has been read by millions. She is a multi-passionate creative who follows her curiosity wherever it leads. She lives in Los Angeles, CA. Her first nonfiction book, Radically Content was published April 12th, 2022 with Quarto […]
Bousamra
Rose Bousamra is an experienced comics professional, specializing in illustration and graphic novels for kids and young adults. Their first graphic novel, Frizzy, written by Claribel A. Ortega and published with First Second Books, earned a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, the Pura Belpre award for Children’s Text, an Eisner Award nomination (Best Publication […]
Lawson
Jenny Lawson (aka “The Bloggess”) is is a #1 NYT bestselling author and award-winning humor writer best known for her inspiring candor in sharing her struggle with depression, anxiety and chronic pain. She lives in Texas with her husband and daughter and was constantly “buying too many books” (“Not a real thing,” she insists), so […]
