Kwame Dawes

Ghana-born Jamaican Poet
Novelist and Essayist
Windham Campbell Prize Winner

Carrie Fountain

Award-winning Poet
YA: I’m Not Missing

Margalit Fox

Award-winning Journalist
NYT Obituary Writer

Cristina Garcí­a

Novelist, Poet, YA Author
Cuban-American Writer

Adam Gopnik

Int'l Bestselling Author
New Yorker Staff Writer

Vanessa Hua

Acclaimed Novelist
Immigration Issues

Major Jackson

Acclaimed Author
Host of The Slowdown
Roll Deep

Jonathan M. Katz

Award-winning Journalist
Haiti, Epidemic, Disaster

Eileen Myles

Acclaimed Poet and Critic
Lambda Pioneer Award

Deesha Philyaw

Award-winning Writer
Black Queer Intersectionality

Katha Pollitt

Poet, Essayist, Writer
PRO: Abortion Rights

Danté Stewart

Acclaimed Memoirist
Belonging & Religion

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

NYT Bestselling Novelist
IMPAC Dublin Award