Narrative Nonfiction

LAWRENCE ABBOTT teaches American literature and writing at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in modern American fiction. His latest is JANE DOLINGER: THE ADVENTUROUS LIFE OF AN AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITER, a biography of the woman once known around the world as “Jungle Jane” and “the most glamorous travel writer in the world,” who authored seven nonfiction books of exotic adventure spanning the 1950s through 1990s.

CINDY ADAMS has written a daily column for the New York Post since 1981. She has appeared on numerous television shows and was a founding member of A Current Affair. She has written several books, including IRON ROSE: THE STORY OF ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY AND HER DYNASTY, with Susan Crimp, and is a frequent lecturer. She is also the author of the bestselling THE GIFT OF JAZZY, about her best friend, a Yorkshire Terrier. Her most recent, LIVING A DOG’S LIFE: JAZZY, JUICY, AND ME, is about her grief over Jazzy’s untimely death and her newfound joy with Jazzy, Jr., and Juicy.

JOHN M. ADAMS, whose book THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE MUMMIES: HOW THEODORE DAVIS USED A STOLEN FORTUNE TO TRANSFORM ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE GILDED AGE will be published in 2013 by St. Martin’s Press, is director emeritus of the Orange County, California Public Library, and prior to his tenure in California, served as director of libraries in Florida and in Illinois. He has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the American Research Center in Egypt (the professional organization for U.S. Egyptologists) and founded the Southern California Chapter of ARCE and served as its president. He is a regular contributor to Kmt: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt and a former editor of the Egyptological newsletter Sedjem.

SELIM ALGAR , a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has been a staff reporter at the New York Post since 2005 and currently covers the New York City Department of Education. He was previously assigned to the paper's Long Island bureau before covering the Eastern District of New York federal court. His work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, The Austin-American Statesman and NBCSports.com.

MATTHEW ALGEO is an award-winning journalist and author. He has reported from four continents for NPR News and written for major publications including the Atlantic, New York Times, and Washington Post. Algeo is the author of six books, including Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip, which Christopher Buckley called “utterly likable,” and the Washington Post named one of the best books of the year. In the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik praised his 2014 book Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport as “one of those books which open up a forgotten world so fully that at first the reader wonders, just a little, if his leg is being pulled.” Algeo’s seventh book, When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art, was published in October 2023. In addition to reporting and writing, Algeo has held jobs as a convenience store clerk, a gas station attendant, a Halloween costume salesman, and a proofreader. He also worked in a traveling circus (as a hot dog vendor; no acrobatics involved). Algeo holds a degree in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. He enjoys relaxing by watching trashy daytime TV. His wife, Allyson, is a United States Foreign Service officer, and they have lived in Mali, Italy, Mongolia, Mozambique, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. They currently live in Arlington, Virginia, with their ten-year-old daughter, Zaya.

YASMINE S. ALI, MD is a cardiologist and award-winning essayist and poet who writes in multiple genres. Her current work-in-progress is a narrative history of the Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 and its ripple effects on American infrastructure, particularly in the areas of rail safety and disaster response, including the creation of FEMA. Dr. Ali also writes prolifically in the health and wellness space; she is the author of the Speak for the Heart blog, and her work has been featured in Real Simple magazine, NPR, Reader’s Digest, Verywell Health, WebMD, Brit + Co, Healthline, HealthCentral, and more. www.yasminealimd.com

BRUCE WARE ALLEN was born in the greater New York Metropolitan Area and grew up there, in the Netherlands, and in Italy.  His work has been published in Military History Quarterly, Military History, and Treasures of Malta. He is the author of INTO A TIDELESS SEA and THE GREAT SIEGE OF MALTA.
www.ahistoryblog.com

RENIQUA ALLEN-LAMPHERE is a scholar and journalist who produces and writes for various outlets on issues of race, opportunity, politics and popular culture. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from American University in political science and journalism and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in American Studies. Her first book, It Was All a Dream: How A New Generation is Navigating the Broken Promise of America, was published in 2019 by Bold Type Books/Hachette. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Republic, Al-Jazeera, The Nation, Glamour, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Teen Vogue, and Quartz. She has also served as a commentator for NPR, MSNBC and CNN and has held fellowships with the Nation Institute, Demos, and the New America Foundation. She is presently a development producer for NBC News Studios, a boutique production company within NBC News. Before that she was a Visiting Research Scholar at the City University of New York. She is at work on FERTILITY NOIR, which will be published by Ballantine.  

CARRIE ARNOLD is a freelance health and science writer living in Virginia. She covers all aspects of the living world for publications like National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, New Scientist and Women’s Health.

BERNADETTE ATUAHENE is a property law scholar focusing on land stolen from people in the African Diaspora. She is the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA for college. She then earned her JD from Yale and her MPA from Harvard. After completing her graduate studies, she served as a judicial clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and then practiced as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. She is now the James E. Jones Chair at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Atuahene has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the South African Land Claims Commission. She has been honored with the Fulbright Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relation’s International Affairs Fellowship, and Princeton’s Law and Public Affairs Fellowship. Her first book — We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program (Oxford University Press, 2014) — is based on 150 interviews she conducted with South Africans dispossessed of their land by the colonial and apartheid governments and who received some form of compensation post-apartheid. Her second book, PLUNDERED is forthcoming from Little, Brown.  

PHILIP AUERSWALD is a Professor at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, and an Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His work focuses on entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation. He is the co-founder and co-editor of Innovations, a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial and technological solutions to global challenges. He is the author of THE COMING PROSPERITY and THE CODE ECONOMY (published by Oxford University Press) and at work on a third book, A PHONE IS A COW forthcoming from Georgetown University Press.   

STEPH AUTERI is a writer and editor who has written about women's health and sexuality for The Atlantic, the Washington Post, VICE, Pacific Standard, Salon, Undark, and other publications. She also volunteers for the Center for Sex Education, the national education division of her local Planned Parenthood. She lives with her husband, daughter, and three cats in Verona, NJ. Her essay collection is A DIRTY WORD: HOW A SEX WRITER RECLAIMED HER SEXUALITY.

HOUSTON A. BAKER, JR., is a Distinguished University Professor in the English Department at Vanderbilt University. He has served as the Editor of American Literature, the oldest and most prestigious journal in American Literary Studies. He has written and/or edited more than 20 books, including MODERNISM AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE and CRITICAL MEMORY AND TURNING SOUTH AGAIN: RETHINKING MODERNISM / REREADING BOOKER T. His latest books are I DON'T HATE THE SOUTH: REFLECTIONS ON FAULKNER, FAMILY, AND THE SOUTH and BETRAYAL: HOW BLACK INTELLECTUALS HAVE ABANDONED THE IDEALS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA.

JONATHAN BALCOMBE is the director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and the author of four books, including Second Nature and Pleasurable Kingdom. A popular commentator, he has appeared on The Diane Rehm Show, the BBC, and the National Geographic Channel, and in several documentaries, and is a contributor of features and opinions to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, and other publications. He is the author of several books about animal behavior, including his most recent highly acclaimed title WHAT A FISH KNOWS.www.jonathan-balcombe.com

DEBORAH BALL is the Italy Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal. She has a distinguished track record covering Italian politics and finance, as well as European fashion, at the Wall Street Journal for over a decade. In 2009, she became the Wall Street Journal’s Switzerland reporter, where she covered Roman Polanski, animal lawyers, rogue traders and tax evaders. Her first book is HOUSE OF VERSACE, a fascinating look at the rise and fall of the Versace fashion empire.

ADRIENNE BARBEAU is a stage, screen, and television star best known for her role as Bea Arthur's daughter in the hit series Maude and her Tony nominated turn as Rizzo in the original Broadway production of Grease. She is known as an icon among horror genre fans for The Fog, Escape From New York, Creepshow, and Swamp Thing, among many others. She is the voice of Catwoman in Batman, the Animated Series and starred in HBO's Carnivale as Ruthie the Snake Dancer. Her titles include her memoir, THERE ARE WORSE THINGS I COULD DO and the witty detective novel VAMPYRES OF HOLLYWOOD, which she co-authored with Michael Scott. She wrote the sequels to the vampyre series, LOVE BITES and MAKE ME DEAD, and is currently at work on GREASE! TELL ME MORE...TELL ME MORE!

BROOKE BARBIER is a public historian based in Boston, MA. She received her PhD in American History from Boston College. She taught at Stonehill College and Boston College before founding the top-rated tour company, Ye Olde Tavern Tours. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Where Boston, and on WCVB, GBH, and WBZ. She is the co-host of the “Beer Makes History” podcast series and is the creator of Boston's History in a Minute videos.

CHARLES BARKER is a writer and a geologist who has worked in the environmental consulting field for over 20 years, involved in issues ranging from water supply contamination to air quality. He also teaches at Wayne State University. He is currently working on a book titled SOLVING THE MAPMAKER'S PUZZLE about the theory of continental drift and plate tectonics.

REBECCA E.F. BARONE holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University along with multiple graduate degrees in mechanical engineering. Her technical projects include injury analysis for the National Football League, and her short-form STEM writing has been published in the award-winning Muse magazine. She is passionate about serving and mentoring underrepresented populations in STEM and has continued to mentor in the kidlit arena with her participation in the #kidsneedmentors program. She enjoys rock climbing, marathon running, and creating amazing (sometimes tasty!) messes with her husband, son, and daughter. Her debut book for young readers, RACE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EARTH: Surviving Antarctica, received four starred reviews and was named a School Library Journal Best Book of 2021, a 2022 National Science Teachers Association/Children’s Book Council Best STEM Book, and a 2021 Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books Blue Ribbon selection. Her latest book, UNBREAKABLE: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code, the recipient of four starred reviews, is an edge-of-your seat, narrative nonfiction book for young readers about a group of codebreakers, spies, and navy men who cracked the Nazis’ secret cypher and turned the tide of World War II. www.rebeccaefbarone.com

JACKIE BARRETT has been a psychic medium for 25 years. More recently, she has become a reality TV favorite. Her nonfiction narrative, THE DEVIL I KNOW, written with I. J. Schechter, explores the truth behind the infamous Amityville Horror house and Jackie’s work with the killer, Ronald DeFeo. She is currently at work on THE HAUNTING OF THE GEMINI, with Claire Booth, a first-person account of her connection to New York Zodiac killer Eddie Seda and one of his victims.
thehousethatkaybuilt.com

JOAN BARTHEL is an independent writer and author of four nonfiction books including Rosemary Clooney’s GIRL SINGER. She was a staff writer at the weekly Life, contributing editor at New Times, and instructor in feature writing at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, and Notre Dame Magazine. AMERICAN SAINT: THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON, her biography of the pioneer of faith-centered feminism, who ultimately became the first American-born canonized saint, was recently published by Thomas Dunne.

MATT BAUME is a writer, podcaster, and video-maker based in Seattle whose work focuses on queer culture, geeks, and all things strange and wonderful. He is the creator of the queer interview show The Sewers of Paris, the YouTube pop culture series Culture Cruise, and the LGBTQ news shows Weekly Debrief and Marriage News Watch, and co-creator of the comedy podcast and live show Queens of Adventure. He was nominated for a GLAAD award for journalism, and his work has been recognized by the New York Times as “thoughtful and thorough … informative and funny.” You can find his reporting via outlets that include Rolling Stone, Vice Magazine, Slate, The Advocate, The Stranger, and NPR. His book, DEFINING MARRIAGE, chronicles the personal stories of people who fought for marriage equality over the last forty years. He is also the author of 2023’s HI HONEY, I’M HOMO: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture.

JIM BELL is an astronomer and planetary scientist as well as a Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. He is the leader of the Panoramic Camera (Pancam) color imaging team on the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover missions, an experience he wrote about in POSTCARDS FROM MARS, a breathtaking book filled with gorgeous photos of the Red Planet. He also authored MARS 3-D, MOON 3-D, THE SPACE BOOK, and THE INTERSTELLAR AGE: INSIDE THE FORTY-YEAR VOYAGER MISSION. Jim's latest book is HUBBLE LEGACY: 30 YEARS OF DISCOVERIES AND IMAGES.

ANDREW BELONSKY is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist who has contributed to The New York Times, The Guardian, Gawker, Interview, Jezebel, Rolling Stone, Salon among others. He is at work on HARD NOTCH LIFE: An Illustrated History of the Log Cabin forthcoming from Norton’s Countryman imprint. This image-driven, splinters-and-all biography of the log cabin draws on colonial diaries, journalistic accounts, and over 100 illustrations to show how the log cabin, once derided as a poor immigrant's hovel, became a beloved American institution, offering up a lively, irreverent analysis of an icon as enduring as it is malleable.

JULIA WATTS BELSER is a rabbi, scholar, and spiritual teacher who writes about disability, queer Jewish feminism, and environmental justice. She’s an associate professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. She is the author of several scholarly books, most recently RABBINIC TALES OF DESTRUCTION: GENDER, SEX, AND DISABILITY IN THE RUINS OF JERUSALEM. She’s currently at work on BREATH AND BONE: DISABILITY POLITICS AND THE BIBLE. A longtime activist for disability and gender justice, she’s also a passionate wheelchair hiker and a lover of wild places. http://www.juliawattsbelser.com

LEE BENSON is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience as a newspaper writer, columnist, and book author. He is the renowned sports columnist for the Salt Lake City Deseret Morning News, where he was named Sportswriter of the Year 15 consecutive years. His most recent book, co-authored with Elizabeth Smart’s uncle Tom Smart, is IN PLAIN SIGHT: THE STARTLING TRUTH BEHIND THE ELIZABETH SMART INVESTIGATION.

JOSEPH BERGER is a features writer at the New York Times and the author of THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS. His most recent book is DISPLACED PERSONS, a highly praised memoir of growing up in America after the Holocaust. Joe’s latest book is THE PIOUS ONES and he is currently at work on A PROPHET FOR HIS TIME, a biography about Elie Wiesel.

BRUCE BERGLUND is a historian, editor, and the author of THE MOSCOW PLAYBOOK: HOW RUSSIA USED, ABUSED AND TRANSFORMED SPORTS IN THE HUNT FOR GOLD and The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey & the Globalization of Sports. Bruce is also the author of five books for young readers published by Capstone Press. He works as a writer and editor at Gustavus Adolphus College. 

ANAT BERKO, Ph.D., Lt. Col. (ret.), is an advisor to Israel’s Council for National Security, the governmental team dealing with Counter-Terrorism. She serves as an advisor to senior echelon decision makers in efforts to counter suicide bombers and their dispatchers and is a research fellow with the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya. She is the author of THE PATH TO PARADISE: THE INNER WORLD OF SUICIDE BOMBERS AND THEIR DISPATCHERS.

MANUEL BETANCOURT is a queer Colombian writer who currently lives in West Hollywood, California. He’s a contributing editor at Film Quarterly, where he publishes his column, “Cineando,” all about Latin American cinema, and a regular contributor to Electric Literature, where he focuses on book-to-film adaptations. His work has been featured in The New York Times, BuzzFeed Reader, The Los Angeles Times, Film Comment, Esquire, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books and Vice, among others. Manuel is the author of JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL and is one of the writers of Chad Sell’s critically acclaimed and Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel THE CARDBOARD KINGDOM and its sequel, THE CARDBOARD KINGDOM: ROAR OF THE BEAST. His book THE MALE GAZED: On Hunks, Heartthrobs & What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men was selected as a best book of the year by the New York Times and NPR. His most recent book, HELLO STRANGER: Musings on Modern Intimacy, is a witty and winkingly playful exploration of modern queer romance and the expansive possibilities of ephemeral intimacies. https://mbetancourt.com 

R. DWAYNE BETTS has been appointed a member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He is also a graduate student at Warren Wilson College, where he has been awarded the Holden Fellowship. Shortly after his release from prison in 2005, the Washington Post published a feature article about him and a book club he founded for at-risk young men called Young Men Read. He teaches poetry at several public schools in the D.C. metro area, has a published book of poetry, has his poetry published in many national literary journals, and contributed an essay to the anthology IT’S ALL LOVE. His latest is a memoir entitled A QUESTION OF FREEDOM, and he is currently at work on THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF A PRISON, in which Betts will unravel the complex relationships a prison sentence creates and how one crime affects a range of people’s lives.
http://www.dwaynebetts.com/bio/

JOHN BICKNELL, author of the forthcoming 1844: THE YEAR THE WORLD DIDN’T END, is the former editor at CQ Roll Call in Washington, where he worked from 1999 to 2013. He is the co-author of POLITICS IN AMERICA 2012 (CQ Press, 2011), a 1,200 page guide to Congress. He has also served as a book reviewer and political columnist. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science, with a minor in religious studies.

MICHAEL BISHOP is a sales executive for a major healthcare learning company who accidentally came across a file containing information about Nashville's infamous Paula Herring case - the Babysitter Murder. Realizing the potentially explosive nature of the contents, he launched a multi-decade private investigation, consulting with top forensic experts and piecing together evidence to produce a new theory for the case. A MURDER IN MUSIC CITY is his account of his investigation. 

DANIEL BLACK is professor of African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University. He is author of 7 novels, among them PERFECT PEACE--the story of a black male child raised as a girl--and THE COMING--the story of an enslaved African group during the treacherous Middle Passage. His most recent novel, DON'T CRY FOR ME, will be followed by ISAAC’S SONG. Daniel is a much-sought-after public speaker and corporate trainer in race and gender relations, and he made his nonfiction debut with the award-winning BLACK ON BLACK: ON OUR RESILIENCE AND BRILLLIANCE IN AMERICA.  

WALT BOGDANICH is one of only a few journalists to receive two Pulitzer Prizes for individual achievement—one at the Wall Street Journal and the other in 2005 at the New York Times for "Death on the Tracks," his series on corporate cover-ups of train accidents. In 2008, he won a third Pulitzer for reporting on toxic substances that were discovered in products imported from China. He has also been honored with four George Polk Awards as well as many other accolades in print and broadcast journalism. A television producer, journalism professor, and guest on some of today's top TV shows, including the Today show, Good Morning America, CNN, and PBS, he has also served as the on-air correspondent for investigative stories broadcast on PBS and Discovery Times Channel. He is the author of THE GREAT WHITE LIE, an examination of the inner workings of America's medical system.

Dr. PETER BOGHOSSIAN is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University, an Affiliated Assistant Professor at Oregon Health Science University in the Department of General Internal Medicine, and an international speaker for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He is the author of A MANUAL FOR CREATING ATHEISTS and his popular articles can be found in Time, Scientific American, The Philosophers’ Magazine and elsewhere. He’s appeared on Joe Rogan, Penn Jillette’s Sunday School, The Rubin Report, Lars Larson, and in many other podcasts and venues. He’s ranked the eleventh most popular philosopher in the world on Twitter with 32,200 followers. He began the journey into effective conversation strategies by teaching prison inmates how to improve their critical thinking and moral reasoning skills. 

ERIKA BOLSTAD is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. As a staff writer for the Miami Herald and a longtime Washington correspondent for McClatchy, she covered Congress, the effects of climate change in America, Hurricane Katrina and other national stories. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Scientific American, Climate Wire and many other publications. Her debut book, WINDFALL (forthcoming from Sourcebooks) is a reported memoir that traces a bequest from a mysterious great grandmother. Against a backdrop of oil rigs, evidence of boom and bust cycles, legacies of genocide and environmental exploitation, Bolstad confronts the myths of the West, how they shaped not only the women of her family but the wider American story.

BARBARA BOND, MD, has spent over a decade in a busy ER outside of Oakland, CA, as she helps oversee 21 ERs throughout California. Dr. Bond came to medicine after over a decade as a professional rugby player, with most of her career spent on the US women's rugby team (including a world championship).  

ESTHER WACHS BOOK has written business articles for Forbes, Fortune, and Working Woman and has served as the career expert at Marie Claire magazine. She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and speaks fluent Chinese. Her most recent book is WHY THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB IS A WOMAN.

CLAIRE BOOTH is an award winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, and Philadelphia Inquirer. As a reporter for the Contra Costa Times, she began covering the Taylor Helzer murder case and wrote a nonfiction account of Helzer’s life and crimes, THE FALSE PROPHET: CONSPIRACY, EXTORTION AND MURDER IN THE NAME OF GOD. Her debut novel, THE BRANSON BEAUTY, the first in a series of mysteries about Sheriff HankWorth is forthcoming.

FRED BOST is an ex-Army and Pentagon investigator and has won two consecutive awards for investigative journalism from the North Carolina Press Association. With Jerry Allen Potter, he co-authored FATAL JUSTICE: REINVESTIGATING THE MACDONALD MURDERS.

PAIGE BOWERS is the author of THE GENERAL’S NIECE: THE LITTLE-KNOWN DE GAULLE WHO FOUGHT TO FREE OCCUPIED FRANCE. For the past few years, she has been working closely with Hidden Figure Raye Montague’s son, David, on the story of how his mother engineered her way out of the Jim Crow South to become the first person to draft a Naval ship design by computer. That book, OVERNIGHT CODE: THE LIFE OF RAYE MONTAGUE, THE WOMAN WHO REVOLUTIONIZED NAVAL ENGINEERING, was published by Lawrence Hill Books on January 12, 2021. Since then, it has been featured on Good Morning America, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, NAVSEA.mil, Library Journal, BookTrib.com, and other media outlets. Goodreads called it of most anticipated new biographies in Spring 2021, while ElectricLiterature.com included it in a roundup of books about women trailblazers in male-dominated fields. Paige is a nationally published news and features writer whose work has appeared in TIME, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, People, Allure, Thomson Reuters, Glamour, Pregnancy, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Magazine and Palm Beach Illustrated. Paige lives in the Atlanta area with her husband, daughter and a Yellow Lab who believes he is a lap dog.

KEITH BOYKIN is a TV political commentator, former White House aide, co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition, and an author of four books. His new book, RACE AGAINST TIME: THE POLITICS OF A DARKENING AMERICA, explores the raging conflict between America's emerging black and brown population and its dwindling white majority.

NEIL BRADBURY, Ph.D. is crime fiction enthusiast as well as a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Chicago Medical School, where he teaches and conducts research on genetic diseases. He received his Ph.D. in medical biochemistry from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1988 and graduated with honors in biochemistry from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 1984.  A full-time scientist and educator, Neil has won numerous awards for his unique approach to teaching physiology.  Dr. Bradbury’s research has focused on the genetic disease of Cystic Fibrosis, where he has made several fundamental discoveries regarding the protein affected in this disorder. He has presented his research around the world and authored more than 80 scientific articles and book chapters.  His forthcoming book, A TASTE FOR POISON (St. Martins Press) the parallel tale of poisons and the killers who used them, is a compelling blend of narrative science and true crime.

LARA BRICKER is a former private detective and an award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience writing and reporting on crime and justice issues. In addition to news writing, Bricker is a parenting humor columnist for Seacoast Parents Connect, a website operated through Seacoast Media Group. She is the author of LIE AFTER LIE, which follows the rise and fall of radio talk show host James Keown, a master of deception so accomplished that no one suspected he could be responsible for killing his wife.

JUSTIN BROWER is a postmortem forensic toxicologist in the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. He is also an assistant clinical professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry, and is an unrepentant in his love of chemistry and toxicology. He blogs at Nature’s Poisons and @NaturesPoisons, tweets to an audience keenly interested in science, forensics and medicine. He is a lively and polished speaker, adept at reminding his audiences—both real and virtual—never to try this at home. His first book, NATURE’S POISONS will be published by W.W. Norton.

CHRISTOPHER BROWN is a political and financial consultant who has formulated campaign strategies for gubernatorial, state, and municipal candidates, and advised investment banks on strategies for gaining new clients in public finance. He is now working on A SIMPLE MAN: ROBERT MCNAMARA IN VIETNAM, based on his extensive interviews with the former Secretary of Defense.

GENEVIEVE WHEELER BROWN is an art advisor and the author of the forthcoming BEYOND BLUE AND WHITE (Pegasus Books). Trained by Christie’s with more than a decade of experience in the auction world, she came to the advisory business with strong generalist knowledge in American, European and Asian decorative arts. While at Christie’s, she was involved with important sales such as “The Pine Cone Egg” by Carl Fabergé and “The Taft’ Stradivari “which fetched the auction record for an instrument sold in the United States. She was an appraiser on the PBS production Antiques Roadshow. Writing on the decorative arts and the history of women’s roles in collecting and historic preservation, Genevieve is also a contributor to The New Criterion.

WALTER BROWN, MD is a clinical professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and clinical professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University. He is the author of two books aimed at a professional audience, most recently THE PLACEBO EFFECT IN CLINICAL PRACTICE (OUP 2012). He has spent forty years researching drugs to treat depression and bipolar disorder, and published hundreds of articles detailing his findings. His essays have appeared in Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today and the Providence Journal. His book LITHIUM: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DOCTOR, A DRUG AND A BREAKTHOUGH is published by the Liveright imprint of W.W. Norton.  He is a co-author of THE NOCEBO EFFECT published by Mayo Clinic Press.  

STEVE BUCKLEY has been a columnist with the Boston Herald since 1995. He has written extensively for Bostonmagazine, Yankee, The Sporting News and many others. Buckley is a co-host on "The Big Show" on Sportsradio 850 WEEI and also co-hosts a popular Sunday baseball show on the station. Buckley is a co-founder of The Oldtime Baseball Game, an annual charity game featuring top amateur players who wear old-style uniforms from virtually every era in baseball history. He is the author, with Jim Caple, of THE BEST BOSTON SPORTS ARGUMENTS. He is working on a book about Boston’s amazing sports year 2007-2008 starting with the Red Sox winning the World Series, through the Patriots perfect regular season, and ending with the Celtics winning the NBA finals.

KELSY BURKE, Ph.D., is a Sociology Professor at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and author of the book, CHRISTIANS UNDER COVERS: EVANGELICALS AND SEXUAL PLEASURE ON THE INTERNET. She researches how sexuality and religion collide in contemporary America and has published articles in numerous academic journals and popular outlets including Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, and Salon. Her next book, THE PORNOGRAPHY WARS: FIGHTING FOR REAL SEX IN THE DIGITAL AGE is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

JAY BURRESON is the author, with Penny Le Couteur, of NAPOLEON'S BUTTONS: HOW 17 MOLECULES CHANGED HISTORY. Here, they explain how often small, seemingly insignificant molecules have changed the course of world events. Jay has worked as an industrial chemist and held a National Institutes of Health special fellowship for his work with marine life and chemical compounds.

DR. GERALD N. CALLAHAN is an Associate Professor of Immunology at Colorado State University. He has more than 30 years of experience in modern biomedical research. His science articles have appeared in Nature, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Journal of Immunology. Also a poet and essayist, his writings have been published by Creative Nonfiction, Southern Poetry Review, and Cream City Review. He is the author of FAITH, MADNESS, AND SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION: WHAT IMMUNOLOGY CAN TEACH US ABOUT SELF-PERCEPTION and INFECTION: THE UNINVITED UNIVERSE, the story of the influence germs have had on human history. His latest book is BETWEEN XX AND XY: INTERSEXUALITY AND THE MYTH OF TWO SEXES, in which he turns his probing eye to the baffling field of human sexuality, the relationship between sex and genitalia, and the inadequacy of the two sexes to cover the range of humanity.

JIM CAPLE is a senior writer at ESPN.com and a former writer and reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. His first book, a funny look at all there is to hate about the Yankees, is THE DEVIL WEARS PINSTRIPES. He is also the author, with Steve Buckley, of THE BEST BOSTON SPORTS ARGUMENTS.

LIZ CARLISLE is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on food and farming. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University, and she formerly served as Legislative Correspondent for Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Office of U.S. Senator Jon Tester.  Recognized for her academic writing with the Elsevier Atlas Award, which honors research with social impact, Liz has also published numerous pieces for general audience readers, in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider.  Her award-winning debut book LENTIL UNDERGROUND: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America was published by Penguin in 2014.  Her second book, Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food, was published in March 2019, and Healing Ground in March 2022. She is the co-editor of the anthology Living Roots, forthcoming from Island Press.  

LINDA CARROLL is an award-winning health writer and former geophysicist who covers a broad range of health topics for the New York Times and is a regular contributor and columnist for MSNBC.com. Her articles have also appeared in Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, Health, and SmartMoney. She is a contributing author to MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS 2003, which described the year’s cutting-edge research and scientific discoveries. Her latest book is THE CONCUSSION CRISIS, written with David Rosner, which explores the silent epidemic of traumatic brain injury. She is currently at work, also with Rosner, on BOTH THE KINGS HORSES about the incredibly compelling saga of Affirmed and Alydar, two thoroughbreds whose rivalry was unmatched in the Sport of Kings.

TIM CARPENTER is a Retired Supervisory Special Agent and former head of the FBI’s elite Art Crime Team and has been a key figure in the U.S. Government’s efforts to combat cultural heritage crimes for well over a decade. During his FBI career, Tim was responsible for overseeing some of the most challenging and successful art crime matters in U.S. history.  With 26 years of experience in local and federal law enforcement, including 16 years working art crimes, Tim was well known for leading innovation throughout the art crime community, building strong partnerships, and had a reputation for getting things done. A former bomb technician and police officer, he served nearly twelve years in the US Air Force and Air Force Reserve as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician. Featured in several documentary movies, he has also conducted more than 100 interviews for television, print, radio, podcasts, and other media formats. He has served as a speaker, lecturer, and panelist at prestigious venues, including Congress, the Smithsonian, George Washington University Law School. Tim initiated and led the FBI’s largest recovery of stolen and looted cultural property in the Bureau’s history during the landmark Don Miller case, a turning point for how the FBI approaches sensitive cultural matters, particularly related to Native American tribes. For his efforts in the repatriation process of ancestral remains and historic objects, Carpenter received the Public Service Award from the Society for American Archeology. He is also the recipient of the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence– the highest award in the FBI. Now retired from the FBI, Tim is the founder and Managing Director of Argus Cultural Property Consultants, a full-service firm dedicated to the protection and preservation of the world’s cultural heritage.   

HUNTER HOWE CATES is an author, filmmaker, podcaster and creative marketing professional. He is Principal and Writer for Cates Creates, LLC., a copy and content marketing firm. He is also a freelance journalist. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. OKLAHOMA’S ATTICUS, his first book will be out in late 2019.

SARAH ROSE CAVANAGH is a psychologist who researches motivation, emotion, and neuroscience. She is director of the Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Science at Assumption College and a Research Affiliate of the Emotion, Brain, and Behavior Laboratory at Tufts University. Her scholarly book The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion was published by West Virginia University Press—and she writes for a general audience on her blog for Psychology Today (Once More, With Feeling) as well as freelance pieces for various magazines.  She is a sought-after speaker and consultant, addressing ways in which organizations can apply emotion science to their work. Her book, HIVEMIND: How Social Media is Reshaping Our Collective Selves was published by Grand Central. Her second book, Mind Over Monsters: Addressing the Student Mental Health Crisis with Learning Environments of Compassionate Challenge, is published by Beacon Press.  

MORRIS CHAFETZ, M.D., is the President of the Health Education Foundation, founder of the Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the author of 16 books and hundreds of articles in professional journals and the popular press. His latest book is BIG FAT LIARS: HOW POLITICIANS, CORPORATIONS AND THE MEDIA USE SCIENCE AND STATISTICS TO MANIPULATE THE PUBLIC.

KURT CHANDLER began his writing career as a newspaper reporter. He has worked as a magazine editor, magazine writer and writing coach and has been published in numerous metropolitan newspapers and magazines, from The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, to Marie Claire and Salon.com, and is the former editor of Milwaukee Magazine. As a long-form magazine writer, he specializes in profiles, narrative nonfiction and essays. Chandler has authored, coauthored or edited 10 books, many of them biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. He lectures, teaches journalism and memoir writing, and contributes frequently to NPR affiliate, WUWM. He lives in the Milwaukee area with his wife, Cathy.

ANNA R. CHAMBERS is a neuroscientist who conducts research on the brain’s mechanisms for daydreaming, sleep, memory, and hearing. She received a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2009, a PhD in neurobiology from Harvard Medical School in 2015 and conducted postdoctoral fellowships in Germany and Norway. Her 15+ years of training in neuroscience have been focused on experimental techniques. Since 2019, she has led a research group in the Laboratory for Neural Computation at the University of Oslo, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. In May 2023, she will join the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chambers has authored numerous scientific articles and received awards and funding from the European Research Council and the Research Council of Norway, among others. She grew up in the United States, Korea and Bolivia. Her first book, CIRCUIT BREAKER, is forthcoming from Abrams Press.  

RABIA CHAUDRY is an attorney, president of the Safe Nation Collaborative, National Security Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace. She is a frequent public speaker and her writing has appeared in numerous outlets including Time, the Observer, Mic, Slate, and the Guardian among others. She is the author of New York Times bestseller ADNAN’S STORY: THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE AFTER SERIAL and executive producer of the HBO Docuseries The Case Against Adnan Syed. Rabia’s podcasts have included Undisclosed, a podcast devoted to investigating wrongful convictions; The Hidden Djinn, which tells stories of djinn lore from around the world; and horror anthology series Nighty Night. Her second book is FATTY FATTY BOOM BOOM, a warm and funny memoir of food, fat, and family. rabiachaudry.com

PHYLLIS CHESLER is a leading feminist icon, psychotherapist, lecturer, and activist. She has written extensively on critical women’s issues in countless publications and in sixteen book including the landmark bestsellers WOMEN AND MADNESS, WOMAN’S INHUMANITY TO WOMAN, and MOTHERS ON TRIAL, about the challenges women face in custody battles. In 2013, she published AN AMERICAN BRIDE IN KABUL about her marriage to an Afghan man.
www.phyllis-chesler.com

ROSE CIOTTA is an award-winning reporter who is currently the Education Editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her true crime, CRUEL GAMES, is about the murder of Ellen Robb, allegedly by Ellen’s husband, University of Pennsylvania professor Rafael Robb.

JENNIFER CLARK is currently the Italian Bureau Chief for Dow Jones & Co. Prior to working at Dow Jones, she has held positions at the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Variety. Her first book, MONDO AGNELLI, is about Italy’s turbulent years.

REBECCA CLARREN is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the rural West for twenty years. Her work has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship, nine grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, the John B. Oakes award and the Lange-Taylor Prize. Her debut novel, KICKDOWN (Sky Horse Press, 2018) was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her next book, AN AMERICAN INHERITANCE, is forthcoming from Viking Penguin Books. You can read more about her at www.rebecclarren.com.

JESSE COZEAN is an engineering consultant and a writer.  Over an eight-year career as a freelance engineer and technical writing consultant, Jesse has worked with more than ten different companies, managing research projects, designing experiments and clinical trials, analyzing experimental data, writing technical papers, and formulating submittals to regulatory agencies. His first book, MY GRANDFATHER’S WAR, is the intertwined narrative of his grandfather’s time in World War II and his battle to recover from heart surgery at an advanced age.

DANIEL COMBS is an award-winning author and international security professional who has lived and reported from Myanmar, Ethiopia, Vietnam, the Congo, and Israel. He is the former editor of the Asia Pacific Affairs Journal, and his writing and commentary have appeared in the Diplomat, Asia Times, Nowhere Magazine, on NPR, and others.  He now works as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. In a past life, he was a cook and restaurant reviewer. His book on Myanmar is forthcoming from Melville House.

TOM CONNOR is the author, with his life-long friend Jim Downey, of several hilarious parodies including the bestselling Martha Stuart series of humor titles such as MARTHA, REALLY AND CRUELLY: A COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY. With Paulo Vincente, he is also the author of THE LANGUAGE OF DOORS, a look at the architecture of entrances.

JESSAMYN CONRAD, who grew up in a family of politicians from both sides of the aisle, is the author of WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT POLITICS…BUT DON’T: A NONPARTISAN GUIDE TO THE ISSUES. She has a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia, an undergraduate degree in social anthropology and Islamic art history from Harvard, and an M. Phil in historical studies from Cambridge. She is a lecturer at the Cloisters Museum and currently at work on her second book.

PAMELA CONSTABLE is a Washington Post staff writer and the co-author, with Arturo Valenzuela, of the critically acclaimed A NATION OF ENEMIES: CHILE UNDER PINOCHET. She is also the author of FRAGMENTS OF GRACE, an account of her four years on assignment for the Post in South Asia. Her most recent book is PLAYING WITH FIRE: WHY PAKISTAN’S DEMOCRACY IS FALLING TO THE TALIBAN, a sweeping account of modern Pakistan, which examines the country’s social alienation, economic inequality, entrenched corruption and religious strife.

JOHN COSTON is a former News Editor at the Wall Street Journal and a veteran journalist. He is also the author of TO KILL AND KILL AGAIN and SLEEP, MY CHILD, FOREVER, the true-crime story of a mother’s unthinkable acts to collect life-insurance policies she’d taken out in her own children’s names.  He is currently at work on HOMESTRETCH, about the fundamental transformation that is taking place in long-term care models for America’s senior citizens.

ANNA-LISA COX, PH.D., is an historian and scholar in residence at Chicago's Newberry Library. Her first book, A STRONGER KINSHIP: ONE TOWN'S EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HOPE AND FAITH is the riveting, inspiring chronicle of a town Jim Crow forgot.
www.astrongerkinship.com

PATRICK CREED is an amateur historian, a volunteer firefighter, and a U.S. Army officer. When not serving in the Army, he works as a manufacturer's representative in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His first book is FIREFIGHT: INSIDE THE BATTLE TO SAVE THE PENTAGON ON 9/11, with Rick Newman.
www.firefightthebook.com

KIM CROSS is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. A full-time freelance writer, she has bylines in Nieman Storyboard, Outside, Bicycling, Garden & Gun, CNN.com, ESPN.com, and USA Today. Her work has been recognized in “Best of” lists by the the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sunday Longread, Longform, Apple News Audio, and Best American Sports Writing. Kim’s first book, WHAT STANDS IN A STORM chronicles the biggest tornado outbreak in history (Atria, 2011). It won the Fitzgerald Museum Literary Prize for Excellence in Writing and the American Society of Journalists and Authors nonfiction book award. A Barnes & Noble Discover pick, it was named one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2015 and was a finalist in the GoodReads Choice Awards. A starred review in Publisher’s Weekly noted that its “detail-oriented reporting anchors a novelist’s flair for drama.” It has been selected by two community-wide reading programs and is taught in high schools and colleges in at least four states. Kim coauthored THE STAHL HOUSE: CASE STUDY #22 - THE MAKING OF A MODERNIST ICON (Chronicle Chroma, November 2021), the official autobiography of the world-renowned architectural gem by the family that made it their home. A lifelong athlete, Kim has competed in at least ten sports, nationally or internationally in four: water skiing (first), sprint triathlon (fourth), off-road triathlon (eighth), and 24-hour adventure racing (not last). A certified mountain-bike coach, she is certifiably crazy about fly fishing, and lives in Idaho with her husband and son.

 KIERAN CROWLEY was an award-winning reporter for the New York Post whose investigative skills led to his deciphering of the Zodiac Killer’s secret code. His first book was SLEEP MY LITTLE DEAD: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ZODIAC KILLER. He is also the author of the true crime books BURNED ALIVE, THE SURGEON’S WIFE, and ALMOST PARADISE, about the murder of Ted Ammon. His most recent thriller is HACK, a Shepherd Novel. He is currently working on the follow-up, SMASH.

MARK CURRIDEN is Senior Communications Counsel at Vinson & Elkin LLP in Dallas, Texas and has served as a legal affairs writer for the Dallas Morning News. He co-authored two books, CAUSE OF DEATH and GRAVE SECRETS, with Dr. Cyril Wecht. His most recent title, written with Leroy Phillips, Jr., is CONTEMPT OF COURT: THE TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY LYNCHING THAT LAUNCHED 100 YEARS OF FEDERALISM, about how the first case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court was preempted by the brutal lynching of the black defendant.

ERICKA BLOUNT DANOIS has worked as staff writer, editor, freelancer, and stringer for a number of publications including: the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, ESPN The Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Heart and Soul, Uptown, The City Sun, The Press of Atlantic City, City Paper, Vibe, Wax Poetics, and The Source. Her first book is LOVE, PEACE, AND SOUL: BEHIND THE SCENES OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE DANCE SHOW SOUL TRAIN: CLASSIC MOMENTS. 

DAWN DAVIS is a graduate of Stanford University and a Techniques of Fine Cooking class at Peter Kump's Cooking School. She has written IF YOU CAN STAND THE HEAT, a collection of wonderful behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes about chefs and restaurant kitchens. She is currently an editor at Amistad Press, a division of HarperCollins.

MIRIAM DAVIS is currently researching and writing THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS, forthcoming from Chicago Review Press, which will be first-ever book on the notorious unsolved series of axe murders that rocked New Orleans during the early twentieth century.

KATE WINKLER DAWSON is a professor at University of Texas’ School of Journalism. She is a seasoned documentary producer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, WCBS News and ABC News Radio, Fox News Channel, United Press International, “PBS NewsHour” and “Nightline.” She is presently at work on her first book, DEATH IN THE AIR: The True Story of the Great Smog, a Serial Killer and the Strangling of a City, forthcoming from Hachette Books.

MICHAEL DAY is a London-born journalist with nearly twenty years of experience. He has held staff jobs at the Daily Express, Sunday Telegraph, and New Scientist magazine as News Analysis Editor. His work as appeared in Variety and the Wall Street Journal as well. Currently, Day resides in Italy where he is the Italy Correspondent for the Independent and is working on A BRIEF HISTORY OF GRIME, which will document the downfall of one of the western world’s most controversial leaders: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

JOHN DE GRAAF is an award-winning TV producer. With David Wann and Thomas Naylor, he is the author of AFFLUENZA: THE ALL-CONSUMING EPIDEMIC, which uses the metaphor of disease to tackle the very serious subject of the American obsession with material gain.

DR. JENNIE DEAR is a freelance writer in Durango, Colorado who has been published in The Atlantic and is the co-author of THE RESPONSIBLE JOURNALIST: AN INTRODUCTION TO NEWS REPORTING AND WRITING.  She's worked as both a print and a radio reporter.  As a professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, she taught news, writing and literature.

ALEX DEHGAN is the founder of Conservation X Labs. Previously, he served as Chief Scientist at USAID, the founder and country director for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s program in Afghanistan, and in the US State Department as Adviser to Ambassador Dennis Ross, on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, and most notably as the Special Advisor for Nonproliferation to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He was the director of the Ranomafana Forest Fragments project in Madagascar. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a law degree from the University of California.  His scientific work has won numerous awards and has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, Science Times, Fast Company, NPR among others. His first book, The Snow Leopard Project, was published by PublicAffairs/Hachette.  

MIKHAL DEKEL is a professor of English at CUNY and Director of the CUNY graduate program. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and a law degree from Tel Aviv University. In addition to her scholarly articles, her writing has appeared in Guernica Fiction, Calalloo and various anthologies, her book, TEHRAN CHILDREN: tracing the footsteps of Polish-Jewish children (including her own father) who found shelter in Muslim lands during the Holocaust, will be published by W.W. Norton.

SKIP DESJARDIN is a corporate Strategist who has pioneered digital content distribution strategies utilizing emerging technology that included web and mobile video, VOD and Interactive TV. He is the author of SEPTEMBER 1918: BOSTON IN WAR, PLAGUE AND THE WORLD SERIES.

DR. ROBIN DIANGELO is an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington. She has been a consultant, educator, and facilitator on issues of racial and social justice for more than twenty-five years. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including the number-one New York Times bestseller WHITE FRAGILITY. Her work has been praised by Ibram X. Kendi, Michael Eric Dyson, Claudia Rankine, and Jonathan Capehart, among others. She is also the author of 2021’s NICE RACISM: HOW PROGRESSIVE WHITE PEOPLE PERPETUATE RACIAL HARM. Most recently, she has worked with Amy Burtaine on THE FACILITATOR'S GUIDE FOR WHITE AFFINITY GROUPS: STRATEGIES FOR LEADING WHITE PEOPLE IN AN ANTI-RACIST PRACTICE, and with adaptors Toni Graves Williamson and Ali Michael on WHITE FRAGILITY (ADAPTED FOR YOUNG ADULTS). www.robindiangelo.com

ALIX DICK and ANTERO GARCIA. ALIX DICK is a filmmaker, storyteller, and immigrants' rights organizer. She is originally from Sinaloa, Mexico. ANTERO GARCIA is an associate professor at Stanford University, where he is recognized as one of the leading voices shaping the landscape of U.S. public education. Based on his ongoing research, publications, and public speaking, he is in the top 1% of all scholars influencing educational practice and policy. A former English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles, Garcia regularly delivers keynotes for teachers and other educational researchers and his op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post and Ed Week. Their book is forthcoming from Beacon Press.

RACHEL DICKINSON writes about science, nature, environmental issues, birds and birding, and travel from perpetually overcast central New York State. Past and present clients include The Atlantic, Audubon, National Geographic Traveler, Islands Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor and Yankee. She is the author of FALCONER ON THE EDGE: A MAN, HIS BIRDS, AND THE VANISHING LANDSCAPE OF THE AMERICAN WEST and THE RISE AND FALL OF THE RENO GANG.
www.racheldickinson.com

DIANE DIMOND is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and long-time syndicated columnist. Her expertise is reporting oftentimes complex crime and justice stories in an easy to understand narrative, presented on multiple platforms including television, radio and print. She may be best known for breaking the 1993 story of child molestation allegations against singer Michael Jackson, a subsequent similar case in 2003, and her coverage of Jackson’s 2005 criminal trial for Court TV. Her book BE CAREFUL WHO YOU LOVE: INSIDE THE MICHAEL JACKSON CASE was published in 2005 by Simon and Schuster/Atria. Dimond has dedicated years to investigating predatory guardianships nationwide and was the recipient of the Institute for American Studies' prestigious Clark Mollenhoff Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for her six-part newspaper series on court ordered abusive guardianships. Dimond has worked as an anchor or correspondent for National Public Radio, WCBS-TV, Hard Copy, Extra, NBC/Today Show, Entertainment Tonight and Investigation Discovery. See: www.DianeDimond.com

TINA DIRMANN is a former reporter for Us Weekly and staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Her first book is about a murder that mimicked an episode of TV’s The Sopranos titled SUCH GOOD BOYS: THE TRUE STORY OF A MOTHER, TWO SONS AND A HORRIFYING MURDER. Her latest true crime is VANISHED AT SEA, about a former child actor and his wife who plot to murder a retired couple in an effort to steal the 55-foot cabin cruiser the pair worked a lifetime to buy.

MICHAEL DOLAN works in both print and film, in addition to writing and producing documentaries for National Geographic TV and other clients. His first book is THE AMERICAN PORCH: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF AN INFORMAL PLACE, an architectural, cultural, and social history of that great institution.

JAM DONALDSON is a native of Washington, D.C., where she works as an attorney with the Legal Aid Society when she is not operating her successful, award-winning website, hotghettomess.com. Her first book is CONVERSATE IS NOT A WORD, a wakeup call to young black Americans. She was also an executive producer for the TV series We Got To Do Better for BET.

WAYNE DRASH is a staff writer and senior producer for CNN.com, where he was recognized as the second-best online writer in Americaby the National Headliner Awards in 2012. His first book, which grew out of an article he wrote on former NBA star Penny Hardaway coaching his middle-school basketball team, is ON THESE COURTS: A MIRACLE SEASON THAT CHANGED A CITY, A ONCE-FUTURE STAR, AND A TEAM FOREVER. 

ALLAN DUFFIN is a freelance writer, television producer and military veteran whose work has appeared in numerous publications. He has produced, written, and co-produced over 20 programs for The History Channel and Discovery Networks and is the author of THE “12 O’CLOCK HIGH” LOGBOOK: THE UNOFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE NOVEL, MOTION PICTURE, AND TV SERIES. His first book is HISTORY IN BLUE, which explores the history of female police officers in the United States.
www.aduffin.com
www.blog.aduffin.com

WILLIAM DUGGAN Ph.D. is an economist, novelist, strategy advisor, and management consultant. He is the author of two novels and a historical study of economic development in Africa, as well as NAPOLEON’S GLANCE; THE ART OF WHAT WORKS: HOW SUCCESS REALLY HAPPENS; STRATEGIC INTUITION; and THE AID TRAP: HARD TRUTHS ABOUT ENDING POVERTY with Glenn Hubbard, Dean of Columbia Business School. His most recent book is THE ART OF IDEAS: CREATIVE THINKING FOR WORK AND LIFE with Amy Murphy.

LAURA SOOK DUNCOMBE is a lawyer and author whose work has appeared on The Toast and Jezebel. Her first book is PIRATE WOMEN: THE PRINCESSESS, PROSTITUTES, AND PRIVATEERS WHO RULED THE SEVEN SEAS.

JENNIE DURANT, PHD, spent over a decade riding in trucks with beekeepers, peering into bee colonies, and getting stung in the face for her doctoral work at UC Berkeley and her postdoctoral fellowship at UC Davis. She’s one of a handful of social scientists who has intimately studied the US beekeeping industry—and likely the only one with an MFA in nonfiction writing. From 2021-2022, Jennie worked in high-level positions at the US Department of Agriculture on pollinator and climate policy as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She served as the Acting National Climate Hubs coordinator, where she helped manage USDA’s climate research. Her research on transitions to just and sustainable food systems and pollinator health has led to thirteen academic publications, with articles and op-eds published and syndicated in nearly one hundred outlets. She was featured in O Magazine as one of 80 “Women Rule!” participants, and was recognized by her alma mater, Saint Mary’s College of California, as one of their 40 most influential female graduates.  

The late BILL DWYER was a trial lawyer and a U.S. district court judge. He was also the author of IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE: THE TRIAL JURY'S ORIGINS, TRIUMPHS, TROUBLES, AND FUTURE IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY in which he argues that rather than being easily manipulated and unable to understand complicated cases, most juries have the ability to come to sound, well-reasoned decisions.

KIM EISLER is an award-winning journalist who specializes in legal reporting. He has worked for Time magazine, the Tampa Tribune, Los Angeles Daily Journal, and American Lawyer Magazine. As the National and Legal Affairs Editor for the Washingtonian, he covers stories about lawyers, lobbyists and politicians. He is the author of several books on legal subjects: SHARK TANK: GREED, POLITICS AND THE COLLAPSE OF FINLEY KUMBLE; A JUSTICE FOR ALL: WILLIAM BRENNAN AND THE DECISIONS THAT TRANSFORMED AMERICA; and REVENGE OF THE PEQUOTS. His latest is MASTERS OF THE GAME, about D.C. law firm giant Williams & Connolly.

WILLIAM ELLIS is the author of GLASS: FROM THE FIRST MIRROR TO FIBER OPTICS, THE STORY OF THE SUBSTANCE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, a narrative history of glass and glassworks. He was also a former assistant editor and senior writer for National Geographic for over 27 years.

MONA ELTAHAWY is an award-winning columnist and international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is based in Cairo and New York City.She is the author of "Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution," released April 2015, and is a contributor to the New York Times opinion pages. Her commentaries have appeared in many other publications and she is a regular guest analyst on various television and radio shows. new book FEMINISM IN 3D will be published by Beacon Press.

EDWARD Z. EPSTEIN has written biographies of Lana Turner, Clara Bow, and other Hollywood stars. He is currently at work on AUDREY AND BILL: A ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHY which focuses on the love affair of screen icons Audrey Hepburn and William Holden that started during the filming of Sabrina and marked their lives forever.

DAN FAGIN is a professor of journalism at New York University and one of the nation’s most prominent environmental reporters. He has worked for or contributed to publications including Newsday, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Mademoiselle, Nieman Reports, and Family Circle. He is the co-author with Marianne Lavelle of TOXIC DECEPTION. His latest is the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning TOMS RIVER, which intertwines the centuries-long scientific quest to link pollution and cancer, the compelling story of the Toms River, New Jersey, childhood cancer cluster, and exciting new research that is at last deciphering the intricate relationship between genetics, environmental pollution, and cancer. He is currently at work on THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE MONARCH, the story of the iconic monarch butterfly whose annual 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada has been a source of fascination to scientists and schoolchildren alike; intertwining history, science, culture and politics.

DIANE FANNING is a former writer of television and radio commercials. Her titles include THROUGH THE WINDOW; INTO THE WATER; WRITTEN IN BLOOD; GONE FOREVER; BABY BE MINE; UNDER THE KNIFE; THE PASTOR’S WIFE;OUT THERE; MOMMY’S LITTLE GIRL; A POISONED PASSION; HER DEADLY WEB; UNDER COVER OF THE NIGHT and the self-published BLACK WIDOW. As a novelist, Fanning is the author of the Lucinda Pierce mystery series and SCANDAL IN THE SECRET CITY, about one of the few female scientists of the Manhattan Project in America. She is currently working on its sequel, TREASON IN THE SECRET CITY.
www.dianefanning.com

EMILY FARRIS is a writer and host of the Mother Mother podcast and has had her work published in The Cut, Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Architectural Digest, ELLE Decor, BuzzFeed, Lifehacker, What’s Up Moms, Food52, The Daily Beast, and many more websites and publications you’ve actually heard of. Her first cookbook, CASSEROLE CRAZY was published in 2008, and she contributed to Charlotte Druckman’s Women on Food anthology (2021) and The Bust DIY Guide to Life (2011). Her latest book is I’LL JUST BE FIVE MORE MINUTES (AND OTHER TALES FROM MY ADHD BRAIN), a hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35. Emily lives in Kansas City, MO. thatemilyfarris.com

PRIYA FIELDING-SINGH, PhD is a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, where she teaches, researches, and writes about diet and health disparities. In addition to her scholarly work, she is a frequent op-ed writer. Her LA Times essay “Why do poor Americans eat so unhealthfully? Because junk food is the only indulgence they can afford.” http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-singh-food-deserts-nutritional-disparities-20180207-story.html attracted tremendous media attention, and her ground-breaking research has been widely covered by outlets ranging from CNN, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and Jezebel. You can read more about her at http://priyafs.com/ Her book, HOW THE OTHER HALF EATS will be published by the Spark imprint of Little, Brown.

RYAN FITZGIBBON is an artist and publisher, whose studio practice is currently supported by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. He founded Hello Mr. magazine in 2012, which is being memorialized in A GREAT GAY BOOK: Stories of Growth, Belonging, and Other Queer Possibilities, a gorgeously designed collection of art, essays, short fiction, poetry, interviews, profiles, and photography. In 2021, Ryan launched a marketplace for queer goods called HANK. Since moving to Tulsa in 2020, Ryan’s work has included supporting The Black Wall Street Times through the production of multiple print publications and a storefront in Greenwood, engaging in local activism through his platform In Our Blood, and as a volunteer for Tulsa Cares. He also served on the board of AIGA SF, has spoken at various conferences, judged competitions for Art Directors Club and D&AD, and in 2015 was named one of 30 “New Visual Artists under 30” by PRINT.

CARA FITZPATRICK has written about education for more than a decade, with a focus on segregation and inequality. As the lead education reporter on Failure Factories, an investigative project at the Tampa Bay Times, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, the George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, and the Fred M. Hechinger Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, among others. She is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Washington. She received the Spencer Education Reporting Fellowship from Columbia University. She is a visiting journalist at the Russell Sage Foundation and a 2019 national fellow at New America. She lives in New York City with her husband, an investigative reporter at the New York Times, and two children. Her book, The Death of Public School, is published by Basic Books.  

MICHAEL FLEEMAN is an editor for People magazine. He is the author of IF I DIE; THE STRANGER IN MY BED; OVER THE EDGE; LACI; DEADLY MISTRESS; THE OFFICER’S WIFE; KILLER BODIES; and SEDUCED BY EVIL, about Mechele Linehan, the stripper turned soccer mom who was sentenced to life in prison 13 years after the 1996 murder of Kent Leppink. His most recent book, LOVE YOU MADLY, is about the Rachelle Waterman murder. He is currently at work on CRAZY FOR YOU, a true crime book about the murder of Russell Sneiderman, who was gunned down by his own boss, the same man alleged to be his wife’s lover.

BRANDON P. FLEMING’s story of struggle, success, and service has inspired hundreds of thousands around the world. An at-risk youth and college dropout turned award-winning educator, Fleming is Assistant Debate Coach at Harvard University and Founder/CEO of the Harvard Diversity Project. Fleming recruits underserved youth with no prior debate experience whom he then trains to compete against hundreds of elite debaters from over 25 different countries around the world.  For three consecutive years, since the program’s inception in 2017, every cohort trained by Fleming has won the international competition, with one group achieving an unprecedented undefeated record as global champion. Fleming’s story, erudition, and achievements have enabled him to use his voice to inspire and impact lives in places ranging from federal prisons to Fortune 500 companies to the United Nations General Assembly.  At the age of 29, Fleming was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. His book, MISEDUCATED: A Memoir is published by Hachette Books.  

DAVID FLEMMING has been one of the industry’s most prolific, versatile, and imaginative longform writers for the last three decades at Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, and ESPN, traveling the globe while penning more than forty cover stories and numerous groundbreaking pieces on everything from the Super Bowl and Steph Curry to the Musical Chairs World Championship, hockey dentists, and the NFL’s obsession with glutes. He has reported in China, Switzerland, England, and Mexico and has covered twenty-five Super Bowls, the Olympics, and every major sporting event, including Lightsaber Dueling and Big Foot Calling. Along with the definitive profiles of Bill Belichick, Andy Reid, Michael Vick and many others, Fleming has produced countless innovative pieces on the cross-section of sports, history, science, sociology, and culture, including his award-winning piece on Life and Death at the Chicago Marathon and Reche Caldwell's journey from the Patriots to prison, which was the fifth most-read sports story on the Internet in 2014. Fleming’s unique work has earned numerous national awards and a hand-written note from the White House. He has appeared across all ESPN outlets, including SportsCenter, OTL, and E:60 and was a frequent guest, and host, of the ESPNDaily podcast. He has also appeared on HBO, CNN, FOX, Good Morning America, NPR, and Howard Stern. Fleming is the author of three books, Who's Your Founding Father? One Man's Epic Quest to Discover the First, True Declaration of Independence (Hachette, May 2023); Breaker Boys: The NFL’s Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship (Random House, 2008); and Noah's Rainbow: A Father’s Emotional Journey from the Death of his Son to the Birth of his Daughter (Baywood Publishing, 2007). A native of Detroit, Fleming attended Miami University where he was captain of the varsity D1 wrestling team. He and his wife, Kim, live in North Carolina with their daughters.

CLYDE FORD is an award-winning author of thirteen works of fiction and non-fiction, including the groundbreaking book on African mythology, THE HERO WITH AN AFRICAN FACE, the memoir, THINK BLACK, and the acclaimed history, OF BLOOD AND SWEAT: BLACK LIVES MATTER AND THE MAKING OF WHITE POWER AND WEALTH. Ford is a regular contributing op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and he has served as a speaking fellow for Humanities Washington, a National Endowment for the Humanities affiliate in Washington State.  Ford is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project at HarperCollins.

ERIC FRANCIS is a journalist from Vermont and the author of THE DARTMOUTH MURDERS; BROKEN VOWS; and A WIFE’S REVENGE: THE SUSAN WRIGHT CASE. His latest is TAKEN FROM HOME, about the trial of Michael Blagg.

DAVID FREELAND is the author of the books LADIES OF SOUL (University Press of Mississippi, 2001) and AUTOMATS, TAXIS, AND VAUDEVILLE: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure (NYU Press, 2009), selected as one of the Best Books of 2009 by Pop Matters.  He is the recipient of the Victorian Society’s Publication Award for Popular Culture and Entertainment.  Freeland’s reviews, essays and journalism have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, am New York, New York History, and other publications.  As a New York City expert and historian he appeared with Rashida Jones on the NBC TV series, Who Do You Think You Are, NYC-TV’s Secrets of New York, and PBS Thirteen’s City Concealed series, for which he narrated and hosted the short film, The Original Swing Street.  He holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University. 

THOMAS FRENCH is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the Riley Endowed Chair in Journalism at Indiana University. He is the author of Unanswered Cries, South of Heaven, and the New York Times bestseller Zoo Story.

LORI FRESHWATER is a poet, writer, and journalist working on a wide swath of environmental justice issues. She has an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing as well as an MA in Journalism with a concentration in health and science from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She is currently at work on her first book MARINE LIFE - HOW WAR TRANSFORMED AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENT: FROM FARMS AND FISHING TO TOXIC SOIL AND WATER about the long history of national security’s environmental costs.

S. MORGAN FRIEDMAN is a freelance writer, and his first book, with Michael Malice, is OVERHEARD IN NEW YORK, based on the popular website of the same name which marvels at the funny and surprising things overheard on the streets, buses, and subways of New York City. He and Michael are currently at work on two new titles, OVERHEARD IN THE OFFICE and OVERHEARD AT THE GAME.

AMANDA FROST is a professor of law at American University, where she writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law, immigration and citizenship law, federal courts and jurisdiction, and judicial ethics. Her articles have appeared in the Duke Law Journal, the Northwestern Law Review, the N.Y.U Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among others. Her op-eds and essays have been published in The Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today, and the L.A. Times, and she is a regular contributor to the SCOTUSblog. Before entering academia, Professor Frost clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and spent five years as a staff attorney at Public Citizen, where she litigated cases at all levels of the federal judicial system. She has also worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, served as Acting Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar studying transparency reform in the European Union. Her first book, UNMAKING AMERICANS:  A History of Citizenship Stripping in America is forthcoming from Beacon.

DON FULSOM is a veteran White House reporter and former UPI Washington bureau chief who has covered the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Johnson, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He is currently an adjunct professor at American University in Washington D.C., and offers the only course on the Watergate scandal at a major U.S. university. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, Regardie’s, and Crime Magazine. He has been a commentator on CNN, C-SPAN, Voice of America, Fox News Channel, and the BBC. He is the author of NIXON’S DARKEST SECRETS, a compendium of the ever-increasing details of Richard Nixon’s most notorious cons, capers, crimes, and cover-ups. His next book, also chronicling the Nixon presidency, is titled TREASON. 

NANCY FURSTINGER is the author of nearly 100 books, including many on her favorite topic: animals! She has been a feature writer for a daily newspaper, a managing editor of trade and consumer magazines, and an editor at two children’s book publishing houses. Recent titles include MERCY: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF HENRY BERGH, FOUNDER OF THE ASPCA and FRIEND TO ANIMALS and INSPIRING: TRUE STORIES OF AMAZING BIONIC ANIMALS.
www.nancyfurstinger.com

ALESSANDRA GALLONI is an international journalist who has been Reuters Global Editor since 2016. Alessandra started her career with Reuters in 1996, working as a reporter in Rome and London. In 2001, she joined The Wall Street Journal, where she worked as a foreign correspondent, business writer and editor across Europe and in New York, before returning to Reuters in 2013 as Southern Europe editor. Alessandra is the author of FROM THE END OF THE EARTH TO ROME, an e-book on Pope Francis. She is the recipient of several journalism awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award in the US and the UK Business Journalist of the Year Award. She is a graduate of Harvard University and holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. She is based in London with her husband and two children. 

BETH GARDINER is a London-based journalist covering the environment, climate and energy. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal and The Times (London), among others. For ten years, she covered politics, culture, breaking news and more as a reporter in the Associated Press's New York and London bureaus, traveling to the Middle East, China and India on reporting assignments. In 2005, she spent a month in Aceh and Jakarta, Indonesia, reporting on the aftermath of the Asian tsunami as part of an AP team honored with a National Headliner Award for its coverage of that disaster. She is the recipient of a Society of Environmental Journalists’ Fund for Environmental Journalism grant and is currently focused on air pollution’s impact on public health in countries from Poland and India to the United States and Britain. She is a fellow of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Her first book, CHOKED: LIFE AND BREATH IN THE AGE OF AIR POLLUTION was published by the University of Chicago Press and Granta Books in the UK.  Her second book, PLASTIC, INC.: Big Oil’s Big Bet, is forthcoming from Tarcher/Perigee.  

L.S. GARDINER (lsgardiner.com) is a scientist, educator, and award-winning writer. A certified Master Diver and a former NOAA Research Diver, she leads a group within the National Center for Atmospheric Research that develops museum exhibits, websites and curricula to help people learn about the science of our planet. She holds a PhD in Geology with a focus in Paleoecology from the University of Georgia, an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Goucher College, and a BA in Geology and Marine Science from Smith College. Her book, Fossil Islands: Wading into the Shallow End of Deep Time, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.  

GLENN GARVIN’s first book, EVERYBODY HAD HIS OWN GRINGO: THE CIA AND THE CONTRAS, received universal praise. He is also the co-author of DIARY OF A SURVIVOR, with Cuban exile Ana Rodriguez, about her 19 years in a Cuban women’s prison.

DR. ADAM GAZZALEY is an internationally renowned neuroscientist and the founder of The Gazzaley Lab. Dr. Gazzaley has authored over 90 scientific articles, delivered over 300 invited presentations around the world, and his research and perspectives have been consistently profiled in high-impact media, such as the New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, PBS, NPR, CNN and NBC Nightly News. He wrote and hosted the nationally televised, PBS-sponsored special “The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley”. Awards and honors for his research include the Pfizer/AFAR Innovations in Aging Award, the Ellison Foundation New Scholar Award in Aging, and the Harold Brenner Pepinsky Early Career Award in Neurobehavioral Science. He is now working, with Dr. Larry Rosen, on a book that will bridge the gap between the psychology and brain science of technology entitled THE DISTRACTED MIND.

MICHAEL GERHARDT lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he teaches, writes, and regularly does interviews with the national media on constitutional law and the presidency.   He is one of the leading constitutional scholars in the nation.  His specialties include civil rights, civil liberties, the legislative process, and separation of powers.  He has served as special counsel, public commentator, and expert witness on all the major constitutional conflicts between presidents and Congress over the past 25 years, and is the author of dozens of law review articles and five books.

JOSH GETLIN is the former New York bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and has covered national news, Congress and the White House, presidential campaigns, publishing, arts and entertainment, and local politics during a 30-year career at the newspaper. He is the author of DON’T PEE ON MY LEG AND TELL ME IT’S RAINING, with Judge Judy Sheindlin, and BEYOND THE KILLING FIELDS, a study of refugees on the Thai-Cambodian border. He is currently at work on OPEN YOUR GOLDEN GATE, about George Moscone and his role in making San Francisco the city it is today.

ROBERT GILHOOLY is a seasoned journalist whose work has been published in the New York Times, Time magazines, the Times of London, the UK Telegraph and New Scientist magazine. In 2010, he won awards in the DAYS International Photojournalism Awards for a photo story on suicide in Japan. He has contributed to many TV documentaries and books on Japan and the Japanese language. He is currently at work on THE NAIL THAT STICKS UP, about the dramatic events that unfolded in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami leading to the devastating nuclear meltdown in Japan’s Fukushima region.
www.japanphotojournalist.com

FATIMAH GILLIAM holds a JD from Columbia Law School, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from Wellesley College. She began her career as a corporate attorney on Wall Street, went on to work for Citigroup overseeing its campus diversity recruiting for all its U.S. businesses, and oversaw corporate partnerships as the Head of Finance and Fundraising for North America for the United Nations World Food Programme. Since founding The Azara Group, she has advised companies such as Aetna, JPMorgan Chase, among others. She is a seasoned, sought-after speaker. For further information about her visit: http://www.theazaragroup.com/about/our-team/fatimah-gilliam/ Her first book, RACE RULES, is published by Berrett Kohler.  

AARON GLANTZ is a reporter for the Pacifica Radio Network and many other media outlets. His is the author of the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller HOW AMERICA LOST IRAQ and THE WAR COMES HOME, about the treatment of returning Iraq War veterans.

JOHN GLATT is an investigative journalist with more than 30 years’ experience. A native of London, England, Glatt worked a variety of jobs including freelancing for many UK newspapers, such as the Sunday People and the Daily Mail. He is the author of over a dozen true crime books, including FOR I HAVE SINNED: TRUE STORIES OF CLERGY WHO KILL, EVIL TWINS, LOST AND FOUND, and PRINCE OF PARADISE. His latest is THE LOST GIRLS about three young women kidnapped and abused for over a decade in Ariel Castro’s Cleveland home, and LIVE AT THE FILLMORE, which tells the story of the Fillmore East and West through the interweaving lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick and Carlos Santana. He is currently at work on a new true crime about the Thomas Gilbert case.

TAEGAN GODDARD is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political blogs. He has served in government at the state and federal level, as policy advisor to Senator Donald Riegle and as a strategist in Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker's budget office. His first book, co-authored with Chris Riback, is YOU WON, NOW WHAT? : HOW AMERICANS CAN MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK FROM CITY HALL TO THE WHITE HOUSE, which suggests the way to governmental reform is not through fixing the system but by fixing the politicians.

The late LINDA GODFREY was an author and illustrator who compiled the Michigan and Wisconsin editions of the Weird USA series. Her other books included REAL WOLFMEN: TRUE ENCOUNTERS IN MODERN AMERICA, and AMERICAN MONSTERS.

PAM GODWIN began her career working in the non-profit sector. As a caseworker and migration specialist, she helped facilitate the resettlement of refugees entering the United States from the former Soviet Union and other countries who were faced with religious persecution. After getting her Master’s in Education and earning a certificate in literacy, Pam taught in the NYC Public School System for 10 years both as a classroom teacher and a literacy specialist. She is the co-author of 52 WEEKS, based on the popular blog of the same name.

MARCOS GONSALEZ is an essayist and assistant professor of English living in New York City. His memoir featuring literary criticism and cultural analysis, PEDRO’S THEORY, is a literary exploration of race, immigration, politics, sexuality, family, and masculinity through the lens of a first-generation gay man of color who is the son of an undocumented Mexican father and a Puerto Rican mother. Their essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Public Books, Inside Higher Education, Ploughshares, Catapult, ASAP/Journal, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere. They are currently at work on IN THEORY, DARLING, which looks to the work of theorist José Esteban Muñoz to find transcendence in queer of color life and imagine a more anti-racist and queer future. Their next work is REVOLTING INDOLENCE: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer/Trans/Latinx Cultural Production. marcosgonsalez.com

C.W. GOODYEAR is a bestselling author and historian based in the Washington, DC, area. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1993, but grew up abroad before graduating from Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic and TIME. His debut biography, PRESIDENT GARFIELD (Simon & Schuster 2023) was released to critical acclaim, receiving favorable reviews from outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Airmail, CNN, and CBS Sunday Morning. It debuted as a Publisher’s Weekly bestseller.

MURRAY GREENBERG is a former litigator and graduate of BrandeisUniversity, as well as ColumbiaUniversity’s Graduate School of Journalism. His work has appeared in The Forward, among others. His latest is PASSING GAME, about Benny Friedman, a Jewish pro football player in the 1920s and 1930s who is known for perfecting the sport’s forward pass. Friedman was also Brandeis’ first athletic director and only football coach and was recently posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame.

MICHAEL GREENBURG is a practicing attorney and former editor and member of the Pepperdine Law Review. He is the author of THE COURT-MARTIAL OF PAUL REVERE and THIS NOBLE WOMAN.

BILL GREER is a former travel writer and Internet entrepreneur, who founded the early web’s leading community for outdoor adventure. He has now turned his storytelling to his other passion, New York history.  His most recent book, A DIRTY YEAR: SEX, SUFFRAGE, AND SCANDAL IN GILDED AGE NEW YORK, is a nonfiction narrative of 1872 New York, a city teeming with social upheaval and sexual revolution.  His novel THE MEVROUW WHO SAVED MANHATTAN portrays the city’s founding as New Amsterdam. http://billsbrownstone.com/

RICHARD GROVES founded the Sacred Art of Living Center which offers spiritual programs and retreats focusing on action and contemplation. His first book, THE AMERICAN BOOK OF DYING combines his background in ministry, theology, and hospice care to guide those providing support for a dying loved one.

ALLAN C. GUELZO is the Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, where he serves as Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller GETTYSBURGH: THE LAST INVASION and the forthcoming GENTEEL REBEL, a biography of Robert E. Lee.

NICOLAS GUILHOT is a professor of intellectual history at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and research professor at the CNRS in Paris. He lived in New York for fifteen years and still spends part of his time there. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The London Review of Books blog, Jacobin, The New Left Review (Sidecar), The Point, The Boston Review, Il Manifesto, Il Sole24Ore. He has published academic books on international politics —most recently After the Enlightenment: Political Realism and International Relations in the mid-20th Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)—and a crossover book on the relationship between the world of finance and philanthropic foundations that went through two editions (Financiers, Philanthropes, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 2004). His Twitter profile is @GuilhotNicolas.

TOMAS GUILLEN, a professor of journalism and former investigative reporter, is the co-author, with Carlton Smith, of the bestselling THE SEARCH FOR THE GREEN RIVER KILLER. He is also the author of TOXIC LOVE: THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF TWISTED PASSION IN THE "MURDER BY CANCER" CASE.

MIKE GUNTER JR. is a Cornell Distinguished Professor in environmental politics and director of international affairs at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. A past Fulbright scholar, with research crossing all seven continents, his current project narrates climate threats unfolding within the United States while outlining an inspiring playbook for the next decade of climate activism. Gunter’s previous publications include two books, TALES OF AN ECOTOURIST: WHAT TRAVEL TO WILD PLACES CAN TEACH US ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE and BUILDING THE NEXT ARK: HOW NGOs WORK TO PROTECT BIODIVERSITY, as well as commentary with The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, and Inside Higher Ed.

BLYTHE GROSSBERG, Psy.D., is a learning specialist who has more than fifteen years of experience helping children and adults with ADHD and learning differences become more effective at school and at work. Dr. Grossberg is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and received her doctoral degree in psychology from Rutgers University. She has previously served as a learning specialist at several New York City and Boston-area private schools. She has published several books, including Asperger's Rules, Focused: ADHD & ADD Parenting Strategies for Children with Attention Deficit Disorder, and Making ADD Work: On-the-Job Strategies for Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder. Her new book, I LEFT MY HOMEWORK IN THE HAMPTONS, will be published by the Hanover Square imprint of HarperCollins.

JAMES A. GRYMES is an internationally respected musicologist and the critically acclaimed author of VIOLINS OF HOPE. He is a professor of musicology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

JOSEPH T. HALLINAN is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He has worked for a number of prominent publications and is currently a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. His first book, GOING UP THE RIVER: TRAVELS IN A PRISON NATION, offers an explosive and eye-opening account of the American prison system. His latest is WHY WE MAKE MISTAKES: HOW WE LOOK WITHOUT SEEING, FORGET THINGS IN SECONDS, AND ARE ALL PRETTY SURE WE ARE WAY ABOVE AVERAGE. He is currently at work on KIDDING OURSELVES, which takes a close look at our human penchant for self-deception.

ZAHRA HANKIR, journalist and author is a British-Lebanese graduate of the American University of Beirut and the Columbia Journalism School. She holds a master's degree in Middle East studies, and she spent ten years reporting on the Middle East for Bloomberg.  She is the editor of the anthology OUR WOMEN ON THE GROUND (Penguin Books) a first-of- its-kind collection of essays from Arab women journalists both celebrated and up and coming, who together weigh in on the wrenching, vital, perilous work of covering the conflicts that are remaking much of the Middle East and North Africa.  Her second book, EYELINER: A CULTURAL HISTORY, is published by Penguin in the US and Harvill Secker in the UK.  

BETH HARPAZ is an AP reporter and author of the critically-acclaimed THE GIRLS IN THE VAN, a behind-the-scenes look at Hillary Clinton's historic Senate run and FINDING ANNIE FARRELL, a memoir about growing up with an emotionally fragile mother. Her latest is 13 IS THE NEW 18, a humorous chronicle of a year in the author's life as the mother of a 13-year-old boy. www.13isthenew18.com

DAVID HEATH is a national investigative reporter at USA Today who is currently covering the COVID-19 pandemic. Heath has won more than two dozen national journalism awards, including Harvard's Goldsmith Prize, the Polk Award and the Casey Medal. His work was featured in the Netflix series Dirty Money for exposing a fraudulent payday lending business. He has written, reported, or produced stories for CNN, PBS Frontline, PBS NewsHour, the CBS Evening News, The Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Vice News, Mother Jones, the HuffingtonPost, and Scientific American. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times, for work he did with others. He was also an Emmy Award nominee for his work with Frontline on corporate dentistry.

JOHN HEMINGWAY is a writer and translator who lives with his wife and two children just outside of Milan. He is the author of the memoir STRANGE TRIBE about his father Gregory's relationship with his own father, Ernest Hemingway, and about growing up the son of a schizophrenic mother and a father who was the family "black sheep."

TOM HENDERSON is an award-winning reporter whose book A DEADLY AFFAIR chronicles the Detroit “Love Triangle Murder” case. He is also the author of BLOOD JUSTICE, about convicted serial killer Jeffrey Gorton; DARKER THAN NIGHT; about the 1985 murder of two hunters in rural Michigan; and AFRAID OF THE DARK, about the murder of Florence Unger by her husband Mark in October, 2003. His most recent is BLOOD IN THE SNOW, about the murder of Tara Grant, allegedly by her husband, stay-at-home dad Stephen Grant. He is currently at work on a book about the 1979 murder of Janet Chandler.

SUSAN TYLER HITCHCOCK is the author of GATHER YE WILD THINGS; WILDFLOWERS ON THE WINDOWSILL; and COMING ABOUT: A FAMILY PASSAGE AT SEA. Another of her titles is MAD MARY LAMB: LUNACY AND MURDER IN LITERARY LONDON. Her latest is FRANKENSTEIN: A CULTURAL HISTORY.
www.susantylerhitchcock.com

BRYCE HOFFMAN is a veteran business journalist with the Detroit News and has covered the Ford Motor Company exclusively for the paper since 2005. His coverage of Ford has won numerous awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Associated Press. He has been a finalist numerous times for the Gerald Loeb Award and has been a frequent guest on local, national, and international television and radio shows. He is the author of AMERICAN ICON: THE FALL AND RISE OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY, which chronicles how the company stepped away from the brink of bankruptcy to stage the greatest turnaround in modern business history.

ROBERT HOFLER is a former writer and editor for such publications as Variety and Life Magazine. He has chronicled hidden Hollywood history in such books as THE MAN WHO INVENTED ROCK HUDSON and PARTY ANIMALS. His SEXPLOSION covered the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s as seen through the lens of that era’s popular culture (“The Last Tango in Paris,” “Hair,” “Midnight Cowboy,” etc.). His next book, NOT PURELY COINCIDENTAL: MANHATTAN MONEY, HOLLYWOOD MURDERS, AND THE LIFE OF DOMINICK DUNNE, will be published in 2017 by University of Wisconsin Press.

AMBER HUNT is a seasoned journalist who works as an investigative reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Her book THE KENNEDY WIVES: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY IN AMERICA'S MOST PUBLIC FAMIL, co-written with David Batcher, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Hunt has received numerous awards for her reporting from the Michigan Associated Press and won the 2005 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. She has appeared in several television shows highlighting true crimes, including Dateline NBC and A&E’s Crime Stories. She is the author of DEAD BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, about the murder of Barbara George, for which her husband, Michael George, was found guilty, as well as ALL-AMERICAN MURDER, about the case of Yeardley Love, the young University of Virginia lacrosse player who was allegedly murdered by her one-time boyfriend George Huguely. Her third true crime book, SEE HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME, told the story of Tyler Hadley, a Florida teenager accused of killing his parents with a hammer and then hosting a house party afterward. She's currently working on a fiction offering before tackling her fifth non-fiction.

MARY ELLEN ISKENDERIAN is President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, the global nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women access to the financial tools and resources they require to achieve security and prosperity. Ms. Iskenderian joined Women’s World Banking in 2006 and leads the Women’s World Banking global team, based in New York and also serves as a member of the Investment Committee of its $50 million impact investment fund. Prior to Women’s World Banking, Ms. Iskenderian worked for 17 years at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. Before, she worked for the investment bank Lehman Brothers. Ms. Iskenderian is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a member of the Women’s Forum of New York and the Business and Sustainable Development Commission.  Ms. Iskenderian holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Her first book, THERE'S NOTHING MICRO ABOUT A BILLION WOMEN, will be published by the MIT Press.

ASHWANTA JACKSON  is a freelance writer, editor and record collector. She is the author of SOUL FOLK, A 33 1/3rd BOOK and MOVE ON UP: HOW BLACK-OWNED RECORD LABELS SHAPED THE SOUNDS OF AMERICAN MUSIC. Ashawnta lives and works in Brooklyn, and you can learn more about her at: https://www.heyjackson.net/. 

KATHI JACKSON is a native Texan who has had articles and essays published in Navy Medicine, the Seattle Times, the Denver Post, and Everett's the Herald. Her first book, THEY CALLED THEM ANGELS, tells the heroic stories of American military nurses during World War II.

STEVE JACOBSON started his career at Newsday in 1960 and wrote a sports column from 1979 until his retirement in 2004. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, he is the author of THE BEST TEAM MONEY COULD BUY and THE PITCHING STAFF. His latest project is CARRYING JACKIE’S TORCH, about Jackie Robinson’s effect on baseball and the plight of black baseball players from 1947 to the mid-1960s.

ANNE JAMISON is a professor of English at the University of Utah. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton. She is the author of POETICS EN PASSANT, FIC, and a variety of essays and articles. Her work on fanfiction has been quoted in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, and Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch. She is currently at work on a memoir.

JOHN JANOVY, JR., is a Varner professor of Biology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, director of the Cedar Point Biological Station, and the author of the naturalist classics KEITH COUNTY JOURNAL and YELLOWLEGS. His other titles include DUNWOODY POND; 10-MINUTE ECOLOGIST; TEACHING IN EDEN: LESSONS FROM CEDAR POINT; and ON BECOMING A BIOLOGIST, a revised edition of which was recently published.

JOHN A. JENKINS is the President and Publisher Emeritus of CQ Press, the leading publisher of books on American politics and government. He is the author of THE LITIGATORS: INSIDE THE POWERFUL WORLD OF AMERICA’S HIGH-STAKES TRIAL LAWYERS; LADIES’ MAN: THE LIFE AND TRIALS OF MARVIN MITCHELSON; THE PARTISAN: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM REHNQUIST, the definitive biography of one of the most influential chief justices in American history; and numerous cover stories for The New York Times Magazine. Forthcoming book: SUMMER OF ’71: FIVE MONTHS THAT CHANGED AMERICA. www.johnajenkins.com.

E. DOLORES JOHNSON holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Howard University.  Johnson completed the one-year Memoir Incubator program at GrubStreet in Boston and studied creative writing at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism and elsewhere. She has been awarded writing residencies at Djerassi, Blue Mountain Center, Ragdale, and the VCCA. Johnson attended summer writing conferences at Bread Loaf, Voices of Our Nation and Tin House. She has consulted on diversity for think tanks, universities, major corporations and nonprofits and served as a panelist for the Harvard Faculty Seminar on Inter-racialism. Johnson is a former Fortune 500 marketing vice president, who later oversaw the digitization of John F. Kennedy’s presidential papers. Her debut book, SAY I’M DEAD: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets and Love was published by Chicago Review Press’s Lawrence Hill imprint. 

THOMAS HENRY JONES has written FEAR NO EVIL, a riveting account of a barbaric and inexplicable murder, committed by likable local kids in Huntington, Indiana, in 1989.

TIMOTHY JORGENSEN, Ph.D, MPH, is a molecular radiation biologist who is interested in risk assessment of environmentally induced human cancer, from both chemicals and radiation. He is particularly concerned with human subpopulations that are genetically predisposed to very high cancer risk. He works at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University and is a member of the Lombardi Cancer Genetics and Epidemiology Program. He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences, and a Certificate in Risk Science from the Johns Hopkins Risk Science and Public Policy Institute.  He is the author of the award-winning book, STRANGE GLOW: THE STORY OF RADIATION.

IEVA JUSIONYTE is a political scientist and journalist turned anthropologist who has studied and written about violence for over fifteen years, pursuing it across disciplines and continents, from Eastern Europe to the borderlands of the Americas. Growing up in Lithuania under the Russian occupation, she witnessed state repression up close, watching tanks pass in front her family's house, and never took for granted the categories by which we understand violence, separating legitimate force from crime. Violence is made, politically and materially, and Dr. Jusionyte has devoted her to career understanding how. She is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University and was just awarded a 2022-2023 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship in order to continue work on this project. She is the author of two award-winning scholarly books, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, the BBC and NPR. She is the author of two books and is working on a third, EXIT WOUNDS, forthcoming from the University of California Press.

HAWON JUNG is a journalist and former Seoul correspondent for the AFP news agency with more than a decade of experience writing about the two Koreas. She covered the 2011 death of then-North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, the rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-Un, the junior Kim's first summit with Donald Trump, South Korea's historic presidential impeachment, and K-pop's rise on the world stage. Her first book is FLOWERS OF FIRE, a chronicle of South Korea's #MeToo campaign and the powerful feminist movement that made it a rare success story of #MeToo in Asia.

As a political scientist and journalist turned anthropologist, IEVA JUSIONYTE has studied and written about violence for over fifteen years, pursuing it across disciplines and continents, from Eastern Europe to the borderlands of the Americas. Growing up in Lithuania under the Russian occupation, she witnessed state repression up close, watching tanks pass in front her family's house, and never took for granted the categories by which we understand violence, separating legitimate force from crime. Violence is committed, politically and materially, and Dr. Jusionyte has devoted her career to understanding how. She is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University and was just awarded a 2022-2023 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship in order to continue work on this project. She is the author of two award-winning scholarly books, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, the BBC and NPR. She is the author of two books and is working on a third, EXIT WOUNDS, published by the University of California Press.  

BORIS KACHKA is a contributing editor for New York magazine, where he covers books and theater. He is the book critic for Russia! Magazine and writes the popular series “Etiquette 101” for Condé Nast Traveler. His work has also appeared in Salon, Venus, and Lingua Franca. He is currently at work on HOTHOUSE, the story of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of the country's last great independent publishing houses.

ROBERT BLAIR KAISER is the author of 10 books, including CLERICAL ERROR, and the bestsellers POPE, COUNCIL AND WORLD; R.F.K. MUST DIE; and MELVIN BELLI: MY LIFE ON TRIAL. His most recent book is A CHURCH IN SEARCH OF ITSELF: BENEDICT XVI AND THE BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE, about the changes facing the Catholic Church after the death of Pope John Paul II.

MICHAEL KANAAN is lead Officer of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the U.S. Air Force Intelligence Enterprise and the Co-Chair of Artificial Intelligence for the larger U.S. Air Force overall. In those capacities, he guides the research, development, and implementation strategies for AI technology and machine learning activities across Air Force global operations. He was named to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and is a recipient of the prestigious 2018 General Larry O. Spencer Award for Innovation and the U.S. Government's 68th Arthur S. Flemming Award for Leadership and Management. His first book is T-MINUS AI: HUMANITY’S COUNTDOWN TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE NEW PURSUIT OF GLOBAL POWER.

MICHAEL KANE is a features writer at the New York Post, where he pens the weekly humor column “Male Room.” Thus far his greatest contribution to tabloid journalism is giving Arnold Schwarzenegger the title "Governator." Previously, he wrote for the Denver Post and ESPN The Magazine. His first book is GAME BOYS, in which he follows several of the best teams of competitive video gamers through a dramatic year of tournaments.

K. ULLAS KARANTH is emeritus director at the Centre for Wildlife Studies in India. In a professional career spanning over fifty years, he has actively engaged in adventurous research to reveal the secretive world of India’s tigers. At the same time, he engaged in aggressive advocacy to bring back tigers and other endangered species from the brink of extinction. He has published over a dozen books and 150 articles addressing critical issues in recovering threatened wildlife species in our rapidly changing world. His book AMONG TIGERS is forthcoming from Chicago Review Press in 2021.

CHAVI EVE KARKOWSKY, M.D. is Medical Director, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health at Montefiore Medical Group-Comprehensive Family Care Center and Assistant Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is a specialist in high-risk obstetrics and also writes extensively about medical issues during pregnancy.  Her essays have appeared in Slate, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Huffington Post and US News and World Reports, among others.  Her first book, which is forthcoming from the Liveright imprint of W.W. Norton, blends personal narrative and analysis to examine the disastrous marginalization of women’s reproductive health.

DORKA KEEHN is a journalist, Emmy-award winning documentary producer, political activist and former host of the influential San Francisco radio show Keehn on Art. Her first book, Eco-Amazons: Twenty Women Who Are Saving the Planet is a collaboration with award-winning photojournalist Colin Finlay, whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, TIME, U.S. News and World Report.

MARYANN KELLER is the author of COLLISION, a book about the three most powerful global car makers. An internationally renowned automotive industry analyst, she is also the author of RUDE AWAKENING: THE RISE, FALL AND STRUGGLE FOR RECOVERY OF GENERAL MOTORS.

JOHN H. KENNEDY is a longtime journalist who has worked as a reporter for The Associated Press, Time magazine and the Boston Globe, where he covered legal issues for nearly a decade. For the past 25 years, he has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from mass media to advanced reporting, and has launched communication programs at colleges in Switzerland and the U.S. He is the author of A COURSE OF THEIR OWN: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN GOLFERS.

LOU KILZER, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and journalist with the Rocky Mountain News, is the author of CHURCHILL'S DECEPTION: THE DARK SECRET THAT DESTROYED NAZI GERMANY and HITLER'S TRAITOR: MARTIN BORMANN AND THE DEFEAT OF THE REICH.

The late JEANNE KING, a journalist for Reuters since 1980, won the Newswomen’s Club Deadline Award in 1994 for her breaking exclusive story on the defendant in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing who testified for the government. She is the author of DEAD END, a true crime book on the murder trial of Sante and Kenny Kimes, which was adapted for the Lifetime TV movie A Little Thing Called Murder. She is also the author of NEVER SEEN AGAIN about Perry March’s murder of his wife Janet in 1996 and her latest, SIGNED IN BLOOD, on Olga Rutterschmidt, 73, and Helen Golay, 75, charged for murder and conspiracy for allegedly killing two homeless men.

MARVIN KITMAN, a well-known syndicated columnist, is the author of THE MAKING OF THE PREFIDENT 1789, a tongue-in-cheek look at the first president's campaign strategy, and GEORGE WASHINGTON'S EXPENSE ACCOUNT, which uses a great deal of original source material and illuminates the creative accounting practices used during George Washington's presidency.

JEFF KOSSEFF is a cybersecurity law professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. His most recent book, LIAR IN A CROWDED THEATER, explains why the First Amendment protects a great deal of false speech. He also is the author of THE TWENTY-SIX WORDS THAT CREATED THE INTERNET, a history of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and THE UNITED STATES OF ANONYMOUS, which examines the right to anonymous speech. Jeff is a former newspaper journalist, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting, and recipient of the George Polk Award.

TOM KRATTENMAKER writes for USA Today's "On Religion" commentary page and is a member of the newspaper's editorial Board of Contributors. His work has also appeared in Salon, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and numerous other publications. He is currently at work on ONWARD CHRISTIAN ATHLETES, about the role of Christianity in professional sports.

MICHAEL KRIEGER is the author of three books and numerous articles, all concerned with ships and the sea. His latest is ALL THE MEN IN THE SEA, the true story of one of the greatest sea rescues in modern history, which has been optioned for film by 20th Century Fox Television.

LISA KRÖGER is a Stoker- and Locus-award-winning author of MONSTER, SHE WROTE, as well as co-host of the Know Fear and Monster, She Wrote podcasts. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in LOST HIGHWAYS: DARK FICTIONS FROM THE ROAD, ECOGOTHIC, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE VAMPIRE, and HORROR LITERATURE THROUGH HISTORY. Her essay collections include SHIRLEY JACKSON: INFLUENCES AND CONFLUENCES and SPECTRAL IDENTITIES: THE GHOSTED AND THE GHOSTLY IN FILM AND LITERATURE. She’s an active member of the Horror Writer's Association and the NYX Horror Collective, a group focused on women-created genre content for film, television, and new media. Her upcoming book is TOIL AND TROUBLE: A WOMEN’S HISTORY OF THE OCCULT. www.lisakroger.com. 

MICHAEL KRONDL is a food writer, culinary historian, and artist. He teaches cooking at The New School and writes on food and travel for New York Newsday. He has translated Alain Senderen’s FIGUES SANS BARBARIE, authored AROUND THE AMERICAN TABLE and THE GREAT LITTLE PUMPKIN BOOK, and contributed to ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD AND DRINK. He is the author of THE TASTE OF CONQUEST, and his latest, SWEET INVENTION, a social, cultural, and culinary history of dessert. He is currently at work on DONUTS: A HISTORY OF HUMANITY’S GREATEST INVENTION.
www.spicehistory.net

PRIYANKA KUMAR is a filmmaker and the author of CONVERSATIONS WITH BIRDS, which was widely praised as a landmark book and a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal for a distinguished book of nature writing that combines scientific accuracy, firsthand fieldwork, and excellent natural history writing, and a 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist for a book that makes a significant contribution to our literary culture. The book is the inspiration behind a new documentary series, “Wonder,” in which Kumar is featured. An acclaimed naturalist who has been compared to Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold, Kumar has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor’s Award, an Aldo Leopold residency, a Canada Council for the Arts Grant, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship. Kumar holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and is an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She wrote, directed, and produced the feature documentary, THE SONG OF THE LITTLE ROAD, starring Martin Scorsese and Ravi Shankar—which premiered at Telluride and is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Kumar taught at the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Southern California and serves on the Advisory Council of the Leopold Writing Program. 

FRED "CHICO" LAGER is a member of the board of directors of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. He is the author of BEN & JERRY'S: THE INSIDE SCOOP, a first-hand account of the development of the multi-million dollar company.

JAMES M LANG Ph.D. was the founding director of the Assumption University Center for Teaching Excellence and a tenured full professor of English until August of 2021, when he stepped away from these full-time roles to concentrate more fully on his writing and teaching. He is currently serving as the President’s Innovation Fellow at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL for the 2021-2022 academic year.  He continues to teach writing and literature courses at Assumption University. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which are Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It (Basic Books, 2020), Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2016) and Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty (Harvard University Press, 2013), and On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching (Harvard UP, 2008). His most successful book, Small Teaching, has become the lead title in a successful series of co-authored books based on the small teaching approach.  

DOUG LANSKY is travel writer, blogger and author of the books LAST TROUT IN VENICE, THERE’S NO TOILET PAPER ON THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED, FIRST-TIME AROUND THE WORLD, THE TITANIC AWARDS, FIRST-TIME EUROPE, and THE ROUGH GUIDE TO TRAVEL SURVIVAL. Doug is best known for his popular Signspotting series, a collection of funny signage from around the world based on the website of the same name. Doug most currently published his book about tacky souvenirs, CRAP SOUVENIRS.
douglansky.com

French by birth, but educated in the United States, ALEXANDRA LAPIERRE is a graduate of the Sorbonne and the University of Southern California. Novelist and biographer, she is the author of many international bestsellers. She was elected “Donna per la Cultura,” by the City of Rome, Italy, and awarded the prestigious “Grand Prix des Lectrices de ELLE” for her biography Fanny Stevenson, wife of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Her novel Artemisia on the first Italian woman painter from the Renaissance, Artemisia Gentileschi, was voted “Book of the Week” by the British BBC and “Best Book on the Seventeenth Century” by the Sorbonne University. Tout l’Honneur des Hommes, on the adventures of a Chechyan prince in Imperial Russia, was been awarded the “Prix des Romancières”, and the English translation is forthcoming from Amazon Crossing. Alexandra Lapierre has been nominated Chevalier in the “Order of Arts and Letters” by the French government.

DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE is a world renowned humanitarian and the New York Times bestselling author of THE CITY OF JOY. He is the co-author of IS PARIS BURNING?; O JERUSALEM; and the FIFTH HORSEMAN, and has pioneered the work of narrative history. His books, each an international bestseller, have been read by more than ten million people around the world. His most recent work is the A RAINBOW IN THE NIGHT: THE TUMULTUOUS BIRTH OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Freelance journalist BILL LASCHER, author of the forthcoming ADANGERSHARED, is a graduate of Oberlin College. He studied creative nonfiction at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, earned a master's degree in specialized journalism from the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication, andis a Knight Digital Media and Convergence Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and on public radio.  You can read more about him and this project at www.lascheratlarge.com.

SCOTT LATTA is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, where he writes about truffle hunting and militia occupations and running from tornadoes. He’s reported from places like Lebanon, Jordan, Niger, and Indonesia for international NGOs; other work has been published by places like The Believer, CityLab, Modern Farmer, and The Awl. His book about the political and sociological impact of American megachurches will publish with Chicago Review Press in 2025. Find him on Twitter @swlatta and at www.scottlatta.com

PENNY LE COUTEUR and Jay Burreson are the authors of NAPOLEON'S BUTTONS, a book about the role of chemistry in human history. In it they explain how often small, seemingly insignificant molecules have changed the course of world events. Penny has been with Capilano College in British Columbia for over thirty years and is now the Dean of Arts and Sciences.

BARRY LEVENSON is a former Assistant Attorney General for the state of Wisconsin and founder and curator of the National Mustard Museum in Middleton, Wisconsin. His first book was HABEAS CODFISH, a humorous account of the many strange, funny, scary, and frustrating intersections between food and the law. His latest is THE SEVENTH GAME: THE 35 WORLD SERIES THAT HAVE GONE THE DISTANCE, about great Game Sevens in baseball history.
www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3407.htm

JUDITH LEVENTHAL, MSW, has been a psychotherapist in private practice as well as a lecturer and public speaker. She is the co-author, with Yitta Halberstam, of the bestselling Small Miracles series. Their latest in the series is SMALL MIRACLES OF THE HOLOCAUST. Judith is married and the mother of three girls.

DAVE LEVITAN is the author of NOT A SCIENTIST: HOW POLICITICANS MISTAKE, MISREPRESENT, AND UTTERLY MANGLE SCIENCE. He is a science writer and journalist whose work has appeared in a wide variety of print and online publications, including Scientific American, Discover, Guardian, Mother Jones, Philadelphia Inquirer, Reuters Health, and many other outlets. He lives near Philadelphia with his wife.

BILL LIEDERMAN is the founder of the New YorkRestaurantSchool, as well as Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant in New York City. He was the co-host of The Stadium Sports Show on WFAS radio with Maury Allen. Together, they wrote OUR MICKEY: CHERISHED MEMORIES OF AN AMERICAN ICON. His latest book is MICKEY MANTLE’S: BEHIND THE SCENES IN AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS SPORTS BAR.

DAVID LIFTON is the author of BEST EVIDENCE: DISGUISE AND DECEPTION IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY. He is also the author of FINAL CHARADE, which presents a unique and controversial view of that assassination.

JENNIFER LIN is an award-wining reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer. In a distinguished thirty year career, she has served as that paper’s New York bureau chief, Washington correspondent, and the Asia correspondent, based in China. She is the co-author of SOLE SISTERS (Running Press) and the author of the forthcoming SHANGHAI FAITHFUL:  A FAMILY STORY OF BETRAYAL, FORGIVENESS, AND SURVIVAL.

PAUL R. LINDE, M.D. is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSF School of Medicine and nonfiction author of DANGER TO SELF: ON THE FRONT LINE WITH AN ER PSYCHIATRIST and OF SPIRITS AND MADNESS: AN AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST IN AFRICA. He has worked in the psych ER at San Francisco General Hospital for nearly 20 years. Linde is also Medical Director of The Stonewall Project, an outpatient clinic working with gay men who use crystal meth. He is currently at work on his next book, entitled WHEN QUEER WAS CRAZY, about the colorful history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
www.paullinde.com

Dr. JAMES LINDSAY holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and is the author of four books—the two most recent are EVERYBODY IS WRONG ABOUT GOD (Pitchstone, 2015) and LIFE IN LIGHT OF DEATH (Pitchstone, 2016). Both apply the insights of moral and religious psychology to philosophical questions about life, death, and religion. His published essays have appeared in Scientific American, Time, and The Philosophers’ Magazine. In 2017 he became a visiting scholar in Portland State University’s department of philosophy.

MARDI LINK is an investigative reporter and the author of the historic true crime books, WHEN EVIL CAME TO GOOD HART, ISADORE’S SECRET, and the New York Times bestseller, WICKED TAKES THE WITNESS STAND. A 2023 finalist for the Scripps-Howard First Amendment Award, LINK’s reporting was cited by the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol building. She is a two-time winner of the Michigan Notable Book Award from the Library of Michigan and her memoir, BOOTSTRAPPER, won the Elle Reader’s Prize and the Bookseller’s Choice Award from the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. She writes a column for her hometown newspaper, the Traverse City Record-Eagle, which the Michigan Press Association twice awarded column of the year. She lives in northern Michigan.   

BETH LINKER is the Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science, where her work engages the history of science and medicine, disability, healthy policy, and gender. She is the author of War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War America (Chicago, 2011) which went on to be featured in a Ric Burns documentary titled A Debt of Honor in 2015. Linker is also the co-editor of Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging (Penn Press, 2014). Her award-winning scholarship has also appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, The American Journal of Public Health, and most recently The New Yorker: “Is the Pandemic Breaking Our Backs?” Her second book, SLOUCH: Fearing the Disabled Body is published by Princeton University Press. You can read more about her at www.bethlinker.com.  

AVI LOEB is the internationally bestselling author of EXTRATERRESTRIAL: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (which appeared on bestseller lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 7 other books and more than 800 papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, and the future of the Universe. He was the longest-serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011-2020), Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative, and is Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Loeb is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Loeb is also a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies and a current member of the Advisory Board for “Einstein: Visualize the Impossible” of the Hebrew University. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2012, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space. Visit his site for more information: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/

ELIZABETH LOFTUS is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the University of California, Irving, and an expert researcher on the intricacies of human memory. She is also the author of THE MYTH OF REPRESSED MEMORY: FALSE MEMORIES AND ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE which argues that in many cases, people are prompted by their psychotherapists to create false memories of nonexistent abuse.

LINDA LOMBARDI gave up a position as a tenured college professor to take a zookeeping job. Formerly the pets and animals columnist for the Associated Press, she has spent most of her life either slaving over animals or writing about how great they are. The book ANIMALS BEHAVING BADLY is her revenge. She is currently working with Deirdre Franklin on a book about pitbulls, the most misunderstood dog breed.

MEG LOWMAN, called the “real life Lorax” by National Geographic and the “Einstein of the treetops” by the Wall Street Journal, is an author, explorer, scientist, arbornaut, mom, and change-agent for conservation. As a child, she built tree-forts and collected wild flowers. In her adulthood, she has devoted over three decades to exploration and research on forest canopies, as one of the first pioneers in the field of treetop science. She has published 8 books and over 140 peer-reviewed publications. Lowman has a BA in Biology, MSc in Ecology, PhD in Botany, and Executive Management certificate from Tuck School of Business. She has received myriad prizes including the Margaret Douglas Medal by the Garden Club of America, Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer Award, Kilby Laureate, Odum Award for Excellence in Education, and Lowell Thomas Medal by the Explorers Club. CanopyMeg was the founding director of the Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina; Executive Director of Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida; and inaugural Chief of Science and Sustainability at California Academy of Sciences. Her mantra is, “no child left indoors,” and she brings Oreo cookies on all her tree-climbing expeditions. Her book THE ARBORNAUT will be published by FSG.

AMY S.F. LUTZ is a historian of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on the history and ethics of autism and intellectual/developmental disability policy and practice. Her writing has appeared on many platforms, including The Atlantic, Slate, Psychology Today, and The American Journal of Bioethics. Her first book, Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children, was published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2014, and her second, a collection of essays called We Walk: Life with Severe Autism was which the New York Times called "both heartwarming and cerebral" was published by Cornell University Press. She is a founding board member and Vice-President of the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA) holds a doctorate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her latest book, CHASING THE INTACT MIND: How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled were Excluded from the Debates that Affect Them Most is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. 

JESSICA MACHADO is a journalist and editor, formerly at Rolling Stone and now at Vox, overseeing their identities section and first-person narratives. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Elle, Buzzfeed, Vice, Salon, Jezebel, The Cut, Bitch, Guernica, and Pank.  She is currently at work on her first book, LOCAL, which weaves a cultural history of Hawaii through a memoir about a young woman who ran away from her Honolulu home only to find that her disconnection and her dying mother would follow her.

TAMMY MAL is the only journalist to whom Patricia Rorrer has granted interviews. She has written countless articles for local newspapers and has appeared on Investigation Discovery’s Murder in Lehigh Valley: Keith Morrison Investigates, which chronicles the Patricia Rorrer story. Mal is the author of CONVENIENT SUSPECT: A DOUBLE MURDER, A FLAWED INVESTIGATION, AND THE RAILROADING OF AN INNOCENT WOMAN.

ALAN MANNING is an independent historian and teacher and the author of FATHER LINCOLN. Manning received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, an M.A. in History from the University of West Florida, and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He practiced law for over 25 years at international and regional law firms before taking an early retirement in order to teach American history and to write. Manning currently teaches as an adjunct in the History Department at the University of West Florida and is a frequent speaker and lecturer on presidential history, a subject for which he has a particular passion. He resides in Pensacola, Florida with his wife and children.

DYLAN MARRON is the host and creator of the critically acclaimed podcast Conversations with People Who Hate Me, a social experiment that connects adversarial internet strangers through phone calls. He recently joined the writing staff of the Emmy-winning hit television series Ted Lasso. Dylan is also the voice of Carlos on international podcast sensation Welcome to Night Vale, an alum of the New York Neo Futurists theater company, and the creator of Every Single Word, a video series that edits down popular films to feature only the words spoken by people of color. As a writer and correspondent at Seriously.TV, Dylan created, hosted, and produced Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Shutting Down Bullsh*t, and the Unboxing series. Conversations with People Who Hate Me was selected as a Podcast Pick by USA TODAY and The Guardian, named “the timeliest podcast” by Fast Company, won a Webby Award, and was the subject of Dylan’s 2018 TED Talk “Empathy Is Not Endorsement.” His first book is CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE WHO HATE ME: 12 THINGS I LEARNED FROM TALKING TO INTERNET STRANGERS. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his husband Todd.

SCOTT MARTELLE, a veteran journalist, is an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, where he writes opinion pieces about climate change, the death penalty, gun laws, and immigration, among other issues. He is at work on his seventh book, 1932: FDR, HOOVER, AND THE DAWN OF A NEW AMERICA. His previous works include the critically acclaimed and award-winning books DETROIT: A BIOGRAPHY, a sweeping look at the rise and fall of one of the nation’s great industrial cities, and BLOOD PASSION: THE LUDLOW MASSACRE AND CLASS WAR IN THE AMERICAN WEST, the narrative retelling of one of the most violent showdowns between capital and labor in American history.

ANDRES MARTINEZ is the former Editorial Page Editor of the Los Angeles Times and is the author of 24/7: LIVING IT UP AND DOUBLING DOWN IN THE NEW LAS VEGAS, an impressionistic account of a 21-day gambling spree.

ROBIN MATHER is an award-winning journalist whose passion for food and its sources has taken her around the country and the world. She has held positions at Detroit News, the Chicago Tribune and Cooking Light. She is a two-time James Beard finalist for feature writing on food, and her work has been syndicated in newspapers and magazines across North America and abroad. She is the author of A GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS: BIOENGINEERING AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD. Her latest is THE FEAST NEARBY, about being a locavore and chronicling a year in which she spent eating locally and on a tight budget.

VICTORINO MATUS is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard. His writing about food, wine and culture has been widely published in places like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Washingtonian magazine. He is the author of VODKA: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, describing how risk-taking entrepreneurs defied the odds and turned a colorless, odorless, flavorless spirit that began as rotgut medicine in medieval Russia into a multibillion-dollar industry and America's favorite liquor.
www.vicmatus.com

JONATHAN MAYO is a senior writer at MLB.com. For several years, he has hosted a variety of shows on MLB Radio, MLB.com’s internet radio network, and has done extensive video work, most notably in covering the baseball draft. His first book is the upcoming FACING CLEMENS: HITTERS ON CONFRONTING BASEBALL’S MOST INTIMIDATING PITCHER, with a foreword by the Rocket himself, Roger Clemens.
www.jonathanmayo.net

TILAR J. MAZZEO is a well-published historian and biographer. She teaches English at Colby College, is President of the International Society for Travel Writing, and is a devoted student of wine and culture. She is the author of the acclaimed bestelling biography about the fascinating life of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin entitled THE WIDOW CLICQUOT: THE STORY OF A CHAMPAGNE EMPIRE AND THE WOMAN WHO RULED IT. She is also the author of two celebrated wine guides: BACK LANE WINERIES OF NAPA and SONOMA, as well as THE SECRET OF CHANEL NO. 5 and THE HOTEL ON PLACE VENDOME about the Ritz hotel in Paris during WWII. Her most recent biography is IRENA’S CHILDREN, about the life of Irena Sendler, who heroically saved 2,500 children in Poland during the Holocaust and her next will be the first historical biography of Eliza Hamilton, the remarkable wife of Alexander Hamilton and one of the key characters in the hit play “Hamilton”.
http://www.tilar-mazzeo-author.com/

ROBERT S. McELVAINE is the Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. McElvaine’s articles and opinion pieces appear frequently in such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, and he has been a guest on many television and radio programs. Bob is the author of six books and is currently at work on two others: OH! FREEDOM, the definitive book about America in the 60s, and GRAND THEFT JESUS, a stinging indictment of what the author terms “ChristianityLite.”

JOHN J. MCKAY author of the forthcoming DISCOVERING THE MAMMOTH: A TALE OF GIANTS, UNICORNS, IVORY, AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW SCIENCE (Pegasus Books) has a Master’s in History from the University of Washington. A technical writer by trade, he is The Mammoth Guy by vocation, and his archival research, lively wit and passion for extinct proboscideans is well known to science bloggers and writers. His research has been published in The Open Laboratory: The Best of Science Writing on the Blogs and on the Scientific American blog. He currently makes his home in Alaska, where people appreciate a good mammoth.

WILLIAM McKEEN teaches at Boston University, where he chairs the department of journalism. His latest book is MILE MARKER ZERO, about the writers, artists, actors and musicians who found their artistic identities — and lots of bad stuff, too — in Key West. His earlier books include OUTLAW JOURNALIST, a biography of Hunter S. Thompson; HIGHWAY 61, a memoir of fatherhood; and ROCK AND ROLL IS HERE TO STAY, a massive history of popular music. His most recent is an anthology about childhood, HOMEGROWN, published by the University Press of Florida.
www.williammckeen.com

JUDY MELINEK, MD is an American Board of Pathology board-certified forensic pathologist practicing forensic medicine in San Francisco, California, and CEO of PathologyExpert Inc. Dr. Melinek trained in pathology at University of California, Los Angeles and then as a forensic pathologist at the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office from 2001-2003. She has consulted and testified in criminal and civil cases in Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. She is the co-author of the NYT bestselling book WORKING STIFF: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner, as well as the forthcoming debut novel FIRST CUT.

The late CONSTANTINE MENGES, Ph.D. was a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., and the author of INSIDE THE NSC. His final book is CHINA: THE GATHERING THREAT, in which he explores the newly established strategic alliance between China and Russia, warning that unless something is done, war between the U.S. and China could be a very real possibility in the near future.

GREG MERRITT is the author of ROOM 1219 a biography of silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, and an in-depth look at the scandal that ruined his career.

TIM METZ is the founder of and partner in Hullin Metz & Co., a company that specializes in a full range of corporate and financial communications services. He spent 23 years at the Wall Street Journal beginning as a staff reporter and eventually becoming the markets group news editor and stock market columnist. He is the author of BLACK MONDAY: THE CATASTROPHE OF OCTOBER 19, 1987…AND BEYOND, a critically acclaimed report and analysis of the events that produced the stock market crash and its immediate aftermath. He is currently at work on a memoir.

SAUNDRA MITCHELL is a long-time screenwriter and author whose young adult debut was the gothic SHADOWED SUMMER.  She is the author of THE VESPERTINE, THE SPRINGSWEET, and THE ELEMENTALS and is currently at work on MISTWALKER. As Jessa Holbrooke, she is the author of the serialized novel WHILE YOU’RE AWAY. Her first two nonfiction titles launched the They Did What?! Series—50 UNBELIEVABLE WOMEN AND THEIR FASCINATING AND TRUE STORIES and 50 IMPRESSIVE KIDS AND THEIR AMAZING AND TRUE STORIES.
www.saundramitchell.com

T.J. MITCHELL, co-author of WORKING STIFF: THE MAKING OF A MEDICAL EXAMINER, graduated with an English degree from Harvard and has worked as a screenwriter’s assistant and script editor in Hollywood since 1991. He is a writer and stay-at-home dad raising their three children in San Francisco. His consult practice T. J. Mitchell Consulting offers advice to aspiring screenwriters. He maintains a blog about parenting at www.tjmitchell.blogspot.com.

THE MONKS are Michael Lane and Jim Crotty, the irrepressible founders of the mobile magazine, Monk. Their first book, MAD MONKS ON THE ROAD, was followed by quirky travel guides to California and New York. Separately, Michael is the author of PINK HIGHWAYS: TALES OF QUEER MADNESS ON THE OPEN ROAD, and Jim of HOW TO TALK AMERICAN: A GUIDE TO OUR NATIVE TONGUES.

BEN MONTGOMERY is author of three books: THE MAN WHO WALKED BACKWARD, THE LEPER SPY, and GRANDMA GATEWOOD'S WALK, winner of a 2014 National Outdoor Book Award for biography. He spent most of his 20-year newspaper career as a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, where he won a National Headliner award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He founded Gangrey.com and helped launch the Auburn Chautauqua, a southern writers collective. He lives in Tampa and Missoula, Montana.

PATRICK MOORE has worked extensively on gay issues both as an activist and author. He is the author of two novels, IOWA and THIS EVERY NIGHT, and he was the founding director of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in New York City. Patrick's first nonfiction book is BEYOND SHAME: RECLAIMING THE ABANDONED HISTORY OF RADICAL GAY SEXUALITY, and his latest is the Book Sense pick TWEAKED, a memoir about his crystal meth addiction.

TOM MOORE is best known as the director of the original Broadway production of GREASE, which ran for 8 years, and as a two-time Tony Award nominee for Best Director for the musical, Over Here!, and for the Pulitzer-Prize winning play,’night Mother with Kathy Bates. Tom has directed at the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre, the American Conservatory Theatre, Arena Stage, the Guthrie Theatre, the Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the La Jolla Playhouse, among others. His many television directing credits include Disney’s first original musical for television, Geppetto, Thirty Something, Felicity, Ally McBeal, Boston Common, Northern Exposure, Cybill, Dharma and Greg and received Emmy nominations for ER, Mad About You, and L.A. Law. He served on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society for many years, and is now on the Yale School of Drama Advisory Board. He has a B.A. from Purdue University, where he also received an honorary doctorate.

LAEL MORGAN is a former journalist and photojournalist who has worked for numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, and the Washington Post. She has taught writing, photography and multimedia at University of Alaska Fairbanks and is the former publisher of Casco Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Portland, Maine. She is the author of over a dozen books including GOOD TIME GIRLS OF THE ALASKA YUKON GOLD RUSH; ART AND ESKIMO POWER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALASKAN HOWARD ROCK; and AND THE LAND PROVIDES. Her latest is THE WANTON WEST, a narrative account of one of America’s largest and longest-standing red light districts which thrived in Butte,Montana during the 19th century.

ELIZABETH CUMMINS MUNOZ is a professor of writing and communication at Rice University where she teaches writing seminars on immigrant storytelling and borderland culture. Living and working in Houston, she has spent her adult life immersed in the community about which she is  writing. She holds a doctorate in twentieth-century Latin American literature, specializing in Mexican and US Hispanic studies and women’s studies. Blending oral history, ethnography and careful reportage, MOTHERCOIN chronicles the experience of immigrant nannies living and working in the US. Based on personal interviews and extensive research, the book follows the lives of a handful of women from Mexico and Central America as they leave their homes and journey north across the border to seek out work as domestics and nannies. Together, these narratives tell a larger story about global immigration, working motherhood, a shadow economy and the private experience of our public world.

ANDREA MYERS has shared her unique stories around the world. After receiving her BA in neuroscience from Brandeis University, she studied for two years in Jerusalem, and was ordained at the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR), an interdenominational seminary in New York City, where she later joined the faculty and administration and served as the co-president of the Association of Rabbis and Cantors. Rabbi Myers is a member of the New York Board of Rabbis. She currently lives in New York City, and has led congregations from the Rocky Mountains to the Borscht Belt. Her latest is THE CHOOSING: A RABBI’S JOURNEY FROM SILENT NIGHTS TO HIGH HOLY DAYS.

HERBERT E. NASS founded and owns a law firm with offices in New York City, Harrison, New York, and Norwalk, Connecticut, which focus on wills, estates and trusts, and probate related matters. An authority on the subject of celebrity wills and estate planning, Nass has spoken at a variety of venues across the country and on television. He is the author of WILLS OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS and the forthcoming 101 BIGGEST ESTATE PLANNING MISTAKES.

THOMAS NAYLOR, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, along with John De Graaf and David Wann, is the author of ENCOUNTERS WITH AFFLUENZA: ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR THE REAL WEALTH, which uses the metaphor of disease to tackle the very serious subject of the American obsession with material gain.

NICOLE NEHRIG is a clinical psychologist and mental health researcher. During her decade-long tenure at the Manhattan VA she helped Veterans heal from trauma by strengthening their relationships and addressing disparities in access to mental health care. She has received numerous research grants, published twenty peer reviewed academic articles, and spoken at many national and international psychotherapy conferences. She has held teaching appointments at New York University and Long Island University and has been an invited guest lecturer at McLean and Harvard University Medical Centers, where she serves as a clinical supervisor. She holds a B.A. in psychology and fine art from Washington University, St. Louis and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Long Island University, Brooklyn. Nicole is also a passionate knitter and yarn stasher and a comparably dispassionate quilter.

EDWARD NIEDERMEYER began covering the auto industry in 2008 as a blogger for The Truth About Cars, eventually becoming the site's editor. His work watchdogging the auto bailout led to a series of OpEds at the New York Times, and his commentary has subsequently been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg Opinion, The Verge, among other outlets. He began reporting on Tesla in 2015, with an exposé of the firm's battery swap station, and went on to publish a series of critical stories about the firm, culminating in the 2019 book Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. As his work led deeper into emerging technologies, he co-founded the Autonocast podcast, now a leading podcast on driving automation and other mobility technologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his long-term partner and two cats.  

RACHEL NUWER is a freelance science journalist who regularly contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and other major media outlets. She is author of the award-winning book POACHED: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking (Da Capo, 2018). She lives in Brooklyn with a computer programmer, a harlequin rabbit and a large orange cat.

ERIC NUZUM is currently serving as Acting Vice President for Programming for National Public Radio and is a pop-culture critic and contributor to Public Radio International’s Marketplace, and several VH1 documentaries. He won the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award for News writing. He is the author of PARENTAL ADVISORY: MUSIC CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA and THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST: STALKING THE VAMPIRE FROM NOSFERATU TO COUNT CHOCULA, a look at vampire lore throughout time, and his latest is a memoir entitled GIVING UP THE GHOST.

PETER JOFFRE NYE is a prize-winning author of eight nonfiction books as well as articles published in more than 100 magazines and newspapers, including Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and The Washington Post.  His most recent book is: THE FAST TIMES OF ALBERT CHAMPION: FROM RECORD-SETTING RACER TO DASHING TYCOON, AN UNTOLD STORY OF SPEED, SUCCESS, AND BETRAYAL.

LAUREN E. OAKES is an ecologist and human-natural systems scientist. She is a lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. She earned her PhD from Stanford University’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources and her bachelor’s degree from Brown. She has written about her research for the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has been profiled by the Atlantic, Outside Magazine, National Geographic online, The Christian Science Monitor, Adventure Kayak Magazine, and ClimateWire, among other outlets. With years of experience in professional outdoor guiding, she has also led multi-day expeditions for National Geographic Expeditions and co-designed and co-taught Stanford field courses in Alaska and the Grand Canyon.  Her first book, IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World was published by Basic Books, as is THE TREEKEEPERS. You can read more about her at http://www.leoakes.com/

BARACK OBAMA is the 44th President of the United States. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE.

JOHN O’CONNOR is from Kalamazoo, Michigan, the original home of Gibson guitars. His writing has appeared in the journals Open City, Post Road, Quarterly West, and Creative Nonfiction's True Story series, as well as in The New York Times, Boston Globe, GQ, Saveur, Men’s Journal, and The Financial Times. For two years he was a foreign correspondent for Japan’s largest daily newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun. He teaches journalism at Boston College.

IJEOMA OLUO is a writer, speaker, and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE and most recently, MEDIOCRE: THE DANGEROUS LEGACY OF WHITE MALE AMERICA. Her work on race has been featured in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among many other publications. She was named to the 2021 TIME 100 Next list and has twice been named to the Root 100. She received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award and the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association. She is currently at work on her third book, BE A REVOLUTION, which will focus on how people and communities are working to create real systemic change—in areas like education, media, science, health, housing, and agriculture—with the goal of achieving intersectional racial equity. ijeomoluo.com

QAIS AKBAR OMAR (whose first name is pronounced "Kice") is the author of A FORT OF NINE TOWERS (FSG), which has been published in over twenty languages. Omar was born in 1982 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He holds a BA in journalism from Kabul University. He studied business at Brandeis University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. In 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado, and he was 2014-2015 Scholars at Risk Fellow at Harvard University. He has written articles for The Atlantic, op-eds for The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Times of London, and The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. He is the co-author, with Stephen Landrigan, of SHAKESPEARE IN KABUL, and A NIGHT IN THE EMPEROR’S GARDEN. Omar serves as a goodwill ambassador for Aschiana Foundation in Kabul and for the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women.

THERESE ONEILL’s UNMENTIONABLE: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners published by Little, Brown expands the success of her laugh-out-loud history pieces written for The Atlantic, Mental Floss, The Week, and Jezebel to a full-length adventure through the underbelly of Victorian femininity. Learn the mystery of the two-seater outhouse. Explore the different methods to ensure male offspring. Understand precisely why it's your own fault if your husband brings home syphilis. And most importantly, come away with an astonishing new appreciation of the fortitude of our great-grandmothers. Therese Oneill is an Oregon-based journalist with a remarkable voice and a flair for exposing history’s less glorious chapters—read more of her work at  www.writerthereseoneill.com.  UNGOVERNABLE: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Raising Flawless Children, was published by Little, Brown in May 2019. Her third book, UNBECOMING A LADY, is published by Simon and Schuster Element.

SPENCER OVERTON is a tenured professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he currently teaches civil rights law, and his commentaries on democracy have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Roll Call, and several other publications. He has also provided insights on various radio talk shows and news programs, including National Public Radio's All Things Considered and The Tavis Smiley Show. His first book is STEALING DEMOCRACY: THE NEW POLITICS OF VOTER SUPPRESSION.

ANTONIO PAGLIARULO is the author of the gritty young adult novel A DIFFERENT KIND OF HEAT, as well as The Celebutantes series, which includes ON THE AVENUE, IN THE CLUB and TO THE PENTHOUSE. He is at work on several new young adult novels. Under the pseudonym Anthony Paige he wrote ROCKING THE GODDESS, which explores the widespread practice of Wicca on college campuses, and AMERICAN WITCH, about the history of witchcraft in America.

LISA PALMER is a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. As an independent journalist for the last 15 years, Palmer has reported almost exclusively on climate change, the environment, and business sustainability since 2008. Her work has appeared in publications such as Slate Magazine, Nature Climate Change, The Guardian, Yale E360, The Yale Forum, Scientific American, and The New York Times, among many others. She is a professional member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, the National Association of Science Writers, and the D.C. Science Writers Association, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She has received grants and fellowships to support her work from the National Science Foundation-funded National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Vermont Law School's Environmental Law Center, the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, and the Solutions Journalism Network, among many others. She received her B.S. from Boston University and her M.S. from Simmons College in Boston.  HOT, HUNGRY, PLANET: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE FOOD GAP is forthcoming.

JULIET PAPA is an award-winning reporter for 1010 WINS radio in New York and a regular weekly freelance reporter at WCBS-TV in New York. She is the author of LADYKILLER, about the Argentinian serial killer Ricardo Caputo, and the co-author of THE MAFIA HANDBOOK, with Douglas Le Vien.

INA PARK MD, MS, is an associate professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Medical Consultant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, and Medical Director of the California Prevention Training Center. She holds degrees from the University of California Berkeley, UCLA School of Medicine, and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Recently, Park served as a co-author of the 2020 CDC STD Treatment Guidelines and contributor to the Department of Health and Human Services STI Federal Action Plan. A fierce advocate for public health, she lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband and two sons. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ADVENTURES IN THE SCIENCE, HISTORY, AND SURPRISING SECRETS OF STDs (Flatiron 2021) is her first book.

LANCE PARKIN is a British author now living in the United States. He is best-known for his Doctor Who novels and other writing on that series. He was a storyline writer for the top-rated soap opera Emmerdale, and has written half a dozen books about that series. He has also written or co-written books on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, Alias and Star Trek. He wrote a guidebook to the work of comics author Alan Moore and is the author of a forthcoming definitive biography on the same subject.

PATRICK PARR is the author of the critically acclaimed The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age (Chicago Review Press, April 2018), Parr’s work has appeared in American History, the Boston Globe, Politico, The Atlantic, History Today, The Humanist and The Japan Times, among others. He has also had fiction appear in over a dozen magazines, and in 2014 was the recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship for his literary career. Parr earned his bachelor’s degree in Literature from Catawba College, and a Master’s in Creative Writing from Seton Hill University. He and his wife split time between Yokohama, Japan and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He is currently a Visiting Professor of American Studies at Asia University in Tokyo.

MARGARET PEACOCK is a professor of history at the University of Alabama. She has been a Wilson Fellow and Fulbright-Hays scholar, working on Cold War history and the history of media. Her first book, INNOCENT WEAPONS, examined the role of propaganda in shaping the modern world. With Dr. Erik Peterson, she is the co-author of the upcoming book, JOURNAL OF A PANDEMIC YEAR, which chronicles the tumultuous experience of 2020 as it unfolds.

NATE PEDERSEN is a freelance journalist with over 400 publications in print and online sources including The Guardian, The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Art of Manliness. He is a Contributing Writer with the magazine Fine Books & Collections, where he investigates the strange and unusual side of the rare-book market. QUACKERY, his upcoming collaboration with Lydia Kang, will be published by Workman in 2017.

SARA PETERSEN is a writer based in New Hampshire. Her essays about feminism, domesticity, and the performance of motherhood have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, InStyle, Glamour, The Rumpus, Longreads, and elsewhere. Her book about the culture of mommy influencers, MOMFLUENCED, is forthcoming from Beacon Press.

ERIK L. PETERSON is a professor of the history of science & medicine at the University of Alabama and co-hosts the award winning podcast “Speaking of Race.” He researches the conceptual foundations of genetics, evolutionary biology, and anthropology, and is especially interested in the persistence of race science. THE LIFE ORGANIC, his most recent book, told the forgotten story of a Bloomsbury circle of British scientists who discovered epigenetics before the Second World War—seventy years before it revolutionized American biology. With Dr. Margaret Peacock, he is writing the upcoming book, JOURNAL OF A PANDEMIC YEAR (Beacon Press), which traces the American experience of parallel pandemics through the historic year of 2020.LARRY PHILLIPS is a journalist and writer whose first book was ZEN AND THE ART OF POKER, which dealt with the psychology of poker players. His follow-up, THE TAO OF POKER, dealt with "the truth" of the game itself.

BETH PINSKER is a financial-planning columnist at Marketwatch, and has been a certified financial planner (CFP®) since 2018. She currently reaches a wide audience at http://Marketwatch.com, which also gets syndicated to Morningstar.com and a few other outlets. Since joining MarketWatch a little over a year ago, after nearly a decade at Reuters, she's garnered more than 8-million page views of her work.  Based on her column for MarketWatch, MY MOTHER’S MONEY will be published by Crown in Fall 2025.

SCOTT PLEASANT is the Coordinator of the Coastal Carolina University Writing Center and co-author, with Joe Oestreich, of LINES OF SCRIMMAGE: A STORY OF FOOTBALL, RACE, AND REDEMPTION.

JESSE P. POLLACK is the co-author of the True Crime book DEATH ON THE DEVIL’S TEETH. He is a contributing writer for the popular magazine and website Weird NJ. His new book, THE ACID KING, will be published by Simon Pulse in 2017.

DENNIS POWELL is an award-winning investigative reporter who has worked for Knight Ridder, Gannett, and Gore newspapers, as well as WOR Radio, CBS Radio, and FOX Television. He is working on THE UNSAVORY JUDGE CRATER.

CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN is an American cosmologist, science writer and equality activist. Essence Magazine named Dr. Prescod-Weinstein one of “15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers.”  Her essays have appeared in Bitch, Slate, the Cut, American Scientist, Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Nylon, and the African American Intellectual History Society. She is the former publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine The Offing.  She is the recipient of the 2017 LGBT+ Physicists Acknowledgement of Excellence Award "For Years of Dedicated Effort in Changing Physics Culture to be More Inclusive and Understanding Toward All Marginalized Peoples." Now an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New Hampshire, she speaks all over the world on subjects ranging from making science more inclusive to particle physics.  She maintains an active website , where you can read more about her background, her research and writing, and see clips of her speaking.  She also has a dynamic social media presence. Her first book, THE DISORDERED COSMOS (Bold Type Books), was the winner of the LA Times Book Prize for science and technology and the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award for science writing, shortlisted for the PEN E.O. Wilson Award.  Her second book, THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME will be published by Pantheon.  

POLLY J PRICE is Professor of Law and Professor of Global Health at Emory University. An internationally recognized scholar of public health law and history, she is frequently interviewed by major news media including CNN, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has characterized Professor Price’s writing as “well-researched, clearheaded, and carefully composed.” The author of two books and dozens of articles and op-eds, Price regularly collaborates with the Centers for Disease Control and multiple public health organizations throughout the nation. In recognition of both her expertise and practical experience, Price was named one of 35 Andrew Carnegie Fellows, a prestigious award that recognizes an exceptional group of scholars, journalists, and authors. She is presently working on a book titled PLAGUES IN THE NATION, forthcoming from Beacon Press.

RICHARD RAPPORT, M.D., is a practicing neurosurgeon, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington, and an award-winning essayist. He is the author of a biography of physician Paul Beeson, as well as NERVE ENDINGS: THE DISCOVERY OF THE SYNAPSE, which details the discovery of neurons and how understanding the ways a synapse transmits information leads to diagnosing illness.

ANNIE REED is a historian specializing in women and true crime. She received her BA from the University of Illinois and her JD from the University of Notre Dame, and lives in O’Fallon, Illinois with her family. Her first book, tentatively titled CATCH HER IF YOU CAN, tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a swindler who rocked Gilded Age America by posing as Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate daughter. It will be published in 2024 by Diversion Books.  

An Air Force veteran and oral historian, J. RACHEL REED is the author of the forthcoming K9 KOREA: THE SILENT SENTRIES OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR, about the 8125th Sentry Dog Detachment, a group of courageous soldiers and devoted dogs who served bravely in the Korean War and were cruelly separated at its end.

NICHOLAS REEVES is Director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and Senior Egyptologist with the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition. A specialist in ancient Egyptian history and material culture, Reeves graduated with first class honors in Ancient History from University College London in 1979, and in 1984 received his PhD from Durham University for the thesis Studies in the Archaeology of the Valley of the Kings, with particular reference to tomb robbery and the caching of the royal mummies. Since 1984 Reeves has been active in various museum and heritage roles including at The British Museum, Highclere Castle, Eton College and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reeves has published extensively on a range of subjects, lectured widely to both academic and popular audiences, and over the years arranged a number of highly acclaimed conferences and exhibitions in London, New York, Tokyo and elsewhere. He is the author of several books; a completely revised edition of his COMPLETE TUTANKHAMUN is published by Thames and Hudson.  

DR. LEE REICHMAN is the author, with Janice Hopkins Tanne, of TIMEBOMB, which chronicles the frightening emergence of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. He is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical School's National Tuberculosis Center, widely considered the world's leading TB research facility.

AARON REUBEN is an assistant professor of psychology and environmental health at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duke University, a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment, and a Bachelors in Neuroscience & Behavior and English Literature from Wesleyan University. His work has appeared in Mother Jones, Outside, VICE, the Atlantic, and Scientific American among others. He holds the Richard Merritt Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Science Journalism and is a recent recipient of the Cozzarelli Prize of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is at work on his first book, Element 82: The Secret History and Possible Future of Lead.

MICHAEL REYNOLDS is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Playboy, U.S. News & World Report, and Newsweek, as well as on television shows such as 60 Minutes and 48 Hours. Working for Reuters, he broke the story on Aileen Wuornos's killing spree in 1989 and 1990, on which he based his first book DEAD ENDS. He is currently at work on a book on the Religious Right, conservative politics, and the 2008 presidential election entitled BAD FAITH.

JEWELL PARKER RHODES is the author of the modern classic VOODOO DREAMS, a novel about famed voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, as well as VOODOO SEASON, YELLOW MOON, and HURRICANE: A NOVEL, which follow Marie Laveau’s modern day descendant. She is also the author of MAGIC CITY, a novel about the race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the early 20th century. DOUGLASS’ WOMEN is a fictional account of Frederick Douglass and the two women who loved him. Her nonfiction works include FREE WITHIN OURSELVES and PORCH STORIES: A GRANDMOTHER’S GUIDE TO HAPPINESS. Her first middle grade novel, NINTH WARD, set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina, was a Coretta Scott King Book Honor winner, and she’s written six other critically acclaimed novels for young readers: SUGAR; BAYOU MAGIC; TOWERS FALLING; GHOST BOYS, which is a New York Times, IndieBound, and Publishers Weekly bestseller, received four starred reviews, and is a #1 Kids’ Indie Next List pick; and BLACK BROTHER, BLACK BROTHER, which received three starred reviews, was a YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers selection, and has been nominated for over a dozen reader’s choice awards. Her most recent book for middle grade readers is PARADISE ON FIRE, a powerful coming-of-age survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change. The driving force behind all of her work is to inspire social justice, equality, and environmental stewardship. jewellparkerrhodes.com

JOYCE M. ROCHE has long been a trailblazer in the corporate world. Roché mentored women by encouraging them to find their voices and take bold career risks to excel. Her vision for empowered businesswomen carried over into her work on behalf of girls when in 2000, she assumed the role of President and CEO of Girls Inc., the nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Before joining Girls Inc., Ms. Roché served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Carson Products Company, and Vice President of Global Marketing at Avon Products, Inc. Roché is a graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans and holds an MBA from Columbia University. She has successfully completed Stanford University’s Senior Executive Program and holds honorary doctorate degrees from Dillard University and North Adams State College. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of AT&T Inc., Macy’s Inc., Tupperware Brands, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc., and the Association of Governing Boards. She is the chair of the Board of Trustees for Dillard University and has previously served on the boards of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Girls Inc., and The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. THE EMPRESS HAS NO CLOTHES: CONQUERING SELF-DOUBT TO EMBRACE SUCCESS (Berrett Kohler) is her first book. 

DR. LARRY ROSEN is a professor of Psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is a research psychologist, computer educator and is recognized as an international expert in the "Psychology of Technology." He has been awarded numerous federal and local grants, including over $280,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for the study and treatment of technophobia, and has been honored twice as one of the Outstanding Professors in the California State University system. He is the author of TECHNOSTRESS; ME, MYSPACE AND I; REWIRED; and iDISORDER, launched with a front page USA Today article. He is now working, with Dr. Adam Gazzaley, on a book that will bridge the gap between the psychology and brain science of technology entitled THE DISTRACTED MIND.

BARRY ROSENBERG and CATHERINE MACAULAY are the writing team behind MAVERICKS OF THE SKY, a riveting nonfiction account of the early pilots of the U.S. Air Mail Service. Barry is a long-time journalist specializing in aviation, technology, and issues of national defense. Catherine is a former newspaper reporter and columnist who writes about nature and the environment.

REBECCA ROSENBERG, a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has been a staff reporter at The New York Post since 2007 and currently covers Manhattan Supreme Court. She previously served as the paper's primary national and international correspondent and covered breaking stories in more than 30 states and countries. She has been a featured journalist on NBC's "Dateline," CBS's "48 Hours," the Discovery Channel, and ABC's "20/20." Her work has appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, The Arizona Republic, Jewish Week, Oakland Tribune and The Philadelphia Daily News.

DAVID ROSNER is an award-winning former Newsday sportswriter whose work has also appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time, Sport, and Sporting News. He was most recently the managing editor of Neurology Now magazine and is the co-author of THE OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED NHL HISTORY. He has helped launch WeMedia, a leading multimedia company serving millions of Americans with disabilities. His latest book is THE CONCUSSION CRISIS, written with Linda Carroll, which explores the silent epidemic of traumatic brain injury. He is currently at work on BOTH THE KINGS HORSES about the incredibly compelling saga of Affirmed and Alydar, two thoroughbreds whose rivalry was unmatched in the Sport of Kings, also Linda Carroll.

BENJAMIN ROSS was president of Maryland's Action Committee for Transit for 15 years, which grew under his leadership into the nation's largest grass-roots transit advocacy group. He is a consultant on environmental problems and served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences and EPA Science Advisory Board. He writes frequently on political and social topics in Dissent magazine and is the author of THE POLLUTERS: THE MAKING OF OUR CHEMICALLY ALTERED ENVIRONMENT. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University.  His latest book is DEADEND.

The late JUDGE HAROLD ROTHWAX was on the bench during some of the most notorious trials in recent history. GUILTY: THE COLLAPSE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE is his indictment of the justice system.

CHRISTINE ROUSSEL is the archivist of Rockefeller Center Archives. She is a renowned art restorer and former director of reproductions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and advisor to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Her books include The Art of Rockefeller Center and A Guide to The Art of Rockefeller Center (W.W. Norton). Her latest book Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Who Were the Men? explores one of America’s most famous, and intriguing photographs. Christine lives in New York City. 

Trained as an agricultural economist and fluent in Mandarin Chinese, SCOTT ROZELLE has published more than 400 articles in the field of Chinese development, all of which have relied on rigorous experimentation, comparison, and statistical analysis. He holds an endowed chair at Stanford University and his papers have been published in top academic journals, including Science, Nature, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Literature. Today, his team (the Rural Education Action Program—REAP) is the largest impact evaluation organization in China. REAP is a long-term collaboration between more than 30 experts and field researchers housed at Stanford, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Shaanxi Normal University and tens of other universities across China. His work has been covered in the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Guardian and Huffington Post among others.  His work is also lauded in China, where the Chinese Premier gave him the Friendship Award, the highest award that can be given to a non-Chinese. His book, INVISIBLE CHINA, co-written with Natalie Hell, was published by the University of Chicago Press.

HERMAN J. RUSSELL, the founder and former chief executive officer of H. J. Russell and Company is a nationally recognized entrepreneur and philanthropist, and Atlantacivic leader. A self-made man who grew up in a blue-collar family, he is recognized as one of the wealthiest African Americans in the United States. He is the author of BUILDING ATLANTA: THE STORY OF A CITY, AND A NATION CHANGED.

JASON RYAN is a journalist living in South Carolina. After graduating from Georgetown University with a business degree he wiped the slate clean, moving to South Carolina to begin work as a newspaper reporter. He worked at the Beaufort Gazette for two years before being hired by The State newspaper, where he covered politics, business and breaking news in South Carolina’s capital, Columbia. His books include JACKPOT, a narrative nonfiction account of a colorful ring of “gentleman smugglers” who became the target of one of the biggest national anti-drug operations and HELL-BENT: One Man's Crusade to Crush the Hawaiian Mob. His latest book, SWAMP KINGS, about the Murdaugh family, is forthcoming from Pegasus Books.  

RYAN RYDZEWSKI is an award-winning education reporter and a former Teach for America Fellow and teacher trainer. With Gregg Behr he is the co-author of WHEN YOU WONDER, YOU’RE LEARNING from Hachette Books.  

ARAM SAROYAN is an internationally known poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. His books include GENESIS ANGELS: THE SAGA OF LEW WELCH AND THE BEAT GENERATION; LAST RITES, a book about the death of his father; TRIO: PORTRAIT OF AN INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP; a memoir, FRIENDS IN THE WORLD: THE EDUCATION OF A WRITER; and the true crime Literary Guild selection RANCHO MIRAGE: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY OF MANNERS, MADNESS AND MURDER. His novel THE ROMANTIC was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Critics' Choice selection. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts poetry awards and a current faculty member of the Masters of Professional Writing Program at USC. His most recent publication is DOOR TO THE RIVER: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.
www.aramsaroyan.com

FRANK SCATONI and PETE FORNATALE are the authors of the fun and clever WHO CAN IT BE NOW? THE LYRICS GAME THAT TAKES YOU BACK TO THE '80s...ONE LINE AT A TIME and SAY ANYTHING, the '80s movie-quote game.

BRANDY SCHILLACE is an author and historian who works at the intersections of medicine, history, science, and literature. Non-fiction includes Death’s Summer Coat: What Death and Dying Teach Us About Life and Living Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk (Pegasus) and Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher (Simon and Schuster) and the forthcoming The Intermediaries (W.W. Norton). Dr. Schillace is a 2018 winner of the Arthur P. Sloan Science Foundation award and has appeared on Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum, NPR’s Here and Now, and RadioLab. She has bylines at Scientific American, Globe and Mail, HuffPo and Crime Reads. Currently the Editor-in-chief of BMJ’s Medical Humanities, Brandy has expanded the journal’s mission and purview, providing international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities, social sciences, and health policy. Previously a professor of literature and research associate in history, Brandy spent five years in curation and public outreach for a medical museum. Her debut novel, The Framed Women of Ardemore House, is published by Hanover Square/HarperCollins.  

AMY SCHILLER is a writer focused on feminism, politics, philanthropy, and culture. A postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College in the Society of Fellows, she has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Daily Beast, and many more places. Her work has been quoted in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, and Slate, among others. Alongside her academic and journalism careers, she has extensive experience as a fundraising consultant, campaign director, and political organizer. Amy’s forthcoming book, THE PRICE OF HUMANITY, examines philanthropy’s dual power as both a driver of wealth inequality and a vehicle to support human flourishing.

SARAH SCHULMAN is the author of novels, nonfiction books, plays and movies. Her latest book, LET THE RECORD SHOW: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993, was named a New York Times Notable Books of 2021 selection, an NPR Best Book of 2021, and a Guardian Best Book of 2021; a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award and the 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction; and longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. Her other recent works are MAGGIE TERRY, THE COSMOPOLITANS, which was picked as one of the "Best Books of 2016" by Publishers' Weekly, and a nonfiction book CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Previous novels are THE CHILD, SHIMMER, EMPATHY, RAT BOHEMIA, PEOPLE IN TROUBLE, AFTER DELORES, GIRLS VISIONS AND EVERYTHING, THE MERE FUTURE, and THE SOPHIE HOROWITZ STORY. Her nonfiction titles are TIES THAT BIND: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE MIND: Witness to a Lost Imagination, STAGESTRUCK: Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America, ISRAEL/PALESTINE AND THE QUEER INTERNATIONAL, and MY AMERICAN HISTORY: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years.

HOWARD SCHULTZ joined Starbucks in 1982 and became its Chairman and CEO in 1987. He is the author, with Dori Jones Yang, of POUR YOUR HEART INTO IT: HOW STARBUCKS BUILT A COMPANY ONE CUP AT A TIME.

PETER SCHWARTZSTEIN is a British-American journalist and environmental consultant. He writes about regional environment and geopolitical issues, with a focus on water, the conflict-climate nexus, and food security. His work regularly appears in National Geographic, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, and the BBC. His work has also been published by The Atlantic, the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, WIRED, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Politico, Le Monde Diplomatique, NPR, Outside, Quartz, and The Daily Beast, among many other outlets. His award-winning reportage has been supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the Rory Peck Trust, the Society for Environmental Journalists, and the Earth Journalism Network. He was selected as a TED fellow in 2020. Since 2017, Schwartzstein has been consulting for the UN Environment Programme, drafting reports on the Middle East and Africa's most pressing environmental emergencies, while also researching and contributing reports as an independent consultant for the ICRC, Amnesty International, UNDP, UNICEF, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), The Century Foundation, and Small Arms Survey, among others. In 20018, he joined the Center for Climate & Security, a non-partisan DC-based think tank, as a non-resident research fellow, covering how climate change and other environment problems are fueling conflict and terrorism across the globe. He is a Global Fellow at The Wilson Center. His first book, THE HEAT AND THE FURY, is forthcoming from Island Press.  

LUCILE SCOTT is a writer, activist and mystic. She has reported on national and international health and human rights issues for over a decade. Most recently, she has worked at the United Nations and amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, and has contributed to such publications as VICE and POZ magazines. Her plays have been produced in New York City, Edinburgh and Los Angeles. In 2016 she hit the rails as part of Amtrak's writer's residency program. AN AMERICAN COVENANT is her first book. She hails from Kentucky and moved to Brooklyn after graduating from Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter @lucilebscott.

ANDREW SEIDEL is a constitutional and civil rights attorney, activist, atheist, author, former Grand Canyon tour guide, and sometimes photographer. At the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Andrew works to ensure that the government obeys the First Amendment and that Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation” between state and church remains tall and impregnable. His book, UN-AMERICAN is forthcoming from Sterling.

The late LEE SERVER was a bestselling writer and biographer who specialized in American cinema. His first two books, AVA GARDNER: LOVE IS NOTHING and ROBERT MITCHUM: BABY, I DON’T CARE, were a 2006 New York Times Notable Book and an LA Times Book of the Year, respectively.

DHUN SETHNA, MD is a clinical and academic cardiologist who has served on the senior academic staff at major medical centers including The Cleveland Clinic, Carilion Clinic, Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He has contributed to Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. His first trade book, THE WINE-DARK SEA WITHIN: A Turbulent History of Blood, is published by Basic Books.  

ARIANNE SHAHVISI is a UK-based Kurdish-British writer and philosopher. She holds a doctorate in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge, is a Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and a fellow at the University of Oxford’s Ethox Centre; her research focuses on gender, race, and migration.  She is a science editor at literary magazine The Offing and was a judge for the 2019 PEN Literary Science Writing Award (along with Jeff Vandermeer and Christie Wilcox). She is a co-founder of the Arabic-English feminist journal Kohl and serves as an ethics consultant for Doctors Without Borders and as an advisor to the UK government on women’s health. Her research has been widely covered in international media, and she has written extensively on social justice issues for a lay audience. Her work has appeared in Aeon, HuffPost, the London Review of Books, Prospect, The New Statesman, and Jacobin, amongst other venues.  Her first book, ARGUING FOR A BETTER WORLD, is published by Viking Penguin.  

JOSHUA SHARPE is a2021 Livingston Award finalist, whose reporting in 2020 led to the release of two men who were accused of violent crimes on evidence Sharpe proved false. One man who was serving life in a 1985 double murder in a coastal Georgia church; the other had been jailed for two years, awaiting trial and facing life in a drive-by shooting case. Sharpe is a staff writer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia’s largest newspaper. He focuses on investigating failures of the criminal justice system while rendering revelatory and intimate stories of people's real lives. His awards include the 2018 Atlanta Press Club Award of Excellence.

MATTHEW SHAW has traveled the world as a surf journalist for The Surfer’s Journal and Surfer magazine. As a music journalist, he’s contributed to NPR Music and NPR’s All Songs Considered and produced the radio series Jazz Beyond Tradition with Grammy-winning drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr., and award-winning radio personality Keanna Faircloth. Matt’s done muck-raking journalism for alternative newsweeklies and stringer work for the New York Time, is the former editor of Folio Weekly and Void Magazine, and currently the arts & culture editor for WJCT Public Media, an NPR affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida. As a musician and songwriter, he plays in the nationally touring psychedelic-rock group Kairos Creature Club.  

JUDGE GERALD SHEINDLIN is a former Justice of the New York State Supreme Court who, in 1989, presided over the first case to involve the admissibility of DNA evidence. He is also a former People's Court television judge. He is the author, with Catherine Whitney, of BLOOD TRAIL: TRUE CRIME MYSTERIES SOLVED BY DNA DETECTIVES.

JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN is television’s beloved Judge Judy whose top rated syndicated show is watched by millions. Her first book, DON’T PEE ON MY LEG AND TELL ME IT’S RAINING, co-authored with Josh Getlin of the Los Angeles Times, is a prescriptive and controversial look at how the legal system affects families. She is also the author of BEAUTY FADES, DUMB IS FOREVER and KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID, both New York Times bestsellers. With Bob Tore, she has written two children’s books, WIN OR LOSE BY HOW YOU CHOOSE and YOU CAN’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. Her new website, What Would Judy Say, features biweekly videos on topics as diverse as retirement and marriage that invite readers to share their own ideas.
www.whatwouldjudysay.com

Major General DON SHEPPERD, USAF (Ret.), is president of The Shepperd Group, Inc., where he performs independent consulting on defense, strategic planning, and information technology preparation of executive teams for the 21st century. He retired in 1998 from the Pentagon where he served as head of the Air National Guard. He is currently a military analyst for CNN and a writer providing military commentary for ABC radio in Phoenix, New York, and Baltimore. With Rick Newman, he is the author of BURY US UPSIDE DOWN: THE MISTY PILOTS, THE VIETNAM WAR, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL.
www.buryusupsidedown.com

MICHAEL SIM's internationally acclaimed nonfiction books include Adam's Navel, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; Arthur and Sherlock, which was a finalist for the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, the Silver Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain, and the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers Association; The Story of Charlotte's Web, which the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and other venues chose as a Best Book of the year; and The Adventures of Henry Thoreau.Sims has edited numerous anthologies of literature, from The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel to The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime. His shorter work has appeared in The Times (London), The New York Times, The Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Wall Street Journal among others. His most recent book, Darwin’s Child, will be published by Basic Books.  

PRIYA FIELDING SINGH., is a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, where she teaches, researches, and writes about diet and health disparities. In addition to her scholarly work, she is a frequent op-ed writer. Her LA Times essay “Why do poor Americans eat so unhealthfully? Because junk food is the only indulgence they can afford.” http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-singh-food-deserts-nutritional-disparities-20180207-story.html attracted tremendous media attention, and her ground-breaking research has been widely covered by outlets ranging from CNN, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and Jezebel. You can read more about her at http://priyafs.com/ Her book, The Taste of Inequality: Dining Across the Income Divide will be published by the Spark imprint of Little, Brown.

TRACY SLATER is an American writer based primarily in Japan, her husband's country. Her first book, THE GOOD SHUFU, a memoir of mixed marriage, was published in 2015 by Putnam and named a Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers Selection. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. Tracy received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University and taught for ten years at various Boston-area universities, as well as in men's and women's prisons throughout Massachusetts. Her book NINE MONTHS IN MANZANAR: A TRUE STORY OF PASSION, BETRAYAL, MURDER & MIXED FAMILIES IN AMERICA'S WWII CONCENTRATION CAMPS, is forthcoming from Chicago Review Press, and is the story of Jewish labor activist Elaine Buchman Yoneda, her family, and their incarceration in Manzanar, which uncovers a larger, virtually unknown history: the existence of thousands of mixed-race-family members swept up in the West Coast Japanese American forced removal and incarceration.

TOM SMART is an award-winning photojournalist. He served as photo editor for the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City for 18 years and returned as a staff photographer in 2001. He is also a contract photographer for the New York Times and Getty Images. His latest book, IN PLAIN SIGHT: THE STARTLING TRUTH BEHIND THE ELIZABETH SMART INVESTIGATION, co-authored with Lee Benson, discusses in detail the 2003 kidnapping case of his niece Elizabeth Smart.

The late CARLTON SMITH was the co-author, with Tomas Guillen, of THE SEARCH FOR THE GREEN RIVER KILLER. He was also the author of BLOOD MONEY and DEATH OF A LITTLE PRINCESS, about the tragic case of Jon Benet Ramsey. In addition, he wrote many other true crime titles, including BITTER MEDICINE; DEATH IN TEXAS; DEATH OF A DOCTOR; BLOOD WILL TELL; RECKLESS; and THE BTK MURDERS. He was also the author of DEFENDING GARY, with Mark Prothero, who was the defense attorney for Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer; MIND GAMES: THE TRUE STORY OF A PSYCHOLOGIST, HIS WIFE, AND A BRUTAL MURDER; POISONED LOVE, about the 2003 murder of Kathy Augustine, allegedly by her husband, critical care nurse Chaz Higgs; and COLD AS ICE, about the Drew Peterson murder case. His last published title was DYING FOR LOVE, about the 2006 murder of Dr. John Yelenic, allegedly by his wife’s lover.

GREG B. SMITH, a journalist with the New YorkDaily News, has been an investigative reporter for nearly 20 years and has written for many newspapers across the country including the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Examiner. He is a frequent guest on television and radio, and the author of MADE MEN, which exposes the story of New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family, and MOB COPS: THE SHOCKING RISE AND FALL OF NEW YORK’S “MAFIA COPS.” His most recent book is NOTHING BUT MONEY: HOW GOOD PEOPLE WENT BAD ON WALL STREET, about the frenzied trading of the 1990s which led to ballooning criminal corporate fraud cases after the turn of the century.

MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH is a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute, a contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, as well as a contributor to Feministing.com and Salon. He has written for a number of publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Root, theGrio, Think Progress, The Huffington Post, and has been a featured commentator on NPR, BBC radio, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera America, HuffPost Live, among others.  Ebony Magazine featured him in their round-up of “What’s Next” in 2014 in the area of “Politics and Civil Rights.” In 2014, he was named to The Root 100, a list of the most influential African Americans ages 25-45. His work has won praise from celebrated writers/journalists/public intellectuals, including Marc Lamont Hill, Melissa Harris-Perry, Jeremy Scahill, Jessica Valenti, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Chris Hayes, Michael Eric Dyson, Janet Mock, Tayari Jones, Jelani Cobb, and more. His first book, INVISIBLE MAN: GOT THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHING published by Nation Books, is a New York Times bestseller. His follow up book, STAKES IS HIGH was published in fall 2020, and was the winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.  His third book, FROM VIRGINIA will be published by Crown.  

NICHOLAS K. SMITH is a freelance writer, editor and photographer. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, his work has appeared in Esquire, GlobalPost, The Vienna Review, and Tucson Weekly, among others. He is the author of SOLE POWER: THE STORIES BEHIND THE SHOES THAT CHANGED THE GAME AND OUR LIVES.
www.nicholasksmith.com

JORDAN MICHAEL SMITH is an award-winning journalist, ghostwriter and speechwriter. A Contributing Editor at The New Republic, he is the co-author, with Matt Paxton, of the Amazon bestselling book, KEEP THE MEMORIES, LOSE THE STUFF: DECLUTTER, DOWNSIZE, AND MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR LIFE. He was a speechwriter in the Office of the Mayor of New York City and a communications consultant at the United Nations and the New York Governor’s Office. His writing has appeared in print and online for many publications, including the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Esquire, BBC, Globe and Mail, and MSNBC.  

PHILIP SMUCKER is a long-time war correspondent whose coverage of conflicts in Burma, Cambodia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan has appeared in U.S. News, The Daily Telegraph, The Christian Science Monitor, and TheNew York Times among others and earned him three Pulitzer nominations. He is the author of AL QUEDA'S GREAT ESCAPE: THE MILITARY AND THE MEDIA ON TERROR'S TRAIL and MY BROTHER, MY ENEMY: AMERICA AND THE BATTLE OF IDEAS ACROSS THE ISLAMIC WORLD. He has appeared on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, C-SPAN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Wolf Blitzer Reports, The PBS News Hour among other media outlets. He is presently at work on RIDING WITH GEORGE: ON THE TRAIL OF AMERICA'S FIRST SPORTSMAN AND PRESIDENT forthcoming from Chicago Review Press.

SARA SOLOVITCH has had stories published in Esquire, Wired, Outside, and many other publications. She has been a staff reporter at several major newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, and has had numerous stories published in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. Sara’s magazine stories have won national awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Education Association, and Genetic Alliance. Residing in Santa Cruz, California, Sara’s first book of narrative nonfiction is PLAYING SCARED: A HISTORY AND MEMIOR OF STAGE FRIGHT, an in-depth look at stage fright, spurred by the author’s interest in getting over her own performance anxiety as a pianist.
sarasolo.com

MARC SONGINI is a Boston-area journalist and author. He has written several books about New Englandand its history, including NEW ENGLAND’S MOST SENSATIONAL MURDERS and NEW ENGLAND’S MOST INGTRIGUING GANGSTERS, RASCALS, ROGUES, AND THIEVES. Songini is also the author of OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS, and his book reviews and other works have appeared in a number of publications, such as the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Book Review, and the Providence Journal. His latest book, BOSTON MOB, is forthcoming.

LYNN SPENCER works as a professional airline pilot for Continental Express Airlines, where she flies an Embraer 145 Regional Jet. In her 11 years in aviation, she has worked as a flight instructor, flown corporately, and held a coveted position in the Flight Training department at Continental Express, where she instructed other airline pilots. Her book, TOUCHING HISTORY: 9/11 FROM THE AIR is a gripping, nonfiction thriller that tells the dramatic story of the brave men and women of the airline industry dealing with an unprecedented catastrophe.
www.touchinghistory911.com

DR. ERIC SPRANKLE is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Co-Director of the Sexuality Studies program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist and an AASECT-certified sex therapist affiliated with the Minnesota Sexual Health Institute. He currently leads the Sexual Health Research Team at Minnesota State examining the intersections of sexuality, stigma, and Satanism, and has published articles on the effects of sexually explicit material, older adult sexuality, sex worker affirmative therapy, and Satanic sexuality. When not engaged in scholarly pursuits, Dr. Sprankle religiously reads Edgar Allan Poe, watches horror movies, and tries to telepathically communicate with his three tabby cats. His first book of nonfiction is DIY: THE WONDERFULLY WEIRD HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF MASTURBATION, a thoughtful and entertaining examination of the crusade to suppress masturbation, the sex educators fighting back, and the public’s confusion about what constitutes healthy self-pleasure. https://www.drsprankle.com

LIZZIE STARK is the author of PANDORA'S DNA, about the history and science of the so-called 'breast cancer genes,' and LEAVING MUNDANIA, about the world of larp. Her current project is a wide-ranging nonfiction book about the ordinary--and yet, completely extraordinary--egg, the world's largest cellular workhorse. In her other life, she's a participation designer who creates experiences and interactive theater both independently and for institutions including the Kennedy Center. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Washington Post, Daily Beast, and Today Show, and elsewhere. She holds an MS in journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in fiction writing from Emerson College.

MIKE STEERE is a seasoned journalist and former syndicated columnist. He has published articles in Men’s Journal, AARP Magazine, Lexus, and Outside, and is the head writer of ESPN2′s 11-part series True Outdoor Adventures. He is also the author of SCOTT HAMILTON, a biography of the Olympic figure skater. He worked with Joe and Ben Weider on their autobiography, BROTHERS OF IRON: BUILDING THE WEIDER EMPIRE, and with Nicholas Popaditch on ONCE A MARINE.

SAMANTHA STEIN, PHD, is a forensic psychologist and a real-life Mindhunter, tasked with evaluating serious sex offenders under California’s Sexually Violent Predator law. A columnist for PsychologyToday.com, Dr. Stein has had more than 2.2 million reads of her work, and speaks frequently at conferences and on podcasts. She has been treating and evaluating sex offenders for 25 years.  

BRAD STERTZ is a journalist at the Detroit News and a former reporter at the Wall Street Journal. His book, TAKEN FOR A RIDE, written with his colleague Bill Vlasic, is a comprehensive account of the merger of automotive giants Daimler and Chrysler.

WILLIAM STEVENSON is a respected historian and author who has written sixteen fiction and nonfiction books, including MAN CALLED INTREPID. This espionage classic sold more than two million copies in English and has become a standard reference on World War II. With Monika Jensen-Stevenson, he has written KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE about the American government’s treatment of our own POWs in Vietnam. His most recent book is SPYMISTRESS: THE SECRET LIFE OF VERA ATKINS, about the infamous spy of whom James Bond creator Ian Fleming said, “In the real world of spies, Vera Atkins was the boss.”

ALISON STEWART is a radio and television journalist and co-anchor of PBS’s TV and web news magazine Need to Know. She has reported and anchored for ABC News, CBS News, NPR, NBC News, MSNBC, and MTV News, where she won a Peabody for her work covering the Presidential Elections in 1992. In 2009, Stewart was named one of “The Root 100,” recognizing emerging and established African-American leaders. Her memoir, FIRST CLASS, is a journey of discovery about her parents’ lives in segregated America. She is now at work on a new book titled, JUNK. 

DR. ROBERT STICKGOLD holds a PhD in biochemistry, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has published over 100 scientific papers, including papers in Science and Nature. He has been seen on Good Morning America, PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers, and the Jim Leher News Hour; and he’s been heard on Ira Flato’s Science Friday several times, has given a TedX talk, and been heard on NPR’s Radio Lab, and on All Things Considered a dozen times. His work has been featured in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine and Seed Magazine. He has been the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Association of Professional Sleep Societies (Boston), the Asian Sleep Research Society (Taiwan) and the Australasian Sleep Association (Adelaide), and will be a keynote speaker at this year’s 35th annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams; he has presented his research at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the World Science Festival, also in New York. All told, he has given over 200 invited talks in nineteen countries. In addition to several landmark scientific articles, Dr. Stickgold has two science fiction novel published by Del Rey Books (Ballantine Books/Random House), one of which was Del Rey’s first-ever hardcover book and a featured alternate of the Book of the Month Club.  His book, When Brains Dream, written with Antonio Zadra, is forthcoming from Norton.

GEO STONE has a degree in chemistry from Johns Hopkins and has completed graduate studies in medical pharmacology from George Washington University Medical School and the National Institute of Health. He worked at the medical lab of the Washington Free Clinic and taught Chemistry at Georgetown Day School. His controversial book, SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE: METHODS AND CONSEQUENCES has enlightened readers about a very difficult subject.

ROBERT STRAUSS is a former Sports Illustrated reporter who has taught non-fiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania and supervised its journalism internship program for 20 years. He has also been a feature writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, a news and sports producer for KYW-TV in Philadelphia and a TV critic for the Asbury Park Press and Philadelphia Inquirer. As a freelancer, he has had more than 1000 by-lines in the New York Times. His most recent book is THE FINAL FOUNDER, an unorthodox biography of John Marshall, with eight other hopefully entertaining essays inspired by the life of the great Chief Justice. Strauss’s previous book was WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER., a biography of James Buchanan, which won the Gold Medal for Biography from the Independent Publishers association in 2016. He also contributed to the C-SPAN book, THE PRESIDENTS, and is on the roster of historians at the network that rates the Presidents after every term. His first book was DADDY’S LITTLE GOALIE, a delightful collection of humorous and poignant vignettes about his experiences from the sidelines watching his daughters, both jocks, succeed and fail at sports.

NEIL J. SULLIVAN is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of THE DIAMOND IN THE BRONX: YANKEE STADIUM AND THE POLITICS OF NEW YORK; THE DODGERS MOVE WEST; and THE MINORS: THE STRUGGLES AND THE TRIUMPH OF BASEBALL'S POOR RELATION FROM 1876 TO THE PRESENT.

NICK TABOR is a journalist whose who writes narrative nonfiction with an anthropological bent. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including New York Magazine (where he was previously on staff), The Washington Post Magazine, The Oxford American, and The Paris Review. He is living in Mobile, Alabama, at work on his first book, AFRICATOWN: THE LEGACY OF THE LAST SLAVE SHIP, which chronicles the story of the neighborhood founded by the last group of slaves ever imported to America.

JANICE HOPKINS TANNE is the author, with Lee Reichman, of TIMEBOMB, about the frightening emergence of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. She is an award-winning medical and science writer who has contributed to such publications as New York magazine, Parade, and the British Medical Journal.

ERIC TAUB is a bestselling author and writer with over eighteen years of experience writing for the New York Times, among many other major publications. He is the author of GAFFERS, GRIPS, AND BEST BOYS, about the Hollywood movie-making process, and is currently at work on his next book, DOES THIS PLUG INTO THAT?

BONNIE TAUB-DIX is a nutrition expert whose articles have appeared in Life, Shape, and Prevention, among many others. Bonnie is also a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association and has been the director and owner of BTC Nutrition Consultants for over thirty years. Bonnie regularly appears on national television and radio and has been a consultant for The Discovery Channel, Lifetime, and the Cartoon Network. She is currently at work on her first book, BEHIND THE LABEL.

AMY THOMAS is a New York–based writer and blogger. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) and the forthcoming Brooklyn in Love: A Delicious Memoir of Food, Family and Finding Yourself, both from Sourcebooks. In addition to working as an advertising copywriter, she writes about food, travel, design, and fashion for various publications such as the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Town & Country, and Every Day with Rachael Ray. She is slightly obsessed with sweets. 

PAMELA THOMAS is the author of FATHERLESS DAUGHTERS: TURNING THE PAIN OF LOSS INTO THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS. She has also written more than a dozen other books, including GREENMARKET: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY’S FARMERS MARKET; ROMANTIC DAYS AND NIGHTS: NEW YORK; REVERSING DRY EYE SYNDROME with Steven Maskin, M.D.; and AIN’T NOTHIN’ AS SWEET AS MY BABY: THE STORY OF HANK WILLIAMS’ LOST DAUGHTER with Jett Williams, as well as many articles. A long-time editor, Thomas also works at Sesame Workshop, editing children’s books.

ANNE THOMPSON is one of the most respected and widely-read reporters on the film industry. She is the author of THE $11 BILLION YEAR, the definitive look at how Hollywood is coping with the enormous transitions it faces in today’s volatile market.
blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/

GABRIEL THOMPSON spent five years as a community organizer in Brooklyn working primarily with Mexican immigrants and is now a freelance journalist. His writings have been published in the Nation, New York, In These Times and Color Lines. His first book was THERE’S NO JOSÉ HERE, a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of immigrants, and his book about community organizing, CALLING ALL RADICALS. For his next book, WORKING IN THE SHADOWS, he traveled the country doing jobs usually worked by immigrants. His latest book, AMERICA’S SOCIAL ARSONIST, is about Fred Ross, a groundbreaking organizer who is best known for training and mentoring Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers.
gabrielthompson.org

T.K. (TERESA) THORNE retired from the Birmingham Police Department as a captain and currently serves as executive director of the business improvement district, CAP, in downtown Birmingham, AL. LAST CHANCE FOR JUSTICE, her narrative account of the investigation into the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church that finally brought two of the men responsible to justice, will be published in 2013 for the 50th anniversary of the tragic, watershed event.

CRAIG TOMASHOFF is a versatile journalist and television writer who wrote I'M SCREAMING AS FAST AS I CAN and YOU LIVE, YOU LEARN: THE ALANIS MORISSETTE STORY.

RICHARD TRUBO is a writer and co-author whose titles include STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN: THE LED ZEPPELIN STORY, co-authored with former Led Zeppelin road manager Richard Cole; METABOLIZE: THE PERSONALIZED PROGRAM FOR WEIGHT LOSS, HEALTH, AND LONGEVITY with Kenneth Baum; and TAPPING THE HEALER WITHIN with Dr. Roger Callahan. He worked with soap star Alison Sweeney on ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE (SO FAR).

VALERIE TRUEBLOOD is a Contributing Editor to the American Poetry Review, and her short stories and essays have been published in One Story, Northwest Review, Iowa Review, and the Seattle Times, among others. Her first book, SEVEN LOVES, was a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and a Target Breakout Book. Her second book MARRY OR BURN, a collection of short stories that explore the theme of marriage, was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor Prize.  Her next collection, SEARCH PARTY (Counterpoint Press) was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award, and her newest collection is Terrarium: New and Selected Stories, was shortlisted for the PNBA award.    

MYCHAEL URBAN is a national writer for MLB.com, the official web site of Major League Baseball, and a regular guest on FoxSports TV, ESPN Radio, and MLB.com Radio. He is the author of ACES: A SEASON ON THE MOUND WITH THE OAKLAND A'S "BIG THREE"–TIM HUDSON, MARK MULDER AND BARRY ZITO.

LEE VAN DER VOO is an independent journalist based in Portland, Oregon, focused on enterprise and investigative journalism. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, High Country News, Atlantic.com, Slate, CNN and others. Lee is a regular contributor to Investigate West, the Seattle-based nonprofit journalism studio. Her work has been nationally recognized by IRE and the Society of Environmental Journalists and supported by the Fund for Environmental Journalism, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and an IRE Fellowship. She was a 2013 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. Her first book, The Fish Market: The Rise of Ocean Landlords and the Unmooring of Tradition out from St. Martin’s Press, won the Oregon Book Award.  Her second book, As the World Burns, was published by Timber Press/Workman. 

LUBA VIKHANSKI is an award-winning author with 25 years of experience as a popular science writer. She graduated from New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program in 1989 and worked for five years as a medical journalist in Manhattan, mainly as a staff reporter at the Medical Tribune News Service, syndicated by the NewYorkTimes. She has been a freelance contributor to the NewYorkTimes, Nature Medicine and the JerusalemPost, and has written two books: A WELL-INFORMED PATIENT’S GUIDE TO BREAST SURGERY, which won the 1993 Rose Kushner Award of the American Medical Writers Association; and IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CORD: SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF SPINAL CORD REGENERATION. Vikhanski currently works as a science writer at the internationally renowned Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Her next book, PAPA METCH: THE FORGOTTEN NOBEL LAUREATE WHO CHANGED THE COURSE OF MODERN SCIENCE is forthcoming.

BILL VLASIC is the Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times and a former journalist with the Detroit News, and the author, with Brad Stertz, of TAKEN FOR A RIDE, an in-depth investigation into the merger between automotive giants Daimler and Chrysler. His most recent book is ONCE UPON A CAR, about the auto industry crises.

KEN WAISSMAN is one of only two producers in the history of Broadway to have a musical run over 3000 performances and a play run over 1000. Waissman developed and produced the original Broadway production of Grease as well as the long running iconic hits Agnes of God by John Pielmeier and Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein. Waissman’s prolific Broadway efforts have resulted in four motion picture features, a PBS TV special, 25 Tony Award® nominations, 5 Tony Awards® including a Tony Award® as Best Play Producer. He is currently working on Josephine, an original musical inspired by Josephine Baker, an African-American W.W.II hero and the legendary star of the Folies Bergère in Paris.

DAVID WANN, formerly with the Environmental Protection Agency, is the author, along with John De Graaf and Thomas Naylor, of AFFLUENZA, which uses the metaphor of disease to tackle the very serious subject of the American obsession with material gain. His follow-up book, titled SIMPLE PROSPERITY, is a more personal look at this cultural disease. His most recent book is THE NEW NORMAL, about making value-driven decisions for a sustainable world.

PAULA WARD is an experienced investigative trial reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering both federal and state courts. Her first book, CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT, a chronicle of the investigation and trial in the dramatic case of Dr. Autumn Klein's death by poisoning at the hands of her much older husband is forthcoming.

MICHAEL WATERS has written for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, WIRED, Vox, The New York Times, and other publications, and is a recipient of the Martin Duberman Visiting Fellowship at the New York Public Library. His debut book of nonfiction, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS: FASCISM, QUEERNESS, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SPORTS, is the story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture wars. https://www.michaelwaters.com/about

FANNIE WEINSTEIN is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in a number of national publications including People magazine. Her first book, THE COED CALL GIRL MURDER, was co-authored with Melinda Wilson. She is also the author of two more true crime titles, WHERE BODIES ARE BURIED, and most recently, PLEASE DON'T KILL MOMMY!, about one man who murdered his wife and got away with it, only to marry and kill again.

CURT WEISS has spent over thirty years working in the media industry. During the 1980s, using the stage name “Lewis King,” he was one of the premier drummers on the New York music scene, playing with major label artists including the Rockats and Beat Rodeo. He is currently a television documentary producer and the author of TAKE A CHANCE WITH ME: JERRY NOLAN, THE NEW YORK DOLLS AND PUNK ROCK.

LEANA WEN, M.D is the former Director of Planned Parenthood and the former Baltimore City Health Commissioner.  Most recently, Dr. Wen has been an attending physician and Director of Patient-Centered Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. As a professor of Emergency Medicine at the School of Medicine and of Health Policy at the School of Public Health, she co-directed GWU’s Residency Fellowship in Health Policy, co-led a new national collaboration on health policy and social mission with Kaiser Permanente, and served as founding director of Who’s My Doctor, a campaign calling for radical transparency in medicine. The author of the critically acclaimed book When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests, Dr. Wen has given four popular TED and TEDMED talks on patient-centered care, public health leadership, and healthcare reform. A Rhodes Scholar and former National President of the American Medical Student Association, she has reported for the New York Times, authored a regular column for the New Physician, and served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, the Brookings Institution, and China Medical Board. Dr. Wen has given presentations on patient advocacy on five continents, and has been featured in TIME, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Teen Vogue, China Daily News, and the HBO documentary Reporter. Her memoir, LIFELINES, is published by Holt Metropolitan.   

PHIL WEST is an Austin, Texas-based writer, a lecturer with The Writing Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a contributor to MLSSoccer.com, Howler, and SB Nation's Stars and Stripes FC. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Austin Chronicle, and San Antonio Express-News. His first book is THE UNITED STATES OF SOCCER, on Major League Soccer and the rise of American fandom. I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN: THE PATH TO A US MEN’S WORLD CUP VICTORY was published in 2018.

The late DEBRA WEYERMANN was an award-winning journalist and worked for the Norfolk-Ledger-Star, Arizona Daily Star, Denver Post, and The Santa Barbara News-Press. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune,Harpers, Mirabella, and Children’s Beat. She is the author of THE GANG THEY COULDN’T CATCH, about a group of middle-aged professional bank vault robbers. Her latest is ANSWER THEM NOTHING, about Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff’s crusade against the powerful Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

JOSEPH A. WILLIAMS is the Deputy Director of the Greenwich Library (Connecticut) and formerly head of the collections and assistant director of SUNY Maritime College’s Stephen B. Luce Library, which specializes in nautical research. His books include FOUR YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, SEVENTEEN FATHOMS DEEP and most recently, THE SECRET GOLD: WORLD WAR I, THE LAURENTIC AND THE GREATEST TREASURE SALVAGE IN HISTORY.

MARGARET WILLSON is a Seattle-based anthropologist and writer whose books include the award-winning memoir DANCE LEST WE ALL FALL DOWN: BREAKING CYCLES OF POVERTY IN BRAZIL AND BEYOND, and SEAWOMEN OF ICELAND: SURVIVAL ON THE EDGE, which was a finalist for the Washington State Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2017. She is currently working on an historical  biography of a female Icelandic crime-solving sea captain. www.margaretwillsonbooks.com 

SUE WILTZ has been a reporter at People and Newsweek magazines. She is the author of SLAVE MASTER, the true-crime account of serial killer John Edward Robinson.

CHRISTOPHER WINANS is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and Wall Street equity analyst specializing in the insurance industry who is now Senior Vice President, External Affairs, at AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company. He is the author of two biographies: THE KING OF CASH: THE INSIDE STORY OF LAURENCE TISCH and MALCOLM FORBES: THE MAN WHO HAD EVERYTHING.

R. FOSTER WINANS was a career journalist when he was fired from the Wall Street Journal in 1984 and prosecuted by US Attorney Rudolph Guiliani for leaking advance word of his stock-market columns to a broker in return for a share of the profits, for which he served nine months in a federal prison. His first book TRADING SECRETS: SEDUCTION AND SCANDAL AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL was published in 1986. He is currently a freelance writer and editor.

Author, podcaster and journalist KATE WINKLER DAWSON is a professor at University of Texas’ School of Journalism.  She is a seasoned documentary producer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, WCBS News and ABC News Radio, Fox News Channel, United Press International, “PBS NewsHour” and “Nightline.” Her first book, DEATH IN THE AIR: The True Story of the Great Smog, a Serial Killer and the Strangling of a City, was published in 2017 by Hachette Books.  Her next books, AMERICAN SHERLOCK: Murder, Forensics and the Birth of American CSI and ALL THAT IS WICKED were published by Putnam.  She is the host of the podcasts Tenfold More Wicked, Wicked Words, and the co-host of Buried Bones with Paul Holes, all on Exactly Right Media.   

MARCUS WOHLSEN is a San Francisco-based science writer for Wired. He writes about the impact of biotechnology on society with a focus on genetic testing, personalized medicine, synthetic biology and bioethics, and has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the Guardian. His first book, BIOPUNK, chronicles a rising geek underground that wants to do for DNA what the Internet did for information.
marcuswohlsen.com

NAOMI WOLF is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers THE BEAUTY MYTH, THE END OF AMERICA, and GIVE ME LIBERTY. She is the cofounder of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, which teaches ethics and empowerment to young women leaders, and is also a cofounder of the American Freedom Campaign, a grassroots democracy movement in the United States whose mission is the defense of the Constitution and the rule of law. She is CEO of DailyClout.io, which brings democracy tools to everyone.

MICHAEL WOLRAICH is a political blogger who works as an entrepreneur and freelance web developer when not writing for dagblog.com and Talking Points Memo. His latest is BLOWING SMOKE, which examines the right wing’s tactic of persecution politics, explores the history of the trend and the implications for the future of American politics. He is currently at work on WHEN THE WAR BEGAN, the story of the beginning of the progressive political movement, following closely the lives of all the major political, economic and journalistic players as they careen through history and one another’s lives.

YTASHA L. WOMACK is an award-winning author, filmmaker, independent scholar, and dance therapist. She is a leading expert on Afrofuturism who lectures on the imagination and its applications across the world. Her next book, The AFROFUTURIST EXPERIENCE, is forthcoming from Chicago Review Press’s Lawrence Hill imprint. 

DAVID WOOD is a corporate speaker and humorist. His first book is AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY ROUNDS: CHASING A GOLF BALL FROM TIERRA DEL FUEGO TO THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. Formerly a stand-up comedian with several appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, he contributes to golf publications and writes a monthly humor column called “Off the Cuff” for Grand Tour magazine.
www.DavidWoodSpeaking.com

DARLA WORDEN is editor in chief of Mountain Living magazine and founder/director of the Left Bank Writers Retreat in Paris. A Wyoming native and life-long Ernest Hemingway fan, Worden discovered that the author spent summers from 1928 to 1939 in her home state. Her book, COCKEYED CRAZY: HEMINGWAY’S WYOMING SUMMERS WITH PAULINE, shows Wyoming as an influential place in Hemingway’s life just as Paris, Africa, Cuba, Key West and Sun Valley have anchored past works. And it casts his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, in a new light, as devoted stepmother, mother and wife playing a major role in Hemingway’s life and work. www.darlaworden.com

MARIA YAGODA is a reporter, editor, and essayist specializing in food, sex, and culture. Her popular Vice sex column, “Sex Machina,” explored the intersection of sex and technology and was translated into French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, People Magazine, Glamour, Time, Vice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hairpin, BuzzFeed, and more. She lives in Brooklyn with her chihuahua Bucatina.

DR. THOMAS YANNIOS is a renowned expert in the field of nutrition, who currently works in critical care and nutritional support at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of THE HEART DISEASE BREAKTHROUGH and THE FOOD REPORT CARD.

AMY YEE is a journalist for Bloomberg News covering Equality. She is an award-winning American journalist, writer and poet, a former staff reporter and foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, based in New Delhi and New York. As a journalist, she focuses on solutions to social problems, such as climate change adaptation and mitigation through renewable energy; reducing deaths of children and mothers in developing countries; and improving safety in Bangladesh’s garment factories; and much more. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Geographic, The Guardian, The Nation, The Atlantic.com, Foreign Policy.com, International Herald Tribune, NBCNews.com, Forbes, The Lancet, Science Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, ScientificAmerican.com, The Daily Beast, Undark, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Globe, Ms. Magazine, Slate,  among other publications. Her first book, BEYOND EXILE, a narrative account of Tibetans who fled their country, is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press. 

CATHERINE ZABINKSI is a Professor of Plant and Soil Ecology at Montana State University. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Minnesota, and my research interests include restoration of metal-contaminated sites and high elevation sites, the ecology of extreme environments, plant-soil interactions in natural systems, and the soil ecology of sustainable agriculture. Her book ETERNAL HARVEST: THE EXTRAORDINARY BIOGRAPHY OF WHEAT is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.

G. PASCAL ZACHARY is a writer, teacher, and researcher. He is a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and columnist for the New York Times. He has taught writing and reporting at Stanford University and the University of California Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of four books, including ENDLESS FRONTIER: VANNEVAR BUSH, ENGINEER OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY and THE DIVERSITY ADVANTAGE: MULTICULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE NEW WORLD ECONOMY. His most recent book, MARRIED TO AFRICA, is a memoir about his interracial relationship with a Nigerian woman who would become his wife.
www.gpascalzachary.com
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GEORGE ZAIDAN is a science communicator, television and web host, producer, and card-carrying nerd with ten years’ experience telling compelling stories. He co-hosted CNBC’s hit TV series, Make Me a Millionaire Inventor. He created, wrote, and hosted National Geographic’s webseries Ingredients; and he co-wrote and directed MIT’s webseries Science Out Loud. He has also written and voiced several TED-Ed viral videos. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Boston Globe, National Geographic Magazine, NPR’s The Salt, NBC’s Cosmic Log, Science, Business Insider, and Gizmodo. Zaidan holds an S.B. in Chemistry from MIT, where he won the F.D. Greene Teaching Award. He is a New Media Consortium Emerging Leader and Khan Academy Talent Search Winner, and has also been honored by the Goldwater Foundation and Merck.

DR. ANTONIO ZADRA holds a PhD in clinical psychology, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal and senior researcher at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur’s Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine. He is the founder and director of the university’s Dream Laboratory and leads a multidisciplinary team of clinical researchers investigating recurrent dreams and dream-related disorders, including nightmares and sleepwalking. Dr. Zadra has been invited to speak about his work at dozens of scientific conferences and general public events in the United States, Canada, England, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan. His research has been featured in television documentaries (e.g., PBS Nova, BBC Horizon, CBC’s The Nature of Things) and written up in various magazines, including the New Yorker, Slate, Huff Post, The Guardian, Bloomberg, le Figaro, Men’s Health and New Scientist. His book, When Brains Dream, written Robert Stickgold, is forthcoming from Norton.

JAYNE ZANGLEIN is passionate about publicizing the accomplishments of women ignored by history. Like the founding members of the Society of Woman Geographers, she believes that marginalized groups become visible through empathic reporting, law, and democracy. She has a J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is the author of several law books. Jayne has traveled to 58 countries. You can follow her journeys on polarsteps.com.

MARC ZIMMER is the Jean Tempel '65 Professor of Professor of Chemistry at Connecticut College. He has published four books; Optogenetics (2018), Bioluminescence(2015), Illuminating Disease (2015) and Glowing Genes (2005), written articles on science and medicine for the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Huffington Post, etc. and has been interviewed and quoted in the Economist, Science, Nature etc. Zimmer curates the GFP website, tweets about GFP (@lightUpScience) and he has published over 60 research papers about cow flatulence, computational chemistry and bioluminescence in fireflies and jellyfish. Zimmer is the initiator and director of the Connecticut College Science Leaders program, a program to increase the number of women and minority students graduating from the College with a degree and research experience in the sciences. His newest book, THE STATE OF SCIENCE, is forthcoming from Prometheus.

ERIN ZIMMERMAN is a recovering scientist. An evolutionary biologist turned science writer and essayist, she holds a B.Sc. in plant biology and physics from the University of Guelph, as well as a masters in fungal genetics and a doctorate in molecular systematics from the Université de Montréal’s biodiversity institute at the Montreal Botanical Garden. Erin was awarded the prestigious Alexander Graham Bell scholarship, totaling over $100,000, to conduct her doctoral research. During that time, she was sent all over the world in the name of botany. Erin strives in her writing to explore the intersection of science with the beauty and struggle of everyday life. Erin’s work has appeared in New York Magazine’s The Cut on three occasions, Smithsonian Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Undark, Narratively, where she published an essay based on a chapter from this book project, and most recently, HuffPost Personal. Her first book, UNROOTED: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science is published by Melville House.