#1 New York Times best-selling novelist, author of 9 books including House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and Townie.
Sunday Times Bestselling author of nine books and writer of The Hyphen, one of the UK’s top Substack newsletters.
Cofounder and chief brand officer of Betches Media, and award-winning podcast host and author.
Filmmaker and former executive at Walt Disney Studios and National Geographic Films, has been involved in a prolific catalogue of award-winning films and plays, which have won or been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
NYT Best-selling and award-winning author of the collection Friday Black and the novel Chain-Gang All-Stars.
Award-winning of the short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Currently at work developing TV shows based on her short fiction.
Author of If They Come For Us, When We Were Sisters, and After. Creator of the emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls.
Author of the books The January Children, Girls That Never Die, Home Is Not A Country, and Bright Red Fruit.
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Acclaimed poet and novelist, author of Martyr!, a New York Times Bestseller, the 2024 recipient of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Fiction, a 2024 Discover Prize Finalist, and a 2024 National Book Award Finalist.
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Acclaimed poet and NYT bestselling memoirist, Maggie is the author of seven award-winning books.
Acclaimed author of three essay collections, Megan’s work appears in the Best American Essays and the NYT.
Poet and author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric, three plays including HELP (2020, The Shed, NYC), and numerous video collaborations.
Miami-born, Scotland-based award winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her latest book, the novel Someone’s Gotta Give, was a USA Today bestseller. Her memoir My What If Year was featured on Good Morning America and was a People Magazine and Boston Globe best book.
Award-winning writer, producer, director, actress, and cultural leader whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling, advocacy, and creative excellence. Executive producer, co-creator, co-showrunner, director, and actress of the Emmy-winning series One Day at a Time. Creator and showrunner of Amazon’s critically acclaimed With Love.
Writer, playwright, organizer, & educator. Browne’s books include Chrome Valley, A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe, Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned for a play by Steppenwolf Theater), Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne was the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner.