Prince
Leona Prince is a Dakelh woman from the Nak’azdli Whut’en, belonging to the Lhts’umusyoo (Beaver Clan), and a proud member of the Lake Babine Nation. She is an educator, author, researcher, entrepreneur, and advocate whose work focuses on Indigenous education, land-based learning, family engagement, language revitalization, and reconciliation. Leona currently serves in educational leadership and […]
Rowe
Claudia Rowe has been writing about the places where youth and government policy clash for 35 years. Her book Wards of the State: the Long Shadow of American Foster Care was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction. And her true-crime memoir, The Spider and the Fly: a Writer, a Murderer and […]
Sage
Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree and Métis memoirist, journalist, essayist, poet, screenwriter, model, public speaker, and digital storyteller from amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta). Her debut memoir, Soft as Bones (House of Anansi Press), became an instant national bestseller and achieved Globe and Mail bestseller status. Its initial print run of 8,000 copies sold out in […]
Davis
DeAndra Davis is an award-winning neurodivergent, Jamaican-American author who lives somewhere in the mountains. Her debut ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE, a young adult contemporary novel, has been the recipient of many awards, inlcuding: the Amelia Elizabeth Walden award, the Robie Harris Youth Choice award, the Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality award, and the William C. […]
Sorensen
Annie Stone is one-half of the author duo behind the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series The Wolves of Ruin. Sable Sorensen is the pen name for Eliza and Annie, two fantasy fangirls who grew up on a steady diet of wizards, magical creatures, and sweeping love stories. Dire Bound, (March 2026),took the […]
Brodie
Emma Brodie is the New York Times bestselling author of Into the Blue, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, and Songs in Ursa Major which received the American Book Award. She is an executive editor at Clarkson Potter, where she has collaborated with many incedible authors including Mary Oliver, Christian Watson, Danielle Robay, Gloria Steinem, Jo […]
Smith
Brady Smith is a painter, actor, muralist, and children’s author & illustrator, whose books include You’re Missing It!, I’m Getting A Shark!, Bug Sandwich, and Random Acts Of Drawness! His Young Reader graphic novels include: Louie and Bear in the Land of Anything Goes, Louie and Bear Bite Back, Maxwell Dark: Nightmare Hunter, and Maxwell […]
O’Shaughnessy
Kate O’Shaughnessy is an award-winning middle grade and young adult author. Her books have won numerous distinctions and awards, including a Newbery Honor, the Northern California Book Award, and the Vermont State Book Award. Her work has been nominated for over thirty state award reading lists and recognized on best-of lists by places and publications […]
Marvel
Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and author based in Brooklyn, New York. Until April 2026, she was a research physicist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Now she is a Senior Climate Scientist at Project Drawdown. A former cosmologist, Marvel received a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge University and trained as […]
Danger
Laura Danger is an author, educator, facilitator, and leading voice on domestic equity, invisible labor, and the relationship dynamics that shape our everyday lives. She is the author of No More Mediocre: A Call to Reimagine Our Relationships and Demand More, published by Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Her writing has appeared in […]