Chambers
Essie Chambers is an author and award-winning independent producer. Her bestselling debut novel, Swift River—a Today Show “Read with Jenna” Book Club pick—won the 2024 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, Elle, and more. It won the Ernest J. […]
Moore
Tanisia “Tee” Moore is a revered voice of African American storytelling known affectionately as “your family’s favorite author.” She writes for young people under her own name and in adult contemporary romance as Nisia Roye. The common thread in all her books is her deep love of sharing life lessons embedded in Black culture. Tee’s […]
Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Stephen’s been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature […]
Hickey
Jon Hickey was born in Mankato, Minnesota and grew up in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He is an enrolled citizen of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Anishinaabe). He currently lives in San Francisco with his family. He is the author of the novel Big Chief (Simon & Schuster, 2025). His short fiction […]
Oakley
Colleen Oakley is the USA Today bestselling author of six novels. Her book The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise was a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Reader’s Digest Book Club pick, a Marie Claire Book Club pick, and named a most anticipated read for 2023 by the Today Show. Colleen’s novels have […]
Newman
Leigh Newman’s collection Nobody Gets Out Alive was long listed for the National Book Award for Fiction and The Story Prize. Her stories have appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories 2020, Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023, Tin House, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, One Story and Electric Literature, and have been awarded […]
Duncan
Violet Duncan is Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation. As an accomplished author, educator, dancer, and storyteller, she has toured both nationally and internationally, sharing her talents and promoting wellness and cultural education across the US, Canada, and Europe. After becoming a mother of four and seeing the need for greater Native representation […]
Pizza
Andy J. Pizza is a New York Times Bestselling author-illustrator of many books for children and adults such as Invisible Things and A Pizza with Everything On It. Pizza is also the creator of the popular podcast “Creative Pep Talk” which Vanity Fair says “is every bit as bright and effervescent as its title would […]
Thanhauser
Sofi Thanhauser is a writer, artist, and musician, based in Brooklyn. She is the author of Worn: A People’s History of Clothing (Pantheon, January 2022). Her writing has appeared in the MIT Technology Review, American Craft, Vox, The Guardian, Observer Magazine, Dame, and LitHub, among other publications. She is a 2024 Climate Works Fellow, and […]
Egawa
Chenoa Egawa is Coast Salish of the Lummi and S’Klallam Nations of Washington State. She is a published author and illustrator of the children’s chapter book The Whale Child in partnership with her brother, Keith Egawa (2020). Prior to The Whale Child, Chenoa and Keith self-published their first illustrated children’s book, Tani’s Search for the […]