Mann
J. Albert Mann is a disability activist and award-winning author of books for young people. Her work focuses on history, social justice, equity, disability, eugenics, gender, economics, and labor. So…all the fun stuff. Her first work of historical fiction—SCAR: A REVOLUTIONARY WAR NOVEL—highlights the large role Indigenous Nations played in the war, a conflict which they […]
Tyson
Alana Tyson is an award-winning storyteller, author, and retired Intelligence Officer. She’s also a mom, actress, journalist, and native New Yorker. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY Alana always had a passion for reading and writing. She earned two degrees in mass media, was a freelance writer for a NY-based business publication, and a production […]
Greenberg
David Greenberg is distinguished professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His latest book, John Lewis: A Life (Simon & Schuster, 2024), a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, has been called “panoramic and richly insightful” (Brent Staples, The New York Times) and a biography that “captures Lewis’s life, achievements, and times with […]
McNamee
Libby Carty McNamee is a speaker, lawyer, and award-winning author of three upper middle grade novels in the “Remember the Ladies” Series: Susanna’s Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War, Dolley Madison and the War of 1812: America’s First Lady, and The Union Spymistress: The Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, as well as […]
Yang
Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American teacher, speaker, and writer. Her work crosses audiences and genres. She is the award-winning author of the memoirs, The Latehomecomer, The Song Poet, Somewhere in the Unknown World, and Where Rivers Part. Yang co-edited the groundbreaking book, What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss […]
Bailey
New York Times Bestselling author Tessa Bailey can solve all problems except for her own, so she focuses those efforts on stubborn, fictional blue collar men and loyal, lovable heroines. She lives on Long Island avoiding the sun and social interactions, then wonders why no one has called. Dubbed the “Michelangelo of dirty talk,” by […]
Caffall
EIREN CAFFALL is a writer and musician. She has published the novel, All the Water in the World (Saint Martin’s Press, 2025), which was selected as a Barnes and Nobel Discover Book, and an award-winning memoir, The Mourner’s Bestiary (Row House Publishing, 2024). An excerpt of her memoir appeared in Elementals: Volume IV. Fire Center […]
Wagner Lloyd
Megan Wagner Lloyd is the Eisner-nominated writer of bestselling and award winning graphic novels and other books for kids. Megan’s graphic novels ALLERGIC and SQUISHED, co-created with illustrator Michelle Mee Nutter, have won numerous state readers’ choice awards, in addition to both being instant indie bestsellers. ALLERGIC was nominated for an Eisner award and named […]
Erdely
In addition to being a published author, Ashley Erdely is an educator, writer, devoted parent, and passionate nature enthusiast. She grew up on a 130-acre llama ranch in Northern Michigan, where having llamas as best friends felt completely normal. Her childhood was shaped by camping trips and visits to national parks across the country—experiences that […]
Salomon
Nadia Salomon is an award-winning journalist and children’s author. She holds a journalism and public policy degree from Emerson College. Her award-winning bedtime picture book, Goodnight Ganesha is illustrated by Poonam Mistry, is a Bank Street Best Children’s Book, an ALSC Día Selection, and #NCTEWow Poetry Honor book. A Voice of Hope is her acclaimed […]