Authors

DAVID NASAW is a historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the bestselling author of The Last Million, named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus, and History Today; The Patriarch, a New York Times best nonfiction book of the year; Andrew Carnegie,  winner of the New-York Historical Society's American History Book Prize; and The Chief, winner of the Bancroft Prize. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. In 2023, he was honored by the New York Public Library as a “Library Lion.”

CLEYVIS NATERA is the author of Neruda on the Park. She was born in the Dominican Republic, migrated to the United States at the age of 10, and grew up in New York City. She holds a B.A. from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University. Her writing has won awards and fellowships from the International Latino Book Awards, PEN America, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshops, the Vermont Studio Center, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Rowland Writers Retreat, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently a Fulbright Specialist.  The Grand Paloma Resort (Ballantine Books) is her second novel.

With 6 million readers worldwide, JULIA NAVARRO weaves intimate lives and global circumstance with candid honesty. Despite hanging up her journalist credentials after the success of her third novel, her "precision of language" gets to the heart of the matter at every line. Published in more than 30 countries, her work conjures universal appeal as she pursues an intellectual and personal passion for authenticity and truth. Whose truth? The characters, the historical moment, her own – truths that get to the center of our collective contemporary soul.

JULIA NAVARRO ha cautivado a millones de lectores con las ocho novelas que ha publicado hasta la fecha: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa (de la que el pasado mes de febrero se lanzó una edición conmemorativa por su vigésimo aniversario), La Biblia de barro, La sangre de los inocentes, Dime quién soy, Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto, Historia de un canalla, Tú no matarás y De ninguna parte. Sus libros se han editado en más de treinta países y de Dime quién soy se ha producido una ambiciosa serie de televisión a cargo de Movistar. También es autora del ensayo Una historia compartida. Con ellos, sin ellos, por ellos, frente a ellos.

Award-winning author DANIEL NAYERI, who was born in Iran and immigrated to Oklahoma as a refugee, captivated readers with his poignant memoir Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story), which received a Printz Award, and the epic adventure The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams, recipient of a Newbery Honor. A former publisher, editor, and pastry chef, he resides along the East Coast with his family.

JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT is a writer, Oscar-nominated filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker, and he has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards; named to the Time100 Next 2021 list; and nominated for an Academy Award for his first documentary, Sugarcane. Directed alongside Emily Kassie, the film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where the duo won the Directing Award in U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq̓éscen̓ and a descendant of the Líl̓wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night (Knopf) is his first book.

ALI NOVAK, born and raised in Wisconsin, is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of contemporary young adult novels. She started writing her debut book, My Life with the Walter Boys, when she was only 15. Since then, her work has garnered more than 150 million online reads. When she isn't writing, she enjoys traveling with her husband, Jared; binding fan fiction; and reading any type of fantasy novel she can get her hands on.

GEORGE O'CONNOR is the New York Times bestselling author of the Olympians series, graphic novels that feature the tragic, dramatic, and epic lives of the Greek Pantheon and its counterpart series, Asgardians, which focus on the Norse gods. His first graphic novel, Journey into Mohawk Country, uses text from the actual historical journal of the 17-century Dutch trader Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. O'Connor illustrated Adam Rapp’s Ball Peen Hammer and teamed up with writer Daniel G. Newman on Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy, the first volume in the World Citizen Comics series. He is also the creator of popular picture books such as the bestselling Kapow! and If I Had a Triceratops.

Born in Cork, Ireland, PÁDRAIG O'TUAMA is a poet with interests in conflict, language, and religion. He presents the Poetry Unbound podcast from On Being Studios and has published two anthologies (2022, 2025, both with W.W. Norton & Company) informed by it. In early 2025, Copper Canyon Press published Kitchen Hymns, his fourth poetry collection. A freelance artist, one of Ó Tuama’s projects includes being a poet-in-residence with the Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Center at Columbia University.

Born in Havana, DR. ROLANDO M. OCHOA, PH.D., grew up in the entertainment industry. He began performing as an 8-year-old; by the age of 9, he had his own TV show and had starred in a film. After fleeing Cuba for the U.S. in the 1960s, he served in the Vietnam War, earned both a master’s and a doctoral degree in management; and built a 41-year banking career while also teaching management and performing. He has published an autobiography, a dissertation, and various articles. Married for 59 years, he and his wife have six children and 10 grandchildren. The Five Seekers (Independently published) is his first novel.

MIRTA OJITO is a journalist, professor, and author of two nonfiction books. She is the recipient of an Emmy for the documentary Harvest of Misery as well as a shared Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001, for a series of New York Times articles on race. A refugee from Cuba, her work often explores the complexities of identity, belonging, and the quiet power of resilience. She lives in Coral Gables, Florida, where she is endlessly inspired – and occasionally outnumbered – by her three grown sons and too many plants. Deeper than the Ocean: A Novel (Union Square & Co.) is her first book.

CONNIE MAE OLIVER is a poet and artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first book of poems, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan Ann Druyan Steven Soter and Me (Operating System, 2017) is about nuclear disarmament. Her second book, Science Fiction Fiction (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), is an homage to Miami-Dade County and color photography in the early aughts. Her most recent collection, dormilona (Burrow Press, 2025), focuses on dreams, Venezuelan identity, and matrilineal memory. Her first novel, Close Encounters, is forthcoming in 2028 from Texas Review Press.

LISE OLSEN is an investigative reporter and editor, and the award-winning author of Code of Silence and The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys (Random House). Her reports have contributed to the prosecutions of a former congressperson and a federal judge, inspired laws and reforms, helped solve cold cases and identify murder victims, and freed wrongfully held prisoners. Her writing has appeared on NBC News and in the Texas Observer, Houston Chronicle, Texas Monthly, and other media outlets. She is featured in Netflix’s The Texas Killing Fields, Paramount+’s The Pillowcase Murders, CNN’s The Wrong Man, and the A&E series The Eleven.

HANNAH ORENSTEIN is the author of the recently published Maine Characters: A Novel (Dutton) and the novels Meant to Be Mine, Head Over Heels, Love at First Like, and Playing with Matches, as well as the deputy editor of lifestyle and wellness at Bustle. She splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Maine.

JACQUELINE OSHEROW is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Divine RaCos (2023). She’s received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the WiVer Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Ins3tute of Arts and LeVers, as well as a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies. She is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah and an essayist in Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time.

ZIBBY OWENS is the founder of Zibby Media, which includes the award-winning daily podcast Totally Booked with Zibby, Zibby Publishing in New York, and Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica, California. She is the author of six books, including the USA Today bestsellers Blank: A Novel and On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates. Follow her on Substack and Instagram @zibbyowens where she tells it like it is.

GEORGE PACKER is an author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, winner of the National Book Award; The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq; and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. He is also the author of two novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell.

JOE PAN is the author of five poetry books and the founder of Brooklyn Arts Press, one of the smallest independent houses ever honored with a National Book Award in Poetry, and the publisher of Augury Books, honored with a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. His writing has appeared in the Boston Review, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and Poets & Writers, and he’s been profiled by Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, and The Wall Street Journal. He grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and now lives in Los Angeles, where, with his wife, he cofounded BAH, an activist group that serves unhoused populations with sleeping bags and goods. Florida Palms: A Novel (Simon & Schuster) is his fiction debut.

ED PARK is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Personal Days, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. He is a founding editor of The Believer and has worked in newspapers, book publishing, and academia. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo, New York, he lives in Manhattan with his family.

EMMA PATTEE is a climate journalist and fiction writer. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

IMANI PERRY is the National Book Award-winning author of South to America, as well as eight other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur fellow.

TORREY PETERS is the bestselling author of the novel Detransition, Baby, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and was named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in comparative literature from Dartmouth. She rides a pink motorcycle and splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and an off-grid cabin in Vermont.

ABBY PHILLIP anchors CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, where she deftly moderates one of the most dynamic and exciting conversation shows on television. Each night, she brings together a diverse group of perspectives to debate the day’s biggest stories, driven by honesty, the facts, and the pursuit of common understanding. With a unique contextual approach to current affairs informed by her award-winning background in dogged Washington reporting, she keeps the powerful honest in hard-hitting interviews and hosts interesting discussion with a variety of perspectives. Her many roles at CNN since joining the network in 2017 have included White House correspondent, senior political correspondent, and anchor of Inside Politics. In January 2020, she moderated the network’s Democratic presidential debate in Iowa and anchored special coverage of election night that year, and has been an essential player in CNN’s special coverage of a range of other political events, including election nights, State of the Union addresses, and the January 6 committee hearings. Prior to joining CNN, she worked at The Washington Post, ABC News, and Politico. Throughout her career, she has covered multiple presidents and presidential, campaign finance, and lobbying. Named to the Time 100 Next list in 2021, she is also a recipient of the National Urban League’s Women of Power award. She was nominated for a news and documentary Emmy Award for her coverage of Black maternal health on “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper – Homebirth: Saving Black Moms.” She serves on the board of the News Literacy Project and the senior advisory committee of the Harvard Institute of Politics. Phillip was raised in Bowie, Maryland, and is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in government. When not on television, she spends time with her husband, daughter, and their dog, Booker T.

A recipient of the Silver Musgrave Medal and Marcus Garvey Excellence Award, GEOFFREY PHILP is a poet, educator, and Garvey scholar whose work bridges literature, history, and cultural empowerment. A faculty member at the Marcus Garvey Education Academy, he is the author of poetry, fiction, and essays centered on the African diaspora, including Garvey’s Ghost, Marcus and the Amazons, and My Name is Marcus. Philp's newest book, Unstoppable You: 50 Quotes from Marcus Garvey to Inspire Greatness (Mabrak Books), transforms its subject's wisdom into practical lessons for today’s youth.

CAMILO PINO es un autor venezolano radicado en Miami. Es el autor de Valle Zamuro, Mandrágora y Crema Paraíso, obras publicadas en España, los Estados Unidos y Venezuela por editoriales como Pre-Textos, Alianza Editorial y Suburbano. Ha colaborado con medios como Letras Libres, El New York Times y la revista Boom. Además de su trabajo literario, Pino se dedica a escribir y desarrollar contenido para televisión.

CARLOS PINTADO (Pinar del Río, Cuba, 1974) es graduado de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa. Además de poeta, es narrador, ensayista y dramaturgo. Recibió el Premio Paz 2014, concedido por The National Poetry Series y Miami Book Fair, por su libro Nueve monedas (publicado en edición bilingüe español e inglés). También obtuvo el premio internacional de poesía Sant Jordi 2007, en España, por Habitación a oscuras. Entre sus poemarios, se destacan Los nombres de la noche, El unicornio y otros poemas, La sed del último que mira, Instrucciones para matar un ciervo y El árbol rojo. En 2024, publicó HaiCuba/HaiKuba un libro de haikus para niños en colaboración con Lawrence Schimel. Colaboró La experiencia del exilio: un viaje a la libertad, coordinado por Emilio Estefan. Desde 2010, varios de sus poemas han sido musicalizados e interpretados por grupos de música de cámara de Estados Unidos. Poemas, cuentos y artículos suyos han sido traducidos al inglés, alemán, turco, portugués, italiano y francés.

HANNAH PITTARD is the author of the novels Listen to Me and The Fates Will Find Their Way. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell fellow, and the Guy M. Davenport Professor in English at the University of Kentucky.

A native Floridian, CRAIG PITTMAN is the author of the nonfiction Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther and The New York Times bestseller Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country. Since 1998 he has reported on environmental issues for Florida's largest newspaper, Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times). He co-wrote with Matthew Waite Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss, and since then he has written Manatee Insanity: Inside the War Over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species and The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchids.

ANDE PLIEGO began writing stories when she discovered she could actually wield her overactive imagination for good. When not reading or writing, she can usually be found dabbling in art, scheming up her next trip, or making constant expeditions to the library. Born in Florida, raised in France, and having left footprints all over the globe, Pilago is now settled in the Pacific Northwest with her craftsman husband and little son. You Are Fatally Invited: A Novel is her first book.

IVY POCHODA is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Art of Disappearing, Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These Women, and Sing Her Down, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France, and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, among others. For many years, she taught creative writing at Studio 526 in Los Angeles' Skid Row, and she is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert's low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles.