Authors

MELISSA BRODER is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, including Superdoom. She has written for The New York Times, Elle, and New York Magazine.

DAVID BROOKS is one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and appears regularly on PBS NewsHour and Meet the Press. He is also the bestselling author of The Road to Character; The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement; Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There; and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.

MEG CABOT's many books for both adults and teens have included numerous No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than 25 million copies of her nearly 80 published books sold in 38 countries. These include the 1-800-Where-R-You? series – reprinted under the title Vanished and made into the Lifetime series Missing – as well as All-American Girl and Avalon High, which served as the basis of an original Disney Channel movie. And her beloved Princess Diaries series was the basis for two hit big-screen films by Disney, with a third coming soon. Her latest book is Enchanted to Meet You: A Witches of West Harbor Novel (Avon).

ANA CASTILLO, born and raised in Chicago, is the author of the bestselling novels So Far from God, The Guardians, Peel My Love Like an Onion, and Sapogonia, and the poetry collection I Ask the Impossible. She has received numerous awards, including the 2018 PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award and the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement, and this year was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.

URU-CHAN (Chelsey Han) always loved manga and anime, and she taught herself how to draw and write her own stories. As a teen, she enjoyed posting short comics online for others to read. She is the writer, illustrator, editor, and producer of the action webcomic unOrdinary, which she created for the digital platform Webtoon's Superhero contest.

MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY is the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College. She is the author of several scholarly books and works of fiction, including the widely acclaimed 2021 novel, What Storm, What Thunder: A Novel.

ALEXANDRA CHANG is the author of Days of Distraction. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and her writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Guernica, and elsewhere.

RITA CHANG-EPPIG's stories have appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, Santa Monica Review, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories 2021 (selected by Jesmyn Ward), and elsewhere. She received her MFA in fiction from New York University, and fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation/Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Writers Grotto, and Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.

COLIN CHANNER was born in Jamaica and educated there and in New York. His 10 books as a fiction writer, poet, and editor include Console (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a finalist for a 2023 New England Book Award; the collection Providential, a finalist for the 2016 OCM/Bocas Prize in poetry; the anthology Kingston Noir, a Spectator Magazine (UK) Best Book of 2012; and the novel Waiting in Vain, a national bestseller. His prose and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Bomb, The Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Conjunctions, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications. A social entrepreneur, Channer is a co-founder of the not-for-profit Calabash International Literary Festival Trust, a leading presenter of writing workshops, literary performances, publishing seminars, and film screenings, all at no cost to the public.

ROZ CHAST's cartoons began appearing in The New Yorker in 1978, where she has since published more than 1,000. She is the author of the graphic memoirs Going Into Town, winner of the New York City Book Award, and the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize winner, and a finalist for the National Book Award; What I Hate: From A to Z; and the collections The Party, After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995-2003 and Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health- Inspected Cartoons, among others. Her latest book is I Must Be Dreaming (Bloomsbury Publishing).

CHEN CHEN was born in Xiamen, China, and has lived in western Massachusetts, upstate New York, and west Texas. His debut poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, was longlisted for the National Book Award and won several prizes. He is also the author of a collection of essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God, and four chapbooks, most recently GESUNDHEIT!, a collaboration with Sam Herschel Wein. Chen's poems have been translated into French, Greek, Russian, and Spanish. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and also serves on the poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.

CURTIS CHIN is a former network TV writer and an award-winning filmmaker and activist who has been recognized by ABC/Disney Television, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and more. Since leaving TV to transition to social justice documentaries, he has screened his films at more than 600 venues in 16 countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appétit, and the Boston Globe's Emancipator, and is a co-founder and the first executive director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York City. His debut book is Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir (Little, Brown and Company).

ANTONIO CHIRINOS is a Miami-based photographer and educator who explores the themes of death and the vulnerability of life. A tenured professor of photography at Miami Dade College, Chirinos was trained as a biomedical photographer at Miami Children's Hospital, created the medical photography department at Baptist Health Systems, holds an MFA from New York's Columbia University, and has seen his work widely exhibited. The Precipice (Gnomic Books), his first monograph, is the summation of nearly two decades spent working as a biomedical photographer in Miami.

JINWOO CHONG is a writer whose short stories and other works have appeared in The Southern Review, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature. In 2022, he received the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Fiction from The Southern Review and a special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology. Flux (Melville House) is his first novel.

AMY CHUA is the bestselling author of several nonfiction titles, including her 2011 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. She practiced law on Wall Street before joining the Yale Law School faculty in 2001. The Golden Gate: A Novel (Minotaur Books) is her fiction debut.

NICOLE CHUNG is the author of A Living Remedy: A Memoir (Ecco). Her previous book, All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir, was a national bestseller, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and an Indies Choice Honor Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.

JON CLINCH has written several novels including Marley (Atria), Finn, Kings of the Earth, The Thief of Auschwitz, and Belzoni Dreams of Egypt. Formerly a creative director for various advertising agencies in the Philadelphia area, Clinch has lectured and taught widely in settings as varied as Duke University, the Mark Twain House and Museum, and Pennsylvania State University. His latest book is The General and Julia: A Novel (Atria Books), a historical tale about Ulysses S. Grant.

ARMANDO CORREA is the author of the previous historical novels The German Girl, which became an international bestseller, and The Sister's Tale, as well as the memoir In Search of Emma: How We Created Our Family. His most recent work of fiction is The Night Travelers: A Novel (Atria Books).

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON is the author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Viking). A professor of history at Boston College and an expert in 19th-century America specializing in politics and economics, she is the author of the newsletter Letters from an American. Richardson's previous books include How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. She co-hosts the podcast Now and Then with Joanne Freeman.

ELIZABETH CROOK has published five previous novels, including The Which Way Tree, The Night Journal, and Monday, Monday, a Kirkus Best Book of 2014 and winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. The Madstone: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company) is her latest book.

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM's novels include The Hours, a New York Times bestseller and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner Award; A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen; and the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales and the nonfiction book Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, author EDWIDGE DANTICAT came to the United States at the age of 12 and long called Miami home, where she was an active member and supporter of the city’s large Haitian community. She has written numerous books, including her critically acclaimed debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; Mama’s Nightingale, a heartbreaking and beautifully illustrated picture book about immigration; The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, a memoir-like  reflection on her mother’s battle with cancer and an examination of how other writers approach the subject of death; and her most recent book, Everything Inside: Stories, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius" grant. Her inspiring words and work have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere.

OLIVER DE LA PAZ is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in poetry. His work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, and Poetry, and in anthologies and periodicals such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation and The New York Times. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, de la Paz teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Holden, Massachusetts.

ANJANETTE DELGADO is a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami. She is the author of The Heartbreak Pill: A Novel and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho. She has written for The New York Times' "Modern Love" column, Vogue, NPR, HBO, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, The Hong Kong Review, and other publications. She is also a contributor to the collection Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (Amistad).

PASCALE DOXY is a native of Haiti, where she worked for more than a decade in the school system. After immigrating to the United States, she embraced both her interest in painting and writing; her art often mirrors the texts she writes. Her success in the art world has been recognized by the American media, including in various magazines. She is the author of the bilingual poetry collections Journal d’Étrangers (Foreign Diary) and Concerto du Coeur (Concerto of the Heart), a romantic series of works published in both French and English. In 2022, Doxy published her first young adult historical novel in French, Les Enfants de la Cause, which was published in English in 2023 as Heirs to a Cause: A Novel (Pascale Doxy).

ANDRE DUBUS III is the author of Such Kindness: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company) and eight previous books, including the bestsellers Townie: A Memoir, and House of Sand and Fog, a National Book Award finalist in fiction and Oprah's Book Club selection.

TANANARIVE DUE is the author of The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Akashic Books), her second collection of short fiction. She has published nine previous books, including The Living Blood: A Novel, which won the 2002 American Book Award, and Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. Due and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote for Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone TV series reboot and for streamer platform Shudder's anthology film Horror Noire, for which she was executive producer, also co-wrote the Black horror novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan and named a best graphic novel of the year for 2022 by The Washington Post.

Author and documentary filmmaker DAYTON DUNCAN wrote and produced Country Music, a 16-hour series broadcast, and has penned 12 books, including Out West: American Journey Along the Lewis and Clark Trail; Miles From Nowhere: In Search of the American Frontier, and Seed of the Future: Yosemite and the Evolution of the National Park Idea. He has worked with Ken Burns as a writer and producer of documentary films for nearly 30 years, including projects focusing on Lewis and Clark and Mark Twain. He has most recently been working with Burns as the writer of The American Buffalo, a four-hour documentary for PBS.

BOB ECKSTEIN is an illustrator and writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. He is also the author of The New York Times bestselling Footnotes From the World's Greatest Bookstores. His work has been exhibited in the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, the Smithsonian Institution, The Cartoon Museum of London, and the Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University. He is the editor of the series The Ultimate Cartoon Book by the World's Greatest Cartoonists, a contributing editor at Writer's Digest, and he teaches at New York University. His latest collection is The Complete Book of Cat Names (That Your Cat Won't Answer to, Anyway) (Countryman Press).

JONATHAN EIG is the author of King: A Life (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), the first major biography of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in decades. A former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal, he is also a New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Ali: A Life, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season.