Authors

TAYLOR BYAS is an award-winning poet and a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati. Her collection I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems won the Maya Angelou Book Award, the Ohioana Book Award, the CHIRBy Award, and the BCALA Best Poetry Honor.

The Argentine writer GABRIELA CABEZÓN CÁMARA has worked at various jobs, from selling car insurance in the street to cultural journalism. She is the author of the novels Slum Virgin, Romance of the Blonde Brunette, and The Adventures of China Iron, which was shortlisted for the International Booker and Médicis prizes. She is an environmental activist and a co-founder of the feminist movement Ni Una Menos.

JAIME CABRERA GONZÁLEZ nació en Barranquilla, Colombia. Escritor, periodista y profesor. Tiene un título de arquitecto. Desde 1992 reside en Miami Beach, Florida. Ha publicado la novela En un bosque de la China y los libros de relatos Como si nada pasara y otros cuentos, Miss Blues 104 °F y Textos sueltos bajo palabra/Autobiografía de los sueños. Algunos de sus cuentos aparecen en antologías de este género. Cuenta con textos en compilaciones de no ficción. Ha sido premiado y distinguido en concursos literarios en varios países. Dirige el Taller de Escritura Creativa de la Miami Beach Regional Library desde hace 10 años.

CHLOÉ CALDWELL is the author of Women: A Novella, the memoir The Red Zone: A Love Story, and the essay collections I’ll Tell You in Person: Essays and Legs Get Led Astray. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Bon Appétit, The Cut, MSNBC, Autostraddle, Longreads, and Nylon, as well as in anthologies including Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class and Sluts. Caldwell offers writing support at scrappyliterary.com. She lives in Hudson, New York.

ADA CALHOUN is The New York Times bestselling author of Crush: A Novel (Viking), hailed by the Today show as a "best romance" and praised by The Washington Post for its "whirlwind of desire and possibility." She is also the author of the memoir Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, which The New York Times called “a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul." Past books include Why We Can't Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis; Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give; and St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street.

GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems; Apocalyptic Swing: Poems, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Rocket Fantastic: Poems, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. They are the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship at Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler, The New York Times, Poetry, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. They are an editor-at-large at Los Angeles Review of Books and poetry editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a nonfiction book entitled The Year I Didn't Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi was the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022-2023. They teach at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and live in Old East Durham, North Carolina, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry is The New Economy (Copper Canyon Press).

LUCAS CANTOR SANTIAGO is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author. He finished Franz Schubert's The Unfinished Symphony with artificial intelligence; the “completed” symphony is regularly performed around the world. He scored the teases (the pieces leading into the kickoff) to Super Bowl LVII featuring Bradley Cooper and Super Bowl LIX featuring Brad Pitt. He co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. He co-wrote the theme music for Major League Soccer on Fox, Breakfast Ball on FS1, and The Facility on FS1. He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City; Athens; Torino, Italy; Beijing; Vancouver, Canada; London; Sochi, Russia; Rio de Janeiro; PyeongChang, South Korea; Tokyo; and Paris. He won two Emmys for his work with the Olympics (2008 and 2012). In addition to his music career, he is a founder and general partner at Mindset MusicTech, a venture capital firm that invests in music technology.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist JONATHAN CAPEHART is a co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC. From 2020 until 2025, he was the anchor of The Saturday Show and The Sunday Show. He is also an analyst on  PBS NewsHour. Capehart is a former associate editor at The Washington Post, where he was an opinion writer for 18 years. He was also the deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News from 2002 to 2004 and served on its editorial board from 1993 to 2000, during which time the  board won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for its campaign to save the Apollo Theater.

DR. MICHELLE CARR, PH.D., is the director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory in the Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, assistant professor at the University of Montreal, and former president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Alongside her research and work as a dream engineer, she has published numerous scientific papers, a popular Psychology Today blog, and articles for New Scientist, Aeon, and Scientific American.

ADRIANA CARREÑO es escritora y mediadora de lectura colombiana. Cursé la carrera de Estudios Literarios en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y en ese mismo centro hice la Maestría de Escrituras Creativas unos años después. También cursé la Maestría de Promoción de Lectura y Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, en Cuenca, España. En 2012 gané el V Premio Barco de Vapor Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango y la Fundación SM Colombia con la novela Una carta para Luciana, recientemente reeditada bajo el sello Alfaguara. Otros libros que ha publicado son Encuentro en La laguna (Norma), Animales que viven en mí (Edelvives), Música para fantasmas (Penguin Random House) e Historias que corren como ríos (Panamericana). También he publicado varios cuentos en antologías y compilaciones.

PABLO CARTAYA is a sought-after speaker, actor, educator, and the award-winning author of The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish: A Novel, Each Tiny Spark, The Last Beekeeper, and Curveball. Learn more about him at PabloCartaya.com and follow him online @PHCartaya.

ROBERT CASPER is the head of poetry and literature in the Literary Initiatives Office of the Library of Congress. In that position, he has overseen the U.S. Poet Laureate program for the last 14 years – and has interviewed laureates Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Ada Limón for Miami Book Fair.

SARA CATE is a New York Times bestselling author of contemporary, forbidden romance. Her stories are known for their heart-wrenching plots and toe-curling heat. Living in Arizona with her husband and kids, she spends most of her time working in her office with her goldendoodle by her side.

MELISSA CHAN is an Emmy-nominated Hong Kong and Taiwanese American foreign correspondent based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She was previously posted in China until she became the first journalist in more than a decade to be expelled by Chinese authorities in 2012. Much of her reporting examines human rights, the rise of global authoritarianism, and the defense of democracies. Her work has taken her from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Moscow to Havana. She has written for The New York Times, where she was nominated for a Loeb Award – business journalism’s highest honor – and The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, and more. As a broadcast correspondent, she has reported for Vice News Tonight and Al Jazeera. You Must Take Part in Revolution (Street Noise Books) is her debut graphic novel.

JADE CHANG’s debut novel, The Wangs vs. the World, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and has been published in a dozen countries. Her journalism and essays have recently appeared in The Best American Food Writing, and in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times magazines. She also writes for film and TV. She lives in Los Angeles.

VICTORIA CHANG has written several books of poetry, including With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and The Trees Witness Everything, and a nonfiction book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Her poetry collection OBIT was named a New York Times Notable Book; received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award; was longlisted for the National Book Award; and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. With My Back to the World received the Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry and was shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the California Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Chang has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and the director of Poetry@Tech.

DAN CHAON is the author of several books, including Ill Will, a national bestseller named one of the 10 best books of the year by Publishers Weekly; the national bestseller Await Your Reply: A Novel; Among the Missing: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award; and others. His fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and the O. Henry Collection. He was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine Award in fiction and The Shirley Jackson Award, and was the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in literature. Chaon lives in Cleveland.

BOB CHAPLIN is an artist, landscape designer, and wine writer working with mixed media, installation, video, and limited-edition books. His work explores cultural perceptions of the land, nature, and wilderness as well as our contemporary interactions with the landscape. His artwork and limited-edition books are in the collections of the Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art Library, Whitney Museum of American Art Library, Art Institute of Chicago, Yale Center for British Art, Getty Research Institute Library, British Council, and Stedelijk Museum. He has written about libations for The Hartford Courant, Gastronomica, Hartford Magazine, and The New England Wine Gazette.

LARRY CHARLES rose from the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York, and the working-class housing projects of Donald Trump’s nefarious father, Fred, to become the director of Borat, Bruno, The Dictator, and Religulous, among others. He directed Bob Dylan and an all-star cast – including Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, and Penelope Cruz – in the film Masked and Anonymous, which he and Dylan wrote together. He has also directed numerous episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and was one of the original writers and producers of Seinfeld. He is a Peabody, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award winner. Since the Malibu fires, he and his wife and two dogs are vagabonds.

THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture and Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race. He is a visiting professor of humanities and senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a columnist at Harper’s Magazine, he has written for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and Le Monde, among other publications. He lives in Paris and New York.

CATHY LINH CHE is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and the author of Becoming Ghost: Poetry (Washington Square Press) and Split. She also co-authored the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History with Kyle Lucia Wu. Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY, and her film We Were the Scenery won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. Che teaches as core faculty in poetry at the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles and is the executive director at Kundiman. She lives in New York.

ESTHER CHEHEBAR is a contributing writer at Tablet magazine, where she covers Sephardic Jewish tradition and community, and a member of Sephardic Bikur Holim, a nonprofit supporting the growing Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA from The New School and her work has been featured in Glamour and Man Repeller. Her first book, I Share My Name, is an illustrated children’s book explaining the Sephardic tradition of naming children for their grandparents. She lives in New York with her husband, their kids, their Ori-Pei named Jude, and a couple of fish. Sisters of Fortune: A Novel (Random House) is her debut novel.

One of contemporary American music’s biggest names, KENNY CHESNEY has been selling out major stadiums across the nation for two decades, playing to more than 1 million fans every summer since 2002. He’s sold more than 35 million albums and won the prestigious Entertainer of the Year eight times, and holds Billboard’s record for the Most Country #1s, with 36 chart-topping songs. The first country artist to perform at the groundbreaking Sphere, Chesney took No Shoes Nation into a new dimension. Creating a space to work hard, play hard, love hard, and come together in the spirit of celebrating all those moments, his popularity grows year after year. Heart • Life • Music (HarperCollins) is his first book.

JUAN CARLOS CHIRINOS (Valera, Venezuela, 1967). Estudió Literatura en Caracas y Salamanca. Novelas: El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira, Nochebosque, Gemelas, Los cielos de curumo, Renacen las sombras y El informe sobre Clara. Relatos: Leerse los gatos, Homero haciendo zapping, Los sordos trilingües, La manzana de Nietzsche y La sonrisa de los hipopótamos. Biografías de: Alejandro Magno, Einstein, Bolívar y Miranda. Ensayo: Venezuela, biografía de un suicidio. Desde 2023 es miembro correspondiente de la Academia Venezolana de la Lengua. Colabora con el “Papel literario”, en Caracas, “Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos” y “The Objective”. (X: @juance / Ig: @juance67).

SUSAN CHOI's latest book is Flashlight: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which is currently longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Booker Prize. She is also the author of Trust Exercise: A Novel, which received the National Book Award for Fiction, and The Foreign Student: A Novel, American Woman: A Novel, A Person of Interest: A Novel, and My Education: A Novel. She is a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary award, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

CHRISTOPHER CLAREY covered global sports for The New York Times and The New York Times International Edition (formerly The International Herald Tribune) for more than 30 years from bases in France, Spain, and the U.S. He wrote a general sports column, In the Arena, for 16 years. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on tennis and the Olympics, reporting from more than 100 Grand Slam tournaments and from seven Summer Olympics, seven Winter Olympics, and nine world track and field championships. In 2021, his in-depth biography of Roger Federer, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer, became a New York Times bestseller and international success. Fluent in French and Spanish, he has traveled in and reported from more than 70 countries on six continents. In 2018, he received the Eugene L. Scott Award from the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He is also a past winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the breaking news category for coverage of South African runner Caster Semenya. A former television commentator for Eurosport, he has made regular appearances for more than 20 years on major international television and radio outlets. His other areas of expertise include soccer and sailing; he has covered six World Cups and five America’s Cups. He also has reported on nearly every major international sport, covering 21 British Opens, 10 Ryder Cups, eight world figure skating championships, the Super Bowl, and the Rugby Union World Cup. He is a graduate of Williams College, where he majored in English and history and was a soccer goalkeeper, captain of the volleyball team, and the No. 1 tennis player. He and his wife, Virginie, are proud parents of three multilingual daughters and are based in the Boston area and Paris.

TIANA CLARK is the author of the collections Scorched Earth: Poems; I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, which won the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; and Equilibrium, which won the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Her other honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Tennessee State University, where she studied Africana and women’s studies, and is the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College. Find out more at www.TianaClark.com.

HEATHER CLARK earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University. Her recent awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar fellowship; a Leon Levy Center for Biography fellowship at the City University of New York; and a Visiting U.S. Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library. A former Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, she is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which has been translated into five languages; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972. Red Comet was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography, and was a New York Times top 10 book of 2021. Clark’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Harvard Review, Time, Air Mail, Literary Hub, and the Times Literary Supplement. She lives outside of New York.

MONIQUE CLESCA is a Haitian writer, journalist, and feminist democracy advocate whose memoir, Silence and Resistance: Memoir of a Girlhood in Haiti (Wordeee), recounts a youth shaped by dictatorship, censorship, and the defiant voices that nurtured her. A former senior United Nations official, she served with United Nations Population Fund in Niger and as a communications officer with UNICEF in Haiti before turning to independent policy work focused on women’s rights, youth, and governance. In civil society, she helped craft the citizens’ Montana Accord and serves on the commission advancing a Haitian solution to the current crisis. Her essays and op-eds have appeared in outlets from Foreign Affairs and The New York Times to Haitian media, and she speaks widely about the rule of law and elections. Splitting time between Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Miami, she continues to champion survivor-centered responses to gender-based violence and the rebuilding of Haiti’s institutions through civic leadership and dialogue.

JELANI COBB is the dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of several books, including The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. He is the co-editor/editor of The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker and The Essential Kerner Commission Report: The Landmark Study on Race, Inequality, and Police Violence, and a producer/co-producer on documentaries including The Riot Report. He received the Peabody Award in 2020 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. He serves on the board of directors of the American Journalism Project and The New York Public Library Board of Trustees.