Authors

QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Water by the Spoonful and the musical In the Heights, which won the Tony Award for best musical, and which she adapted for the screen. My Broken Language: A Memoir, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. Hudes' essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, The Nation, and American Theater Magazine. She is co-founder with her cousin Sean Ortiz of the prison writing program Emancipated Stories.

CYNTHIA HUDSON es una reconocida ejecutiva de medios, galardonada con múltiples premios, y propietaria de Hudson International Media. Ha sido pionera tanto en medios en inglés como en español, gracias a su innovación en la creación de contenidos y a su liderazgo estratégico. Durante 15 años, Hudson se desempeñó como Vicepresidenta Sénior y Directora General de CNN en Español y de la Estrategia Hispana de CNN/U.S., supervisando todos los negocios en español de CNN, incluidos CNNEspanol.com, Radio y CNNXpress Streaming. Antes de eso, fue Directora Creativa y Vicepresidenta Ejecutiva de SBS y Directora General de Mega TV, logrando convertirla en una marca mediática querida por el público. De 1997 a 2005, Hudson ocupó el cargo de Vicepresidenta Sénior y Directora Editorial de Cosmopolitan Television, donde creó Cosmo TV para España, Latinoamérica y Canadá. De 1994 a 1997 fue Vicepresidenta Sénior en United International, donde fundó Casa Club TV para América Latina y el mercado hispano de Estados Unidos. Además, creó y escribió la primera telenovela en inglés, Miami Sands, junto a Promark Entertainment en Hollywood. En los inicios de su carrera fue Vicepresidenta de Programación y Producción de Telemundo Network, donde rediseñó la programación, y de 1984 a 1992 ocupó diversos cargos en noticias, producción y dirección en Univisión, destacándose como Productora Ejecutiva de “TV Mujer”. Nacida en Los Ángeles, ella tiene títulos de Licenciatura y Maestría en Comunicación por la Universidad de Miami y es la orgullosa madre de tres hijas.

ELIZABETH R. HYMAN is the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Polish Jews who fled their homeland in 1939 and ultimately made their way, as refugees, to the United States. She earned dual master’s degrees in history and library and information science from the University of Maryland-College Park, and, since 2011, has written the history blog “HISTORICITY (was already taken).”

Nacida en Ciudad de México, ISABEL IBÁÑEZ DE LA CALLE es autora de Los ojos de mi padre (Suburbano Ediciones, 2023), una novela que entrelaza memoria, secretos familiares y silencios heredados. Divide su tiempo entre la investigación académica y la creación literaria, mientras cursa el doctorado en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Egresada del MFA en Escritura Creativa en Español de la Universidad de Nueva York (NYU), ha escrito sobre literatura de viajes, arte contemporáneo, arquitectura y teatro en medios como Esquire Magazine, Gatopardo y El Universal. Su obra transita con naturalidad entre la ficción, la no ficción y el teatro, y ha enseñado literatura y escritura en México.

ROSIE INGUANZO (Cuba, 1966) es escritora, actriz y performer. Caracteriza a su alter ego Eslinda Cifuentes en performances junto al violinista y compositor Alfredo Triff. Doctora en literatura iberoamericana y profesora universitaria, ha publicado la novela La Habana sentimental (Bokeh, 2018) y los poemarios Deseo de donde se era (Nos y Otros Editores, 2001), La vida de la vida (Hypermedia, 2018) y Baladas crueles (Ediciones Furtivas, 2023).

AYMANN ISMAIL is an award-winning Slate magazine staff writer whose journalism focuses on identity and religion. He is the creator of the Slate video series "Who's Afraid of Aymann Ismail?" in which he offers an intimate portrayal of American Muslims. Ismail also hosts Man Up – a podcast exploring men, relationships, family, race, and sex – which seeks to provide a blueprint for navigating discussions of masculinity. In addition to Slate, Ismail’s work has been featured on CNN and NPR, and in The New York Times, GQ, The Atlantic, Columbia Journalism Review, and the Huffington Post. His writing has been nominated for the National Magazine Award in reporting and he has won a Writers Guild Award. He lives in Newark, New Jersey, with his family.

HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. She is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Novel, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was nominated for the National Book Award. Fanonne Jeffers is also the author of five poetry collections, including The Age of Phillis, which won the NAACP Image Award and was longlisted for the National Book Award.

GISH JEN is the author of six novels, two books of stories, and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stories have been chosen for The Best American Short Stories five times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century; she has also delivered the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University. She and her husband split their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Her most recent novel is Bad Bad Girl: A Novel (Knopf).

MOLLY JONG-FAST is a contributing writer at Vanity Fair, a political analyst at MSNBC News, and host of the podcast Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast. She is the author of four books, including her latest, How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir (Viking).

A National Poetry Series finalist, JEN KARETNICK is the author of 13 collections of poetry, including Inheritance with a High Error Rate (Cider Press Review), winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award and semifinalist for the Poetry Society of Virginia 2025 North American Book Awards. Forthcoming books include What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems (Alternating Current Press, 2025), Domiciliary (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2026), and Organ Language (Lit Fox Books, 2026). The co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has recent or forthcoming work in Pleiades, Plume, Seneca Review, Shenandoah, Sixth Finch, swamp pink, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.

LANEY KATZ BECKER is an award-winning author and a writer and former literary agent. Her latest fiction work, In the Family Way: A Novel (Harper), was published in June 2025. Her other books include her debut novel, Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend and the nonfiction anthology Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite Stories. Born and raised in Ohio, Becker is a graduate of Northwestern University, a former resident of Chappaqua, New York. She lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with her husband and their Havanese.

ALLISON KING is an Asian American writer and software engineer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In technology, her work has ranged from semiconductors and platforms for community conversations to data privacy. A 2023 Reese’s Book Club LitUp fellow, her short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Diabolical Plots, and LeVar Burton Reads, among other publications. The Phoenix Pencil Company: A Novel (William Morrow) is her debut book of fiction.

GILBERT KING is the writer, producer, and host of Bone Valley, a narrative podcast about murder and injustice in 1980s central Florida, from Lava for Good podcasts. He is the author of three books, including Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A New York Times bestseller, the book was also named runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. King has written about race, civil rights, and the death penalty for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, and he was a 2019-2020 Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

EMMA KNIGHT is a Canadian writer. Her first novel, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus (Pamela Dorman Books), was both a No. 1 national and New York Times bestseller. She has also written two nationally bestselling cookbooks – The Greenhouse Cookbook and How to Eat with One Hand – and her essays have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, British Vogue, and Literary Hub. Knight is also the co-founder of Greenhouse, an organic beverage company based in Toronto. She studied modern European languages at the University of Edinburgh, and journalism and international affairs at Sciences Po Paris.

MARK KRIEGEL, a former sports columnist for the New York Post and the New York Daily News, is a boxing analyst and essayist for ESPN. His previous books include Namath: A Biography, Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich, and The Good Son: The Life of Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini.

HARI KUNZRU is the author of seven novels: Blue Ruin: A Novel, Red Pill: A Novel, White Tears: A Novel, Gods Without Men: A Novel, My Revolutions: A Novel, Transmission: A Novel, and The Impressionist: A Novel. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the “Easy Chair” column for Harper's Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn , New York, and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

EBONY LADELLE is the author of Love Radio, which was featured on the Today show and named a People’s best book of the summer, a 2023 Audie Award Finalist, 2023 Michigan Notable Book, Apple Books’ best book of 2022, and an Amazon's Editor Pick. A Baldwin fellow, she’s also the author of the young adult romance This Could Be Forever (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) and editor of You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs (Delacorte Press). Prior to becoming an author, LaDelle was a brand marketing director in book publishing and worked at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, among others. She can be found online at www.ebonyladelle.com and followed on social media at @ebonyladelle.

ANDREW LAM fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975 when he was 11 years old. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in biochemistry before switching to creative writing at San Francisco State University. He is a journalist and short story writer, currently serving as the web editor of New America Media. His previous books include Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres, and Birds of Paradise Lost. His most recent book is the collection Stories from the Edge of the Sea (Red Hen Press).

Born in Havana, IVONNE LAMAZARES left Cuba at the age of 13 and settled in Florida. Her long fiction debut, The Sugar Island: A Novel, was translated into seven languages. Her short fiction and nonfiction work have appeared in Latina, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and three Florida Individual Artist fellowships. She lives in Miami and teaches writing at Miami Dade College.

LIHI LAPID is an author and journalist whose books deal with contemporary women’s issues. She is the author of the bestselling novel Secrets from Within and On Her Own; a cookbook entitled Lihi Lapid’s Favorite Recipes, and a bestselling children’s book, The Magic Whisper. Prior to becoming a writer, Lapid was a professional photographer. Educated at the prestigious Camera Obscura School of Art and Tel Aviv University, she served in the Israel Defense Forces as a photographer for its Bamahane magazine. She lives in Tel Aviv with her husband, Yair Lapid, the former prime minister of Israel, and their two children.

LIHI LAPID is an author and journalist whose books deal with contemporary women’s issues. She is the author of the bestselling novel Secrets from Within and On Her Own; a cookbook entitled Lihi Lapid’s Favorite Recipes, and a bestselling children’s book, The Magic Whisper. Prior to becoming a writer, Lapid was a professional photographer. Educated at the prestigious Camera Obscura School of Art and Tel Aviv University, she served in the Israel Defense Forces as a photographer for its Bamahane magazine. She lives in Tel Aviv with her husband, Yair Lapid, the former prime minister of Israel, and their two children.

AMY LAROCCA is an award-winning American journalist. She spent 20 years working at New York Magazine as both fashion director and editor-at-large. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Town & Country, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives with her family in New York and North London.

AE HEE LEE, who holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author of the poetry chapbooks: Bedtime || Riverbed, Dear Bear, and Connotary, which was selected as the winner of the 2021 Frost Place Chapbook Competition.

MIA LEONIN is the author of four poetry collections: Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child: Poetry (BKMK Press), Braid: Poems, Unraveling the Bed, and Chance Born, as well as the memoir Havana and Other Missing Fathers. She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

DARIA LAVELLE is an American fiction writer born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and raised in the New York metro area. She holds degrees in writing from Princeton University and Sarah Lawrence College, and her work explores themes of identity and belonging through magic and the uncanny. Her short fiction has appeared in Dark Matter, The Deadlands, Dread Machine, and elsewhere.

MIRIAM LEWIN is a radio and television investigative journalist based in Buenos Aires, and a seven-time nominee for the Martín Fierro Prize. A political activist during Argentina's civic-military dictatorship, she was kidnapped and disappeared. After being released she was a witness in the "Trial of the Juntas" in 1985, and in numerous cases for crimes against humanity. In 2020 she was elected by the Argentine Congress as defender of the audiences, a position she held until June 2024. Her investigative work revealing the facts of the Argentine junta's "death flights" was featured on 60 Minutes and the podcast series The Burden: Avenger. Lewin also served as a consultant and co-author for the script of the Argentine television series based on her book Iosi, the Remorseful Spy (Seven Stories Press).

Born in London to a secular father and a Jewish mother, TOBY LLOYD studied English at Oxford University before moving to America to pursue an MFA in creative writing at New York University. His short stories and essays have appeared in Carve Magazine and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

E. LOCKHART is The New York Times bestselling author of the Liars novels: We Were Liars, adapted into an original series on Amazon Prime Video; Family of Liars; and We Fell Apart (Delacorte Press). Her other books include Again Again, Genuine Fraud, and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. She has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Award, and an honoree for the Printz Award.

DAINERYS MACHADO VENTO es escritora, editora e investigadora literaria. Es autora de los libros de cuentos Las noventa Habanas y Retratos de la orilla, y de los ensayos literarios Los muchachos en Trumplandia y El estruendo de Ciclón. La nueva revista cubana. Dainerys es Doctora en Estudios Literarios, Lingüísticos y Culturales por la Universidad de Miami y tiene una Maestría en Literatura Hispanoamericana por El Colegio de San Luis, A.C., México. Sus relatos han formado parte de antologías publicadas en varios países, y traducidos al portugués, inglés e italiano.

Born and raised in Kolkata, India, New York Times bestselling author MEGHA MAJUMDAR is a 2022 Whiting Award winner. Her novel A Burning was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal. It was also named one of the best books of the year by various media outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Vogue, and Time. She holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Johns Hopkins.