KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Iranian Author Best Known for "Children of the Jacaranda Tree"

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the "Grisha Trilogy"

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

Poet, Fiction Writer & Professor at Western Michigan University

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Spoken Word Educator, High School English Teacher & Author

Author of "Dial A for Aunties" & "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers"

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "Puddin',"Dumplin'" & "Side Effects May Vary"

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

Author & Illustrator Known For "Lost in Translation"

Award-Winning Poet & Multimedia Artist

Transgender Poet Known for "feeld"

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet