KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Author & Illustrator Known For "Lost in Translation"

Transgender Poet Known for "feeld"

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

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

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

National Book Award Longlisted Poet

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

NYT Bestselling Author, Restorative Writing & Wellness Coach

Poet, Best-selling Author, Social Equity Advocate

Author & Creative Writing Professor; Best Known for "Tampa" & "Made for Love"

Young Poet, Educator, Activist & TED Speaker Known For "High School Training Ground"

New York Best-Selling Novelist of "The Ghost Bride" & "The Night Tiger"

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

Spoken-Word Poet & Musician Known For "To This Day"

Bestselling Author, Former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief, Suspense Novelist

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Chairman of Kurzweil Technologies, Inventor & Futurist; Author of "How to Create a Mind"

"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist