KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Author, Illustrator & Founder of FableVision

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

Bestselling Author and Illustrator of "Jamberry"

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

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

Director, Storytelling Consultant, Former Pixar Animator, Story Artist, Creativity Expert & Author

Award-Winning Poet & Multimedia Artist

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator Known for "Thank You, Mr. Falker"; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

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

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

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

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

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet & Professor at NYU

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

Internationally Recognized Graffiti Artist, Entrepreneur & Bestselling Author of "Unthink"