KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

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

Best-Selling Author of the "Goosebumps" Series; Emmy-Award Winning TV Show & Film Producer

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Podcast Host & Speaker

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Longmire" Series

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

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

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Award-Winning Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Former Navy SEAL & Author Known for "The Terminal List" Series; Host of the "Danger Close" Podcast

American Photographer, Freelance Writer & Author of "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America"

Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Novelist & Best-Selling Non-Fiction Author; Best Known for "Mindhunter"

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

Author of the New York Times Bestselling and Critically Acclaimed "Temeraire" Novels

International Bestselling Author; Known for the "Neal Carey Mysteries"

New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "The Radium Girls" & "The Woman They Could Not Silence"

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

Public Historian, Equity Advocate & Award-Winning Author Known for "Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells"

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Heft," "The Unseen World," "Long Bright River" & "The God of the Woods"; Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Temple University