KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

Spoken Word Educator, High School English Teacher & Author

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

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

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

Author of "The Dig"

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

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

New York Times Best-Selling Author of Suspense

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"

Journalist, Biographer, Historian & Senior Editor at National Review

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

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

CEO of THIS Inc., Social Innovator & NYT Best-Selling Author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less"

International Crisis & Negotiation Expert; Public Health Advocate

Writer & Editor; Author of the "Daily Rituals" Books

Zombie Preparedness Expert, Author of "World War Z", Mkunga-Lalem Practitioner

President & CEO of the National Constitution Center & Contributing Editor of The Atlantic