Cervantes
J.C. is a New York Times best-selling author. Her books for children, young adults, and adults have been published in more than twelve countries and have appeared on national lists, including the American Booksellers Association New Voices, Barnes and Noble’s Best Young Reader Books, as well as Amazon’s, Apple’s, and Audible’s Best Books of the Month. She has […]
Cartaya
Pablo Cartaya is an internationally acclaimed author, screenwriter, speaker, and educator. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, and on Oprah’s Booklist. Pablo has worked with Disney, Apple+, and Sesame Street on projects adapted from television series and movies. In 2021, he served as a judge for the National […]
Blum
Jenna Blum is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family; memoir Woodrow on the Bench, about her senior black Lab and what his last seven months taught her; novella “The Lucky One” in the collection Grand Central; audio course The Author At […]
Barker
Barker was born January 7, 1971 in Lombard, Illinois and spent the first fourteen years of his life in Crystal Lake, Illinois. A staunch introvert, he was rarely seen without a book in hand, devouring both the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series by the age of six before moving on to classics such as […]
Àbíké-Íyímídé
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is the instant New York Times, International bestselling & Award-winning author of Ace of Spades, billed as ‘Get Out meets Gossip Girl’, Entertainment Weekly has called it “Summer 2021 hottest YA debut.” Her next novel, Where Sleeping Girls Lie, is another YA contemporary romance about a girl new to boarding school who discovers […]
Copaken
Deborah Copaken is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including Shutterbabe, The Red Book, Between Here and April, and Ladyparts, her most recent memoir of bodily destruction and resurrection during marital rupture (Random House, 2021). A contributing writer at The Atlantic, she was also a writer on the Emmy/Golden Globe-nominated Netflix hit, […]
Tripp
Dawn Tripp is the acclaimed, bestselling author of five novels and winner of multiple awards. Her newest book, Jackie, was released in June of 2024. In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. Her fourth novel, Georgia, is a […]
Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and The Ibis Trilogy, consisting of Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and […]
Schwartz
Dana Schwartz is the creator and host of the number one-charting podcast Noble Blood, produced by iHeartRadio, in which she tells the lesser-known stories of royals throughout history. She is also the host of the iHeartRadio original podcast Haileywood, about Bruce Willis’s attempt to become a real-estate mogul in a small town in Idaho in […]
McBride
Amber McBride is currently an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. She received her BA in English from James Madison University in 2010 and acquired her MFA in Poetry from Emerson College in 2012. She has also taught English Composition, English Literature and Poetry Composition at James Madison University, Strayer University and Northern Virginia […]