House
Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of the novels Clay’s Quilt, 2001; A Parchment of Leaves, 2003; The Coal Tattoo, 2005; Eli the Good, 2009; and Same Sun Here (co-authored with Neela Vaswani) 2012, Southernmost (June 2018), and Lark Ascending (September 2022), as well as a book of creative nonfiction Something’s Rising, co-authored with […]
Vasquez Gilliland
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland is a Mexican American poet, novelist and painter. She’s most inspired by fog and seeds and the lineages of all things. When not writing, Raquel tells stories to her plants and they tell her stories back. She lives in Tennessee with her beloved family and mountains. Her first poetry collection was Dirt […]
Mahdavi
Pardis Mahdavi, PhD is the incoming Provost and Executive Vice President at the University of Montana. She is also currently the Dean of Social Sciences and Director of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU, Mahdavi was Acting Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the […]
Grande
Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (2012) where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant. The much-anticipated sequel, A Dream Called Home, was released in 2018. Her other works include the novels, Across a […]
Goudeau
Jessica Goudeau is a journalist, professor, producer, and advocate. Her first nonfiction book, After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and a Christopher Award, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book, World Magazine’s “Understanding the World” Book of the Year, […]
Gharib
Malaka Gharib is a journalist, cartoonist and graphic novelist. She is the author of I Was Their American Dream, winner of the 2020 Arab American Book Award, and It Won’t Always Be Like This, a graphic memoir about her summers in the middle east. By day, she works as a digital editor at NPR for […]
Sylvester
Natalia Sylvester is the Pura Belpré and Schneider Family honor winning author of the young adult novel Breathe and Count Back from Ten, and the award-winning author of the young adult novel Running, which was a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection and a 2021 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List selection. She is also the […]
Stamper
Born in Germany and raised in New York City, Vesper Stamper has been an illustrator for over 20 years and also writes and illustrates novels of historical fiction, including her newest novel, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, about the Great Plague of 1348. Her debut illustrated YA novel, What the Night Sings, about the experience […]
Soentpiet
Even though Yin was born in Brooklyn, she couldn’t understand English when she was young, because her parents only spoke to her in Chinese. At that time, her family lived in an apartment on the 19th floor of a very tall building. Climbing all those stairs was horrible, and she felt the same way about school. […]
Ford
Jamie Ford is a Northwest author most widely known for his bestselling Seattle-based novels. His debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, […]