Sasha Hom is a text-based artist. Her first novella, Sidework, was a New Immigrant Writing Series selection and was published by Black Lawrence Press in March of 2025.... Read More

Hana Park is an editor at Simon & Schuster, where she focuses on acquiring narrative nonfiction, memoirs, pop culture, history, biographies, and literary fiction. Her... Read More

L. Annette Binder’s short stories have appeared in the Pushcart and O. Henry Prize anthologies and been performed on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Her story... Read More

Aaron Starmer is the author of more than a dozen middle grade and young adult novels, including The Riverman Trilogy, The Locker 37 series, The Only... Read More

Peter S. Canellos is the managing editor for enterprise at Politico, overseeing the site’s magazine, investigative journalism and major projects. Before that, he was the... Read More

Hyeseung Song is the author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl. Her book has been described as a “scorchingly honest…hugely evocative memoir” in... Read More

Author Steve Kemp has spent most of his adult life working in national parks, from cook at a park concession in the Grand Tetons to... Read More

Alison Espach is the author of the instant New York Times best-selling novel The Wedding People, a Today #ReadwithJenna Book Club pick. The book has... Read More

Marjan Kamali is the  nationally best-selling author of The Lion Women of Tehran, a novel that People described as an “evocative read and a powerful... Read More

Melodie Winawer is the author of The Scribe of Siena, which has been translated into German, Czech, Polish, and Norwegian to critical acclaim. Melodie is... Read More