Kyla Zhao

Kyla Zhao had her first women’s magazine byline at the age of sixteen, writing about weddings for Harper’s Bazaar Singapore before she even had her first kiss. Since then, she has also written for the Singapore editions of Vogue and Tatler.…

Brian Young

Author and filmmaker Brian Young is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. He grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. Young earned his BA in film studies at Yale University and his MFA in creative writing at Columbia University. He is…

Victoria Ying

Victoria Ying is an author and artist living in Los Angeles. She started her career in the arts by falling in love with comic books, which eventually turned into a career working in animation and graphic novels. She loves Japanese curry, putting…

Ilyon Woo

Ilyon Woo is the New York Times bestselling author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom and The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times.…

Ali Winston

Ali Winston is an independent reporter covering criminal justice, privacy, and surveillance. His work has been rewarded with several awards, including the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. Winston is a graduate of the University…

Colin Winnette

Colin Winnette's books include Coyote, Haints Stay, and The Job of the Wasp, which was an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Pick. Winnette’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney’s, The…

Monica Wesolowska

Monica Wesolowska is the author of the memoir Holding Silvan: A Brief Life and the picture books Leo + Lea and Elbert in the Air. She teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension and Stanford Continuing Studies and lives in Berkeley with…

Laura Wenus

Laura Wenus is a San Francisco–based multimedia journalist who has worked in digital, print and radio newsrooms on daily, breaking, and enterprise stories. She hosts the San Francisco Chronicle's SFNext: Fixing Our City podcast.

Glynn Washington

Before creating the Snap Judgment show heard on over five hundred NPR radio stations, Glynn Washington worked as an educator, diplomat, community activist, actor, political strategist, fist-shaker, mountain-hollerer, and foot-stomper. Washington…
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Brooke Warner

Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What’s Your Book?, and three books on memoir. Brooke is a TEDx speaker and the former…