Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is an award-winning novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and her novel The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton won the 1999 Spur…
Cherilyn Parsons
Cherilyn Parsons is the founder and executive director of the Bay Area Book Festival (launched in 2015 in Berkeley, California), which is one of the most prominent literary festivals in the USA. Parsons also created Women Lit, which elevates…
Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold's Ghost and To End All Wars</em (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller),…
Grant Faulkner
Grant Faulkner is the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the cofounder of 100 Word Story. His work has been widely anthologized in flash-fiction collections, and he is the author of several books, including…