Every year, attending the First-Year Experience® Conference is a highlight for our speakers and our team. We enjoy meeting with our academic partners from across the country and sharing ideas on programming that inspires and empowers students during their initial year of college.
Where can you find us?
- If you have registered for any of the Penguin Random House author events, we’ll see you at the Author Breakfast on Monday, February 19th 7:15AM – 8:45AM and/or at the Author Lunch on Monday, February 19th from 12:15PM – 1:45PM. All details can be found here.
- Booth 45-46
What speakers can you see at our breakfast and lunch events?
Pervical Everett
Internationally acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize finalist
John Hendrickson
Staff Writer for The Atlantic, author of Life on Delay
Emi Nietfeld
Software engineer, writer, and author of Acceptance
And whether you are coming to Seattle or not, we look forward speaking to you about what speaker and title is best suited for your campus.
Some of the titles by our speakers that we’ll be featuring in our booth:
Dr. Aomawa Shields
Astronomer, astrobiologist, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Bill Burnett
Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford and co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life
Dave Evans
Co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life
Bren Smith
Restorative ocean farmer, co-founder of GreenWave, and author of Eat Like a Fish
Brit Bennett
Novelist of National Book Award nominated, New York Times-bestselling The Vanishing Half, and National Book Foundation 2016 5 Under 35 Honoree
Celeste Ng
Author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere
Chanel Miller
Artist, activist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Know My Name
Colson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys
Cristina Henríquez
Critically acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown Americans and The Great Divide
Daniel Sherrell
Environmental advocate and author of Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Ed Catmull
Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and author of Creativity, Inc.
Private: Hisham Matar
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return, In the Country of Men, and My Friends
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
National Book Award-winning historian and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist
Isabel Wilkerson
Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically-acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste
Javier Zamora
Memoirist, poet, and author of Solito, and a winner of the 2023 American Book Award.
Jedidiah Jenkins
Travel writer, environmental advocate, adventurer, and memoirist.
Jenny Odell
New York Times-bestselling author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time
Leila Mottley
Award-winning author of Oprah’s Book Club selection Nightcrawling and former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland
Dr. Matthew Delmont
Expert on African American history and author of Half American
Dr. Michele Harper
Emergency room physician and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Beauty in Breaking
Michelle Zauner
Frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast and author of New York Times bestselling Crying in H Mart
Dr. Mona Hanna
Physician, scientist and activist who exposed the Flint water crisis
Ocean Vuong
MacArthur Fellow and New York Times-bestselling author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and The Emperor of Gladness
Percival Everett
Author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel James
Dr. Thomas Fisher
Emergency room physician and author of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
Tommy Orange
Bestselling novelist and author of There There and Wandering Stars
Dr. Uché Blackstock
Founder and Chief Advisor of Advancing Health Equity, emergency physician, and New York Times-bestselling author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Yaa Gyasi
Author of Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom, and recipient of the National Book Foundation’s ‘Under 35’ award