Percival Everett

Percival Everett is one of the most innovative, provocative, and prolific writers of our time. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, he...

Dr. Aomawa Shields

An influential astrobiologist and astronomer, Dr. Aomawa Shields is one of the few Black women in a predominantly white male field; she is the 126th Black woman to have ever...

Donovan X. Ramsey

Growing up in an underprivileged neighborhood during the height of the crack epidemic, Donovan X. Ramsey saw firsthand the crippling effects of crack, especially in predominantly Black and Brown communities....

Juliet Starrett and Kelly Starrett

Kelly and Juliet Starrett are at the forefront of the conversation on mobility and movement. They have spent decades working with and training pro athletes, from Olympians to Navy SEALS...

Tess Gunty

Tess Gunty has been writing since she was a child. Realizing the relative lack of fiction set in the Rust Belt, she was inspired to challenge misconceptions of the Midwest...

Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell is a writer and artist whose work centers around the power of observation and attention in shaping our reality. Her first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the...

Jason De León

Jason De León is the Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit that raises awareness about migration and assists families searching for their missing loved ones and Professor...

Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin is an award-winning, internationally-bestselling writer whose books have been translated into over 40 languages. Her latest book, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was an instant New York Times...

K-Ming Chang

Referred to as the “beacon of Gen Z excellence” by Rumpus, K-Ming Chang burst into the literary scene with her debut novel, Bestiary. A genre-bending, exquisitely-written ode to three generations of women shaped...