Suleika Jaouad

Suleika Jaouad is an award-winning writer, speaker, and cancer survivor. During her years spent in cancer treatment, she started the incredibly popular New York Times column, “Life, Interrupted,” which chronicled...

Charles Yu

Hailed for his sharp wit and incisive social commentary, Charles Yu is an acclaimed author and screenwriter whose work is as inventive as it is moving. Interior Chinatown, his fourth and...

Susan Fowler

Susan Fowler was just twenty-five when she wrote the blog post describing the sexual harassment and retaliation she’d experienced at Uber, the ride-sharing giant. Her account riveted the nation, eventually...

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling novel, The Friend. Filled with witty jabs at the literary and publishing worlds, The Friend is a...

Therese Huston

Therese Huston is a cognitive psychologist, gender strategist, and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. A powerful speaker, she has led...

Holly Whitaker

Holly Whitaker is the founder and CEO of Tempest, Inc., a company she founded in 2012 when she resolved to deal with her drinking but found that the recovery program...

Bryan Washington

Even though the themes Bryan Washington’s body of work range from food, film, and the arts to sexuality, gentrification, and blackness in America, the setting remains constant in his fiction...