C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang is the debut novelist of How Much of These Hills is Gold. The book was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and won the Asian/Pacific American Librarians...

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...

Ken Armstrong

Ken Armstrong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and narrative writer whose work has appeared in such places as The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, and This American Life. In 2015, he published...

Debbie Macomber

Debbie Macomber is one of today’s most prolific and popular authors of contemporary women’s fiction. She is the author of numerous bestsellers, including Any Dream Will Do, Sweet Tomorrows, A Girl’s Guide to...

Robin Oliveira

Robin Oliveira grew up just outside Albany, New York in Loudonville. She holds a B.A. in Russian, and studied at the Pushkin Language Institute in Moscow, Russia. She worked for...

Edward Humes

Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of fourteen nonfiction books, including Mississippi Mud (soon-to-be a motion picture), Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation and Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With...

Lesley Hazleton

Lesley Hazleton reported on the Middle East from Jerusalem for more than a dozen years, and has written for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and Harper’s, among...

Blaine Harden

Blaine Harden is an author and journalist who reports for PBS Frontline and contributes to The Economist. He worked for The Washington Post as a bureau chief and correspondent in...

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the senior vice president for Public Affairs at Starbucks and former senior correspondent and associate editor of The Washington Post. His reporting and writing is focused on the...