Shelley Thompson
Actor/Writer/Director, debut novel ROAR.
Maureen Sun
Novelist, author of The Sisters K
Hannah Mary McKinnon
International bestselling thriller & rom-com author
John Copenhaver
Award-winning mystery writer, educator, author of Hall of Mirrors
Edward Cahill
Fiction writer, author of Disorderly Men
Robert Rotenberg
Bestselling author, criminal lawyer, writing teacher
Lynsey May
Novelist and copywriter, author of Weak Teeth
Jason Roberts
Narrative nonfiction writer, author of A Sense of the World and Every Living Thing
Fiona Erskine
Engineer by day. Writer by night.
Bill Sullivan
Professor and biomedical scientist at Indiana University, author of Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs & the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
Patty Dann
Personal essays, non-fiction books, novels, author of Mermaids
Randi Epstein
Freelance medical writer @NYTimes @washpost, author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank; Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, I teach medical writing at Yale, profile writing at Columbia Journalism School, and serve as Writer in Residence at Yale School of Medicine’s Program for Humanities in Medicine.
Jared Dillian
Author of five books, including NO WORRIES: How To Live a Stress-Free Financial Life
Julie Cohen
Author and teacher, author of BAD MEN and SUMMER PEOPLE
Rea Frey
Book doula & #1 bestselling author of suspense and women's fiction
Meg Kissinger
Investigative reporter, specializing in mental health and author of While You Were Out
Elinor Lipman
Author of 15 novels, most recently "Ms. Demeanor"
Amanda Oliver
Nonfiction writer, author of Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library
Joe Pompeo
Narrative nonfiction author and magazine journalist
DP Lyle
Award-winning author of the Jake Longly and Cain/Harper Thriller Series
Patti McCracken
Longtime journalist; author of the highly-acclaimed historical true crime "The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
Alma Alexander
Internationally published author of more than 20 books (novels and shorter fiction as well as non-fiction works), two-time finalist for the WA state book award.
Margaret Juhe Lee
Author of Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History
Neil Bradbury
Science writer and teacher, author of A Taste for Poison
Jane Jesmond
Crime and thriller writer, author of A Quiet Contagion, On The Edge, Cut Adrift and Her
Jennifer Moorman
I'm Jennifer. An author, seeker & creative muse jazzed about helping people just like you tap into the magic & joy already within you because you, my beautiful friend, are the magic.
Patrick Bringley
Author of All the Beauty in the World, former museum guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stephen Kiernan
Novelist, journalist, activist for conservation and hospice
Danielle Lindemann
Sociologist and author of "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us"
Frank Spotnitz
Award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director. Credits include The X-Files, The Man in the High Castle, Leonardo, and Medici.
Paul Fischer
Author of A Kim Jong-Il Production and The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
Lisa Brideau
Climate policy analyst, author of novel Adrift
Fiona Davis
New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction, including The Spectacular.
Rebecca Clarren
Writer of the American West, author of THE COST OF FREE LAND: JEWS, LAKOTA and an AMERICAN INHERITANCE
Harley Rustad
Award-winning and bestselling author of LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH and BIG LONELY DOUG; reporting and essays in Outside, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Geographical, among others; senior editor at The Walrus magazine; faculty editor at the Banff Centre's mountain writing residency
Erika Howsare
Journalist, poet, author of "The Age of Deer"
Jennifer Epstein
Author of "The Madwomen of Paris" and "Wunderland"
Stuart Reid
Author of The Lumumba Plot and editor at Foreign Affairs.
David Chrisinger
Executive Director @ Harris Writing Workshop, author of "The Soldier's Truth" and several other books
Kim Barnes
Pulitzer finalist for In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country (memoir); recipient of PEN USA Award for Fiction; Pushcart Prize for essay; avid angler of high mountain rivers.
Erika Engelhaupt
Science journalist and author of Gory Details and Go to Hell
Sophie Haydock
Author of The Flames and Madame Matisse
Rachel Moulton
Writer, editor, educator
Paul Levine
Author of the "Jake Lassiter" series of legal thrillers
Leah Redmond Chang
Critically acclaimed biographer and historian, author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
Kerry Schafer
Bestselling author of bookclub & mystery fiction
Laila Ibrahim
Novelist, author of Yellow Crocus family saga and more
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Author of 23 books of fiction and non-fiction
Matthew Specktor
Novelist, memoirist, screenwriter, critic. Author of Always Crashing in The Same Car
Brian Castner
Bestselling author of four nonfiction books, including Stampede and The Long Walk.
Jordan Salama
Two-time author, writer @natgeo @nymag + more
Barbara Butcher
Former death investigator at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Author of "What the Dead Know"
Paz Pardo
Novelist, author of The Shamshine Blind. Essays in Modern Love, LitHub, etc.
Eoin Dempsey
Bestselling historical fiction author venturing into thrillers, translated into 16 languages.
Katya Apekina
Award winning novelist, screenwriter and translator. Wrote Mother Doll and The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish.
Robert Lyman
Historian and author, principally of the Second World War
Rachel Yoder
Screenwriting Prof at UIowa, author of Nightbitch
J. Ryan Stradal
New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, and Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
Joanna Hershon
Writer and Adjunct Prof in the MFA program at Columbia University, author of 5 novels, many stories and essays
Ben Winters
Award-winning writer of mystery, thriller, and science fiction.
David Hendy
Historian and broadcaster, author of 'The BBC: A Century on Air' and 'Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening'
Vanda Krefft
Author of The Man Who Made the Movies (HarperCollins), biography of 20th Century Fox founder William Fox
Judy Batalion
New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days
Jasmin Mujanović
Political scientist, PhD. Author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" (2018) and "The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide" (2023).
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Native American writer, author of Winter Counts
Hannah Nordhaus
I write about history, science and the natural world. Author of The Beekeeper's Lament and American Ghost.
Erica Berry
Author of 2024 Oregon Book Award-winning 'Wolfish: Wolf, Self and the Stories We Tell About Fear' (Flatiron, 2023); essays in the New York Times, Guardian, Orion, Hazlitt, Yale Review, Outside, Aeon, and other publications; writing instructor at Literary Arts, the Attic Institute, and other institutions.
Rene Denfeld
Novelist, justice worker, author of SLEEPING GIANTS and THE CHILD FINDER
Nicholas Meyer
Novelist, sceenwriter, film and television director. Credits include Star Trek II, IV, VI; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Sherlock Holmes)
Aaron Hamburger
Novelist, author of Hotel Cuba, Nirvana Is Here, Faith for Beginners, and The View from Stalin's Head
Margot Mifflin
Culture critic and author of Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo; The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman; and Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
Adam Morris
Author of American Messiahs and translator from Spanish and Portuguese
Rachel Kadish
Novelist, essayist, author of THE WEIGHT OF INK.
Casey Michel
Director of Human Rights Foundation's Combating Kleptocracy Program, author of "Foreign Agents" and "American Kleptocracy"
Robert J. Sawyer
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer
J.C. Hallman
Award-winning author of seven books, including Say Anarcha.
Thor Hanson
Author and Biologist
Tori Telfer
True crime writer, author of Lady Killers and Confident Women
Lucy Jane Santos
Specialising in the late 19th and early 20th century, I am a freelance historian examining the crossroads of health, leisure and beauty with science and technology
Joanne Paul
Bestselling Tudor historian and author of The House of Dudley
Alec Nevala-Lee
Author of Astounding and Inventor of the Future
Darrell Hartman
Freelance journalist and author of "Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media"
Reid Mitenbuler
Author of 'Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, An Epic Journey, A Lost Age'; 'Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation'; and 'Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey'
Shawn Levy
Film and pop culture historian, critic, poet, soccer nut, Burner
Marc Hartzman
Author of We Are Not Alone, Chasing Ghosts, and many more. I also run WeirdHistorian.com, CuriousPublications.com, and work as an award-winning advertising creative director.
Buddy Levy
Author and journalist--adventure history
Jonathan Harounoff
Middle East Journalist currently writing a book about the historic women-led protest movement that swept Iran in 2022 and 2023.
Brandy Schillace
Author, historian, editor for BMJ Medical Humanities, science journalist
Soraya Palmer
Author of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
Scott Newman
Award-winning author and podcaster
Moses Sternstein
Business and econ writing and discovery at Random Walk
Matthew Davis
Nonfiction writer and author of forthcoming book about Mt. Rushmore, experienced leader in cultural diplomacy
Elena Lappin
Novelist and journalist, author of What Language Do I Dream In? (A Memoir)
Martin Turnbull
Historical fiction author focused on life during Hollywood's studio era (1920s to 1950s)
Richard Munson
Wrote biographies of Nikola Tesla, Jacques Cousteau, and pending on Benjamin Franklin. Also wrote history of electricity and profiles of food and farm innovators.
Timothy Denevi
Author of "Freak Kingdom" (@public_affairs, 2019) & "Hyper" (@simonschuster, 2014). Professor at at George Mason MFA
David de Jong
Middle East Correspondent. Author of Nazi Billionaires
Sam Kean
New York Times-bestselling author of six narrative science history books, including Disappearing Spoon and Icepick Surgeon
Sam Wasson
New York Times Best Selling author of many books on Hollywood including The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood. He lives in Los Angeles.
Daniel Schulman
New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita and The Money Kings, deputy editor (news & politics) @motherjones
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