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Josiah Hesse is an investigative journalist who covers breaking marijuana news, politics, economics and culture for such publications as Vice, The Guardian, Esquire, Politico and more.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an author, an economist and an entrepreneur. She is CEO of Hewlett Consulting Partners and founder of the Center for Talent Innovation, a think tank where she built a Task Force of 90 global companies focused on Leadership in an Age of Inclusion. Dr. Hewlett’s high-profile books quantify the “value of difference,” and provide vivid word portraits of highly qualified women, people of color and LGBTQ employees attempting to gain traction in their careers. Dr. Hewlett has the distinction of being the most published author ever in the Harvard Business Review. Among her critically acclaimed, bestselling books are the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award winner, When the Bough Breaks; Executive Presence; and #MeToo in the Corporate World. She has been honored by Google with its Global Diversity Award and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Joanne Heyman, Founder and CEO of Heyman Partners, is a coach, strategic advisor, lecturer, and facilitator. She was the founding Executive Director of the Urban Zen Foundation and has also served as the Executive Director of The International Center in New York, Vice President of the Corporation of Yaddo, Managing Director of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, and as a senior advisor to The Goldman Sachs Foundation and the American Jewish World Service. A lecturer at Columbia University and a contributor to Forbes, she serves as faculty in the Mobius network, as a Guide at Chief, designs workshops for Kahilla, and is a founding member of and workshop presenter for The What Alliance.

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James Hibberd is an American journalist and screenwriter. He is the current Editor at Large for Entertainment Weekly, and previous staff editor for The Hollywood Reporter. His work has been published in publications including The New York Times, Salon, Details, Cosmopolitan, and Amnesty International Magazine.

Rye Hickman (previously published as Jen Hickman) is a visual storyteller based out of Denver. Past work includes The Harrowing, Bad Dream, Buzzing, and more. They get really excited about dystopian fiction, good coffee, and drawing hands

Allegra Hicks is a London- and Naples-based designer whose line of fabrics, rugs, homewares, furniture, and accessories is sold worldwide in department stores and boutiques. Hicks has won both the US Elle Decor’s Best Wallpaper Award and Elle Decoration UK’s Best Fabric Award.

Dan Hicks is a writer, curator, and professor whose non-fiction engages with questions of art, landscape, memory, identity, and the enduring nature of the colonial past.

Born in Durham, Dan grew up in Birmingham and since 2007 he has been Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford University, Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College Oxford.

Dan has written for a wide range of publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, The Times Literary Supplement, Apollo Magazine and New African Magazine. His first book, The Brutish Museums, was listed as one of the New York Times best Art Books of 2020. His second book, Every Monument Will Fall was published by Hutchinson Heinemann in May 2025. He lives in Oxford.

You can find out more about Dan on his website.

Matt Higgins is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in numerous sites and publications, including The New York Times, Outside, ESPN, and Popular Mechanics. He is the author of Bird Dream: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight, an acclaimed chronicle of the infamous BASE jumpers Jeb Corliss and Gary Connery.

Carter Higgins has written many books for young readers, including EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR A TREEHOUSE, an NPR Best Book of the Year and THIS IS NOT A VALENTINE, a Kids' Indie Next List selection. She is the author and illustrator of CIRCLE UNDER BERRY and SOME OF THESE ARE SNAILS. Carter is a creative storyteller who designs playful experiences around visual literacy and believes the wit of kids' language is the best poetry of all.

Carter is an Emmy-winning visual effects and motion graphics artist and spent a decade as an elementary school librarian. She is also the creator of the popular blog, Design of the Picture Book. She lives in Las Vegas.

After leaving school, Justin Hill spent seven years as a volunteer with Voluntary Service Overseas in rural China and Africa. His first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the Top Novels of 2001.  It went on to win the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the 2002 Betty Trask Award. It has been banned by the Chinese government.

His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Encore Award.

Ciao Asmara, a factual account of his time in Eritrea, was shortlisted for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

In 2001, Justin was listed in the Independent on Sunday's Top 20 Young British Writers.  In October 2005 he was awarded the Xiaoxiang Friendship Award by the Governor of Hunan Province, for his services to China.

His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

His new fiction is set in 11th century England, culminating in the battle of Hastings in 1066. Little, Brown published the first book, Shieldwall in 2011 to critical acclaim and it was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year. The sequel, Viking Fire, was published in 2016 and also named a Sunday Times Book of the Year.

Jonathan E. Hillman is a world authority on China’s economic and foreign policy. He is currently Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was previously Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and a Senior Advisor and Member of the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State.

Before that, he was a Senior Fellow with the economics program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, directing the Reconnecting Asia Project, and served as a policy advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative. He won the Financial Times/McKinsey & Company Bracken Bower Prize in 2019 and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and Brown University. His commentary has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

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Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, the longest running national Latinx news program in the country, distributed by PRX. She is also a contributor to the long-running, award-winning news program CBS Sunday Morning and an on-air contributor on MSNBC. She has won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also been inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 she founded Futuro Media, an independent nonprofit newsroom and production company with the mission of producing multimedia content from a POC perspective. Through the breadth of her work and as the founding co-anchor of the award-winning podcast In the Thick, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. Her adult memoir, ONCE I WAS YOU was an NPR Best Book of 2020. In 2022, she adapted ONCE I WAS YOU for young readers, blending her story with perspectives on history in the vein of Jason Reynolds’s Stamped. She lives with her family in Harlem, New York City.

A professor of psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia, Bill von Hippel has presented his research on neuroscience and social intelligence at conferences and colloquia around the world. His work has been covered by the New York Times, The Economist, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, TIME, and elsewhere.

James S. Hirsch is a former staff writer for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and author of, among other titles, the New York Times-bestselling authorized biography Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Scribner) and the New York Times bestseller Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter (Houghton Mifflin), adapted into the film "The Hurricane," starring Denzel Washington. He is also the co-author, with buildOn CEO and founder Jim Ziolkowski, of the New York Times bestseller Walk In Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World? (Simon & Schuster) and, with founding member of the Beach Boys Mike Love, of Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Blue Rider Press).

Heather Hirsch, MD, MS, NCMP is the lead physician and clinical program director for the menopause and midlife clinic at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and she also serves as faculty at Harvard Medical School. Her research has been published in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, Menopause, and The Journal of Women’s Health. She has been featured on NPR’s All Sides with Ann Fisher, Harvard Business Review’s Women at Work, and interviewed by such outlets as Women’s Health, HealthCentral.com, and the AARP’s TheGirlfriend.com.

A labor and civil rights lawyer and former Supreme Court litigator, Hirshman has written for Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Her book Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2012. Sisters in Law was a New York Times bestseller.

Mike Hixenbaugh is an award-winning national investigative reporter for NBC News. He previously worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Virginian-Pilot, and elsewhere, and has hosted two podcasts, Do No Harm and Southlake, the latter of which won a Peabody Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Elizabeth Ho is a baker and owner of Birdhouse Bakeshop. Her work is rooted in simplicity, seasonality, and feelings of nostalgia, and her recipes, photography, and writing have been featured by Cherry Bombe, Food52, Chalkboard Magazine, and elsewhere. In her home kitchen, Liz spends her days creating inventive cakes and an ever changing menu of pastries inspired by her Chinese Malaysian heritage, for locals in Edmonton, Canada.

Van Hoang, one of Publishers Weekly Flying Starts for Fall 2020, is the author of several middle grade novels, and her adult debut releases in 2024. Born in Vietnam, she grew up in Southern California, earning her bachelor’s in English at the University of New Mexico and her master’s in Library Information Science at San Jose State University.

Nicol  Hochholczerová, who was born in 1999, grew up in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia.  In 2024, she completed a Master’s in graphic design at the Academy of Art in  Banská Bystrica. Her short stories have garnered prizes in a number of  literary competitions. Her book-length debut, Táto izba  sa nedá zjesť (This Room Is Impossible to Eat) was  shortlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft  Litera Award, and has since been translated into Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian,  Serbian, Polish and Ukrainian, with German and Macedonian translations  underway. A feature film based on the book is in production. In 2022,  Hochholczerová was named Young Artist of the Year by the Tatra Banka  Foundation. The Polish translation was nominated for the Angelus literary  prize, awarded to living authors from Central Europe.

Martha Hodes teaches American history at NYU and is the interim director of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.  The recipient of many prizes, she is author of The Sea Captain’s Wife and has completed a book on surviving an airline hijacking in 1970 where she was held captive in the Jordanian desert with her sister when they were children.

Philip Hoelzel is the author of Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado and Samba! The Heartbeat of a Community: Ailton Nunes’s Musical Journey. Philip was born and raised near Chicago, Illinois. As a child he played soccer, went camping with his parents and siblings and spent a lot of time outdoors. Today, when not writing, Philip can be found managing in an outdoor retail store, hiking local trails, doing school visits as an author and performing with a Brazilian percussion group in Austin, Texas.

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Host of a cooking show as well as radio show and web site for Univision, Hoffman’s show Delicioso ran on the Food Network for three seasons. She appears regularly on The Today Show and The Early Show.

David Hogg is a recent graduate of Marjorie Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and is one of the 20 founders of Never Again MSD.Lauren Hogg is a sophomore at Marjorie Stonemason Douglas.

Janet Hoggarth has worked on a chicken farm, as a bookseller, a children’s book editor, a children’s author, and as a DJ (under the name of Whitney and Britney). Her first children’s book The Whole Joke Book was Bloomsbury Children’s Books bestselling title until Harry Potter knocked it of its perch. After the writing bug bit her she published several other children’s books, more recently under the pseudonym of Jess Bright.

Janet lives with her husband, three children and an extremely needy ginger cat in East Dulwich, London.

Her first novel for adults, The Single Mums’ Mansion, reached the number one slot on the Amazon fiction charts and has been optioned for TV by Slam Productions. Two more books subsequently joined the bestselling series: The Single Mums Move On and The Single Mums’ Secrets.

Her Who Do You Think You Are Maggie Pink? was published by Boldwood to rave reviews in 2022.  Her latest novel Us Two was published by Boldwood in 2023.

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Some time in the last century, Fred ran away from working on a PhD in Roman History and into the camp embrace of the entertainment industry. After messing about in theatres, he went to work for the Raindance Film Festival, and accidentally found himself the co-founder and original producer of the British Independent Film Awards, running the event from its inception in 1998 until 2001.

Since then, he has developed factual television formats, sold wine, worked in catering, travelled extensively, and worked as a ghost writer before returning recklessly to the entertainment business as a screenwriter. In addition to an absurd number of unproduced scripts, he wrote the 2017 fairytale A Mermaid’s Tale, and served as executive producer on Stanley Tucci’s film Final Portrait. He has written on film and food for Delicious Magazine, and ghost-written for publishers including Octopus Books, Pavilion and Penguin.

He has now realised that researching and writing history is a lot more fun that he’d originally thought. His first book, Of Ice and Men, will be published by Pegasus Books in early 2022.

The co-founders of Luke’s Lobster, Luke Holden and Ben Conniff own a chain of restaurants serving award-winning lobster rolls. Zagat has given them a 27 rating for food, named them the 1 food truck in NYC, and chose Conniff and Holden as two of their 30 Under 30 in the New York food industry.

Andrew Holgate was literary editor of the London Sunday Times for 14 years until he stepped down in October 2022 and before that, deputy literary editor for nine years. His entire working life has been connected to books, in publishing, bookselling, literary journalism.

He has co-edited two books, judged numerous literary awards (including the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, which he chaired in 2021), ran two prizes while literary editor (the Sunday Times Short Story Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award), and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Jacqueline Holland received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.

Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Hollinger is author of many books on religion in America.

Mark Hollingsworth is the author of Londongrad - From Russia With Cash (HarperCollins, 2012) and an expert on the activities of Russian Oligarchs.

He has written books on MI5 and the Saudi Royal family and contributes regularly to the The Times, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times, Guardian and The Spectator.

His timely and critically acclaimed, Agents of Influence - How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies was published by Oneworld in 2023.

Alex is a London-based writer, podcaster and producer writing across print and audio mediums. His work centres around positive masculinity, mental health awareness and the liberating power of reading and writing. He became a Mental Health First Aider with Mental Health First Aid England in October 2020.

Ekua Holmes is an artist and illustrator who received an education in art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she continues her career as a community coordinator. She has a highly successful career as an exhibiting artist, and her work has not only earned grants through the Boston Foundation but has been featured on Google's own landing page. She is the illustrator of many acclaimed books for children.

Of her own work, Ekua writes "Although much of [it] is set in an urban environment, these portraits of beloved Aunties, sacred gardens, and children at play, sing with lyrics as old as mankind."

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Balarama Holness is a former professional football player in the Canadian Football League and Grey Cup Champion. He is a public speaker and educator with a master's degree in education and currently completing a J.D. from the University of McGill. Balarama successfully compelled the City of Montreal to hold hearings into systemic racism and discrimination.

Kari Anne Holt is the best-selling author of more than fifteen books for young readers, including the award-winning middle grade novels-in-verse House Arrest, Redwood & Ponytail, and the Kids Under the Stairs series. Her picture book, I Wonder, was featured in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and was nominated for a Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award. Kari Anne's writing for adults has been featured in several Best of McSweeney's collections, Publisher's Weekly, and in KUT's syndicated weekly radio news program, The Texas Standard. Kari Anne is a founding member of Typewriter Rodeo, a traveling custom-poetry collective, and she teaches in Vermont College of Fine Art's Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program. Kari Anne lives in Austin, TX.

An editor at VanityFair.com, Homans has written and edited for Esquire, Harpers, and The New York Observer. He was formerly the executive editor of New York magazine.

Dr. David Hone is a palaeontologist and zoologist at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is also Director of Biological Scienes Programmes. He has published nearly 100 academic papers on dinosaur biology and behaviour, with a particular interest in Tyrannousaurs. David includes among his writing credits the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, BBC Radio 5 Live and RTE, acted as consultant for National Geographic documentaries, and written articles for The Guardian, New Scientist, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times, and many others.

Michelle Hoover is the author of the acclaimed novel The Quickening (Other Press) as well as the novel Bottomland (Grove/Atlantic). She has been a Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference scholar, the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the 2005 PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction.

Angela Palm Hopkins is the author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. In praise of Riverine, bestselling author Leslie Jamison wrote, “her gorgeous candor sings urgently through these pages, her prose a tuning fork offering frequencies I’d never heard before.” In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raved, “Combining lyrical prose with a haunting narrative, she recounts a story filled with secret longings, family history, and musings on what might have been... this is a memoir to linger over, savor, and study.” She is at work on an essay collection, The Builder’s Sacrifice.

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Gulchehra Hoja is a Uyghur American journalist and reporter for Radio Free Asia. She fled East Turkestan in 2001, and lived in the Washington, DC area ever since. In 2014, she was the first person in the Western world to report on the genocide facing the Uyghur people of East Turkestan. As a response to her reporting, the CCCP detained more than twenty-five members of her family; many of whom remain illegally incarcerated or missing. She has testified in front of Congress on the plight of the Uyghur, and won many awards for her work, including the Magnitsky Human Rights Award and the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Award. She was named as one of the world's 500 Most Influential Muslims in 2019 and 2020.

John Horn is a professor of practice in economics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He was previously a Senior Expert in McKinsey & Company’s Strategy Practice, where he spent nine years helping companies understand their competitors’ mindsets. John has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

Sarah Horowitz is an associate professor of history and core faculty in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington and Lee University, teaching classes on crime and scandal in the nineteenth century, gender in modern Europe, and the history of Parisian life. She has a PhD in modern European history from UC Berkeley, and her book Friendship and Politics in Postrevolutionary France was published by Penn State University Press in 2013. She has been published in The Washington Post, Nursing Clio, and many academic journals.

Hosts of the Dolls of Our Lives podcast.

Jesse Horwitz is the Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Hubble, the first direct to consumer subscription for contact lenses. Jesse is an investor, advisor and founder across multiple businesses in the direct to consumer space, and focused on how a broader community of consumer companies can integrate this new, mobile-first channel into their marketing and distribution.

Rachel attended The University of Rhode Island where she obtained her BA in English Language and Literature and later earned her Masters in Education from Northeastern University. Whether it’s reading through a great new book or exploring the world, Rachel has always loved that infinite stories surround us. She has written many stories of her own over the years from speculative fiction to contemporary. Currently, she is focused on cultivating diverse stories featuring queer leads who all hold a special place in their hearts for all things geeky. Outside writing, Rachel enjoys spending time with friends, family, and her cats, or diving into the worlds of Marvel, Star Wars, and Avatar the Last Airbender.

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Peter Hoskin is Books & Culture Editor at Prospect magazine and the Daily Mail’s Games Critic. His previous roles include Executive Editor at Tortoise Media and Online Editor of the Spectator. He has written on politics, culture and technology for publications including The Times, The Economist, Tatler, the TLS and Paris Review.

Fell Hound is a Ringo nominated illustrator/writer who’s worked with Boom!, IDW, Scout, A Wave BlueWorld, and many more. She’s best known for creating the critically acclaimed Commander Rao as well as her love of drawing sword women. When not giving herself rampant carpal tunnel, she enjoys re-watchingWitch from Mercury, playing video games, and consuming queer fiction

A neuroscientist at Stanford University, Patrick House has contributed to The New Yorker and Slate. His research has been featured in the New York Times, on the podcast Radiolab, and in one of the most popular Atlantic articles of all time.

Accomplished roboticist, entrepreneur and educator Dr. Ayanna Howard is dean of The Ohio State University College of Engineering. Previously she was chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing, as well as founder and director of the Human-Automation Systems Lab (HumAnS). Hailed by MIT Technology Review as a top young innovator and recognized as one of the 23 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider, she is the founder & CTO of Zyrobotics and former Senior Robotics Researcher and Deputy Manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

John Howkins is a leading figure in the global understanding of work and creativity. He is the author of the seminal The Creative Economy which has been translated into fourteen languages.

He is a former chair of CREATEC, Tornado (Britain's first streaming company) and BOP (the UK's leading advisory service on culture and creativity).

John Howkins was chair of the London Film School and chief adviser to HBO and Time Warner for fifteen years.

In 2006 the Shanghai government set up the John Howkins Research Centre on The Creative Economy. He lives in London.

His Invisible Work was published by September Publishing in 2019.

Katja Hoyer is a best-selling Anglo-German historian. Her book Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990, was a Sunday Times bestseller. She was born in East Germany and read history at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena where she graduated with an MA with distinction. She’s a member of the Royal Historical Society and has written for History Today, BBC History Extra, UnHerd and the Spectator among other media outlets. Katja has appeared on a variety of podcasts talking about history, including Dan Snow’s ‘History Hit’ and Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland’s ‘The Rest is History’.

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In 1993, Graham Hoyland became the 15th Englishman to climb Everest, having become obsessed by the mountain and the myth of what happened to Mallory and Irvine. It was his evidence that eventually led to the discovery of Mallory's body and it will be his evidence that may lead to the discovery of Sandy Irvine's. His Last Hours on Everest is the most detailed reconstruction of what happened after the two English climbing legends left the camp on that fateful day. Combining personal experience, the physical evidence found on the mountain and an insight into the hearts and minds of the two climbers, Graham Hoyland produces the most compelling description of what actually happened and the answer to that most intriguing of questions - did they actually climb Everest?

His Walking Through Spring was published to critical acclaim by William Collins in 2016. His Yeti - An Abominable history, on the myths and mythologies of this fabled beast, was published by William Collins in 2018. Merlin, his history of the fabled and war-wining aero engine, was published by William Collins in 2020.

Jet – The Engine that Changed the World was published by Key in 2022 with Horsepower following in 2024.

His First on Everest – The Life of Howard Somervell will be published by the History Press in 2025.

A poet, media scholar, and former network engineer, Tung-Hui Hu is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. The winner of a Rome Prize and a NEA fellowship for literature, Hu has also received an American Academy in Berlin Prize for his research. He is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Greenhouses, Lighthouses, and a book on digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015), described by The New Yorker as "mesmerizing... absorbing [in] its playful speculations." 

Quanyu Huang is director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program, an associate professor at Miami University of Ohio and the former director of the Confucius Institute. He is a specialist in Sino-American cultural and the author of The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids (Prometheus).