Our authors have won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award, Financial Times Book of the Year Award, and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, PEN/Hemingway, Pushcart Prize, Whiting Writer’s Award, Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Academy awards.
Clare Clarke is an Irish writer and academic, who holds a BA, MA, and a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast. Since 2014, Clare has been Assistant Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is known as a leading expert on Victorian true crime and on detective fiction, a passionate teacher and researcher of the human stories and social issues behind crime narratives from the Victorian era to the present day.
She has published two books and dozens of articles on crime and detective fiction. Her first book, Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (Palgrave, 2014) was awarded the HRF Keating prize in 2015. Her second book British Detective Fiction: the Successors to Sherlock Holmes, was published by Palgrave in 2020.
She lives in Belfast with her husband and two cats.
After a career as an actor, script writer, video producer, and founder of the St. Croix Festival Theater, Carrie Classon earned her MBA and travelled the world working on public and private infrastructure projects. Her written work includes the one-woman plays Letters from Lagos and I've Been Waiting All My Life to Be Middle-Aged which is currently in production. She writes “Letters from Home,” a syndicated column that is published widely in the Midwest. A graduate of the University of New Mexico’s MFA program, she now lives in Los Alamos, NM.
Clerkenwell Boy is an anonymous Instagrammer whose passion for sharing food and travel photos through social media has seen him listed as one of "London’s most influential people" by the London Evening Standard and “The UK’s Top 100 Most Influential People In Food” by Telegraph Hill. With over 130 thousand followers on Instagram (including the likes of Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson), Clerkenwell Boy has been featured by the BBC, Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, The Times and more.
He has also written for numerous publications including British Airways Highlife, Foodism, Suitcase Magazine, TimeOut and Virgin Atlantic.
Clerkenwell Boy is currently the Food Editor for the official @London Instagram page (which has over 2.1 million followers) where he curates and posts food content on a weekly basis. Most recently he has been named as a judge for the Young British Foodies awards as well as the new Evening Standard Restaurant awards which will be unveiled at Taste of London 2016 the capital's biggest food festival.
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An iconic model of the 60s and 70s, Cleveland served as a muse to designers such as Halston, Stephen Burrows, and Yves Saint Laurent. She has participated in landmark fashion shows including the Battle of Versailles and has appeared in several documentaries.
Jeremy Cliffe is a Contributing Writer at the New Statesman, having served as International Editor and Writer at Large between 2019 and 2023. Previously, he served as Bagehot and Charlemagne columnist and bureau chief in Brussels and Berlin for the Economist.
Broughton Coburn has spent two of the past four decades in the Himalayas, working in development, conservation, writing, and filmmaking. The organizations he has worked with include the Agency for International Development, the United Nations, the World Wildlife Fund and the American Himalaya Foundation. Coburn has appeared as an expert panelist on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and Day to Day, and has lectured at the Museum of Natural History in New York, The National Geographic Society, the Telluride Mountain Film Festival and many other venues around the US. A graduate of Harvard University, he is on the faculty of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference. Coburn currently lives in Jackson, WY.
Lauren Cochrane is currently the Senior Fashion Writer at The Guardian. Her work - ranging from reviews of fashion shows to verdicts on new football kits - is read internationally, by up to 24million readers every month. She also recently held the role of Acting Editor-In-Chief at The Fashion, The Guardian’s biannual fashion magazine. As part of this, she orchestrated the spring/summer 2019 issue with Anna Wintour on the cover, photographed by Beyonce collaborator Tyler Mitchell. The magazine gained significant praise across the industry, an award nomination and over 30,000 likes on Instagram.
Lauren has been working in journalism since 2000, and is known for her expertise in fashion, culture and the global zeitgeist. Her first article was published in The Face, a magazine where street style was championed as an equal of anything on the catwalk. This point of view was formative. Lauren’s area of interest has continued to be the way people use clothes - whether they are members of the edgiest of subcultures or a suburban family on a Saturday.
In addition to her work for The Guardian, Lauren has written for a diverse range of publications including Elle, the Times Literary Supplement, The Gentlewoman and matchesfashion.com. She regularly appears on podcasts, and completes speaking engagements about fashion and culture. Lauren previously held roles at i-D magazine and the Saturday Telegraph, and she is the author of two books with Octopus and the Design Museum. 50 Style Icons Who Changed The World was published in October 2016.
Arianne Cohen is the creator and editor of The Sex Diaries Project: What We’re Saying About What We’re Doing (Wiley), author of The Tall Book (Bloomsbury), and a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek. She speaks worldwide about body image, self-esteem, and healthy relationships.
Capable
Rachel Cohen is a policy correspondent for Vox. Based in Washington, DC, she has been covering social policy issues for more than a decade, with reporting published in more than two dozen national outlets including the New York Times, the Atlantic, Bloomberg, the Daily Beast, and the Washington Post.
Stanis' Guide to a Perfect Life
Elisa Colarossi is a Rome-based illustrator whose artistic career was reignited during the 2020 lockdown, thanks to the whimsical and heartwarming adventures of her black cat, Stanis, which are cataloged on Instagram at @romangalgoesaround. In addition to her illustration work, she authored the guidebook Experience Rome, published by Lonely Planet in 2021, showcasing her love for the city and its culture.
Stanis is a round black cat born in the bustling streets of Rome. When not kneading pasta, Stanis is busy exploring new hobbies and activities and loves to spend time with his friends, proving that even the snuggliest cats can lead vibrant and exciting lives. A lover of early morning meowing concerts, sunlit spots, tuna, and dramatic stretching, Stanis is a furry philosopher of life's simple joys
Stacey Colino is an award-winning writer, specializing in health and psychological issues. A regular contributor to U.S. News & World Report, EverydayHealth.com and AARP.com, her work has appeared in numerous outlets including The Washington Post Health and Wellness sections, Newsweek, Parade, Real Simple, MORE, Marie Claire, and Parents magazine. She has co-authored many books including Count Down: How the Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race and and is currently working with Heather Hirsch, MD, MS, NCMP on Unlocking Your Menopause Type: A Personalized Guide to Managing Your Menopausal Symptoms and Enhancing Your Health.
Michael Collier is the author of six collections of poems, most recently My Bishop and Other Poems. His collection The Ledge was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001-2004 and the Director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference from 1993-2017.
Brandi Collins-Dexter is Senior Campaign Director at Color Of Change, the country’s largest racial justice and political organization, and a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, one of the foremost academic institutions releasing cutting edge research on technology, disinformation, and social change. She has been named a “person to watch” by The Hill and one of the most influential African Americans (ages 25 to 45) by The Root; and, in 2020, she received an EPIC Champion of Freedom award from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, for her work on data privacy protections.
London-based Eric is a technology executive who has spent a career building the value of digital companies through innovative strategies including at AOL, Time Warner and SwiftKey/Microsoft. In 2011 President Obama appointed him to the Small Business Administration’s Council on Underserved Communities and as an evaluator for White House Fellow applicants. Along with a prominent group of Black European and US serial entrepreneurs, institutional investors, investment bankers, corporate leaders and entertainers, Eric co-founded Impact X Capital Partners in 2018. He presents Channel 4’s business reality series The Profit.
Philip Collins was, between 2004 and 2007, the Chief Speech Writer to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Since leaving Downing Street and founding the writing agency The Draft, where he is Writer-in-Chief, he has written for many well-known leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer.
Philip Collins is a Contributing Editor at the Observer and, from 2026, Editor of Prospect magazine. He was, for more than a decade, a political columnist on The Times, the New Statesman and the Evening Standard. From 2000 to 2005, he was the Director of the think tank the Social Market Foundation and, before that, was for six years an investment analyst and an Equity Strategist at HSBC James Capel.
Philip Collins teaches rhetoric at the Blavatnik School, University of Oxford and has been a Visiting Fellow at University College, Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He was the Chair of Trustees at the think tank Demos for seven years, and now serves on the board of the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys.
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside The Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (Chicago)
Stuff: How We Came to Love and Loathe the Things that Make Us Human (Chicago)
Colwell is founding editor-in-chief of Sapiens, the online magazine for anthropological thought and discoveries for the public. Previously he was a curator at the Denver Museum of Natural History.
Angel Luis Colón is the Derringer- and Anthony Award-nominated writer of five books, including the novel Hell Chose Me. In his down time, he’s edited an award-winning anthology or two, hosted a podcast, helped edit the flash fiction site Shotgun Honey, and has taken up bread baking during the pandemic because carbs never hurt anyone, right?Keep up with him on Twitter via @GoshDarnMyLife
It’s a Dog’s World: Lessons on Understanding and Shaping Your Dog’s Behavior
Judy Comer-Calder, known as The Devon Dog Lady, is a dog whisperer, behaviourist, and psychologist based in England.
Invincible
Florence Comite, MD is a clinician-scientist, endocrinologist, and the leading expert in the fields of healthy longevity and precision medicine. She is internationally known for her expertise in leveraging proprietary clinical and wearable data collected at her private clinical and virtual practice to detect, predict, and reverse biological aging, disorders of aging and increase health and vitality. A graduate of Yale School of Medicine, where she was a faculty member for twenty-five years with a triple appointment in Endocrinology (Internal Medicine and Pediatrics) and Reproductive Endocrinology (Gynecology and Andrology), Dr. Comte trained at the National Institutes of Health and founded Women’s Health at Yale, the nation’s first clinic for women only, in 1992. In 2005, Dr. Comite founded the Comite Center for Precision Medicine & Healthy Longevity in New York City, where she established a clinically proven, academic approach to personalized healthcare.
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT (Bold Type Books)
Conis is a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, University of California, Berkeley.
Edward Conlon is a former NYPD Detective and currently Deputy Commissioner for Strategic Communications for the NYPD. He is the author of a non-fiction best-seller Blue Blood and the acclaimed novel Red on Red.
The co-founders of Luke’s Lobster, Ben Conniff and Luke Holden 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.
Ready For Absolutely Nothing
Summer in Mayfair
After the Snow
Susannah Constantine is a novelist, journalist, broadcaster and podcaster with over 25 years experience in the media and 50 years of f**k ups under her belt. She lives in chaos on the edge of a wood in Sussex and works full time as a housewife, PA and taxi driver to her husband and three (sort of) grown up children.
Conti-Brown is Associate Professor of Financial Regulation at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Director of the Wharton Initiative of Financial Policy and Regulation, and Nonresident Fellow in Economics Studies at The Brookings Institution. A financial historian and a legal scholar, Conti-Brown studies central banking, financial regulation, and public finance, with a particular focus on the history and policies of the US Federal Reserve System. He’s writing a political history of the Federal Reserve for Liveright.
Tim Conway, legendary actor and comedian, is the author, with Jane Scovell, of the New York Times bestselling autobiography What’s So Funny? (Howard Books).
Conybeare is Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr. She’s writing a book currently titled Augustine the African for Liveright.
John Conyers III is an accomplished entrepreneur and dedicated political organizer deeply rooted in the Detroit community, committed to revitalizing that city’s economy through Jobs, Justice, and Peace. He is the son of former Congressman John Conyers, Jr., and former City Council President Monica Conyers, and brings a unique perspective to service and humanitarian causes given his family's generational civil rights accomplishments.
Jess is a senior enterprise reporter at HuffPost, where she covers the intersection of technology and politics. She's also an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of La Verne, and has a master's degree in International Relations and Journalism from New York University.
Pan Cooke is a graphic novelist and cartoonist best known for his viral Instagram account @thefakepan.
A travel, documentary, and portrait photographer, Cooper pursues images that reflect local cultures and people. Since 2015, his work has been exhibited in more than 25 juried group shows in the U.S. and Europe receiving Best in Show, Best Portrait, Director's Choice, Artistic Excellence and Honorable Mention awards.
David Cooper is a multi-media artist and muralist, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared on book covers, ad campaigns, and editorial publications, such as The New York Times, Print Magazine, and POZ Magazine. He has painted large-scale murals at Miami Art Basel, Brooklyn, and other locales to be discovered by urban explorers. His work has been exhibited at The New York Society of Illustrators, Illustration West, American Illustration, and 3x3 Magazine. He often lends his time as a guest lecturer for various prestigious art schools, including Pratt Institute and Marywood University.
David is the illustrator of numerous books for children.
Susan Cooper is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor and has sold millions of copies worldwide. She is also the author of VICTORY, a Booklist Top Ten Historical Fiction for Youth book and a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel; KING OF SHADOWS, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor book; THE BOGGART; and many other acclaimed novels for young readers and listeners.
Later...with Jools Holland
Mark Cooper began writing about music when he reviewed The Sex Pistols' last ever show at San Francisco's Winterland for Record Mirror in January 1978 and then chronicled the new wave of British bands launching on the West Coast while writing features on Fleetwood Mac and The Jacksons. After returning to London he regularly wrote for Q, The Guardian, City Limits and Mojo.
After joining the BBC's Music & Arts department he began 'Later with Jools Holland' with Jools and director Janet Fraser-Crook in October 1992 and proceeded not to miss a single show for 26 years. He booked 'Later' on his own and then with colleague Alison Howe until the 26th Hootenanny in 2018.
He initiated and led the BBC's television coverage of Glastonbury from a muddy 1997 until a locked down 2020. He also Executive Produced some 250 music documentaries for BBC One, Two, and Four including the 'Britannia' and 'America' music series, Reginald D Hunter's 'Songs of the South' and the year by year histories of 'Top of the Pops'. Published in 1982, his Liverpool Explodes: Echo and the Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes was nominated by Jarvis Cocker as one of his 'Ten Best Music Books'.
Published by HarperCollins, Mark Cooper's first-hand account of the journey of 'Later...with Jools Holland' tells the inside story of BBC Two's flagship music performance series as it captures over a quarter of a century of brilliant music performance, providing a platform for a broad array of artists and launching a staggering number of music careers. It was Mark who explained to Jay-Z why he couldn't just do his numbers and split, who put Seasick Steve on the Hootenanny and persuaded Johnny Cash he simply had to come to Television Centre even when he wasn't feeling well. From grime to Bjork, from Britpop to Triphop, from Smokey Robinson to Norah Jones, this is the story of how Later...began, evolved and endured.
Keith Corbin is chef of Alta Adams restaurant in Compton, California.
It's All About Dinner: Easy, Everyday Family-Friendly Meals (Kyle Books)
Kitchen Sanctuary: Quick and Easy Delicious 30 Minute Dinners
Nicky Corbishley is an award-winning food blogger who lives in the UK with her husband Chris two children. After a 14-year career in corporate IT, Nicky wanted to do something more creative, and with a life-long passion for cooking (and eating!), her blog Kitchen Sanctuary was born. Initially it was intended to be a place to diarise her recipes, but it quickly grew, and Nicky was able to turn it into a full-time career towards the end of 2015. Chris joined her in 2017 and they now spend their days doing what they love - creating recipes and doing food photography and videography both for the blog and as freelancers.
Andy Corren spent decades in the entertainment industry as a successful talent manager for numerous high profile actors, eventually establishing his own firm. He is a published and produced playwright and performer.
Caroline Corrigan is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator living and working in upstate New York. Her illustrations and design work can be found in books such as The Ultimate Easy Screen Printing Book and in Terre magazine. Her first children’s book, Women Artists A-Z, was published by Dial Books for Young Readers in February 2020.
Culture reporter at the New York Times, Coscarelli’s focus is on pop music and how emerging artists are discovered, made and marketed. He’s a regular co-host of the Times’ Popcast, a podcast about music news, and has worked at New York magazine and The Village Voice.
Ana da Costa is a cook, recipe developer, founder of the Macanese supper club FAT TEA and content creator who proudly embraces the philosophy of ‘Ageing Young’.
With a deep passion for Macanese, Portuguese, and Chinese cuisine, Ana’s culinary journey is deeply rooted in the vibrant flavours, textures and spices of her upbringing in Macau. Her innovative approach seamlessly blends traditional ingredients and techniques with modern twists, resulting in bold, flavourful dishes that captivate both tastebuds and imaginations. Ana’s work has earned widespread acclaim, garnering rave reviews and a loyal following.
A dedicated advocate for sustainability, Ana champions low-waste cooking and deeply believes in the healing power of food. She incorporates principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine into her cooking, embodying the philosophy that food is both nourishment and medicine.
Kayla Cottingham is a Youth Services Library Assistant at her local library and an MLIS candidate at Simmons University. After receiving her BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College, Kayla worked as an editorial intern for The Horn Book and Page Street Publishing before switching to librarianship.
Kendra Coulter is one of the world’s leading experts on animal protection work. She is Professor in Management and Organizational Studies at Huron University College at Western University, and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is an award-winning author of two books (with Oxford University Press and Palgrave Macmillan), more than twenty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, four public reports, and over seventy op-eds and media articles in national and international venues including Salon, the Huffington Post, and the Globe and Mail.
Dare’s hope is to leave behind a body of work that accomplishes her primary artistic objective, which is to give life to large and unapologetic depictions of black joy. As a child, watching Patricia Polacco paint a mural in her elementary school sowed a seed for her passion for mural art. Playing on J. Seward Johnson’s “The Awakening” at Hains Point park in Washington, DC sparked the flame for monumental sculpture later in life. Seeing performances by Alvin Ailey’s dancers at the excited insistence of her mom instilled an internal bar of excellence for people whose faces looked like hers. A dear friend showed her a book of Javier Marin’s artwork while in Mexico in 2014, and making a special trip to Houston in 2018 to specifically see Marin’s works sealed the deal on his work being primarily influential in the feelings she wishes to create with her sculptural pieces. These artists set the inspiration for her larger scale objectives. Dare is the recipient of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for AN AMERICAN STORY, written by Kwame Alexander.
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Director and Chairman of the Board of the Mercatus Center. He has written numerous books on economics including the bestsellers, The Great Stagnation and The Complacent Class. He is a columnist with The Free Press and previously wrote for Bloomberg Opinion; his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR.org, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, and many other outlets. He is the co-author of the well-read economics daily blog, Marginal Revolution, co-founder of the on-line educational platform, Marginal Revolution University, the founder of Emergent Ventures, an incubator fellowship and grant program for social entrepreneurs with highly scalable ideas for meaningfully improving society, and host of the popular podcast, Conversations with Tyler.
Dr Rory Cox is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he has been teaching since 2011. Previous to his current appointment, he taught at Aberystwyth University and the University of Oxford. Rory received his Bachelor’s degree in Ancient History with First Class Honours from University College London (UCL) in 2004, followed by a Master’s in Medieval Studies in 2006, also from UCL, where he graduated with Distinction. He completed a D.Phil in History at the University of Oxford in 2010.
He is a world-leading authority on the global history of war, violence, and ethics, from the ancient to the modern world. His research straddles the fields of History and International Relations, and he has published on subjects as diverse as ancient Egyptian ethics of war, medieval European pacifism, pre-modern and modern torture debates, interdisciplinary methodologies, and global terrorism.
His first book Solar: A History of Humanity and the Sun will be published by Allan Lane in 2027.
The Perimeter: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Supremacy in the Pacific — and the World
James Crabtree is an award-winning author and geopolitical analyst.
He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society in New York, and a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. He spent spring 2024 as a Visiting Fellow at the Schwarzman Scholars Programme at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. Until the end of 2023, he was the Singapore-based Executive Director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies in Asia, where he organized the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security summit, an annual gathering of security leaders in the Indo-Pacific.
Prior to that, James was an Associate Professor in Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School, Asia’s leading school of public policy. He was also a prominent journalist, notably as Mumbai Bureau Chief for the Financial Times. He continues to write frequently for a range of global publications including the New York Times and Wired, and appears as a commentator on Bloomberg, BBC, CNN, CNBC, and elsewhere. He worked previously as a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was educated at Harvard’s Kennedy School and at the London School of Economics.
Amanda Craig, Ph.D, is a Licensed Family and Marriage Therapist and ordained Presbyterian minister. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Craig is the owner and operator of Manhattan Family & Marriage Therapist, one of the largest practices in New York with locations in New York City and Darien, CT.
Marisa (Mac) Crane is the author of the debut novel, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, and the forthcoming novel, A Sharp Endless Need. Their fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, Prairie Schooner, Joyland, The Offing, The Adroit Journal, Passages North, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. An American Short Fiction Fellow and Sewanee Writers' Conference Fiction Fellow, they currently live in San Diego with their wife and child
A long time music industry professional, Robyn Crawford worked with Whitney Houston, first as her assistant and then as her Creative Director, for 20 years. She now lives with her wife and two children in New Jersey.
Susan Crawford is a columnist and author who has been writing about the relationship between basic infrastructure and thriving human lives for more than twenty years. A professor at Harvard Law School whose prior books include FIBER and Captive Audience, she has written for WIRED and Bloomberg View.
You Are Not Alone: For Children and Families (Plus Workbook)
Backtalker: A Memoir
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare (Editor)
Kimberlé Crenshaw is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia University, and the most cited woman legal scholar in the history of the law. She developed the theories of, wrote the globally influential academic papers on, and coined the terms for “intersectionality,” Critical Race Theory, and the SayHerName campaign.
A former chancellor of the New York City public school system and former superintendent for Miami-Dade county’s public schools, Crew is an education consultant and frequent lecturer. The Board of Trustees of The City University of New York appointed Crew as president of Medgar Evers College.
Mark Crilley is the author and illustrator of more than fifty books and graphic novels, including The Akiko series and The Drawing Lesson, for which he has received fourteen Eisner Award nominations. His latest book, The Mighty Onion, was selected as one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2024. His work has been featured in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, and on CNN Headline News. His popular YouTube videos have been viewed more than 400 million times.
Melissa Croce is originally from the Seattle area. She currently lives in New York City, where she works in children's publishing.
A leading whitewater explorer, Bridget Crocker has guided expeditions down many of the world’s greatest river canyons. Her work has been featured in Outside, Men’s Journal and National Geographic Adventure magazines among others, and she is a contributor at Patagonia, Lonely Planet and The Best Women’s Travel Writing. She lives in Malibu, CA with her family.
A CULTURE OF FLOW
The New York Times bestselling author behind Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, and more, Charles R. Cross has written for hundreds of newspapers and magazines, from Rolling Stone to TheTimes of London. As the editor of Seattle’s The Rocket from 1986 through 2000, Cross chronicled the rise of the Northwest music scene during the heyday of grunge; he now lectures at colleges about journalism and pop culture, and often appears on radio and television as an expert.
Man of the World: The Travels of Winston Churchill
Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France:1944
Tanks: 100 Years of Armoured Warfare
Robin Cross has written over thirty books, including the bestselling VE-Day: Victory in Europe 1945 (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1985) and the number one Sunday Times bestseller We'll Meet Again (with Vera Lynn; Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989). His Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich (Michael O'Mara, 1995) was described by the Sunday Express as a 'mesmerising account of the final bloody weeks of war'. In 2016 he published Tanks: 100 Years of Armoured Warfare (Andre Deutsch).
His World at War: World Wars I and II in Photographs has been continuously in print since 1998 and for many years he has worked as contributor and consultant to the Quantum Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry and Warfare.
His Operation Dragoon - The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944 was published by Pegasus in 2018.
Man of the World – The Travels of Winston Churchill was published by Amberley in 2024.
POSTER BOY (2019)
OVERDRAWN (2019)
CORRECTIONAL
N.J. Crosskey is an author, mother and caffeine junkie from Worthing, West Sussex. She began writing seriously in 2014, and since then her fiction has been published in several literary magazines, e-zines, and even on YouTube. Now she writes novels that examine the world we live in, and the worlds we could be heading to. She believes that the greatest truths can be found in fiction, and has a penchant for all things flawed, broken and beautifully raw.
Melanie Crowder (she/her) is an educator, speaker, and the acclaimed author of nine novels and two picture books for young readers. Her work has received numerous awards and starred reviews, and has been featured in publications such as The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal. Kirkus reviews declares that her 2021 historical YA novel, Mazie, “deserves a standing ovation” while her 2022 contemporary YA, Jumper, “is never less than riveting.” Her YA historical novel in verse, Audacity, was awarded the Jefferson Cup and Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Her middle grade novel, Three Pennies, was named a New York Public Library Best Book for Kids. An Uninterrupted View of the Sky was a Walden Award finalist. A Nearer Moon was declared a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, the New York Public Library, and Bank Street College. The Lighthouse between the Worlds was a Colorado Book Award finalist, while her debut novel, Parched, was a Junior Library selection. A West Coast girl at heart, Melanie lives with her family under the big blue Colorado sky. She holds an MFA in writing and teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts. For more information, visit her online at melaniecrowder.com.
Jonathan Crowl’s fiction and essays have appeared in Guernica, Joyland, Day One, and other publications. His journalism has received honors from the Society of Professional Journalists. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is earning an MFA from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and he is at work on a novel, Coping.
The Belladonna Maze
Sinead Crowley is the bestselling author of three psychological thrillers set in Ireland. She is also Arts and Media correspondent with RTE News in Dublin.
Nan Cuba is the author of Body and Bread (Engine Books), winner of the PEN Southwest Award in Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. Cuba co-edited Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists (Trinity University Press), and published other work in such places as Antioch Review, Harvard Review, Columbia, and Chicago Tribune’s Printer’s Row. She is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and teaches in the MA/MFA Program in Literature, Creative Writing, and Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, where she is writer-in-residence.
Jim Cullen is an ex-Navy officer who started with Merrill Lynch in 1965. He later worked with the high-quality research firms of Spencer Trask & Co. and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. In 1984, he started his own firm and they presently manage approximately $20 billion for individual and institutional clients.
Kevin Cullen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for The Boston Globe since 1985, was the first to raise questions about Whitey Bulger’s relationship with the FBI. A frequent commentator on NPR and the BBC, Cullen has won major journalism prizes including the Goldsmith Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Selden Ring Award.
Ashley Cullins is an entertainment journalist with more than a decade of experience whose work has appeared in outlets like The Ankler, The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard.
Alan Cullison is a seasoned foreign correspondent and national security reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, previously stationed in Moscow as the Journal’s Moscow bureau chief.
Our Ocean To Save
Emily Cunningham is an English marine biologist and award-winning ocean conservationist. Recognised as a global 30 under 30 environmental leader, she has over a decade of experience at the forefront of ocean conservation efforts across our blue planet. Emily is currently working on her first book; an exploration of what the ocean of tomorrow could look like and how we all can play our part in making it a reality.
Tim Curry is an actor and singer best known for his performances in films including “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Annie,” “Legend,” “Clue,” “It,” “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” and “Muppet Treasure Island.” He has been nominated for three Tony Awards and two Olivier Awards — including for his role in “Spamalot” — and is an Emmy Award winner.
Wayne Curtis, freelance journalist and contributing editor at The Atlantic, is the author of The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1,000-Mile Walk from New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today (Rodale). He has received the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award and a gold Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers.
Cathy Curtis, a former writer for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter (Oxford University Press). She majored in philosophy at Smith College and holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of California, Berkeley. She was elected vice president of Biographers International Organization in 2014.
Riot: A History of the Making of Natural Born Killers
Ryan D’Agostino is an editorial director of Hearst Magazines and a regular contributor to Esquire, Men’s Health and many other magazines. He is the author of two books, Rich Like Them (Little Brown, 2009) and The Rising (Crown, 2015).
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Tara Dairman writes novels and picture books about kids with strong passions and big questions about the world. Tara’s books include The Girl from Earth’s End; the All Four Stars series; The Great Hibernation; Go, Baby, Go (illustrated by Oliva Amoah); and Desert Girl, Monsoon Boy (illustrated by Archana Sreenivasan). These titles have been named to best-of-the-year lists by A Mighty Girl, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and more. Tara has traveled to more than 90 countries, and currently resides in Colorado.
“She/her” or “they/them” are great pronouns to use when referring to Tara.
With Ratha Chaupoly, Daitz founded Num Pang sandwich chain in New York City. They’ve been awarded the "Best Sandwich Chain" by the Village Voice and" Best Sandwich" by Zagat’s.
Angela H. Dale (she/her) writes books for children and their adults, and poetry that sometimes becomes books. Before the internet, Angela worked for a literary agent in Washington, DC, and a book publisher in New York City, then used a dialup modem to write from the road while moving about the world when her husband was in the Navy. Now in Maryland, she uses all the things, from purple pens and backs of envelopes to laptop and talk-to-text, to create stories. Her most treasured gift is curiosity, and she believes there's no such thing as a naughty kid. Her work has been recognized by Mombian, Reach Out and Read, Scholastic, and others.
David Daley is an award-winning journalist, the bestselling author of RATF**KED: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count and UNRIGGED: How Americans AreBattling Back to Save Democracy, and one of the most sought-after writers by editors, op-ed pages and media bookers to help explain the state of the nation, the voting rights crisis, and the despair of democracy. He and his work have appeared and been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, CNN, Slate, NPR, MSNBC, Comedy Central, and many others. Currently a Senior Fellow at both FairVote and the Arnold Schwarzenegger Institute at the University of Southern California, he is the former editor in chief of Salon.
Churchill's D-Day: The British Bulldog's Fateful Hours During the Normandy Invasion
Victory To Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
Boots on the Ground: Britain and her Army since 1945
Leading from the Front: The Autobiography
General Lord Richard Dannatt was commissioned into The Green Howards regiment in 1971. He served with the 1st Battalion in Northern Ireland (where he won the Military Cross), Cyprus and Germany and commanded the Battalion in the Airmobile role from 1989 to 1991. From 1994 to 1996 he commanded 4th Armoured Brigade in Germany and Bosnia. He took command of the 3rd (United Kingdom) Division in January 1999, also serving in Kosovo that year as Commander British Forces. In 2000 he returned to Bosnia as the Deputy Commander Operations of the Stabilisation Force, and from 2001 to 2002 he was the Assistant Chief of the General Staff in the Ministry of Defence before taking command of NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. In 2005 he became Commander-in-Chief, Land Command.
Richard Dannatt became Chief of the General Staff in 2006, leading the British Army during its most challenging time in the post-war era as it fought two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He handed over as Chief on 28th August 2009, forty years to the day from when he first joined the Army. In 2009 HM The Queen appointed him Constable of the Tower of London and in 2010 he was appointed as a Crossbencher to the House of Lords. He has written regular columns for the Sunday Telegraph, and lectures on leadership and current defence and security issues.
His autobiography Leading from the Front was published in 2010 by Transworld. Boots on the Ground, his post-Second World War history of the British Army was published by Profile to critical acclaim in 2016.
Written with co-author Robert Lyman, his Victory to Defeat on why the British Army was catastrophically unprepared for the Second World War and the lessons we must learn, was published by Bloomsbury / Osprey in 2023.
Co-authored with Allen Packwood, Richard Dannatt’s Churchill’s D-Day was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2024.
Co-authored with Robert Lyman, his His Korea – A War Without End will be published by Bloomsbury / Osprey in 2025.
An Emmy-winning actor best known for his role as Sam Malone on the television series "Cheers," Danson appears regularly on HBO’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and currently stars in "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." He is on the board of Oceana, the world’s largest non-profit devoted to marine issues.
The former editor in chief of SELF for more than ten years, Danziger is also the author of the New York Times bestseller THE NINE ROOMS OF HAPPINESS. She is a regular guest on television shows, including Today, The View, and Good Morning America.
Rijula Das's debut novel Small Deaths comes out in September 2022. It was previously published as A Death in Shonagachhi by Picador India in July 2021, where it received the Tata Lit Live First Book Award 2021, and was longlisted for many prominent awards, including the JCB prize 2021.
Russian rights have been bought by Ripol; and French rights have been bought by Éditions du Seuil, for publication in 2023. Adaptation rights have been optioned by Drishyam Films, and a limited series is currently in development.
Rijula received her PhD in Creative Writing/prose-fiction in 2017 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she taught writing for two years. Her critical research focuses on the connections between public space and sexual violence. A Death in Shonagachhi was born of this research.
Rijula is a recipient of 2019 Michael King Writer's Centre Residency in Auckland and the 2016 Dastaan Award for her short story Notes From A Passing. Her short story, The Grave of The Heart Eater, was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2019.
She currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Graham Daseler graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Film and Digital Media. He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he works as a film editor and writer. His work has been published in Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, Moving Arts Film Journal, Film International, and Offscreen.
Homa Dashtaki is the founder of the White Moustache. Her artisanal yogurt has garnered acclaim from the New York Times, Vogue, Bon Appétit, and Food & Wine. She was born in Iran and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Mo Daviau is the author of the novels Every Anxious Wave and Epic and Lovely, as well as a bunch of essays and such.
Born and raised in California, Mo is a graduate of Smith College and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Mo lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and is a bookseller and the event host at Annie Bloom’s Books. You can check out her staff favorites page here.
She writes about bookselling at bravebookstore.substack.com.
Linda Davick is a writer/illustrator who started her work in children’s literature after a long career in animation and design. After working with clients like Amazon, Crayola, Klutz Press, and Sesame Street, her first illustrated book appeared on the New York Times’ Best Seller list. That book was 10 TRICK-OR-TREATERS, a seasonal counting book that launched the popular Ten Friends series. Her next book, I LOVE YOU NOSE! I LOVE YOU TOES! won an Ezra Jack Keats honor.
Linda lives by the Rio Grande Nature Preserve in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A stand-up comedian, an actor, and a writer, Davidoff co-starred in the film Invincible and is a frequent guest on Chelsea Lately.
Carey Davidson is the founder and CEO of Tournesol where she uses the Five Elements, Ayurveda, and Vibroacoustic Method to help catalyze personal health and advance organizational resilience by addressing body, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral needs as well as higher level purpose and spiritual needs.
Curved Air: A Biography of Sickle Cell Anemia and the Excruciating Quest to Cure the First Molecular Disease
Kevin Davies is the founding editor of Nature Genetics and Bio-IT World and former Editor-in-Chief at Cell Press. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and is the author of three books. Most recently, Davies co-authored DNA: The Story of the Genetics Revolution, with Nobel laureate Jim Watson and Andrew Berry (Knopf).
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Matthew Davis is the founder and Executive Director of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University. He is the author of the memoir When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale. And his work has appeared, among other places, in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the LA Review of Books, and Guernica.
Dr. Sampson Davis is an emergency room physician, public speaker, philanthropist, and New York Times bestselling author. In 2000, he helped found The Three Doctors Foundation, which offers a series of free public programs focused on health, education, leadership, and mentoring. Dr. Davis was honored in 2000 with the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award as well as named one of their forty most inspirational African Americans in the country. He is the youngest physician to receive the National Medical Association highest honor and was honored on national television with the 2009 BET Awards. Dr. Davis has coauthored New York Times bestselling books, The Pact, We Beat the Street,The Bond, andLiving and Dying in Brick City: An ER Doctor Returns Home.
To Make
Zinnia and the Bees
Our Feet Were Not on the Earth
One of a Kind Handwriting
Danielle Davis grew up in Singapore and Hong Kong and now lives in Downtown Los Angeles. She is a writer, collaborator, teacher, and independent picture book editor. Her goal with every project is to offer kids validation, comfort, and hope. And she enjoys helping writers tap into their own unique voices and visions.
Danielle's first picture book was TO MAKE, illustrated by Mags DeRoma, published with HarperCollins. Her first middle grade novel was ZINNIA AND THE BEES. She loves visiting schools and libraries to read and craft with kids, speaking about her work, and writing and producing animation projects. Danielle has an M.A. in literature and creative writing and had the privilege of teaching English to middle school and then community college students.
Ann Davis Vaughan is a business journalist and investment strategist. She spent nearly fourteen years at the Wall Street Journal, where until 2010 she led coverage of the energy industry and commodity markets from Houston, the Wall Street beat from New York and investigative projects in white-collar crime and homeland security.
Her reporting earned a Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline Reporting in 2007 for coverage of energy markets and a Business Journalist of the Year Award from the World Leadership Forum in London in 2005. Since leaving the WSJ, she has provided investors proprietary research guiding billions of dollars in decisions, both at a private fund manager for a decade and an independent research firm she founded.
Renowned marketing strategy expert Niraj Dawar is a professor at the Ivey Business School and author of Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers (Harvard Business Review Press), named a Best Book of 2014 by strategy+business and a Noteworthy Book of 2014 by Forbes.
Designer and reality TV host Tamara Day seeks to make the aspirational attainable for her clients and fans of her renovation projects. Tamara restores neglected Kansas City homes on her show, Bargain Mansions. Bargain Mansions, which originated on DIY and then spent two seasons on HGTV, has now found its home on Magnolia Network, and is going into its fourth season. When Tamara is not in front of the camera, she is committed to her family design business, located in Kansas City. Her style, coined "Laid Back Luxe," blends glamour, comfort, and family into the spaces she designs – something she personally prioritizes. As a busy mother of four, Tamara believes that home should be both beautiful and low maintenance because life is stressful enough. To keep up with Tamara and her projects, follow @tamaraday on Instagram.
Sandeep Dayal is the Managing Director for the Chicago based Marketing Strategy powerhouse Cerenti Marketing Group, LLC. As a trench warrior for many companies around the world, he has helped shape the destiny of some of the largest global brands with his innovative ideas and expertise in brain sciences.
DeAngelo is a medical anthropologist with an expertise in landmine detection in Cambodia. She is writing a book about our complex relationship to rats for Liveright.
Anthony DeCurtis is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, where his work has appeared for more than thirty years. A Grammy Award recipient, he has three times been recognized with the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. A former on-air correspondent and editorial director at VH1, he has contributed to a myriad of television specials and programs; he teaches in the writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.