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Sam Leith was a King’s Scholar at Eton College and took a first in English Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford. He has worked in literary journalism for more than 25 years and has been literary editor of the Spectator since 2016, where he hosts their weekly ‘Book Club’ podcast. Before that he was literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, where he also served at different times as comment editor, senior feature writer, New York correspondent and Peterborough editor. He has been a judge of the Man Booker, Samuel Johnson, David Cohen, Costa, Wingate, Forward and Orwell Prizes (among others), and has chaired or interviewed any number of writers on stage, for broadcast and in print. He has also been a columnist for the Guardian, the FT, Prospect, the Evening Standard, Spears, the Daily Telegraph and Wall Street Journal Europe and lead book reviewer for the Daily Mail. His reviews have appeared regularly in the TLS, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the FT, the Sunday Times (London), the Spectator and UnHerd.

I was born and raised in Chania, to a Cretan fisherman dad and a Scottish mum. I spent most of my childhood in our family seafood restaurant by the sea. We ate the freshest fish everyday, caught by my dad; one man in one boat every single night.

I left Chania to study in England and after studying and travelling I came back to doing what I love most, cooking. Cooking at Moro and now Morito has been one of the best experiences of my life and I consider myself lucky to have a job that I love more and more every single day.

Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and The Meat Racket.

Contributor to Elle, The Hairpin, TechCrunch, and elsewhere, Leslie is a tech analyst whose work has also been commissioned by Google, Facebook, American Express, and others.

Ian Leslie is an author and speaker who lives in London, where he combines careers in writing and advertising. His book Born Liars was hailed as ‘consistently startling and fascinating’ by the Daily Mail and was BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’. His book Curious was described by Tyler Cowen as ‘a beautiful and fascinating tribute to one of mankind’s most important virtues.’ He writes about ideas, culture and politics for a range of publications in the UK and US and is the author of a widely read and influential Substack newsletter called ‘The Ruffian’.

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Daisy Letourneur is the author of the blog "La Mecxpliqueuse" where she has been writing about masculinities since 2017. She is also a feminist, trans and lesbian activist and a member of the "Toutes Des Femmes" collective. Her first essay On ne naît pas mec, petit traité sur les masculinités was published by Zones in 2022, and she also took part in the collective work Masculinités (epa, 2023).

The Rt Hon. Sir Oliver Letwin took his first degree in History (for which he received a double first) at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also completed his PhD in Philosophy. Following fellowships at Princeton and Cambridge, he has been a civil servant (where he served in Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit), an investment banker, a Member of Parliament, and a cabinet minister (where he served first as Minister for Government Policy and then as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster). He became a privy councillor in 2002 and was knighted in 2016.

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After a career in law and academia, Levin spent the last twenty years working with governments and institutions, focused on economic development and political reform. Over the past ten years, he’s run the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance, through which he’s helped monarchies democratize their political foundations and state and non-state actors in armed conflict zones. His first book, Nothing But A Circus, was published in the UK, Germany, Russia, and Japan.

Dr. Morgan Elyse Levine, PhD, is a professor at Yale University in the School of Medicine, a core leader for Yale’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and a “rising star” in the field of aging and longevity science. Dr. Levine serves on the Scientific Advisor Boards of major companies, including Elysium, Life Epigenetics, and Humanity and her research has been featured in major news outlets, including: The Guardian, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, Good Housekeeping Magazine, and many others. She has also been profiled on CNN and is featured on the Netflix docuseries Goop Lab.

A former editor at both Wired and Billboard, Levine has also written for the New York Times, Fortune, Business 2.0, Conde Nast Portfolio, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.

Adam Valen Levinson is a multimedia backpack journalist and travel writer whose work focuses on human stories in conflict areas. His work has appeared in numerous outlets, including VICE, the Paris Review, Al Jazeera, and Haaretz. He is currently an affiliate of the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. and a Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University

A former educator, Cynthia Levinson writes (mostly) nonfiction books for young readers ages 5 and up that focus on history, law, policy, and social justice. Her books have received the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, the Carter G. Woodson and Jane Addams Book Awards, the IRA Nonfiction Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award Finalist, and NAACP and Golden Kite Honors, among others. She divides her time between Austin, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.

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Ashley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University and has published fiction and essays in ZYZZYVA, Catapult, The Atlas Review, and Fourteen Hills. In 2015, she co-founded Transit Books, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature, and her debut novel Immediate Family was published in 2021 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

The Rev. Jacqui J. Lewis, PhD is a public theologian, advocate and author at the intersections of racial/ethnic, gender/sexuality and economic justice. She was activated for this work when Dr. King was assassinated; she earned a MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary and a PhD from Drew University in preparation for this moment. NOW is the time for her to usher an urgent, global call to moral courage, our best humanity, and the fiercest love in order to heal souls and the world.

Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology, Huntington Library, and has written several books on birds around the world.  He is completing a book currently titled Rooted: Twelve Trees That Shape Our Lives, and Our Future for Avid Reader.

Erika Lewis is an award-winning author of novels for children and young adults. Her books have been published around the world and have appeared on national lists, including The Children’s BookCouncil Teacher’s Favorite Pick, Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books, Publisher’s Weekly Notables, Nerd Daily Most Anticipated, and Book Riot’s Must Reads. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, an internship at CNN led to exciting years working in television, developing scripted and reality shows for various studios and networks. Fifteen years later, her first book was optioned by Macmillan, and she’s been writing ever since. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Her work is represented by Tricia Lawrence at ACM.

Emilie Leyes is a certified hypnotherapist (CHt) and brain training specialist trained in positive neuroplasticity, positive psychology, and clinical hypnosis. She has a master’s degree in mind-body medicine, through which she focused her research in hypnosis and imagery-based tools for mental wellbeing. After using brain training to fully recover from a debilitating, “incurable” chronic illness and transform her own mental health, Emilie made it her mission to help folks harness the power of their own minds to reduce stress, build confidence and creativity, increase their access to joy, and enjoy their lives as they boldly pursue their goals. Emilie has gained a large and dedicated following across her social media platforms, with 286,000 followers on Instagram and 934,000 on TikTok. She is the host of the popular brain training podcast, How to Like Your Life, and the founder/creator of the hypnosis app, Doddle Hypnosis & Meditation. Through workshops, courses, one-on-one coaching, and speaking engagements, Emilie has helped thousands of people transform their lives.

James Beard Rising Star Chef finalist and siblings behind Boston Mei Mei’s Street Kitchen, the acclaimed food truck enterprise and restaurant, focused on New England-influenced Chinese food and thoughtful sourcing.

Junheng Li is founder of the New York–based equity research firm JL Warren Capital LLC, former senior equity analyst at hedge fund Aurarian Capital Management, and author of Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back (McGraw-Hill).

Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and the author of many acclaimed books on U.S. political history, including White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, FDR and the Jews (with Richard Breitman), and the National Bestseller, The Case for Impeachment. He is regularly sought out by the media for his authoritative views on voting and elections.

Diane and Bernie Lierow live outside of Nashville, Tennessee. The story of their daughter, Dani, was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the St. Petersburg Times.

Brian Lies is the author/illustrator of over 30 children’s books, including his NY Times best-selling bat series (Bats at the Beach, etc.), his 2019 Caldecott Honor-winning The Rough Patch, and 2025’s Cat Nap. His work in book and editorial illustration has won many awards, and he is acclaimed as a visiting author, working with elementary schools throughout the United States.  

He was the featured artist at the 2023 Abilene CALF Festival (www.abileneCALF.org). A graduate of Brown University, Brian lives with his family and two cats in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where he works, tends a large vegetable garden, and enjoys reading, cooking, and woodworking.

Alan Light has appeared as a music and culture expert on numerous television and radio programs, and was the director of programming for Live from the Artists Den, a concert series on PBS. As former editor-in-chief of Spin and Vibe magazines as well as the founder and editor of Tracks, Light has written for countless publications. A former senior writer at Rolling Stone, he won two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for his work. Light wrote What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography (Crown 2016); the oral history of The Beastie Boys, The Skills to Pay the Bills (Three Rivers 2005); and edited The Vibe History of Hip Hop (Crown 1999) and the New York Times bestseller Tupac Shakur (Crown 1997). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Rolling Stone and hosts the SiriusXM music talk channel VOLUME. Light is based in New York City.

Pamela Lilly holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University. Formerly a professor of English at Frederick Community College, she is now a full time writer.

Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer and translator, the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize, and four chapbooks: Vigil, Tropicália, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize, Amblyopia, and Translation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Common, Witness, and elsewhere. For her fiction, she was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, and an early version of CRAFT was named a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA from Rutgers University, Newark. Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lives in Chicago. Her first collection of fiction, CRAFT, is forthcoming from Tor.

Patty Lin is a writer and producer known for Freaks and Geeks, Friends, Desperate Housewives, and Breaking Bad. She has also written pilots for Fox, CBS, and Nickelodeon. Her Breaking Bad episode, “Gray Matter,” was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. She retired from TV writing in 2009 to pursue other interests and occasionally appears in background acting roles.

Liz Linden is an artist whose work uses language, photography, and feminist art strategies to reconsider popular culture. Her art has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and she publishes her writing about contemporary art in journals, magazines, and books. She currently lives in Northern California.

I was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford, where I read English. In 1977 I published my first full-length collection of poems, Fools’ Paradise. That book has been followed by five other books of poems: Tourists (1987), A Prismatic Toy (1991), Selected Poems (2000); then – published by Wave Books in Australia – the first four sections of my long poem-in-progress on the life of the Buddha, Touching the Earth, and another collection of poems, Playing With Fire, from Carcanet Press in 2006. My new collection, Luna Park, was published by Carcanet in 2015.

In the late 1970s I became interested in Thomas De Quincey, ‘the English Opium-Eater’, essayist and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge. I wrote a biography of him, published in 1981 as The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. Later I edited his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings for the Oxford World’s Classics series in 1985, and later still I piloted The Works of Thomas De Quincey, a 21-volume complete edition of his writings, produced by a team of eleven editors under my direction and published in 2000-03.

Alongside this work I published in 1993 A Literary Guide to the Lake District, a systematic guide to the area’s literary connections from the earliest times to the present day. It won the ‘Lakeland Book of the Year’ award in 1994. It has been repeatedly updated, and a new edition was published by Sigma Press in 2015.

My travel book, Travels on the Dance Floor was chosen as a Radio 4 Book of the Week and shortlisted as Authors’ Club Best Travel Book.

Mysterious Wisdom: The Spiritual Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats will be published by Oxford University Press in 2026.

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Alan is a former staff writer for SNL. Claire is an improv and writing teacher at The Second City.

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Josh Linkner is the founder and president of ePrize.com, a successful four-time entrepreneur and CEO, the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a jazz musician, and weekly contributor to Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and the Detroit Free Press. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention (Jossey-Bass). He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is a President Obama Champion of Change Award recipient.

Ben Lippett is a chef, food writer and recipe developer, and the powerhouse behind the hugely popular @dinnerbyben social media accounts (where he has accrued over 400,000 followers) and the How I Cook Substack, which currently ranks 20th on the global food and drink leaderboard. He’s a firm believer that one of the most important things you can do whilst cooking is ask why? Why am I adding salt now and not later? Why am I patting this chicken breast dry before I cook it? Why has my chocolate mousse split? How do certain flavours develop? Understanding the whys and hows behind your cooking is akin to holding the keys to the culinary kingdom and will ultimately make life in the kitchen a fulfilling and enjoyable one.

Barbara K. Lipska, a neuroscientist, is the director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Emily Listfield is the author of seven novels, including a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her books have been published in numerous foreign countries. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Fitness Magazine and Executive Editor of Parade's HealthyStyle. Her writing appears frequently in Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, The New York Times, and many other national publications. She has served as a panelist at SXSW, worked across media platforms and is the co-founder of Jyst, a crowd-sourced relationship advice app for women. She lives in New York City, where she raised a pretty great daughter.

John Lithgow is a Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winner, a bestselling author, a talented humorist, and a renowned performer. He is best known for his time on the mega-hit NBC comedy 3rd Rock From the Sun, his performances in The Crown and Dexter and his starring roles in The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Pelican Brief, This is 40, Interstellar, Pet Sematary, Bombshell, and Late Night, among many others.

Bruce Littlefield, national television personality and author of numerous lifestyle books, including Merry Christmas, America and Airstream Living, has most recently written The Bedtime Book for Dogs, an illustrated read-aloud book for the canine community (Grand Central). He is the co-author of Bravo TV star Fredrik Eklund’s The Sell (Avery).

Natalia Litvinova (Gómel, Bielorrusia, 1986) is an Argentinean writer and editor, specialized in poetry and translation. She was born five months after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In the 90s, when she was about to turn ten, her family decided to emigrate to Buenos Aires. She has published several poetry collections, Todo ajeno (Vaso Roto, 2013), Siguiente vitalidad (La Bella Varsovia, 2016), and Soñka, manos de oro (La Bella Varsovia, 2022). Her poetry has been published in Germany, France, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Colombia and the United States. She’s currently working on her debut novel.

Mara Livermore is a writer, researcher, and workshop facilitator working in Citizens' Juries and participatory democracy. She has supported and led Citizens' Jury processes covering climate change, air quality, community safety, and the UK's first heritage sector Citizens' Jury for Birmingham Museums Trust.

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As a facilitator, she hosts the Birmingham Writers' Retreat for Writers HQ and her experience covers democracy, climate justice, entrepreneurship, African Traditional Religions, and personal empowerment. 

She is currently studying for an MRes in Social Research and Social Justice at the University of East London exploring the impact of African Traditional Religious beliefs on today's UK-based African Diaspora. Her work has been shared by institutions such as the British Academy, National Museums Liverpool, and Stylist magazine.

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My Nameis Venus Black is Heather K. Lloyd’s debut novel. She spent many years working as a freelance editor and book doctor. After raising her children on the West Coast, she and her husband recently moved to New York City where she is at work on her second novel.

John Lloyd was the Founding Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is now Senior Research Fellow. He is contributing editor to the Financial Times, chairman of the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies and a columnist for Reuters.com and La Repubblica of Rome. He has won awards for journalism, including 'Specialist Writer of the Year' in the British Press Awards and 'Journalist of the Year' in the Granada What the Papers Say Awards.

Jason Lloyd is a lifelong resident of Northeast Ohio. He has covered the World Series, the NCAA Tournament, the BCS National Championship Game and the NBA Finals, and he has won several state and national awards for his work covering the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Cleveland Cavaliers. He has also worked for ESPN.com, Lindy’s Sports Annuals, Cleveland Magazine, and CBSSports.com.

Will Lloyd is a columnist at The Times (London) and a reporter at the Sunday Times (London), having formerly worked as a Commissioning Editor and Writer at the New Statesman and Staff Writer/ Commissioning Editor at UnHerd.

Top Chef Masters finalist and award-winning chef, Lo worked at Bouley and Chanterelle before opening the Michelin-starred restaurant annisa in the heart of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in 2000, which she ran until it closed in 2017. Food & Wine named her one of ten Best New Chefs in America, and the Village Voice proclaimed her Best New Restaurant Chef; in 2015, she became the first female guest chef to cook at the White House.

Tom LoBianco is a White House reporter for The Associated Press. He has covered Mike Pence from his first campaign rally for governor in Pence’s native Columbus, Indiana to his return to Washington to take the oval office. LoBianco worked the halls of the Indiana Statehouse and Congress for a combined seven years with the AP, the Indianapolis Star and CNN. He is a regular political analyst on national television and radio, including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR and more.

Bruna Dantas Lobato is a novelist and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, The Common, and other publications, and it has been recognized with fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Jentel, A Public Space, NYU, and Disquiet International. Her literary translations include Caio Fernando Abreu's seminal story collections Moldy Strawberries (longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize) and No Dragons in Paradise, among others. Other translations from Portuguese have appeared in Bookforum, Vogue, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The American Scholar. She serves on the Board of the Directors of the American Literary Translators Association, and holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University, and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and, like the protagonist of her forthcoming novel, TWO LIVES (Grove, 2024), she attended undergrad in Vermont. Originally from Brazil, she lives in St. Louis with her partner and pet bunny.

Dr Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, and Director of American Studies at the University of Essex. He teaches European, American and Japanese art, architecture, visual culture and theory from the late 19th century to the present, specialising in the art history of tattoos. He has given invited lectures at venues including the V&A, the National Museum of Scotland, and the Museum of London, and has published academic papers in venues including the Sculpture Journal, and contributed forewords for over a dozen popular books on tattooing. He has contributed articles to the Royal Academy Magazine, History Today, The Guardian and others, and appeared on broadcast media across the globe. His first monograph, on the history of Western tattooing, is currently in production. His latest major exhibition, 'British Tattoo Art Revealed', began at the National Maritime Museum Falmouth in March 2017 and is currently on tour nationwide through 2021. Matt also serves as the presenter of the landmark television series "Art of Museums" / 'Magie des Grands Musées' / 'Magie der Museen', airing across Europe and beyond in late 2018 and early 2019.

Kurt Loder is a longtime film critic, music journalist and television presence and the author of I, Tina, with Tina Turner, and a collection of his work from Rolling Stone where he was an editor for nine years. He was an anchor and correspondent for MTV News, as well as the writer and host of MTV’s The Week in Rock for more than a decade. He currently writes about movies for Reason Online and has also guest-starred as himself in numerous films. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Details, New York Magazine, and Time. He currently lives in New York City.

Mike Lofgren is a former senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Party Is Over and The Deep State (Viking).

Elizabeth Loftus, who holds the title of Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, is one of the most respected memory researchers of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. At UC Irvine, she holds positions in two departments: Psychological Science and also Criminology, Law, and Society. She received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University.

Dr. Tim Lomas is one of Europe's leading experts on positive psychology and the program leader at the University of East London's MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (one of the most highly respected post-graduate courses in Europe). He has written for the Guardian and has published numerous academic papers in high-profile journals, including Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Mindfulness, Psychology and Health and the Journal of Happiness Studies.

Ernesto Londoño is a journalist for The New York Times. He joined the newspaper in 2014 as a member of the editorial board and served as Brazil bureau chief from 2017 to 2022. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where his assignments included covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and the Pentagon. He was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia.

John Long is the Strategic Professor of Paleontology at Flinders University in Adelaide and part of the largest paleontological research team in Australia. He has held several research positions at major museums including several years as Vice President of Research and Collections at the Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County in California. Over the course of his career, he has discovered and described more than 85 extinct creatures in remote locations ranging from Antarctica, China, Iran, Thailand, and his native Australia, published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous pieces in Scientific American and Nature, and writes regularly for The Conversation, where his piece about Megalodon has been read by close to a million people.

Eva Longoria is an American actress, producer, director, activist and businesswoman, best known for her role on the popular television series Desperate Housewives. Besides acting Longoria has ventured into business and has released various books, including Eva’s Kitchen, taking readers on her culinary journey—from the food she was brought up on to the recipes inspired by her travels abroad to the dishes she serves during casual nights at home.

Azul López (FKA Andrés López) is a Mexican author and illustrator of picture books. Her books have been published in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, South Korea, The Netherlands, USA, Germany, Greece and Sweden. Her stories and drawings have received multiple international awards. Most recently, she received the International Award for Illustration from the Bologna Children's Book Fair and the Green Island award from the Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours in South-Korea.

Azul uses emotions, memories, and metaphors to tell the stories she imagines. She is happy to collaborate on stories that others imagine, too. When she’s not working at her studio, she likes to walk among flowers, and to spend a lot of time looking at the sky, enjoying how, by just paying attention, we can witness the beautiful wonder of seeing things change.

Emily Lordi is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University and a writer-at-large for the New York Times’s T Magazine. She has published three acclaimed books on Black artistry, with Rutgers University Press, Bloomsbury’s 33⅓ series, and Duke University Press, and her writing as appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and elsewhere.

Isabel Losada, described as ‘The UK’s Sassiest Spiritual Author’ by the Bookseller, is the author of 6 books. Her work combines humour with a serious subject matter. She has worked as an actress, broadcaster, public speaker and comedian.

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