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Originally from south Louisiana, Blake Sanz won the 2021 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his collection of short stories, The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, selected by Brandon Taylor. It was also a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and longlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. His essays, interviews, and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Missouri Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. He has been a work-study scholarship recipient at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a scholar at the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, a guest panelist at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans and Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop, and a funded participant at The Community of Writers. His work has also been recognized by the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Competition, and he has held residencies at Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, Art Farm in Nebraska, and Elsewhere Studios in Colorado. Son of a Mexican father and a Cajun mother and a graduate of the MFA program at Notre Dame, he teaches fiction at the University of Central Florida.

Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, psychedelic-assisted therapist, writer, meditation teacher and researcher, and former Buddhist monk. He is also a transformational coach for musicians, athletes, former special operations veterans, scientists, CEOs, authors, and playwrights.  He presents internationally for The Institute of Noetic Sciences, has given numerous keynote addresses at large conferences and he leads psychedelic retreats for the special operations community in Mexico through various organizations.

From her home in England, Lou Sarabadzic writes, creates and translates. She is the author of seven books in various genres, including the poetry collections Ensemble and Je ne sais faire rien d'autre que vivre (La Crypte), the jubilant Éloge poétique du lubrifiant (Le Nouvel Attila, 2021), and the comic book Toujours trop ou pas assez, en finir avec la rhétorique foireuse du patriarcat (Mango Society, 2022), illustrated by Marko Mille.

Margie Sarsfield is a Reno-based writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, Seneca Review, Northwest Review, CutBank, Salt Hill and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2019 Calvino Prize and holds a MFA from Ohio State University.

Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was born in Cairo and educated in Paris, Milan, London and the USA. He obtained his PhD under Eric Hobsbawm’s supervision. In 2019, he won the Acqui Award of History (Premio Acqui Storia) for lifetime achievement in the field of history.

Célia Sauvage holds a doctorate in film and audiovisual studies and is a lecturer at Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. Specialising in cultural studies and the analysis of representation, she is particularly interested in questions of gender, sexuality and LGBT+ identities, mainly in contemporary English-language audiovisual productions. Her publications include Critiquer Quentin Tarantino est-il raisonnable? (Vrin, 2013) and, with Adrienne Boutang, Les Teen Movies (Vrin, 2011). Her latest essay, Décoder Disney-Pixar, désenchanter et réenchanter l'imaginaire, was published by Éditions Daronnes in 2023.

Ayşegül Savaş is the author of the novel Walking on the Ceiling. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Guernica, The Paris Review Daily, Pleiades and her next novel, White on White, is forthcoming from Riverhead.

Dr. Keith Sawyer is one of the country’s leading experts on the science of creativity and innovation. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which are Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (Basic Books) and Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity (Jossey-Bass).

Bobuq Sayed is an Afghan cultural worker who divides their time between Berlin and Miami. They were a Steinbeck fellow at San José State University in 2022-2023 and their writing has received support from Tin House, Kundiman, and the Lambda LiteraryEmerging Writers Retreat. Bobuq is the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook forthcoming from Common Room Editions in 2024, and the co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices from Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen and Unwin).

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Suzanne Scanlon is an MFA/MA candidate and Litowitz Fellow in Creative Writing at Northwestern University. She is the author of Promising Young Women (Dorothy, 2012), a novel in stories, and 37th Year, an Index (Noemi, 2015), a fictional memoir in the form of an index. She is at work on Committed, a memoir about madness in life and literature, for Vintage.

Dr. Rob Scanlon is Board Certified Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care (ICU medicine) andactively in practice for over 20 years. He began his journey as a hiker/backpacker in 2002 toreduce the stress of work life. He joined the Wilderness Medicine Society (WMS) in 2018through his love for the outdoors and medicine and to pursue his growing desire to impact thestaggering rate of hiker death and rescue.

Thomas F. Schaller is professor of political science at UMBC, and the author of four books and hundreds of articles on American politics.

Kate Schapira is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Brown University where she teaches nonfiction writing, with a focus on narrative, diverse formal strategies, and environmental and ecological storytelling. Schapira is the creator of the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, which offers peer mental health counseling related to climate change.

Stylist, creative director, and illustrator, Schelter’s work has been published in Vogue, Style.com, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She owns Kate Schelter, LLC, a full service agency specializing in branding, creative direction, styling, illustration, events, and image consulting.

Erika Schickel is an author, journalist, and essayist and has written for such publications as Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, LA City Beat, LA Observed.com, Bust Magazine, The Huffington Post, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. Erika’s first book, You’re Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom (2007), was a People Magazine pick and a Walmart “Latest and Greatest” book.

Dr. Kathryn Schmitz overturned years of entrenched dogma that told breast cancer survivors to avoid upper body exercise with the publication of two ground-breaking scientific papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Schmitz’s study proved that, contrary to common clinical advice, upper body exercise was safe and beneficial for survivors of breast cancer. She has made it her personal mission to use exercise for cancer prevention and recovery in the same way it has been used for heart disease—only better. This work has made Dr. Schmitz among the most sought-after international speakers and media commentators on the role of exercise during cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Currently a professor of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Schmitz also holds appointments as a professor of Kinesiology as well as Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Penn State. She maintains an adjunct professor position at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the founding director of the Exercise Medicine Unit at the Penn State Cancer Institute where she directs a team of therapists and provides exercise counseling and personalized exercise recommendations to cancer patients.

The author of five nonfiction books, Schneider has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, Elle, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among other publications.

The co-author with Sam Kashner of Hollywood Kryptonite: The Bulldog, the Lady, and the Death of Superman – which the movie "Hollywoodland" was based on – and of Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, Schoenberger is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the College of William and Mary.

Kate Schroeder is an Emmy-nominated Entertainment Producer and Head of Books for Access Hollywood.

A journalist at The New Yorker covering culture and the arts, Michael has written features, reviews, and over 50 "Talk of the Town" pieces. He is the theatre editor of Goings On About Town, and an ongoing contributor to the New York Times.

Emily Schultz is the cofounder of the influential Joyland magazine. Her newest novel, Little Threats, was published by GP Putnam's Sons and was named an Apple Books Best of November 2020 pick. Her novel, The Blondes, released in the U.S. with St. Martin’s Press and Picador, and in Canada with Doubleday was named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews. Schultz's writing has appeared in Elle, Slate, Evergreen Review, Vice, Hazlitt, and Prairie Schooner. She is currently a producer at indie media company Heroic Collective and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Claire Schultz is a writer, editor, and academic.

Her short fiction has been featured in literary journals including Coffin Bell, Crow & Cross Keys, and more, and has won the Hotel Commonwealth Emerging Writers Prize. She works primarily in the overlap of fantasy, horror, and literary fiction.

Claire’s debut adult novel, Even Your Bones Would Do, will be published by Berkley Books in the US & Daphne Press in the UK in early 2027. As Claire Rose, she also writes Young Adult fiction.

After some time living in London and working in publishing, she recently relocated to a remote farm in Michigan, where she lives with a haunted cat and several overzealous dogs.

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Creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, comedian and actress Schumer won a Peabody Award and was nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, in 2015. Schumer also wrote, starred in, and produced the Judd Apatow directed movie Trainwreck in 2015.

Bradley Schurman, Founder and CEO of Demogera, is one of the foremost experts in aging and longevity in the world. He has worked with some of the biggest organizations on these subjects and how they interact with living, working and learning, including AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons), AEGON, IBM, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Economic Forum.

Evan I. Schwartz is author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins), named one of the 75 best business books of all time by Fortune, and Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story (Houghton Mifflin). He is a former award-winning editor at Businessweek and MIT’s Technology Review and has been published in WIRED and the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. With Myrieme Churchill, an esteemed psychotherapist, he is writing Crossing Casablanca, a riveting memoir about Ms. Churchill’s early life.

Musical theatre lyricist and composer Stephen Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell, Pippin, and Wicked, along with films including Universal’s Wicked: Part I, DreamWorks’ The Prince of Egypt and Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Enchanted. Schwartz has been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; his awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards and a special Tony Award for his commitment to fostering new talent.

Erich Schwartzel is an entertainment reporter at the Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, where he covers all the major studios and theater chains and focuses on the growing entanglement of China and Hollywood. Before moving west, he spent several years covering fracking in Appalachia for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; his investigative work there won the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting.

Edward Schwarzschild is the author of the novel Responsible Men and the story collection The Family Diamond. His stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, Hazlitt, Tin House, The Yale Journal of Criticism, The Virginia Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, The Believer and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, NYFA Fellow in Fiction, and Fulbright Scholar, he is now Director of Creative Writing at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute.

Su Scott is a Korean-born food writer living in London. In October 2019 she won the Best Reader’s Recipe category at the prestigious Observer Food Monthly Awards with her recipe for kimchi jjigae. Since winning the award, she’s pursued a freelance career as a food writer and recipe developer, in between being a mother. In January 2021, she was featured in Waitrose Food magazine as a rising star of the food world and contributed her family recipes under the title ‘Home Comfort’. Her domestic kitchen-friendly recipes based on food from her childhood have been well received by editors, food teams and readers for their purposefully simple approach and impactful flavour, and her recipes can also be found in many other food publications including Sainsbury’s magazine, Olive magazine and Waitrose Weekend newspaper.

Jane Scovell is the author of collaborative biographies with, among others, Elizabeth Taylor, Maureen Stapleton, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Horne, Kitty Dukakis, QVC host Kathy Levine, and Tim Conway. She has also written biographies of Oona O’Neill Chaplin and Samuel Ramey. Her books Elizabeth Takes Off (Putnam), It’s Better to Laugh (Atria), Now You Know (Simon & Schuster), What’s So Funny? (Howard Books), and Oona: Living in the Shadows (Warner Books) made the New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists. Her articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Sunday New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Travel and Leisure, and Opera News. She is currently at work on a dramatization of A Hell of a Life based on her book with Maureen Stapleton.

Anchal is a 29 year old British Indian beauty blogger and influencer with 100k followers on Instagram, close to 200k subscribers on YouTube with 19m views of her videos on this platform. Her podcast 'What would the Aunties Say?' is the inspiration for her first book.

Mark Sedgwick trained as a historian at Oxford University, taught for many years at the American University in Cairo, and finally moved to Denmark, where he is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University. He is also chair of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies. His work has focused mostly on Islam, Sufism, Traditionalism, and terrorism.

Laurie Segall is an award-winning investigative journalist known for her interviews with tech founders. Formerly the senior technology correspondent for CNN, she developed and hosted a series of docuseries that explored the impact of technology on sex, love, and death.

Josh Seiden is an expert on startups, technology and apps, as well as principal at the consulting firm Neo and co-author of Lean UX (O’Reilly Publishing) and the forthcoming Sense and Respond (Harvard Business Review Press), on how IT and apps are revolutionizing the entire practice of management.

Pinar Selek is a sociologist, feminist and anti-militarist activist. With a particular interest in oppressed and marginalised groups, she fell victim to the repression suffered by intellectuals in Turkey, and was imprisoned in 1998. Since then, she has been acquitted four times, but the Turkish government insists on appealing, so the trial has been going on for 25 years. She lives in France, where she has published several books, including fiction, short stories, essays and articles. Azucena ou Les fourmis zinzines, her latest novel (Des femmes, 2022), has been published in Turkey and Italy. Éditions des Femmes has also published her latest essay, Le Chaudron militaire turc, un exemple de production de la violence masculine in 2023.

Mark Seliger was Rolling Stone’s Chief Photographer from 1992-2002,where he shot over 150 covers. Seliger now shoots frequently for Vanity Fair, Italian Vogue, and many other magazines; he also shoots advertising work for Adidas, Levi’s, Netflix, and many more. Seliger is the recipient of such esteemed awards as the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, Lucie Award, Clio Grand Prix, Cannes Lions Grand Prix, among others; his photographs are part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Hannah Selinger is a sommelier and lifestyle journalist based in New York and Massachusetts.  She is a 2022 James Beard finalist for the MLK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award and was a 2020 IACP Award finalist in Narrative Beverage Writing

Tom Selleck is an actor and producer best known for his roles as Thomas Magnum on the original Magnum P.I. television series, Dr. Richard Burke, Monica’s older boyfriend on Friends, and NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan on the hit crime drama Blue Bloods. He has also made numerous films including Three Men and A Baby, in which he played Peter Mitchell, The Closer, and Mr. Baseball.

Jeffrey Seller is an American theatrical producer best known for his work on Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights, and Hamilton, as well as inventing Broadway's first rush ticket and lottery ticket policies.

Kavin Senapathy is a brown woman, mother, and secular daughter of immigrants. Her journalism covers health, food, parenting, and science for outlets like Slate, The Daily Beast, Undark, SELF, SciShow, and Forbes. Her work has looked at everything from the lack of diversity in human genomic databases to how natural parenting dehumanizes women. She’s also the co-founder and contributing editor at SciMoms.com, a website dedicated to the pursuit of evidence-based parenting.

Beatriz Serrano graduated with a degree in Journalism from Madrid Complutense University. She has since worked in digital journalism specialising in new narratives, and has worked for a variety of institutions such as BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, SModa and Vogue. She currently works for El País and, along with writer Guillermo Alonso, co-directs the podcast Arsénico Caviar, which won the Ondas prize for best conversational podcast. Discontent is her first novel.

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Variety New York Bureau Chief and former Newsweek Senior Writer, Setoodeh has written more than 20 cover stories on celebrities such as George Clooney, Bill Murray, Jake Gyllenhaal, Barbara Walters, Rosie O’Donnell, and Megyn Kelly.

Cate Sevilla is an editor and journalist who has led and managed editorial teams for some of the world's largest media and technology companies - including Google, BuzzFeed and Microsoft. In 2021 she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Huffpost UK.

Her How to Work Without Losing Your Mind, is based on her experiences as both a manager and employee of both giant corporations and scrappy start-ups. It was published by Penguin in 2020, and translated into Dutch in 2021.

Elizabeth Shackelford was a foreign service officer with the State Department in Poland, Washington, South Sudan, and Somalia. She resigned in 2017 protest of President Trump’s policies in a letter to former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, which went viral, and she now works as an international human rights consultant.

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is an author and scientist. He is Professorial Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, Principal of Jesus College, and Chairman of the Open Data Institute, which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and was previously Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton.

Shadbolt is an interdisciplinary researcher, policy expert and commentator. He has studied and researched Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Science and the emerging field of Web science. Running through all of his work has been his desire to understand how intelligent behaviour is embodied and emerges in humans, machines and most recently on the Web.

Oliver Shah is Associate Editor at the Sunday Times (London). He was named 'Business Journalist of the Year' at the British Press Awards 2017 for his investigation into Sir Philip Green’s £1 sale of BHS. He has appeared on Radio Four’s ‘Today Programme’, BBC News, BBC Five Live and Sky News.

He studied English literature at Cambridge University. He joined the London business daily City AM in 2009 and the Sunday Times in 2010.

Sarah Shahi is an American actress and former NFL cheerleader. She started her career as an NFL cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys from 1999 to 2000. Shahi then moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career and landed her first role in the television series "Alias" in 2001. She has since appeared in various television shows and movies, including "The L Word," "Fairly Legal," "Person of Interest," "Chicago Fire," "Reverie," and "Dolly Parton's Heartstrings." Shahi has also received critical acclaim for her lead role in the crime drama series "The Rookie," where she plays the character of Jessica Russo, as well as her lead in Sex/Life on Netflix. She currently stars as Dr. Gabriela Torabi in Hulu thriller series Paradise.

Humaira Awais Shahid is the author of the memoir Devotion and Defiance: My Fight for Justice for Women. A Pakistani legislator, journalist, and human rights activist, she was a spokesperson for the International Violence against Women Act and was a 2009–2010 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.

Maurice “Mopreme" Shakur is a critically acclaimed, multi-platinum performer, writer, and producer. Best knownfor his collaborations on every album of his late brother Tupac and his work developing THUG LIFE and the Thug Code, Shakur has produced several documentaries, series, and films about Tupac in the years following his death. The only surviving member of both THUG LIFE and the Outlaw Immortalz, Shakur is currently pro-ducing a feature documentary about the influence of THUG LIFE, developing a video game, producing a scripted series and three feature films, and writing his memoir.

Colleen F. Shanahan is Practice Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where she teaches Justice Lab, a law clinic that develops creative, interdisciplinary solutions to challenging systemic legal problems. She is a leading scholar of state civil courts whose researchspans civil procedure, state and local law, access to justice, and poverty law.

Shannah Game is a Certified Financial Planner (non-practicing) and Certified Trauma of Money Specialist with an MBA who waved goodbye to the traditional finance world in 2018 when her podcast, Everyone’s Talkin’ Money (previously Millennial Money) blew up. Everyone’s Talkin’ Money has amassed over 24 million downloads, has been named one of The NY Times' Top 4 Money Podcasts. Shannah also appears ontwo to three other podcasts a month, averaging another 200,000 - 500,000 downloads per month and speaks at colleges and organizations throughout the year.

Alan Shapiro is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently Reel to Reel.  He is also the author of the memoirs The Last Happy Occasion and Vigil, and the novel Broadway Baby. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, and he was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Amber Share is an illustrator and hand lettering artist whose work is inspired by her love of the outdoors and her dry and often punny sense of humor. She is best known for her Subpar Parks series, which juxtaposes beautiful illustrations of National Parks alongside hand-lettered text of their negative reviews, and her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, NPR,The Boston Globe and O Magazine.

Nina Sharma is a writer and performer whose work has been featured in journals such as the New Yorker, Electric Literature, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Longreads, The Margins, and Teachers & Writers Magazine. Nina is formerly the Programs Director at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and is currently a professor in the English Department of Barnard College, where she teaches "Women and Comedy."

Shalinee Sharma is CEO and co-founder of Zearn, a nonprofit educational organization that created Zearn Math. A top-rated math learning platform used by 1 in 4 elementary students nationwide, Zearn Math supports teachers with research-backed curriculum and digital lessons proven to double the learning gains of a typical year of instruction. Prior to Zearn, Shalinee spent more than a decade at Bain & Co. leading work for clients in tech, education, and other sectors. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Brown University, and currently serves on the Braven Board and is an Aspen-Pahara Fellow. The child of refugees, Shalinee has always been passionate about universal access to an excellent education.

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