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Dan Richards is a graduate of the University of Washington Writing for Children program and best known for his humorous picture books and middle grade novels. His books have been named Junior Library Guild Selections, Amazon Best of the Month Books, Indie Next Selections, and Washington Children’s Choice Awards Finalists, among other honors.

His most recent picture book NUBBY was chosen for the 2024-2025 Dolly Parton Imagination Library and is being enjoyed in over a million homes worldwide. Dan lives in Bothell, WA with his wife and mischievous doodle Arthur.

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Anthony Riches is the bestselling author of the Roman epic Empire series and has recently launched a new action/adventure thriller series. He has a degree in Military Studies and a life-long curiosity in all things defence, security and policing related. He lives in rural Suffolk with his life partner and an irritable cat.

Jennifer’s endless curiosity has taken her from Philadelphia to Frankfurt and has led to careers in the U.S. Foreign Service, secondary education, finance, editing, audio description for television, and copywriting. Throughout all the changes in locales and jobs, writing was one constant. The other was her husband, whom she met in Germany while on her first tour as a foreign service officer.

Jennifer’s poetry, short stories, and novels draw heavily from her many interests and hobbies—with a particular focus on birding and astronomy. She’s passionate about expanding young people’s horizons and imaginations as well as promoting racial harmony over division. Now a resident of Maryland, Jennifer writes in a small upper-floor room overlooking her bird feeders. She also enjoys hiking, crocheting, and following the latest news from NASA. 

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Lord Peter Ricketts joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1974 and was at the heart of British foreign policy for 40 years. He was the Permanent Under Secretary at the FCO from 2006–10, the UK’s first National Security Adviser 2010–12 and Ambassador to France 2012–16. In all these roles, he was a close adviser to Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries. He has written for the Financial Times, The Times (London), the New Statesman and Prospect, and appears regularly on Sky News, the BBC, LBC and Times Radio. He is Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the House of Lords.

Danielle Ridolfi is a picturebook author-illustrator with an MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. Her debut picture book, When the Dark Clouds Come, is forthcoming from Quill Tree Books in October 2025. Danielle writes and illustrates picture books for children about the natural world and our equally complex emotional landscape that encourage quiet observation, discovery, and reflection. She uses collage and printmaking in her work and is interested in the ways these methods can connect readers with tangible objects, memories, and places. You can often find pressed plants, photographs, and bits of ephemera in her work, and all of them have a story.

Danielle is also an instructor at Washington University in St. Louis where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses about picture book illustration and children’s publishing and often writes about children's illustration and visual culture. She was the 2024 recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats & Kerlan Memorial Fellowship from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. When she is not in the classroom or the studio, you can find Danielle browsing antique stores, rehabbing her 1902 Victorian home, quilting, or camping in the Missouri Ozarks. Danielle lives in Belleville, Illinois with her partner Eugene.

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The New York Post’s eminent theatre critic since 1998, Riedel co-hosts the weekly talk show Theatre Talk on PBS. He also played himself on the TV show Smash.

A bioethicist on the faculty of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, Travis Rieder's essays and opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, The New Republic, and The Guardian among others. He is a leading voice on the prescription opioid crisis and how to solve it while also caring for those who need relief from acute and chronic pain.

Luc Rinaldi is an award-winning journalist and author based in Toronto. He specializes in longform investigative narratives. His work has been published in Maclean's, The Walrus and Toronto Life, among other publications. His first book, Phone Rules, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Canada.

Regina Rini holds the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition at York University in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Aeon, and numerous academic journals.

His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche brings more than 2,500 years of Buddhist wisdom and teachings to the modern spiritual seeker by connecting ancient worlds with new people, cultures, attitudes, and lifestyles. He was born in Taiwan, grew up in America, and joined Gaden Monastery, India in 1988. He now resides in Malaysia as spiritual advisor to Kechara.

Amanda Ripley is a contributing writer at the Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective and the author of The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary.

Jessica Riskin is a historian of science, and Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University in the United States. She is also the Jean-Paul Gimon Director of the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford. She was educated at Harvard and UC Berkeley, and has taught at Iowa State, MIT and Sciences Po, Paris. She is a regular contributor to a number of publications, including Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.

Dr Hannah Ritchie is a Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead at the online publication ‘Our World in Data’, which brings together the latest data and research on the world’s largest problems – from climate change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution to global poverty, health, and education – and makes it accessible to a general audience.

Her research appears regularly in global media including the BBC, WIRED, the New York Times, New Scientist, the Economist, the Financial Times, and Vox, among others. She regularly writes scripts and provides research for ‘Kurzgesagt’, the science communication YouTube channel, and has published widely in academic journals including Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Scientific Data, Global Environmental Change and Climate Policy. She was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and now lives in Edinburgh.

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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Florence Rivières is an author, script and gamewriter. They navigate within various forms and genres in literature, and wrote the script for Tu n’auras pas mon silence, a graphic novel published by Marabulles in 2024.

Charlotte Rixon studied Classics at Leeds University and went on to gain an MA in Screenwriting. She has worked as a journalist, and more recently as a content marketing specialist working on luxury brands.

Food writer Sara Roahen is the author of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Norton).

Alice Robb is the author of Why We Dream (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) and has written for The New Republic, New York, The New Statesman, The Atlantic, Elle, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Vice, The BBC and British Vogue. Her work has been republished by Slate, CNN, The Week, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Town & Country. She graduated from Oxford with a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology.

A former fashion editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Roberts is an artist, illustrator, photographer, and stylist whose work also appears in Tatler, Italian Vogue, and other international publications.

Dr. Barbara Roberts was the first female adult cardiologist to practice in the state of Rhode Island, and she became director of the Women’s Cardiac Center at the Miriam Hospital. She was featured on the popular podcast “Crimetown” because of her heart patient Raymond Patriarca, Sr., the notorious boss of the Patriarca crime family.

Victoria L. Roberts is president at Verus Global, responsible for the execution and scaling of growth strategy.

Mother of bestselling authors John Elder Robison and Augusten Burroughs, Robison has published six volumes of poetry.

Geena Rocero is a model, writer, producer, transgender advocate, and public speaker, born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Geena is the founder of Gender Proud, a media production company that tells stories on what it means to be trans and gender non-conforming. She is the first trans woman ambassador for Miss Universe Nepal; the first trans Asian Playboy Playmate; and the first trans woman to be named a Playboy Playmate of the Year. Geena is also a board member of the NY LGBT Center and the 2020 National Chair for Stonewall Day in June. On March 31, 2014, in honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, Geena came out as transgender in an instantly viral TEDTalk. Her speech has since been viewed close to five million times, and has been translated into thirty-two languages.

Rockman, a professor of history at Brown University, is working on a book on capitalism and slavery for Penguin called History of US: Volume2: Capitalism and Slavery 1760-1840.

A multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning music producer, songwriter, and member of Chic, Rodgers has written and produced for Madonna, David Bowie, Diana Ross, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Gabriel, Sheena Easton, Jeff Beck, and Mick Jagger, among many others and is a 2014 Grammy Award winner for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Get Lucky."

Jodi Rodgers is a qualified sexologist, counsellor, and special-education teacher with 30 years’ experience working within the education, disability, and sexuality fields. She is featured as the relationship specialist on Love on the Spectrum, Netflix’s hit docuseries that follows autistic people on their search for love. With her unique combination of qualifications and experience, Jodi has developed counseling and training programs for neurologically diverse individuals and their support networks. Her private practice, Birds and Bees, helps neurodivergent people learn about the complex areas of sexuality and relationships and, even more fundamentally, how to create love and connection.

Judith Rodin, Ph.D., is president of The Rockefeller Foundation and former president of the University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University. She is the author of more than 200 academic articles and has written or co-written 15 books, including the widely praised The Resilience Dividend (Public Affairs). She has been named one of Crain’s 50 Most Powerful Women in New York and one of Fortune Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Powerful Women for 3 consecutive years.

Cindy L. Rodriguez is a senior editor for an educational publisher and an award-winning author of children’s books. Cindy, who is of Puerto Rican and Brazilian descent, is also a former journalist and public school teacher. When she’s not working or writing, she is hanging out with her family and two dogs in Connecticut.

Karin Roffman has taught literature at Yale, West Point, and Bard, and is the author of From the Modernist Annex and The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Andrea developed her lifelong love of movement and career as a professional dancer and choreographer (traveling the world with celebrity performers, dance companies). Rogers soon created her own innovative fusion of dance and Pilates fundamentals. The response from her clients was fast and fierce--they loved it, and they wanted more. The movement was born and spread contagiously across the globe. Xtend Barre programming is now available in franchised and licensed live studio classes in 12 countries and is lead by over 1,000 certified instructors.

In early 2019, the movement expanded its reach and went digital through a partnership with BODi. This online platform provided a channel for Andrea to motivate and challenge members from all areas of the world and she discovered just how much she loved connecting women to the power of movement & wellness. She also discovered a deep joy in helping women find their motivation and confidence through her goal strategies, personal experiences, fashion finds, simple beauty tricks, and all the little “things” that empower women to be their best self.  

Seth Rogoff is a writer and professor of media studies at Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he focuses on the intersection of sports, media, culture, and politics. He is the co-author of former NBA player and ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins’ memoir The Education of Kendrick Perkins (St. Martin’s 2023), the author of three published novels with a fourth, The Castle. His other books include a scholarly analysis of dream interpretation titled The Politics of the Dreamscape and two German-to-English translations of works by Franz Kafka: The Castle and The Judgement and Other Stories. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing in Berlin, Germany in 2006-2007.

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Stephanie Rohr is best known in the craft world as stephXstitch. Stephanie’s designs juxtapose traditional florals and folk-art motifs with a modern twist. Her samplers range from curse words to cheeky sayings, from pop culture quotes to feminist slogans. All of Stephanie’s designs are made to be not only thought-provoking but also visually interesting, intricate, and beautiful. Stephanie lives in Chicago. When not stitching, she works in theatre as an actor and a director. She is also a singer, pianist, musical arranger and vocal coach, and she sings with the bands The Moxie Sisters and The Bangers.

James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, NY. His books include Ghost on the Throne, Dying Every Day, and the forthcoming Love’s Warriors, and his writing on the ancient world has appeared in The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and the Daily Beast, among others.

Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, Kelsey Ronan's work has been published in Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Utne Reader, and elsewhere. Her writing has been nominated for Best American Essays 2017, among other prizes and special publications. In 2017, she was chosen as the spring writer-in-residence of the Hub City Writers Project. She lives in Detroit and works for InsideOut Literary Arts.

DJ, songwriter, and record producer Mark Ronson has won seven Grammy Awards, including two for his eleven-times platinum single “Uptown Funk” featuring Bruno Mars. In 2019, he received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for the song “Shallow,” which he wrote with Lady Gaga for the film A Star is Born. Mark has collaborated with Amy Winehouse, Miley Cyrus, and Adele, among numerous other artists.

Charlise Rookwood is a British-born culinary artist with Jamaican and Mauritian heritage. She worked in the music industry for over 25 years before becoming a full-time vegan chef, caterer and food vlogger. Charlise has cooked and created event menus for celebrities such as Jim Jones, Dave Chapelle, Chaka Khan, Donnell Rawlings, and Remy Ma; and has catered for organizations such as LinkedIn, Soho House UK, and Apple. She has appeared twice on the Today Show and is the host of The Black Vegan Cooking Show produced by iOne Digital. Follow Rookwood at @vegansouliscious.

Born in London in 1971, Neil Root has published several non-fiction crime books and is an expert on the history of UK Crime in the 20th century. He has written literary criticism on Aldous Huxley, James Baldwin, and Truman Capote, and a primer and critical guide to the true crime genre. His journalism has featured in national newspapers and magazines including the BBC News Magazine and Sunday Mirror. He has also contributed to several true crime TV documentaries.

David Rose is the scientist, technology visionary, and serial entrepreneur who helped bring to market Guitar Hero, one of the highest grossing video games in entertainment history. He is an contributor and collaborator at MIT’s fabled Media Lab, CEO of Ditto Labs, and author of Enchanted Objects (Scribner).

Jarod Roselló is a Cuban American writer, cartoonist, and teacher originally from Miami, Florida. He is the author and artist of the award-winning middle-grade graphic novel series, Red Panda & Moon Bear, and the chapter book graphic novel series, Super Magic Boy. His books have been named to the New York Public Library and Chicago Public library best books of tghe year lists and the Texas Library Association’s Little Maverick Reading List. He was the recipient of the 2022 Washington Library Association’s OTTER Award for children’s literature.Jarod holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, both from The Pennsylvania State University. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his family, and teaches in the creative writing program at University of South Florida.

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Leonard Rosen is the author of the award-winning novel All Cry Chaos (Permanent Press), which was translated into 10 languages, and its prequel The Tenth Witness (Permanent Press). A beloved college math professor based in Massachusetts, Leonard has contributed radio commentaries to Boston’s NPR station, written best-selling textbooks on writing, and taught writing at Harvard University.

Samantha Paige Rosen writes about chronic illness, mental health, queerness, arts and culture, and social justice for publications including Slate, Washington Post, Electric Literature, BOMB, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She is editing a literary anthology about building community through shared space and shared values. In addition to creative and content writing, Sam tutors and coaches writing outside of Philadelphia alongside her three cats. She earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud Smith College graduate.

Steven Rosenbaum is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and sought-after public speaker. His first book, "Curation Nation," explored the explosive trend in digital curation. He holds a master's degree from the Gallatin School at NYU with a focus on the future of truth. Steven is the executive director and co-founder of the Sustainable Media Center, a 501c3 organization dedicated to fostering positive change in media and empowering young creators.

He has held leadership roles at The NYC Media Lab, a six-university consortium housed at NYU, and has founded five startups in media and technology. His work reflects a deep commitment to the future of media and technology. Steven is currently writing "The Future of Truth," examining how AI is dramatically impacting our reality, for Matt Holt's imprint at BenBella Books. He is represented by Todd Shuster at Aevitas Creative Management. 

Allegra Rosenberg is a writer and journalist living in Brooklyn. A graduate of NYU's Experimental Humanities MA program, she covers digital culture and fandom for publications such as Polygon, The Verge, and Insider. In her spare time she plays indie rock music, produces alternative comedy, and researches the history of polar exploration.

John J. Ross, M.D., is a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School as well as the author of Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough: Medical Lives of Great Writers (St. Martin’s Press).

Craig Ross is CEO at Verus Global. He is coauthor of ONE Team, Degrees of Strength, and Stomp the Elephant in the Office.

Tracy Ross, former Senior Editor of Backpacker Magazine and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award and the 2008 Folio Magazine Award, is the author of the memoir The Source of All Things (Free Press). Her work has appeared in two prestigious collected volumes, The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Magazine Writing.

One of the world’s most sought-after teachers of transcendental meditation, Roth is Cofounder and Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, a nonprofit charity whose mission is to bring meditation to those in need.

Founder and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, David Rothkopf was the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration, and, since, he has been a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a visiting professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and CEO of the Foreign Policy Group. A prolific author and journalist, he is also a co-host of the Deep State Radio podcast on Washington politics.

Phoebe Rowe was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and studied history and journalism at NYU. She works as a brand copywriter and resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Hazel Rowley was the highly acclaimed author of numerous books including Tête à Tête: The Tumultuous Lives & Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (HarperCollins) and Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Dr Jonathan Rowson is an applied philosopher and the Co-Founder and Director of the new think tank Perspectiva. He was previously Director of the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts where, over the course of six years, he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change and spirituality, and curated and chaired a range of related events. He has degrees in the humanities and social sciences from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities. In a former life he was a chess Grandmaster and British Champion (2004–6).

He lives in Putney with his wife Siva, an academic lawyer from South India, and their two sons.

Emily Roz is a food content creator and recipe developer with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram.

Emily is passionate about creating accessible recipes inspired by dishes from all around the world (hence her @myriad recipes handle), and her particular love for dumplings has earned her the unofficial title of ‘dumping queen’.

Emily is currently working on her first cookbook.

Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion for The Washington Post. She covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic, and provides insight into the conservative movement, the Republican and Democratic parties, and threats to Western democracies. Rubin, who is also an MSNBC contributor, came to The Post after three years with Commentary magazine. Prior to her career in journalism, Rubin practiced labor law for two decades. She is a mother of two sons and lives in Northern Virginia.