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.
Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People
Daphna Renan is the Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on the U.S. presidency and the design of American democracy from the perspective of administrative and structural constitutional law. She is writing a book with Nikolas Bowie currently titled Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People for Liveright.
Rob Renzetti is a veteran of TV animation, whose work on Cartoon Network earned him an Emmy. He created the Nickelodeon show MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT, acted as the supervising producer for Disney’s GRAVITY FALLS, and served as executive producer on the first two seasons of Disney’s BIG CITY GREENS, as well as many other credits. He has also published four books for Disney Publishing, including the New York Times #1 Best Seller GRAVITY FALLS: JOURNAL THREE.
When he’s not writing, Rob likes to play boardgames, watch horror movies, and chase after his very naughty rabbit, Zigzag.
L. Renée is a poet, nonfiction writer, independent researcher, and story collector. Nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net and two Pushcart Prizes, her work has been published in Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Tin House Online, Poetry Northwest, Minnesota Review, American Life in Poetry, Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She won the National Association of Black Storytellers’ 2023 Black Appalachian Storyteller Fellowship, representing the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Library of Congress 2024 Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award for Ethnology. Her honors also include The Arkansas International 2023 Editor’s Choice Poetry Prize, the international 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize, and Appalachian Review’s 2020 Denny C. Plattner Award. She is working on a book exploring Black Appalachian communities and traditions.
A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Watering Hole, L. Renée holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where she was Nonfiction Editor of Indiana Review and Associate Director of the Indiana University Writers’ Conference. She holds and M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Moore Fellow. She is a 2024-2025 Poetry Coalition Fellow at Mass Poetry, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, and a 2024-2025 Public Humanities Fellow, awarded by Virginia Humanities.
Under the Big Top: A Short Story Collection
Adam Resnick is the author of Will Not Attend, a pseudo-memoir, and is a television and movie writer who has written for The Larry Sanders Show, Late Night with David Letterman and has authored numerous movies, including the classic Death to Smoochy, directed by Danny DeVito.
Impermissible Punishments: Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights and Changing Prisons in America
Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, is a renowned authority on courts, procedures, prisons, and rights. She is completing a book, Impermissible Punishments: Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights and Changing Prisons in America for the University of Chicago Press.
Andrea Reusing is an award-winning chef, cookbook author, and leader in the sustainable agriculture movement. She is the 2011 winner of the James Beard award for Best Chef: Southeast and serves on the boards of the Center of Environmental Farming Systems and Chefs Collaborative. She has written for Saveur, Domino, Fine Cooking, Gourmet.com and the News & Observer. Reusing's book, Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes, was named one of 2011’s most notable cookbooks by the New York Times.
Man vs Maths: Understanding the Curious Mathematics that Power our World
Timothy Revell is an award-winning technology, maths and physics journalist. He is Executive Editor at the New Scientist, co-hosting their weekly flagship podcast ‘New Scientist Weekly’. He has a PhD in computer science.
Vulgaire, qui décide?
Valérie Rey-Robert is a French essayist and host of the blog 'Crêpe Georgette'. Her first two essays, Une culture du viol à la française and Le sexisme, une affaire d'hommes, were published by Éditions Libertalia, and her latest works, Télé-réalité, la fabrique du sexisme and Vulgaire, qui décide? (a collective work she directed) were published by Éditions Les insolent·e·s in 2022 and 2024.
Rhodeen is a practicing lawyer in New Haven, a lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center, and a former counsel to the New Haven Police Department. Before becoming an attorney, Rhodeen worked as a newspaper reporter and a teacher.
Jen and Kate, also known as Kaiju, a couple of comic artists working together to create projects close to their hearts. They are SVA graduates and debuted with Chromatic Press in 2014 with The Ring of Saturn. Their next work, Mahou Josei Chimaka, won a DINKy award in March of 2016. Their short comic Inhabitant of Another Planet, was also nominated for a DINKy the following year. They’re currently working on their YA webcomic series Novae and a middle grade duology called Haven and the Fallen Giants.
A keen outdoorsman, David Ricciardi is an avid sailor and has received extensive training from law enforcement and US special operations. These experiences inform his thriller writing, which began with the first book in his Jake Keller series, Warning Light, published by Berkley in 2018.
Lynette Rice has been a senior writer and editor-at-large for Entertainment Weekly since 1999, where she writes about all things pop culture related. She currently hosts “Outlander Live!” on“The Awardist” for Sirius XM. She has 26k Twitter followers and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Future, Chicago
Richard, an anthropologist and conservationist, is the former provost of Yale University and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University (UK)
Ex-graphic designer, Laurier The Fox is a trans activist, illustrator, and graphic novel writer. He draws and addresses mainly social and political subjects close to feminism, LGBTQIAP+ issues, anti-racism, ableism, etc. His first graphic novel ReconnaiTrans was published by Éditions Lapin in 2021. He also illustrated and did the sensitivity reading for the children’s book Je m’appelle Julie (On ne compte pas pour du beurre, 2022)
Taking Command
David Richards served in the Far East, Germany and Northern Ireland before commanding deployments in East Timor and Sierra Leone, where his intervention in the civil war, without official sanction from London, proving decisive in ending years of factional fighting. He later served with NATO and led ISAF forces in Afghanistan, becoming the first British general to command US forces in a theatre of war since World War II.
He became Commander-in-Chief Land Forces of the British Army in 2008 and held that role until 2009, when he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.
In 2010 he was appointed as Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces, and served in that position until 2013.
General Lord Richards was made a Life Peer in 2014.
His acclaimed autobiography, Taking Command, was published by Headline in 2014.
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.
These Parasites Have it Coming
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.
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.
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.
Raising Thinkers: How Russian Math Builds Resilient Minds in an Uncertain World
Inessa Rifkin is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Russian School of Mathematics (RSM). A mechanical engineer, computer scientist, and teacher, she has two children and seven grandchildren.
Phone Rules: 5 Simple Steps to Save Yourself, Your Kids, and the Planet
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.
Tu n’auras pas mon silence
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."
Let's Meet
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.
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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.
Each and Every Day
Barre for Dummies
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.
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.
UNTITLED FRAGMENTS OF WISDOM
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.
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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.
Gone: The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence
Who Killed Rosemary Nelson
Cold Blooded Evil
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.
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.
A Home For Tomorrow: New Perspectives On Communal Living
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.
The Future of Truth
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.
FANDOM FOREVER (AND EVER)
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.
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
Tête à Tête: The Tumultuous Lives & Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
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.
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Richard Rubin is a historian and the author of two accounts of America’s involvement in the First World War, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War, and Back Over There, and a memoir of a year spent in the deep south, Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Travel section and to the Atlantic. He has also written for the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.
Exponential Potential
Mike Rubin is the Founder and CEO of Northpond Ventures, a multi-billion-dollar venture capital firm that focuses on life-science startups. Committed to building and supporting visionary businesses, NPV has partnered with the world’s leading scientists from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, and more to empower breakthrough science and technology. Throughout his career in venture capital, Mike has helped start and build 103 companies worth over $100 billion, 35 of which have either been acquired or gone public through an IPO.
Hidden Brain Hunger
Julia J. Rucklidge, PhD is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has her training from McGill University, University of Calgary and a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. In her current position she teaches child clinical psychology as well as a course devoted to Mental Health and Nutrition, the only one of its kind in NZ. She is regularly featured in the media and her 2014 TEDx talk has been viewed over 1.3 million times.
Supplying the Slave Trade
Ruderman is an assistant professor of economic history at the London School of Economics. She is completing a book, Supplying the Slave Trade, for Yale.
Tuxedo Society
A novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Rudnick has written three books and frequently writes for The New Yorker. His articles and essays have also appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Spy. His screenplays include InandOut and Addams Family Values, and his plays include I Hate Hamlet. Using the pseudonym Libby Gelman-Waxner, Rudnick wrote film criticism for Premiere magazine.
Let's Fix Work
Laurie Ruettimann is a former human resources leader turned writer, speaker, and entrepreneur known for her commonsense style and straightforward approach to workforce issues. A former HR executive, she is the creator of The Cynical Girl and Punk Rock HR websites and the host of the “Let’s Fix Work” podcast.
An award-winning journalist, Rufus is the author of several books including STUCK: Why We Can’t (or Won’t) Move On and PARTY OF ONE: A Loner’s Manifesto.
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Stephanie Ruhle anchors “MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle” and “MSNBC Live with Velshi & Ruhle,” and also appears across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, including “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” “TODAY,” and NBCNews.com. Ruhle has interviewed titans in politics, business, entertainment and sports including Michael Bloomberg, Serena Williams and more. Previously, Ruhle served as anchor and managing editor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, where she co-hosted Bloomberg. Ruhle began her career at Credit Suisse, where she was the highest-producing credit derivatives salesperson in the U.S. Ruhle is a member of the board of trustees for Girls Inc. NYC and in 2016 was honored as one of their Women of the Year.
Author and Speaker SQuire Rushnell is a former Vice President of ABC Family Programs and author of the bestselling God Winks series (Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson, Howard Books). His most recent books are Divine Alignment: How Godwink Moments Guide Your Journey and Godwink Stories: A Devotional (Howard Books).
Craig Russell is a multiply published Scottish author whose work has been translated into 22 languages. He is the author of the Lennox detective novel series, set in Glasgow in the 1950’s, as well as the Jan Fabel mystery series, set in Hamburg, Germany, made into a popular series for German television, and the recent novels The Devil Aspect, Hyde and The Devil’s Playground.
Blood and Freedom: A Renegade History of America Abroad
A professor at Occidental College, Russell has a Ph.D. in American history and has taught at Columbia University and The New School.
Katheryn Russell-Brown is a children’s book author, Professor of Law, and Director of the Race and Crime Center for Justice at the University of Florida. She is the author of the picture book biographies Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, illustrated by Frank Morrison, which received the Coretta Scott King Honor for Illustration, the Eureka! Honor Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature; A Voice Named Aretha, illustrated by Laura Freeman, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Brown Bookshelf; and She Was the First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm, illustrated by Eric Velasquez, which won the 2021 NAACP Image Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and The Chicago Public Library, and included in the Rise: A Feminist Book Project List. Katheryn was born in New York City and grew up in Oakland, California. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Francine Russo is a recognized expert and speaker on relationship dynamics in the over-55 generation. She has been reporting on and writing about family, relationships, and social trends for publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, O Magazine, Self, and Glamour and was Time magazine’s Boomer expert and wrote regularly for its “Generations” section. Her book They’re Your Parents, Too!: How Adult Siblings Can Survive Their Parents Aging without Driving Each Other Crazy was hailed as “groundbreaking” by Jane Brody of the New York Times.
Salt-Slicked
Kudakwashe Rutendo is an actor and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She was honoured as one of Toronto International Film Festival’s 2023 Rising Stars for her breakoutrole in the Elliott Page produced BACKSPOT and featured in Elle and Variety Canada as an actress to watch. Kudakwashe was one of the five panelists on Canada Reads, defending Tea Mutonji’s Shut up You’re Pretty in 2024. She has graduated from University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelors of Arts in English and Philosophy. In her years at University of Toronto she was fortunate to study under venerated Canadian authors Ian Williams and Robert McGill, she first fell in love with writing through poetry, and under their tutelage, Kudakwashe has tried to make the backbone of her work grounded in the poetic lens. She will begin the MFA Creative Writing program at UBC this fall.
Geo Rutherford is an artist, professor, and TikTok sensation who is known for her work educating viewers on the science of hydrology.
Coloring with Taylor Swift: Eras of a Pop Icon
Vault Dweller: An Official Fallout Coloring Adventure
Roblox Coloring Adventure
Roblox Super Awesome Activity Book
Roblox: A Pop-Up Advent Calendar
Robin Ryan is a career counselor who has been advising clients on improving their lives for over 25 years. She was called “the leading job search expert in America today” by NPR. A bestselling author, she has appeared on Oprah, Dr. Phil, CNN,NBC Nightly News, Fox, and NPR discussing career, job search, and post-retirement life/work issues.
Sucker: How Fear of Playing the Fool Shapes Our Economic, Social, and Moral Choices
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has a law degree and a doctorate in psychology and studies the moral psychology of legal decision-making. She teaches Contract Law, Consumer Law, and Law and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and researches hw ordinary people understand the fine print in their contracts. She has written for The Atlantic.
French Classics: Easy and Elevated Dishes to Cook at Home
Matthew Ryle is chef and co-owner of Maison Francois in London’s St James, and has a social media following in the millions, including Nigella Lawson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Alex James, not to mention numerous acclaimed chefs. Known for his viral Instagram series on French classics, Matthew has also appeared on MasterChef: The Professionals (runner up) and Sunday Brunch.
SELF was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2008. The Drop 10 Diet was a New York Times Bestseller.
Anjali Sachdeva’s fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Tor.com, among other outlets. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Augustana College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD is her first book and winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize and 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.
A former Benjamin Rush Scholar in the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Dr. Sacks works as an instructor at the Women’s Program at New York Presbyterian-Columbia and at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the co-author, with Dr. Catherine Birndorf, of What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood, from Simon & Schuster.
Not the Girls You’re Looking For (Feiwel & Friends, 2018)
Tell Me How You Really Feel (Feiwel & Friends, 2019)
This Is All Your Fault (Feiwel & Friends, 2020)
Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Feiwel & Friends, 2022)
Aminah Mae Safi is the author of four novels, including Tell Me How You Really Feel (Feiwel & Friends) and the forthcoming Travelers Along the Way: a Robin Hood Remix (Feiwel & Friends, 2022). She’s an erstwhile art historian, a fan of Cholula on popcorn, and an un-ironic lover of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Her writing has been featured on Bustle and Salon and her award-winning short stories can be found in Fresh Ink (Crown Books) and the forthcoming Freshman Orientation (Candlewick Press, 2023).
Dr. Rafe Sagarin was a marine ecologist at the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 where he was leading a project to create a living model of the Gulf of California. His two recent books are Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorism, Natural Disasters, and Disease (Basic Books) and Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World (Island Press).