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Ryan Hass is a Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and former advisor to President Obama on China policy whose research and analysis focuses on enhancing policy development on the pressing

political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia. He holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies; he is a nonresident affiliated

fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School; and from 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing, where he earned the State Department Director General’s award for impact and originality in reporting, an award given annually to the officer whose reporting had the greatest impact on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy.

Rochelle Hassan is a middle grade and young adult fantasy author. Her work includes The Prince of Nowhere, which will be released in 2022 from HarperCollins, and The Buried and the Bound, due out from Macmillan in 2023.

Karen Havelin is a writer and translator from Bergen, Norway. She attended Skrivekunst-akademiet i Hordaland, and has a Bachelor’s degree in French, Literature, and Gender Studies from the University of Bergen and University of Paris Sorbonne. She completed her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in May 2013. Her work has been published both in Norwegian and in English. Her first novel, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully was published simultaneously in the US, the UK and Norway in spring 2019, from Dottir Press, Dead Ink Books and Cappelen Damm (norsk tittel Les pakningsvedlegget nøye), and it was also translated into Catalan (Angle Editorial).

Chris Hayes is the Emmy-winning host of MSNBC’s All in With Chris Hayes and the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Twilight of the Elites and, most recently, A Colony in a Nation.

Before turning his hand to writing, James Hazel was a lawyer in private practice specialising in corporate and commercial litigation and employment law. He was an equity partner in a regional law firm and held a number of different department headships until he quit legal practice to pursue his dream of becoming an author. He has a keen interest in criminology and a passion for crime thrillers, indie music and all things retro. James lives on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds with his wife and three children.

Cheryl A. Head is based in Washington, DC and is the author of the two-time Lambda Literary Award-nominated Charlie Mack Motown mysteries; Time’s Undoing is her first standalone novel. Head is a member of Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Authors of America, Sisters in Crime, and a member of the Bouchercon Board of Directors.

Ann Heisenfelt, M.S., is a former Staff Photographer with the Associated Press and The Minneapolis Star Tribune, as well as many years of experience as a freelance photojournalist. While on staff with the AP, she used photography to illustrate countless stories and wrote articles. She covered events ranging from natural disasters (floods, hurricanes, wildfires), school shootings, sports (the Super Bowls, Stanley Cup playoffs, and MLB World Series), human interest and features (including coverage of the woman who rescued wild mustangs and a first generation American-Hmong girl’s senior year of high school). Clients have included Getty Images, European Pressphoto Agency, Reuters, the London Times, Bloomberg Philanthropies and many more. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and on websites around the world.

Dr. Jennifer J. Heisz is an expert in brain health. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University and directs the NeuroFit Lab, which supports her research program on the effects of exercise for brain health. Dr. Heisz received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Brain Health and Aging at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital. Dr. Heisz is regularly invited to speak at international scientific conferences and her research on exercise and brain health receives widespread media coverage via international media outlets such as New York Times, NBC, BBC, CNN, CBS News, and National Geographic.

Ted Heller is a journalist, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, and the son of Catch-22 author Joseph Heller. He’s written for Vanity Fair, Details, Premiere, Spy, among others, and worked at Nickelodeon magazine. His first novel, Slab Rat, was called “diabolically witty” by GQ, and named one of the 10 Best Novels of 2001 by The Washington Post. The Guardian called his follow-up, Funnymen, “a masterpiece of comic invention.” Pocket Kings was an Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review.

Jim Hemerling is a managing director and senior partner at BCG, focusing on transforming organizations to deliver and sustain breakthrough performance. He is a BCG Fellow and a leader in the firm’s People & Organization and Transformation practices. He is also a featured TED speaker with his talk “5 Ways to Lead in an Era of Constant Change.” With 30 years of experience as an advisor to senior leaders, he has deep expertise in heading large-scale transformation programs and cultivating high-performing organizations.He has coauthored numerous publications on transformation and organization effectiveness, including The Head, Heart and Hands of Transformation; Transformation: Delivering and Sustaining Breakthrough Performance; Purpose with the Power to Transform Your Organization; It’s Not a Digital Transformation Without a Digital Culture; and Solving the Tech Industry’s Purpose Problem. His work has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Forbes, the Economist, Manager Magazine, and on CNBC.

Ritu Hemnani is a journalist, teacher, and storyteller, who hopes for every child to see themselves in the pages of a book and know that their stories matter. She is also a voice actor and motivational speaker. Ritu recognizes herself as ethnically Indian, a British national, and calls Hong Kong her home, where she lives with her husband and three children. 

Ritu shares the seeds of her writing journey and the inspiration behind her deep dive into her own family history in her 2019 TEDx Talk, “An Inheritance Worth Sharing.” When not writing or teaching, Ritu delights in family game nights, strumming the strings of her guitar, and paddling through Hong Kong waters on her carrot-colored kayak. 

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Joseph Henderson, BSHRM, MPA, is senior advisor for leadership development at Deloitte Consulting and, formerly, Director of the Office of Safety, Security and Asset Management at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Michael Hendrix is a Partner and Executive Design Director at global design and innovation consultancy IDEO, where he has worked on everything from home goods to homeland security.

Sharon Hendry is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years’ experience on British national newspapers. She was awarded the Best Investigative Article prize by the Speaker of the House of Commons for her work on child trafficking and her book Radhika’s Story: Human Trafficking in the 21st Century won plaudits from then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who referred to it as: “a powerful and heartbreaking story."

Sharon has worked across both tabloid and broadsheet newspapers and is known for high profile interviews and brave social justice campaigning. She received a commendation in the Feature Writer of the Year category at the UK Press Awards and was long-listed for an Orwell Prize for a Sunday Times Magazine feature about life on the notorious London housing estate Broadwater Farm.

More recently, Sharon’s interest in the human psyche has led her to combine writing projects with a new role as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in NHS doctoral training.

Sir Lenny Henry is a comedian, actor, singer, writer and TV presenter as well as co-founder of the charity Comic Relief.

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Taraji P. Henson graduated from Howard University. She earned a Golden Globe for her role as Cookie in Empire, an Academy Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress opposite Brad Pitt in David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and was a 2011 Emmy nominee for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries for Lifetime’s Taken From Me. She also won the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Detective Joss Carter in CBS’s Person of Interest. Henson made her singing debut in Hustle & Flow and performed the Academy Award-winning song “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp” on the Oscar telecast. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her son and has a strong dedication to helping disabled and less fortunate children.

Jessica Hepburn is an author, arts producer and adventure activist. She describes herself as an ‘unlikely athlete’ who hates exercise but in 2022 she became the first woman in the world to complete the 'Sea, Street, Summit Challenge’ - swim the English Channel, run the London Marathon and climb Mount Everest - an adventure inspired by her journey through infertility and IVF.

She is the author of two books: The Pursuit of Motherhood (2014) and 21 Miles (2018) which are currently being developed for the screen by Erebus Pictures, adapted by Anoushka Warden with funding from the BFI. Her third book will be published by Quarto in Spring 2024. She has been officially recognised by Amnesty International as a ‘Woman of Suffragette Spirit’ and won the Fertilty Foundation’s inaugral ‘Fertilty Hero’ award. She is also the former CEO of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith (05-15) and the Founder of Fertility Fest - the world’s first arts festival dedicated to fertility last staged at London’s Barbican.

www.jessicahepburn.com

David Hepworth has been writing about, broadcasting about and speaking about music since the 70s. He was involved in the launch and/or editing of magazines like Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and The Word among many others. He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the Corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985. He has won the ‘Editor of the Year’ and ‘Writer of the Year’ awards from the Professional Publishers Association and the ‘Mark Boxer Award’ from the British Society of Magazine Editors. He is the radio columnist for the Saturday Guardian and a regular media correspondent for the newspaper.

His blog http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.co.uk obtains 40,000 views per month. He has 15,000 followers on Twitter.

He is a director of the independent company Development Hell and divides his time between writing for a variety of magazines and newspapers, speaking at events, broadcasting work and blogging. He lives in London. ‘I was born in 1950,’ he says, ‘which means that in terms of music I have the winning ticket in the lottery of life’.

Published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2016, Never A Dull Moment was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in the UK and ranked within the Amazon top 100 in the US. His Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955 - 1994 was published in the UK and the US in 2017 and was also Sunday Times top ten bestseller. His collected journalism, Nothing Is Real was published by Transworld in 2018.

The Rock and Roll A-Level, his advanced music quiz, was published in 2019. A Fabulous Creation - How the LP Saved Our Lives was published in 2019 and was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There was published to wide acclaim in 2020.

Abbey Road – The Inside Story of the Most Famous Recording Studio in the World, his authorised biography of the world's most famous music recording studio, was published by Bantam Press in 2022.

In 2021 Apple TV released 1971, a major four-part documentary based on David Hepworth’s 1971 – Never A Dull Moment.

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Alex Hess has been a freelance football writer for nearly a decade, during which time his byline has appeared regularly in FourFourTwo, The Independent, GQ, Football365, ESPN, The Blizzard and any other outlet willing to wave money at him. He is also a staff subeditor at the Guardian – for whom he also writes – working across the Sport and Culture desks. Fittingly enough, his writing tends to concentrate on the intersection between sport and culture, be it how modern football became obsessed with nostalgia, how the Swiss national team became a symbol for multiracial unity, or what the evolution of shirt sponsors tells us about the Premier League. He has written match reports, interviews, opinion pieces, minute-by-minute coverage, breaking news and even – on one especially glamorous day – ghost-written a column for Burnley centre-back Ben Mee. But most often he writes in-depth features that situate football within a wider social or cultural context. He also writes about films and television.

Elizabeth Hess wrote on art throughout the 80′s and 90′s for TheVillage Voice, The Washington Post, The New York Observer, Art News, Art in America and Artforum, among many other publications. Her essays have appeared in collections and catalogues around the world. She began writing about New York’s shelter animals for the Voice and New York Magazine and has written articles and columns on animals for dozens of newspapers and magazines ranging from Bark to The London Telegraph. Her book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human became Project Nim, a film directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire) and produced by Simon Chinn. Hess divides her time between New York City and Upstate New York.

Josiah Hesse is an investigative journalist who covers breaking marijuana news, politics, economics and culture for such publications as Vice, The Guardian, Esquire, Politico and more.

James Hibberd is an American journalist and screenwriter. He is the current Editor at Large for Entertainment Weekly, and previous staff editor for The Hollywood Reporter. His work has been published in publications including The New York Times, Salon, Details, Cosmopolitan, and Amnesty International Magazine.

Allegra Hicks is a London- and Naples-based designer whose line of fabrics, rugs, homewares, furniture, and accessories is sold worldwide in department stores and boutiques. Hicks has won both the US Elle Decor’s Best Wallpaper Award and Elle Decoration UK’s Best Fabric Award.

Dan Hicks is a writer, curator, and professor whose non-fiction engages with questions of art, landscape, memory, identity, and the enduring nature of the colonial past.

Born in Durham, Dan grew up in Birmingham and since 2007 he has been Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford University, Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College Oxford.

Dan has written for a wide range of publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, The Times Literary Supplement, Apollo Magazine and New African Magazine. His last book, The Brutish Museums, was listed as one of the New York Times best Art Books of 2020, and he is currently working on a follow-up. He lives in Oxford.

You can find out more about Dan on his website.

Matt Higgins is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in numerous sites and publications, including The New York Times, Outside, ESPN, and Popular Mechanics. He is the author of Bird Dream: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight, an acclaimed chronicle of the infamous BASE jumpers Jeb Corliss and Gary Connery.

Carter Higgins has written many books for young readers, including EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR A TREEHOUSE, an NPR Best Book of the Year and THIS IS NOT A VALENTINE, a Kids' Indie Next List selection. She is the author and illustrator of CIRCLE UNDER BERRY and SOME OF THESE ARE SNAILS. Carter is a creative storyteller who designs playful experiences around visual literacy and believes the wit of kids' language is the best poetry of all.

Carter is an Emmy-winning visual effects and motion graphics artist and spent a decade as an elementary school librarian. She is also the creator of the popular blog, Design of the Picture Book. She lives in Las Vegas.

After leaving school, Justin Hill spent seven years as a volunteer with Voluntary Service Overseas in rural China and Africa. His first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the Top Novels of 2001.  It went on to win the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the 2002 Betty Trask Award. It has been banned by the Chinese government.

His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Encore Award.

Ciao Asmara, a factual account of his time in Eritrea, was shortlisted for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

In 2001, Justin was listed in the Independent on Sunday's Top 20 Young British Writers.  In October 2005 he was awarded the Xiaoxiang Friendship Award by the Governor of Hunan Province, for his services to China.

His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

His new fiction is set in 11th century England, culminating in the battle of Hastings in 1066. Little, Brown published the first book, Shieldwall in 2011 to critical acclaim and it was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year. The sequel, Viking Fire, was published in 2016 and also named a Sunday Times Book of the Year.

Jonathan E. Hillman is a world authority on China’s economic and foreign policy. He is currently Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was previously Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and a Senior Advisor and Member of the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State.

Before that, he was a Senior Fellow with the economics program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, directing the Reconnecting Asia Project, and served as a policy advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative. He won the Financial Times/McKinsey & Company Bracken Bower Prize in 2019 and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and Brown University. His commentary has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

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Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, the longest running national Latinx news program in the country, distributed by PRX. She is also a contributor to the long-running, award-winning news program CBS Sunday Morning and an on-air contributor on MSNBC. She has won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also been inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 she founded Futuro Media, an independent nonprofit newsroom and production company with the mission of producing multimedia content from a POC perspective. Through the breadth of her work and as the founding co-anchor of the award-winning podcast In the Thick, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. Her adult memoir, ONCE I WAS YOU was an NPR Best Book of 2020. In 2022, she adapted ONCE I WAS YOU for young readers, blending her story with perspectives on history in the vein of Jason Reynolds’s Stamped. She lives with her family in Harlem, New York City.

A professor of psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia, Bill von Hippel has presented his research on neuroscience and social intelligence at conferences and colloquia around the world. His work has been covered by the New York Times, The Economist, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, TIME, and elsewhere.

James S. Hirsch is a former staff writer for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and author of, among other titles, the New York Times-bestselling authorized biography Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Scribner) and the New York Times bestseller Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter (Houghton Mifflin), adapted into the film "The Hurricane," starring Denzel Washington. He is also the co-author, with buildOn CEO and founder Jim Ziolkowski, of the New York Times bestseller Walk In Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World? (Simon & Schuster) and, with founding member of the Beach Boys Mike Love, of Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Blue Rider Press).

Heather Hirsch, MD, MS, NCMP is the lead physician and clinical program director for the menopause and midlife clinic at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and she also serves as faculty at Harvard Medical School. Her research has been published in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, Menopause, and The Journal of Women’s Health. She has been featured on NPR’s All Sides with Ann Fisher, Harvard Business Review’s Women at Work, and interviewed by such outlets as Women’s Health, HealthCentral.com, and the AARP’s TheGirlfriend.com.

A labor and civil rights lawyer and former Supreme Court litigator, Hirshman has written for Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Her book Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2012. Sisters in Law was a New York Times bestseller.

Mike Hixenbaugh is an award-winning national investigative reporter for NBC News. He previously worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Virginian-Pilot, and elsewhere, and has hosted two podcasts, Do No Harm and Southlake, the latter of which won a Peabody Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Elizabeth Ho is a baker and owner of Birdhouse Bakeshop. Her work is rooted in simplicity, seasonality, and feelings of nostalgia, and her recipes, photography, and writing have been featured by Cherry Bombe, Food52, Chalkboard Magazine, and elsewhere. In her home kitchen, Liz spends her days creating inventive cakes and an ever changing menu of pastries inspired by her Chinese Malaysian heritage, for locals in Edmonton, Canada.

Van Hoang, one of Publishers Weekly Flying Starts for Fall 2020, is the author of several middle grade novels, and her adult debut releases in 2024. Born in Vietnam, she grew up in Southern California, earning her bachelor’s in English at the University of New Mexico and her master’s in Library Information Science at San Jose State University.

Nicol  Hochholczerová, who was born in 1999, grew up in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia.  In 2024, she completed a Master’s in graphic design at the Academy of Art in  Banská Bystrica. Her short stories have garnered prizes in a number of  literary competitions. Her book-length debut, Táto izba  sa nedá zjesť (This Room Is Impossible to Eat) was  shortlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft  Litera Award, and has since been translated into Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian,  Serbian, Polish and Ukrainian, with German and Macedonian translations  underway. A feature film based on the book is in production. In 2022,  Hochholczerová was named Young Artist of the Year by the Tatra Banka  Foundation. The Polish translation was nominated for the Angelus literary  prize, awarded to living authors from Central Europe.

Martha Hodes teaches American history at NYU and is the interim director of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.  The recipient of many prizes, she is author of The Sea Captain’s Wife and has completed a book on surviving an airline hijacking in 1970 where she was held captive in the Jordanian desert with her sister when they were children.

Philip Hoelzel is the author of Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado and Samba! The Heartbeat of a Community: Ailton Nunes’s Musical Journey. Philip was born and raised near Chicago, Illinois. As a child he played soccer, went camping with his parents and siblings and spent a lot of time outdoors. Today, when not writing, Philip can be found managing in an outdoor retail store, hiking local trails, doing school visits as an author and performing with a Brazilian percussion group in Austin, Texas.

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Host of a cooking show as well as radio show and web site for Univision, Hoffman’s show Delicioso ran on the Food Network for three seasons. She appears regularly on The Today Show and The Early Show.

David Hogg is a recent graduate of Marjorie Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and is one of the 20 founders of Never Again MSD.Lauren Hogg is a sophomore at Marjorie Stonemason Douglas.

Janet Hoggarth has worked on a chicken farm, as a bookseller, a children’s book editor, a children’s author, and as a DJ (under the name of Whitney and Britney). Her first children’s book The Whole Joke Book was Bloomsbury Children’s Books bestselling title until Harry Potter knocked it of its perch. After the writing bug bit her she published several other children’s books, more recently under the pseudonym of Jess Bright.

Janet lives with her husband, three children and an extremely needy ginger cat in East Dulwich, London.

Her first novel for adults, The Single Mums’ Mansion, reached the number one slot on the Amazon fiction charts and has been optioned for TV by Slam Productions. Two more books subsequently joined the bestselling series: The Single Mums Move On and The Single Mums’ Secrets.

Her Who Do You Think You Are Maggie Pink? was published by Boldwood to rave reviews in 2022.  Her latest novel Us Two was published by Boldwood in 2023.

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Some time in the last century, Fred ran away from working on a PhD in Roman History and into the camp embrace of the entertainment industry. After messing about in theatres, he went to work for the Raindance Film Festival, and accidentally found himself the co-founder and original producer of the British Independent Film Awards, running the event from its inception in 1998 until 2001.

Since then, he has developed factual television formats, sold wine, worked in catering, travelled extensively, and worked as a ghost writer before returning recklessly to the entertainment business as a screenwriter. In addition to an absurd number of unproduced scripts, he wrote the 2017 fairytale A Mermaid’s Tale, and served as executive producer on Stanley Tucci’s film Final Portrait. He has written on film and food for Delicious Magazine, and ghost-written for publishers including Octopus Books, Pavilion and Penguin.

He has now realised that researching and writing history is a lot more fun that he’d originally thought. His first book, Of Ice and Men, will be published by Pegasus Books in early 2022.

The co-founders of Luke’s Lobster, Luke Holden and Ben Conniff own a chain of restaurants serving award-winning lobster rolls. Zagat has given them a 27 rating for food, named them the 1 food truck in NYC, and chose Conniff and Holden as two of their 30 Under 30 in the New York food industry.

Andrew Holgate was literary editor of the London Sunday Times for 14 years until he stepped down in October 2022 and before that, deputy literary editor for nine years. His entire working life has been connected to books, in publishing, bookselling, literary journalism.

He has co-edited two books, judged numerous literary awards (including the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, which he chaired in 2021), ran two prizes while literary editor (the Sunday Times Short Story Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award), and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Jacqueline Holland received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.

Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Hollinger is author of many books on religion in America.

Mark Hollingsworth is the author of Londongrad - From Russia With Cash (HarperCollins, 2012) and an expert on the activities of Russian Oligarchs.

He has written books on MI5 and the Saudi Royal family and contributes regularly to the The Times, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times, Guardian and The Spectator.

His timely and critically acclaimed, Agents of Influence - How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies was published by Oneworld in 2023.

Alex is a London-based writer, podcaster and producer writing across print and audio mediums. His work centres around positive masculinity, mental health awareness and the liberating power of reading and writing. He became a Mental Health First Aider with Mental Health First Aid England in October 2020.

Ekua Holmes is an artist and illustrator who received an education in art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she continues her career as a community coordinator. She has a highly successful career as an exhibiting artist, and her work has not only earned grants through the Boston Foundation but has been featured on Google's own landing page. She is the illustrator of many acclaimed books for children.

Of her own work, Ekua writes "Although much of [it] is set in an urban environment, these portraits of beloved Aunties, sacred gardens, and children at play, sing with lyrics as old as mankind."

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Balarama Holness is a former professional football player in the Canadian Football League and Grey Cup Champion. He is a public speaker and educator with a master's degree in education and currently completing a J.D. from the University of McGill. Balarama successfully compelled the City of Montreal to hold hearings into systemic racism and discrimination.

An editor at VanityFair.com, Homans has written and edited for Esquire, Harpers, and The New York Observer. He was formerly the executive editor of New York magazine.

Dr. David Hone is a palaeontologist and zoologist at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is also Director of Biological Scienes Programmes. He has published nearly 100 academic papers on dinosaur biology and behaviour, with a particular interest in Tyrannousaurs. David includes among his writing credits the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, BBC Radio 5 Live and RTE, acted as consultant for National Geographic documentaries, and written articles for The Guardian, New Scientist, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times, and many others.