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.
Elizabeth Morris is the creator of Crib Notes, a monthly newsletter featuring succinct book reviews for new and busy mothers, along with thoughts on how to juggle reading with caring for young children. Before her eldest son was born in 2018, Morris worked as a book publicist, literary event manager and bookseller. Now, she looks after her two little boys full-time, and reads and writes in the margins of motherhood.
A longtime articles editor for The New Yorker, Morrison was the Editor-in-Chief of The New York Observer and a founding editor of Spy. She is the president of the Century Association.
Untitled Biography of Dmitri Shostakovich
Moskva
Simon Morrison is a musicologist and cultural historian specializing in Russia, a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Music at Princeton University and a Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. Author of, most recently, Bolshoi Confidential (Liveright/Norton) and a biography of Lina Prokofiev (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Simon has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, the TLS, and Time.
As the lead singer and lyricist for the Doors, Jim Morrison is one of the most legendary and influential figures in rock and roll history. A countercultural icon with a distinctive voice and gift for poetry and prose, he was posthumously honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, in both cases as a member of the Doors.
'The Hardest, Longest Race’: Ford, Shawmut, and the Contest That Shaped America
Eric covered transportation for the Boston Globe for many years. He is writing a book called ‘The Hardest, Longest Race’: Ford, Shawmut, and the Contest That Shaped America for St. Martins.
Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster (Feiwel & Friends, 2022)
Revenge of the Final Girls
Andrea Mosqueda is a Chicana writer, born and raised in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley.
Adam Moss spent 15 years at New York magazine and New York Media as editor-in-chief. During his tenure, New York won 41 National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Year. Prior to New York, Moss was the editor of The New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2004, and later oversaw the Magazine, Book Review and Culture and Style sections. He was elected to the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2019.
Makedde Vanderwall series
Tara Moss is an internationally bestselling author, human rights activist, documentary and podcast host, and model. Her crime novels have been published in nineteen countries and thirteen languages, and her memoir, The Fictional Woman, was a #1 international bestseller. Her most recent novel The Ghosts of Paris follows the The War Widow, an international bestseller and the first book in the Billie Walker series. Tara is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has received the Edna Ryan Award for significant contributions to feminist debate and for speaking out on behalf of women and children. In 2017, Tara Moss was recognized as one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life. Moss lives in Victoria with her family.
Jenny (McKissack) Moss writes for children and teens. She’s released four novels (Sanctuary, Taking Off, Shadow, and Winnie’s War) and three Capstone books under two author names. In between writing books, she’s trained NASA astronauts, taught writing to college students, worked as a bookseller, and raised money for cancer research. She also raised two kids, who are great travel partners for trips to faraway places.
Kate Mossman is a journalist and author whose career in music journalism began when she travelled to America for one night to see Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb in concert and realised there might be paid work to be had in following musical obsessions. She joined the staff of Word Magazine in 2008 and her writing appears regularly in The Guardian, Observer and The Times. She is a former judge for the Mercury Music Prize.
In 2012 she became arts editor of the New Statesman, having worked for some years as their pop critic, and became known for her long-read rock profiles of acts like Kiss, Ray Davies and Jon Bon Jovi. She progressed through features editor and is now their main profile writer, working across the arts and politics.
Her broadcast career includes regular appearances on Radios 4 and 2, and in countless music documentaries for Sky Arts and the BBC. In 2015 she presented ‘When Pop Ruled My Life’, an hour-long BBC Four doc on the power of fandom. Her exploration of the experience of women rock stars, ‘Girl in a Band’, followed in 2016.
Kate Mossman’s first book will be published by Bonnier’s Nine Eight imprint in 2024.
Doug Most, Deputy Assistant Managing Editor of The Boston Globe, is the author of The Race Underground (St. Martin’s), a book about the dramatic competition between New York and Boston to build the first American subway, named a Best Book of 2014 by Amazon and Kirkus Reviews. It has been optioned by PBS’s prestigious American Experience.
PAST MISTAKES: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters
David Mountain is a freelance writer who can’t resist pointing out the flaws and contradictions in how we think we understand the world. His first book, Past Mistakes, takes a fresh look at the study of the past. He currently lives in Edinburgh.
Tarek El Moussa is the co-star of the hit HGTV show Flip or Flop, currently in its eighth season, with 22 million viewers and ranked the 1 cable show in its time slot, with Season Nine on the way. He also stars in his own solo series on HGTV, Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa, and he hosts a digital series, Tarek’s Flip Side. In addition to successfully flipping more than 500 properties over the years, Tarek is a successful entrepreneur, real estate expert, and investor, with a portfolio of over 100 properties, a wholesale real estate company, and a production company. A two-time cancer survivor, today cancer-free, Tarek now donates his time and energy to a number of cancer-focused charities, bringing awareness and aid to those in need. Tarek’s number-one priority is being a hands-on dad and spending time with his wife, Heather Rae, his daughter, Taylor, and his son, Brayden.
Maura Moynihan, the author of Yoga Hotel, and her mother, Elizabeth, oversee the estate of her father, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait In Letters was chosen by the New York Times as one of the top 20 nonfiction books of 2010 and was a Washington Post bestseller.
Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu was born and raised in Nairobi and moved to the United States to attend college in 1998. She has an MA in Journalism from Columbia University and has worked as a journalist in New York City, Washington D.C. and Boston. She later received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town, graduating with distinction. Her fictional work has been published in Yale Review and Adda, and she has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Lucky Girl is her debut novel.
Ebony Lynn Mudd is a storyteller who writes stories that center underrepresented kids as main characters, highlighting the rich diversity within the Black community.
Ebony’s stories are an act of love, literary activism, and a safe space for every person who opens her books. She is also a member of Authors Against Book Bans and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the creator of picture book revision courses through The PB Retreat and the empowering literacy program Dance-N-Read, and the co-founder of PB Rising Stars, a picture book mentorship program.
As a former professional dancer and owner of a tuition-free dance company, Ebony is a bridge for underprivileged kids who hope to work in the arts. Now, as an Author, Ebony reaches those kids through stories.Ebony lives (and dances) in North Carolina but is always seeking the next plane, train, bus, car, scooter, or boat to whisk her away on a new adventure. Her other interests include all-you-can-eat sushi, quoting Phoebe from the T.V. show FRIENDS, and eating anything edible that she didn't have to cook.
To connect with Ebony, check out her website at www.ebonylynnmudd.com.
Luma Mufleh, immigrant, Muslim, gay, entrepreneur, mother, introvert, leader, and speaker, is best known as "Coach" by the students and families for whom she founded the first network of middle and high schools for refugee kids in the United States. She writes from her own experiences of both struggle and privilege, with a combination of humor, humility, and inspiration.
Hack Your Home: Cleaning Tips, Tricks and Inspiration to Create a Space You Love
Tanya Mukendi is the UK’s leading cleaning and home organisation influencer, with millions of followers across her social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok and Facebook).
Whether it’s saving you money on cleaning products, showing you how to create more space in a house that feels smaller and smaller as your family grows, helping you organise your home office or indeed packing a suitcase for that long-awaited holiday, Tanya has got you covered. Her first book will be published in autumn 2024.
When Science Meets Power
Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College, London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. From 1997 to 2004 he held several roles in the UK government, including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the founding director of the think-tank Demos, and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio.
Liza Mundy, former Washington Post reporter and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow and Director of the Work and Family Program at the New American Foundation, is the author of the award-winning Everything Conceivable: How the Science of Assisted Reproduction is Changing Our World (Knopf), the internationally bestselling biography of Michelle Obama, Michelle (Simon & Schuster), The Richer Sex (Simon & Schuster), and Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II (Hachette Books).
Bethanie received her MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York and worked as an art director for a variety of publishers, design firms, and marketing agencies before dedicating herself to children’s writing and illustration. Her work has received many accolades, including the Parents Choice Award, Amazon Best Books of the Year, and Bank Street College Best Books of the Year. Bethanie lives on the West Coast with her husband, two daughters, two dogs, and one dragon (bearded). When she’s not creating stories, she’s most likely hiking, biking, or snuggling up with her dogs and a book.
Murphy is a reporter for the Metro section of The Boston Globe. She covers organized crime, homeland security, legal affairs, criminal and civil court cases, and breaking news. She graduated from Northeastern University. She is co-author of the New York Times best-seller Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice.
Meagan B Murphy is a writer, editor, on-air personality, lifestyle expert and influencer, and the executive editor of the massively successful Good Housekeeping magazine. Known for her high-energy, upbeat personality, Meaghan regularly partners with such brands as Orange Theory, Equinox, Lululemon and more.
RELINQUISHED: The Untold Story of Birth Mothers
Bernadette Murphy is an MFA professor, author, former book critic, and collaborative writer. She is the author of the bestselling ZEN AND THE ART OF KNITTING and HARLEY AND ME. Her collaborative writing includes Minka Kelly’s TELL ME EVERYTHING. Her essays have appeared in LitHub, Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus, Climbing Magazine, New York Observer, and elsewhere. She was a weekly book critic for the Los Angeles Times,and an Associate Professor for the MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles, and she currently teaches at The Newport MFA at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island.
The Paradox of Teams
A New York Times best-selling author and Forbes Senior Contributor, Mark Murphy is recognized as a global thought leader on hiring, leadership, and teams. As founder of Leadership IQ, his books (Hundred Percenters and Hiring For Attitude) and research have appeared in The WallStreet Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, and U.S. News & World Report.
Alice Murphy is the pen name for a prolific Hallmark screenwriter and romance author from the deep south. She collects secret recipes, secret admirers, and secret histories.
A Little Buzzed
Alys Murray is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter from New Orleans. A RespectAbility Fellow and Inevitable Foundation Grant recipient, she writes inclusive genre stories for the romantic in all of us.
Sara Mychkine (she/they) is a poet, writer, performer and independent researcher in art history. They are the author of two poetry collections, La plaie de l’aube (Blast, 2024) and L’éthé (2022), and of a novel, De minuit à minuit (Le Bruit du Monde, 2023), and their articles have been published in various publications (CENSORED, DÉBRIDÉ, DO-Kre-I-S, DUNE MAGAZINE...). Their incandescent languages are rooted in black, queer and decolonial eco*feminist worlds.
FAMILY THAIS
Born and currently living in Nashville, TN, Arnold Myint spent the majority of his childhood climbing 100 lb rice bags at his parents’ market and traveling to their homeland of South East Asia for summer break. Having toured as a competitive and professional ice skater, attended the Institute of Culinary Education, worked in Jean Georges Vongerichten’s culinary empire, and competed on “Top Chef” and “Food Network Star,” Arnold is now the chef/owner/partner of three restaurants, including his parents’ International Market. His work continues to be recognized on a national level, including GQ, Epicurious, USA Today, and Eater.-com
Clive Myrie is an award-winning journalist, writer and film maker, and one of the BBC’s most experienced foreign correspondents, having served as the BBC’s Asia, Africa, Washington and Europe Correspondent. He makes features and programmes for ‘Panorama’, ‘Newsnight’ and BBC Radio 4 and is a regular presenter of the One, Six and Ten O’Clock News bulletins on BBC One, and of news shows on the BBC News Channel. In 2018, he was part of the BBC News team that received a Royal Television Society Award for Best Foreign Coverage for its reporting in Yemen. His memoir Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Clive Myrie was born in Bolton, Lancashire and studied law at the University of Sussex.
Dan Nadel is the Curator at Large for the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis. He has been writing about the history of comics for 20 years, having published two histories of the medium and numerous monographs and anthologies; he was the co-editor of The Comics Journal from 2011 through 2017 and his work as a packager has been recognized with a Grammy Award, an Eisner Award, and a NEA Innovation Grant.
Cole Nagamatsu's fiction has appeared online and in print at Tin House, cream city review, West Branch, Bartleby Snopes, PodCastle, Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, Timber Journal, and other publications. She is the editor-in-chief of Psychopomp Magazine and is a visiting assistant professor of Creative Writing at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.
Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance
Denali Sai Nalamalapu is an artist, writer, and climate activist living in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia. Originally from coastal Maine and Southern India, Denali's work uplifts the stories of marginalized communities fighting climate change.
Dr. Napper launched his career as a Wall Street analyst, first with J.P. Morgan Investment Management in New York and, following that, with Crowell, Weedon and Company in Los Angeles. He currently leads Performance Psychology, a management psychology consultancy and his client list includes Fortune 500 companies, financial firms, non-profit organizations, universities, as well as start-ups.Dr. Napper earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in International Relations and pursued his master’s degree in the same field at the University of Chicago. He received his doctorate in psychology from William James College in Boston, one of the country’s preeminent colleges of applied professional psychology. As part of his doctoral training he was selected for an advanced fellowship at Harvard Medical School.
Mélie is an English and French-speaking Franco-Lebanese author whose writing and research deal with the transmission of stories and inherited silences. They love the idea of rewriting stories that are thought to be frozen. Their podcast, 'Passé Recomposé', in which they interview people about their grandparents, explores collective history through the family stories of anonymous people. Their first book, Contes d'un autre bois, was published by Éditions iXe in 2023. They are currently working on a new novel inspired by Greek mythology.
Einat Nathan is the author of the 1 (across all categories) Bestselling Parenting book in Israel in 2018; she is a parenting counselor and has been certified by the Adler Institue and the Ministry of Education for Parental Instruction and Group Instruction. She has a hit podcast in Israel and a popular column on Mako Website.
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A History of the Russian Dissidents
Nathans, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, teaches and writes about Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. His latest book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A History of the Russian Dissidents will be published by Princeton University Press.
Turning the Tables
National Public Radio is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. Every day, NPR connects with millions of Americans on the air, online, and in person to explore the news, ideas, and what it means to be human. Through its network of member stations, NPR makes local stories national, national stories local, and global stories personal.
Beth is an author, screenwriter, essayist, and published picture book writer living in Los Angeles, California with her daughters and husband. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Beth grew up surrounded by a family of dancers, actors, singers, teachers, and writers. She is a recipient of several Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrator (SCBWI) awards for her young adult novel writing. She gets critiqued by her writing mentor, award-winning writer and Los Angeles cult hero, Francesca Lia Block. Beth also leans into service journalism with her newsletter, The Little Things that Save Me.
Beth is also a passionate women's health advocate, a believer that the act of writing heals, and needs a good dose of live music every month or so to stay sane.
Sabina Nawaz is a leadership guru with an eponymous coaching firm who advises C-level executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions around the world. A former Microsoft executive, her work has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., and Fast Company.
Eddie Ndopu is an award winning, internationally acclaimed activist and humanitarian. Diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy at age two and given only five years to live, he has gone on to become a beacon of hope and possibility for people with disabilities around the world. Holding official positions at both the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, he aspires to be the universe’s first physically disabled astronaut.
Raised in the Detroit suburbs, Eliza Nellums now lives with her cat outside Washington DC. Her first novel All That's Bright and Gone was named as an Amazon Editors' Pick for December, received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly and was praised in The Washington Post and Real Simple magazine. She is a member of the Metro Wriders, a weekly critique group that meets in Dupont Circle. Her short story “Changelings” was published in the anthology Magical. An amateur botanist and avid gardener, she divides her time between plants, books, and cats.
Shark Tank alum, entrepreneur, and proprietor of Daisy Cakes, where each homemade cake is hand-iced before being shipped from her kitchen to yours.
Alexander Nemerov is the chair of the art and art history department at Stanford University, where he is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities. He is the author of Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine and Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov.
Real Sports Entertainment Network delivers news and analysis on everything in sports.
Joy Neumeyer is a journalist and historian of Russia and Easter Europe. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Vice, and elsewhere.
The President and CEO of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, Dr. Newman is an expert in clinical resource management and has served as a consultant to several children’s hospitals in conjunction with the Child Health Corporation of America.
Catherine Newman is a beloved and widely read parenting blogger and author of Waiting for Birdy (Penguin) and Field Guide to Catastrophic Happiness (Little, Brown). Her work has been published in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Real Simple, O Magazine, and Whole Living.
Nathan Newman is a 25 y/o non-binary writer based in London. They studied creative writing at NYU where they were mentored by Zadie Smith and their short stories have won awards (James Knudsen Prize for fiction) and been published in literary journals and anthologies. Their debut novel is due to be published by Little Brown in the UK, and Viking Penguin in the USA.
Young Tiger
You Can't Win Anything With Kids: A History of the English Premier League Told Through Quotes
The Official Treasures of Muhammad Ali
Gavin Newsham is a journalist who has written for the New York Post, the Guardian, the Sunday Times (London), and Yahoo Life UK. His work focuses on sport, health, and wellness. His first book, Letting the Big Dog Eat, won the National Sporting Club Best New Writer award. He has published eleven books on sport, including Once In A Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos, Hype & Glory: The Decline and Fall of the England Football Team, Sportonomic$, and The Official Treasures of Muhammad Ali.
HONEY: Recipes from a Beekeeper’s Kitchen
Amy Newsome is a Kew-trained horticulturist, freelance beekeeper and passionate cook based in West London. Following a stint in the world of high fashion photography and digital marketing, Amy moved to the Cotswolds to retrain as a gardener and beekeeper, working with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, and organic grower Anna Greenland at Soho Farmhouse. From there she set her sights on the ultimate botanical paradise, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, completing the Kew Diploma in Horticulture in September 2021. More recently, Amy has worked with prison reform charity Food Behind Bars, helping to bring bees and kitchen gardening into prisons. She has written for multiple publications, including Bloom magazine, on subjects such as single-origin honey and cooking over fire.
Ginger Ngo is a Canadian illustrator and graphic designer who loves working with thoughtful people and creative minds. She is a proud immigrant from the Pearl of the Orient Seas with lots of stories to tell. Born and raised in the Philippines with Chinese roots and a third-culture childhood, Ginger grew up with Filipino music, English books, Mexican telenovelas, Japanese cartoons, and Chinese banquets. In Canada she learned about winters, camping, public libraries, David Suzuki, and Gore-Tex.
Ginger's mixed influences have shaped how she sees the world. Often, words aren’t enough to describe this, and she turns to illustration as a preferred form of communication. Ginger finds humor in everything because laughter is a universal language. She loves illustrating beautiful landscapes, fabulous characters being themselves, and naughty kids doing funny things. She is currently based in Vancouver, BC.
Kevin Nguyen is a senior editor at GQ. He’s written features, profiles, and criticism for the New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Millions, among others. His debut novel New Waves was published by One World in spring 2020.
Sara Nickerson began her writing career working in television and film. Her first novel, HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND (HarperCollins) started out as a screenplay that she adapted for middle grade readers. Her second novel, THE SECRETS OF BLUEBERRIES, BROTHERS, MOOSE & ME (Dutton Children’s Books), earned a BCCB Blue Ribbon Award and was called a “classic summer adventure” by the New York Times. And LAST MEETING OF THE GORILLA CLUB (Dutton Children’s Books) was a Washington State Book Award finalist. Her work has been translated into several languages and selected for State Reading Lists. She lives in Seattle.
Maria Nicolau is a professional and deeply vocational cook. For more than twenty years she has worked in many restaurants in Catalonia, Spain and France. She currently lives in Vilanova de Sau, Osona, where she runs the restaurant El Ferrer de Tall, devoted to Catalan cuisine. Maria Nicolau speaks on several radio programs, and appears weekly on TV. Above all, Maria is an enthusiast: she is as passionate about cooking as she is about life itself.
“We are so lazy when cooking dinner that, with enough sugar, we’d be open to eat dog’s poo, find it tasty, and convince everyone else that it is, indeed, good. Cook! or die.”
Cooking is not (just) following a recipe, a list of ingredients or meticulously planning the shopping list. Cooking is what happens at the margins of a recipe: it’s about improvising, taking risks, expressing who you are, making choices. Cooking is freedom.
Enthusiastic and non-conformist, Maria Nicolau opens the door to a path of a rich, sustainable, passionate and, above all, coherent cuisine. Cooking explained through history and science, nature and technology, collective memory and the intimate experience. Why is the pot the first invention of civilization? Why do cakes rise in the oven? Why do we only buy salmon and hake, when the Mediterranean is full of other fish varieties? Maria Nicolau offers us much more than recipes: she dares us to drop the “I-have-no-time” syndrome and urges us to take an honest look at ourselves in the mirror and stare at the nonsense of a society that eats but does not cook.
With 20,000 copies sold in Catalan, becoming most probably the most sold book this 2022, COOK! OR DIE is not your regular cookbook but a braid of essay, memoir, and a culinary exploration. It is also a manifesto to ditch the delivery, the take away way of life to rediscover our kitchens and the powerful joy of cooking.
Jennifer A. Nielsen is the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of more than 25 books for young readers. Her work has garnered multiple awards, among them, the Sydney Taylor Notable Book Award (RESISTANCE, 2019), multiple Whitney Awards, including the Outstanding Achievement Award (2023), and several state book awards. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.
Jennifer is a frequent speaker in schools and at writing conferences around the country. She lives in northern Utah with her family.
Mark Nitzberg is the Executive Director of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley. He began studying artificial intelligence at MIT in the early ‘80s with Marvin Minsky.
Marina Nitze has held some of the most senior roles in federal government without a college degree. She was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the U.S. Department of Education and also the youngest-ever C-suite executive in the federal government, taking on the role of the first female federal agency CTO at 28. She is currently a partner in the crisis management firm Layer Aleph where, multiple times per year, her team is called into high stakes environments to rapidly de-escalate technology-related crises.
Oliver Niño is the founder of Geo Love Healing, an online company designed to help individuals master their energy, unblock themselves from mental, emotional, and energetic blocks, and become certified healers and coaches. He is also co-founder of Authentic Living, a multi-million dollar company that offers digital programs, live events, certifications, and a retreat center for those who wish to learn how to manifest their best lives.
Dr. Jeremy Nobel is on the faculty at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.S. Chan School of Public Health, and is the founder and president of the Foundation for Art & Healing. Its signature program is The UnLonely Project, which seeks to broaden public awareness of the negative physical and mental health consequences of loneliness while also exploring and promoting creative arts-based approaches to reduce the burden.
Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Town and Identity in America
LeeAnet Noble is an internationally critically acclaimed multi-faceted artist who has played lead roles in STOMP and Drumstruck, has worked with Disney Theatricals as a creative advisor and teaching artist and works with major theatres (Broadway and Regional) in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion efforts. She teaches a Black history course forGeorge Washington University’s MFA graduate studies program.
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and Yale University, as well as an expert in the psychology of women, and noted author of, among other titles, Women Who Think Too Much (Henry Holt).
Laine Nooney is assistant professor of media and information industries at New York University. Their research has been featured by outlets such as the Atlantic, Motherboard, and NPR. They live in New York City, where their hobbies include motorcycles, tugboats, and Texas Hold'em.
A renowned soprano who has performed with the world’s most storied opera companies, including the Orchestre de Paris, and the Philharmonics of Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, and London, Norman is the youngest winner of a Kennedy Center Honor, has earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and received the National Medal of the Arts from President Barack Obama.
A longtime copy editor for The New Yorker, Norris writes frequently for their "Page-Turner" blog.
Gravely injured former football player Chris Norton and his wife Emily are an in-demand motivational speakers with a message of hope, resilience and faith.
Stephen Nowicki is Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Emory University and a leading expert in the study of internal and external personality traits (Locus of Control). He has consulted for major companies, lectured around the world, and appeared on countless media programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is the author of over 350 publications and the author or co-author of seven books, including Choice or Chance: Understanding Your Locus of Control and Why It Matters (Prometheus).
Fania Noël is an activist, sociologist, and Afrofeminist writer. Her academic and public writings are centred around her primary research areas: Global Black Studies, particularly Black feminisms, feminist theories, political sociology, and the racialisation of gender in science fiction. In 2022, her second book, Et maintenant le pouvoir: Un horizon politique afroféministe (Editions Cambourakis), was published. Fania Noël is the publication director of both Alaso and AssiégéEs, and is also a expert in bell hooks and Octavia Butler.
Matthew Neill Null is the author of the novel Honey from the Lion and the award-winning story collection Allegheny Front, both set in his native West Virginia. Allegheny Front was named a "Best Book of Summer 2016" by Publishers Weekly, A "Most Anticipated Book of 2016" by The Millions and The Masters Review, and one of "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now," in O, The Oprah Magazine. His novel Honey from the LIon, won the highest praise from National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon, who wrote that Null is “bound to become one of the most admired and influential fiction writers of his generation." His forthcoming new novel is The Floodgate.
Null is the winner of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, and the Michener–Copernicus Society of America Award. His stories have appeared in both The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Mystery Stories. Null holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a fellow at The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
Wising Up
Howard Nusbaum, PhD is the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology at The University of Chicago and the Director of the Center for Practical Wisdom, a member of the Committee on Computational Neuroscience and a member of the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology, and Human Behavior. His research focuses broadly on cognitive neuroscience, communication, learning, and wise reasoning and investigates how experiences help us make wiser decisions, how we use spoken language, how we understand the meaning of sound, and how sleep helps stabilize our memories.
Shadows Bright as Glass: The Changed Brain and the Search for Self, Simon & Schuster
The Teenage Brain, coauthor with Frances, HarperCollins
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of a Family, Random House
Nutt is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Becoming Nicole. She’s completing a book on the history of mental illness treatment for Random House.
Jenni Nuttall has been teaching and researching medieval literature at the University of Oxford for the last twenty years, so she’s had a lot of practice at making old words interesting. She is at work on her first trade book about the rich, provocative and entertaining history of women’s words, which explores some surprisingly progressive thinking and challenges our assumptions about the past.
Vanessa O’Brien is a British-American mountain climber, explorer, public speaker and former business executive. As a result of her dual nationality, she simultaneously became the first American woman and the first British woman to summit K2 on July 28, 2017 when, on her third attempt, she led a team of 12 members to the summit and back. In 2020, Vanessa received a Guinness World Record for becoming the First Woman to Reach Earth’s Highest (Mt. Everest) and Lowest Points (Challenger Deep). She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and an Honorary Advisory Board member of the Scientific and Exploration Society.
Barbara O’Connor is the author of award-winning novels for children, including Halfway to Harmony, How to Steal a Dog, and the New York Times bestseller, Wish. Drawing on her South Carolina roots, Barbara’s books are known for their strong Southern settings and quirky characters.
In addition to seven Parents Choice Awards, Barbara’s distinctions include School Library Journal Best Books, Kirkus Best Books, Bank Street College Best Books, American Booksellers Association Best Books and ALA Notables. She has had books nominated for children’s choice awards in 38 states and been voted the winner by children in ten states. Barbara is a popular visiting author at schools and a frequent speaker at conferences around the country.
Our Family Kitchen
Norah O’Donnell is co-host of “CBS This Morning” and is also a contributor to “60 Minutes”. Prior to that, she served as CBS News’ Chief White House Correspondent. With Geoff Tracy, Norah O’Donnell is the author of NYT bestseller, Baby Love.
Michael O’Hanlon is senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, as well as an adjunct professor at Columbia, Georgetown, and Syracuse universities, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has written several hundred op-eds in newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, USA Today, and Pakistan’s Dawn paper.His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Survival, Washington Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly, and International Security, among other publications.
The youngest ever recipient of an Oscar for her role in Paper Moon, O’Neal’s first book, A PAPER LIFE, was a New York Times Bestseller. She appeared on Rescue Me and produced and starred in the OWN show Lost and Found with her father Ryan O’Neal.
Eric is the founder of The Georgetown Group, a premier investigative and security consultancy, where he specializes in counterintelligence and counterterrorism operations, as well as investigations into economic espionage and cyber security penetrations. He also serves as the National Security Strategist for Carbon Black, the leader of next gen. endpoint protection, where he works on cyber security issues. Eric was formerly an FBI undercover operative, and he earned a JD from George Washington University Law School.
Luke O'Neill is professor of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. One of the world's foremost experts in immunology, he became the first Irish biologist in more than 50 years to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, in 2016. He has been awarded the Royal Dublin Society's Robert Boyle Medal for scientific excellence, the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal for Life Sciences and has lectured for the Nobel Committee. His latest book, Never Mind the B*llcks, Here's the Science won the An Post Irish Book Award for Non Fiction in 2020.
Unlearn
Barry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry is co-author of the international bestseller Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale and an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Nikolaus Obwegeser is a Research Fellow at IMD Business School (Switzerland). He regularly publishes in various academic and practitioner outlets and provides advisory and consulting services in the area of digital business transformation and innovation.
Dr. Eucabeth Odhiambo is a professor of Teacher Education at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She has served the education community in a variety of positions during the past 25 years. As a classroom teacher, she has taught all grades between kindergarten and middle school. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Early Childhood and Curriculum and Instruction programs. She teaches child development and social studies methods and has made numerous professional presentations at local, state, national, and international conferences. In addition to her writing for children, she has authored publications on teaching, pre-service training, and diversity.
The Color of Country
Robert K. Oermann is an award-winning multimedia music journalist. He writes weekly columns for Music Row magazine and has been published in more than 100 other periodicals including Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, TV Guide, The Tennessean and USA Today. Oermann is also a TV and radio script writer/director for dozens of national productions. His honors and awards include the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, the Media Achievement Award from the Country Music Association, Country Music People’s International Media Award, Goldmine’s Best Historical Writer, and SESAC’s Journalistic Achievement Award. He has authored eight books and penned liner notes for more than 100 albums and boxed-sets. Oermann has lectured on popular music, journalism and country music at many colleges and universities, and lives in Nashville with his wife and co-author Mary A. Bufwack.
The Guide to Black London: Discover the City's African and Caribbean History
Michael Ohajuru is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies with honours degrees in Physics and Art History.
He blogs, writes and speaks regularly on the black presence in Renaissance Europe and has spoken at the British Library, National Archives and Victoria and Albert Museum on the subject.
He is the founder of Image of the Black in London Galleries, a series of gallery tours highlighting the overt and covert black presences to be found in the national art collections in London.
He is originator and project director for The John Blanke Project, a contemporary art and archive project celebrating John Blanke the Black trumpeter to the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. The project has been critically acclaimed as a novel, innovative way to present history.
He is the co-convener of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies What’s Happening in Black British History series of workshops fostering a creative dialogue between researchers, educationalists, archivists, curators and policy makers. He is also co-convenor the Institute of Historical Research Black British History seminar program.
With S.I. Martin his ground-breaking The Guide to Black London will be published by September Publishing in 2024.
Scam Nation: My Journey into the Online World of Cyber Fraud
Kaf Okpattah is an investigative reporter at ITV News. He began his career with BBC News’ specialist investigations unit, while in his first year of university. While studying for his journalism degree, he broke major stories for BBC News, leading local and national bulletins with stories about illegal COVID raves, the Tate Modern pusher tapes and teenage money mules.
He is the recipient of an NCTJ Award for Excellence 2020 (for ‘Top Scoop’), and was chosen as one of thirty-under-thirty in the British Journalism Awards, 2019. He was also highly commended in the Wincott Awards for Financial Journalism, 2020.
In August, 2021, he was the youngest ever writer and presenter of BBC’s ‘Panorama’, fronting a 30-minute documentary about social media fraudsters which was viewed by more than 3 million people when it aired. He was born in Accra, Ghana in 2000, and has lived in London since 2010.
Collateral Damage: How the War on Abortion is Making Us Sicker
Alice Miranda Ollstein is a health care reporter for POLITICO. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and has been reporting in Washington, D.C. ever since, covering the Supreme Court, Congress and national elections for TV, radio, print, and online outlets, including NPR and Talking Points Memo.
The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were key reporters on the newspaper’s award-winning series George Floyd’s America and contributors to the well-received Post Reports podcast episode on Floyd’s life.Olorunnipa grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and is the son of immigrants from a small village in central Nigeria. He has covered national politics since 2015, reporting from five continents and more than 20 countries as part of the presidential press pool. Olorunnipa’s reporting has received awards and recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the National Press Foundation, the Diverse Future Initiative and others. He earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees in sociology from Stanford University, where he conducted research on social movements.
Now We See the World Together: Five Midwesterners and the Revolution of Modern Art
Liesl Olson is the Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, a national historic landmark on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago, and before that was for many years the Director of Chicago Studies at the distinguished Newberry Library. She is also the author of Modernism and the Ordinary and Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis.
Professor Sir David Omand GCB is a former senior civil servant. During his long career in British government service he has held senior posts in security, intelligence and defence.
His last post, from 2002-5, was as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office and UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and ‘homeland security’. He has also been a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office and the Cabinet Office, Director of GCHQ and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Defence Policy. He is now a visiting Professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London and an honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.
He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and read economics at Corpus Christi College Cambridge where he is an honorary Fellow. He also has a degree in mathematics and theoretical physics from the Open University. He has written extensively on security and intelligence matters and is a member of the editorial board of Intelligence and National Security.
Kwame Onwuachi was named the 2019 James Beard Rising Star Chef, is executive chef of Washington D.C.’s Kith & Kin and Union Market’s Philly Wing Fry, and is author of the memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef.
Food Rebels Why Freedom Requires Rebellion
Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie is an innovative educator, speaker, author and a Babson Professor of History and Foodways. Dr. Opie has appeared on NPR, BBC Radio, The History Channel, PBS television, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Oprah Magazine.
David Opie grew up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where he spent a lot of time roaming around the woods. He went on to earn his BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His illustrations have appeared in many magazines and newspapers and he has worked for educational publishers including Heinemann/Houghton Mifflin, Macmillan, Learning A-Z, McGraw-Hill, National Geographic School Publishing, Scholastic, and Soundprints/Smithsonian.
David has taught at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and was a full-time instructor in the illustration department of the American Academy of Art in downtown Chicago. He currently teaches at the University of New Haven. David and his wife live with their dog in Connecticut.
Mark Oppenheimer is editor at large of the Jewish online magazine Tablet, founder and co-host of the podcast Unorthodox, and director of Yale University’s Journalism Initiative. For six years, he wrote the biweekly “Beliefs” column at the New York Times; he continues to write regularly for the New York Times Magazine, the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The Nation, among others.
The founder of O Pictures, Oreck produced hundreds of music videos, many iconic, including for Prince, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Mick Jagger, Chris Isaak, and Sheila E, among many others.
Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as bureau chief for the Economist. He studied Russian theatre history in Moscow and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University. His translation of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia has been published and staged in Russia. He is a regular guest on the BBC, Sky News, and NPR, where he comments on Russia and the former Soviet Union.
His first book, The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War was the winner of the Orwell Prize 2016.
Friends Anywhere
Emma Otheguy is the author of the picture books Martí’s Song for Freedom/Martí y sus versos por la libertad, illustrated by Beatriz Vidal, which received five starred reviews, was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and the New York Public Library, and was the recipient of the International Literacy Association’s Children’s and Young Adult Book Award in Intermediate Nonfiction, and A Sled for Gabo, illustrated by Ana Ramirez Gonzalez, which was an NCTE Charlotte Huck Recommended Book and a Best Book of the Year by the Chicago and New York Public Libraries and Parents Latina magazine. Her middle-grade novels include Silver Meadows Summer, which was called “a magnificent contribution to the diversity of the new American literature for young readers” by Pura Belpré-winning author Ruth Behar; Secrets of the Silver Lion: A Carmen Sandiego Novel; and Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene. Emma also co-authored The Madre de Aguas of Cuba: Unicorn Rescue Society middle grade fantasy with Newbery Honor-winner Adam Gidwitz.