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.
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.
Adam Roberts is the author of The Amateur Gourmet, Secrets of the Best Chefs, and Give My Swiss Chards to Broadway. He started his food blog The Amateur Gourmet in 2004, and also hosts the podcast Lunch Therapy. Roberts has also written for The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and for film and television. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and their dog Winston. Food Person is his first novel.
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.
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.
Kim Rogers is the author of Just Like Grandma, winner of the 2024 Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Award Honor for Writer, illustrated by Julie Flett; A Letter for Bob, winner of the 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award, 2024 Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Title, illustrated by Jonathan Nelson; and I Am Osage: How Clarence Tinker became the First Native American Major General, illustrated by Bobby Von Martin, all with HarperCollins/Heartdrum. She is a contributor to Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids (Heartdrum 2021). The cover, illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt, was inspired by Jessie, the protagonist in her short story, “Flying Together.” Her poem, “What is a Powwow” is also included. Kim is an enrolled member of Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and is a member of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. Much of her current writing highlights her Wichita heritage. She lives with her family on her tribe’s ancestral homelands in Oklahoma.
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.
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PLUTARCH’S GREEK LIVES
James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, NY. His books include Ghost on the Throne, Dying Every Day, and the forthcoming Love’s Warriors, and his writing on the ancient world has appeared in The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and the Daily Beast, among others.
Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, Kelsey Ronan's work has been published in Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Utne Reader, and elsewhere. Her writing has been nominated for Best American Essays 2017, among other prizes and special publications. In 2017, she was chosen as the spring writer-in-residence of the Hub City Writers Project. She lives in Detroit and works for InsideOut Literary Arts.
DJ, songwriter, and record producer Mark Ronson has won seven Grammy Awards, including two for his eleven-times platinum single “Uptown Funk” featuring Bruno Mars. In 2019, he received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for the song “Shallow,” which he wrote with Lady Gaga for the film A Star is Born. Mark has collaborated with Amy Winehouse, Miley Cyrus, and Adele, among numerous other artists.
Charlise Rookwood is a British-born culinary artist with Jamaican and Mauritian heritage. She worked in the music industry for over 25 years before becoming a full-time vegan chef, caterer and food vlogger. Charlise has cooked and created event menus for celebrities such as Jim Jones, Dave Chapelle, Chaka Khan, Donnell Rawlings, and Remy Ma; and has catered for organizations such as LinkedIn, Soho House UK, and Apple. She has appeared twice on the Today Show and is the host of The Black Vegan Cooking Show produced by iOne Digital. Follow Rookwood at @vegansouliscious.
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.
Affairs of the Haunt
Kaylee is a nyc-based comic artist and illustrator. They love telling stories about ghosts, haunted houses, complicated lesbians, and all things uncanny and unknown.
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.
Women and Addiction
Dr. Lipi Roy, board-certified in addiction medicine, is a leading physician, educator, and media contributor who has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, Forbes, Oprah.com, among many others, and served as Chief of Addiction Medicine at Rikers Island jail.
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.
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.
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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.
Vault Dweller: An Official Fallout Coloring Adventure
Roblox Coloring Adventure
Roblox Super Awesome Activity Book
Roblox: A Pop-Up Advent Calendar
Christopher Ruz is a teacher, board game convention coordinator, and one-time stuntman living in Melbourne. He is the author of The Ragged Blade (2019, Parvus Press), a yet-to-be announced tie-in novel, and several IP projects with Insight Editions. His short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways and Apollo’s Daughters.
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.
Matthew’s first book French Classics was published by Bloomsbury in August 2025 and was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller.
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).
The Gold Toilet
As a child, Jacob Sager Weinstein could turn his feet completely backwards, then juggle. Nowadays, his joints are much less flexible, but he can still manage the juggling part. Other accomplishments include two Writers' Guild of America award nominations and one win. He has written for film, TV, radio, and print outlets including HBO, the BBC, The New Yorker, and The Onion.
His books include the middle grade novel Hyacinth and the Secrets Beneath, the picture books Lyric Mckerrigan, Secret Librarian and What Rosa Brought, and the non-fiction works How to Remember Everything and Be Happier Now. He lives in London with his wife and kids.
An american painter and printmaker, Salle has helped define postmodernism. His work can be found at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Tate Modern, among other places.
Felix has been a staff writer for or freelance contributor to Conde Nast’s Portfolio, WIRED, Reuters, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Euromoney, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Slate, New York Magazine, and Medium, among others. He’s currently the chief financial correspondent and a weekly columnist at Axios, and he has hosted the Slate Money podcast since 2014.
Gerardo Sámano Córdova is a writer and artist from Mexico City living in Brooklyn. He's currently Writer in Residence at Fordham University. He got his MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. He has studied at Bread Loaf as a work/study scholar (2019) and fellow (2023) and at the Tin House Summer Workshop (2019).
A Yemeni peace activist, Al Samawi is interested in interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural outreach. He is a frequent public speaker and lecturer on the war in Yemen, the refugee crisis, and extremism in the Middle East.
On Courage
An English professor at West Point, Samet received her BA from Harvard and her PhD from Yale. Soldier’s Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was also named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books in 2007.
Superbloom
Scott Sampson is a dinosaur paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and educator, as well as the host of PBS’s Dinosaur Train show, the Chief Curator of the Denver Museum of Natural History, and the author of How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature (Houghton Mifflin).
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.Samuels has earned distinction for his intimate reporting style while writing on-the-ground stories about politics, policy and the American identity, and contributed a chapter to The Post’s best-selling book, Trump Revealed. Samuels grew up in the Bronx and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. At the Miami Herald, Samuels won several statewide awards for feature writing as an enterprise reporter. Since joining The Post in 2011, he has been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Toner Prize for National Political Reporting, the nation’s premier award for political reporting.
María Sánchez is a Spanish writer and field veterinarian and the author of Cuaderno de campo (Field Notebook), Almáciga: Un vivero de palabras de nuestro medio rural (Seedbed), and Tierra de mujeres: Una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural (Land of Women), a bestseller in Spain, with translations into French and German. Her poetry and prose have been translated into French, Portuguese, English, and German, and she is a regular contributor to publications on literature, feminism, and rural culture.
Tess Sanchez has spent twenty years in the entertainment industry as a casting director. We’ve Decided to Go in a Different Direction is her debut book. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Max Greenfield, and their two children. Follow her on Instagram @TessSanchezGreenfield.
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Santiago de Compostela, 1968) is one of the most important contemporary female Spanish writers. She is also a literary critic and a translator, and coordinates several writing workshops. She is the author of the novels Las lagartijas huelen a hierba (Lengua de Trapo, 1999), Bueyes y rosas dormían (Siruela, 2001), Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey (Anagrama, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 2004), Alas (Trama Editorial, 2005), Coco (2007), Los escarpines de Kristina de Noruega (Roca Editorial, 2011, finalist to Premio Espartaco de Novela Histórica), Ellibro de Julieta (Grijalbo, 2011), Las Inviernas (The Winterlings, Anagrama, 2014), Alguien bajo los párpados (Someone Beneath Your Eyelids, Anagrama, 2017), and La nostalgia de la Mujer Anfibio (The Longing of the Amphibian Woman, Anagrama, 2022). She is also the author of the award-winning short story collection El niño que comía lana (The Boy Who Ate Wool, short stories, Anagrama, 2019). Her work has been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Russian.
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The First Antarctic Winter and the Science of Survival
Neptune's Random
Julian Sancton is a writer and editor based in New York. He has worked for publications including Vanity Fair, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, and is currently the senior features editor at Departures. His formative years were split between the United States and France.
Untitled FIYAH Ten-Year Anniversary Anthology
DaVaun Sanders is the author of the middle grade book Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew. He serves as Executive Editor for FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, winner of the WorldFantasy, British Fantasy and Hugo Awards.
Play Hard. Play Fair, Play Proud.
Rob Sanders is a teacher who writes and a writer who teaches. He is known for his funny and fierce fiction and nonfiction picture books and is recognized as one of the pioneers in the arena of LGBTQ+ literary nonfiction picture books.
A native of Springfield, Missouri, he has lived in Texas, Alabama, and Tennessee. After earning a B.S. in Elementary Education and a Master’s Degree in Religious Education, Rob worked for fifteen years in children’s religious educational publishing as a writer, educational consultant, trainer, editor, editorial group manager, and product developer.
In 2006, Rob moved to Florida and began working as an elementary school teacher. Soon he was serving as a district writing trainer and resource teacher. But he spent most of his career teaching fourth graders about books and words and reading and writing. Rob now writes full time.
The Official We Do Not Care Club Manifesto
The We Do Not Care Adult Coloring Book
The We Do Not Care Club: Daily Journal
Melani Sanders is a digital creator and the founder of the We Do Not Care MovementTM. She lives with her husband, Otis, and her three sons in Florida
Martha A. Sandweiss is professor emerita of history at Princeton University, where she is founding director of the Princeton & Slavery Project. She is the award-winning author of many books, including Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception across the Color Line and Print the Legend: Photography and the American West.
The Last Supper
Blue Marilyn
Jonathan Santlofer is an artist and award winning writer, most recently of the critically acclaimed thriller The Last Mona Lisa, and the memoir The Widower’s Notebook. His debut novel, The Death Artist, an international bestseller, is currently in development for screen adaptation. Anatomy of Fear, won the Nero Award for best novel. He is the creator and editor of several anthologies including It Occurs to Me That I Am America, a collection of original stories and art. His paintings and drawings are included in many public and private collections. He lives in New York City.
Yaffa S. Santos was born and raised in New Jersey. She is the author of A Taste of Sage, which was named an Indie Next List Pick and Amazon Editor’s Pick, Winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Novel–Romance, and the forthcoming A Touch of Moonlight. Yaffa is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied writing and visual art. She enjoys books, coffee, and the beach, and lives in Central Florida with her family.
Marta Sanz is an award-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and scholar, and one of Spain’s leading feminist writers. In the last two decades she has written 15 novels and four collections of poetry, in addition to her edited anthologies and frequent contributions to major Spanish media publications including EL PAÍS, El Mundo, Público and Infolibre. She is a frequent guest commentator and public speaker at mainstream media outlets and literary events.
Sanz’s novels tackle social issues, challenge contemporary thinking with innovative literary styles, engage readers with insightful treatments of topical themes and entertain with biting satire. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into talian and Hungarian.
Anchor Baby
Originally from south Louisiana, Blake Sanz won the 2021 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his collection of short stories, The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, selected by Brandon Taylor. It was also a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and longlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. His essays, interviews, and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Missouri Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. He has been a work-study scholarship recipient at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a scholar at the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, a guest panelist at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans and Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop, and a funded participant at The Community of Writers. His work has also been recognized by the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Competition, and he has held residencies at Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, Art Farm in Nebraska, and Elsewhere Studios in Colorado. Son of a Mexican father and a Cajun mother and a graduate of the MFA program at Notre Dame, he teaches fiction at the University of Central Florida.
Truth Medicine: Healing and Living Authentically through Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, psychedelic-assisted therapist, writer, meditation teacher and researcher, and former Buddhist monk. He is also a transformational coach for musicians, athletes, former special operations veterans, scientists, CEOs, authors, and playwrights. He presents internationally for The Institute of Noetic Sciences, has given numerous keynote addresses at large conferences and he leads psychedelic retreats for the special operations community in Mexico through various organizations.
Éloge poétique du lubrifiant
Toujours trop ou pas assez
Notre vie n'est que mouvement
La vie verticale
From her home in England, Lou Sarabadzic writes, creates and translates. She is the author of seven books in various genres, including the poetry collections Ensemble and Je ne sais faire rien d'autre que vivre (La Crypte), the jubilant Éloge poétique du lubrifiant (Le Nouvel Attila, 2021), and the comic book Toujours trop ou pas assez, en finir avec la rhétorique foireuse du patriarcat (Mango Society, 2022), illustrated by Marko Mille.
Margie Sarsfield is a Reno-based writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, Seneca Review, Northwest Review, CutBank, Salt Hill and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2019 Calvino Prize and holds a MFA from Ohio State University.