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.
Ari Rabin-Havt served as Deputy Campaign Manager of Bernie Sanders's 2020 Presidential Campaign and Deputy Chief of Staff in his Senate Office. Previously he served as an advisor to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and former Vice President Al Gore. He is the author of Lies Incorporated: The World of Post Truth Politics and The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Jacobin, The Nation and The American Prospect.
Jenny Radcliffe is an expert social engineer using the ‘human element’ to manipulate, persuade and influence people to gain access to buildings, data and information. She is a burglar for hire, con-artist and an expert in non-verbal communications, deception and physical infiltration, hired by companies to test their security measures.
A documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, Rader wrote the screenplay for Waterworld.
Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley and a World Economic Forum faculty member. He advises C-level executives worldwide on breakthrough growth strategies and is the co-author of several books about frugal innovation, including Jugaad Innovation (Wiley) and Frugal Innovation (Profile Books/Economist Books).
Anne Raeff is the author of the novels Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia, Winter Kept Us Warm, and Only the River and the short story collection The Jungle Around Us, which won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have been published in journals such as The New England Review, Zyzzyva, and Oa.
Bryan Rafanelli is the founder, president, and creative director of Rafanelli Events, a full-service event design, strategy, planning, and production company with more than 100 events annually in venues around the world, and has planned 13 events under the Obama administration at The White House along with numerous charity events and weddings. Headquartered in Boston, Rafanelli Events also has offices in New York City, Washington, DC and Palm Beach.
Suhasini Raj is an award winning journalist, who has worked for over a decade as an investigative journalist with Indian and international news outlets. She joined The New York Times in 2014 and has reported extensively on stories ranging from the rise of Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to how the country has reeled under the effects of Covid 19 to climate change, amongst others. Prior to her time at The New York Times, Ms. Raj worked undercover on a story that exposed a bribe-taking scheme involving eleven members of India’s Parliament. As a result of her reporting, the politicians were expelled from their positions. Ms. Raj is originally from Lucknow, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where she also attended university. She is married with one son, and enjoys classical music — and a good story!
Steve Ramirez is a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a Professor in psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, where he’s also the principal investigator of the Ramirez Group. His work in artificially manipulating memories was recognized in Science magazine's Top 10 discoveries of 2023, and has been covered by Nature, The NYT, NPR, TIME, The Boston Globe, and beyond. Steve is the recipient of numerous awards like a National Institutes of Health DP5 Award, a National Institutes of Health Transformative Award, the Smithsonian's American Ingenuity Award, a Forbes “30 under 30”, a Pew Foundation award, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute award, and a Chan-Zuckerberg Diversity Leadership award.
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Queuing for the Queen
Swéta Rana is a 31 year old website manager. After graduating from Oxford, she worked briefly in editorial at Hachette before moving into designing and managing websites. Her debut novel Queuing for the Queen will be published by Head Of Zeus in 2023. She lives in North London.
Ladette Randolph is the author of the novels A Sandhills Ballad, Haven's Wake, and the forthcoming Private Way; the debut short story collection This Is Not the Tropics; and the memoir Leaving the Pink House. A Sandhills Ballad was selected as a New York Times Editors Choice, and her work has won the highest praise. The reviewer of Haven’s Wake in Booklist wrote, “Randolph thoughtfully contemplates truth in a world of evasiveness.” Her debut short story collection, This Is Not the Tropics, was hailed by the reviewer for Publishers Weekly as “utterly remarkable…Quite honestly, this is the finest collection I’ve seen in years.”
A long-time Nebraskan, Randolph spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations. She is the recipient of four Nebraska Book Awards, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Virginia Faulkner Award, and a citation from Best New American Voices. Recently retired, she was the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares at Emerson College for fifteen years. She lives in the Boston area.
Eating Places
When Isaac Rangaswami realised he’d been to all of London’s oldest caffs, those endangered restaurants some people call greasy spoons, he decided to showcase them on Instagram.
Two years later and Isaac’s page has built a cult following, using poetic captions to draw attention to the romance of these living museums and their delicious food.
Isaac’s mission is simple: to get people going to caffs. But he’s passionate about other affordable, historically important eating places too, such as chip shops, Chinese takeaways and Indian restaurants, which he has written about for food newsletter Vittles.
@Caffs_not_cafes has featured in Time Out London and The Face, describing Isaac as “an alternative historian of London”.
Rankin (born John Rankin Waddell, Glasgow, 1966) is a British photographer, publisher, and film director whose work has shaped contemporary photography, fashion imagery, and cultural portraiture since the early 1990s.
Rankin emerged as a key figure in British visual culture as the co-founder of Dazed & Confused magazine with Jefferson Hack. The publication became an influential platform for experimental photography and youth-led cultural production. Publishing remains central to his practice through AnOther, AnOther Man, and HUNGER magazine, founded in 2011, and through more than 40 photographic monographs published independently and with teNeues and Rizzoli NY.
Rankin’s practice is rooted in portraiture. He has photographed figures from music, film, fashion, and public life including David Bowie, Dua Lipa, Madonna, Jay-Z, Kelis, Zendaya, Idris Elba, The Rolling Stones, and Queen Elizabeth II. In 2023, he photographed King Charles III for The Big Issue to mark the King’s 75th birthday.
His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Portrait Gallery, London, and is held in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection.
Rankin lives and works in London.
Dr. Anthony Rao holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Vanderbilt University. For more than 20 years, he worked in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital and served as Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rao has been a featured expert on documentaries for MTV and the A&E Network, and has been interviewed for articles in The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Parents Magazine, among several others. His editorial letters and opinions have appeared in a wide range of publications including Newsweek, Scientific American, The New York Times, and New York Magazine.Dr. Rao has lectured extensively at universities, including Tufts University, Emerson College, and Boston University. He regularly presents at conferences, parenting groups, and conducts workshops for professionals around the country who work with children and young adults.
June Diane Raphael is a actress, screenwriter, producer, comedian, and podcaster known for her reoccurring role of Brianna on the TV show Grace and Frankie and her podcast, How Did This Get Made?
Tanjil Rashid is a freelance journalist and producer based in London, regularly contributing to the BBC, the Financial Times, The Times (London), the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Spectator, and working on documentaries for BBC and ITN. He was a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2023.
Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, entrepreneur, activist, and writer. She has been photographed for the covers of magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Vogue Italia, Vogue Australia, Vogue Spain, Vogue Germany, and GQ, and has worked with brands including Versace, Marc Jacobs, and Dolce & Gabbana. She has translated her audience of nearly 27 million Instagram followers into a direct-to-consumer clothing business, Inamorata, and as an actress has appeared in films including I Feel Pretty, We Are Your Friends, and Gone Girl. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, and her essay “Buying Myself Back” for New York magazine went viral in September 2020.
With over twenty one billion Ineos owner Jim Ratcliffe became the richest man in Britain in 2018, ranked number one on the Sunday Times list. Ratcliffe’s Ineos is Britain’s biggest privately owned company, selling more than 60m tons of chemicals annually for use in the packaging, food, construction, textile, white goods and car manufacturing industries and employing 18,500-plus staff. Ratcliffe, the son of a joiner and an office worker mother, has become the world’s richest Mancunian. Growing up in Failsworth on the outskirts of the city, he used to count the chimneys he could see from the council house he shared with his parents. Many of the industrial chimneys may have stopped puffing across the city’s skyline but the 65-year-old certainly controls a good number of other ones at more than 100 sites in at least 20 countries. His journey to entrepreneur went via grammar school and a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham in 1974.
Co-founder of The Atavist, a boutique digital publisher of nonfiction, and a co-writer of Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World, Ratliff has written for Wired, The New Yorker, the New York TimesMagazine, and ReadyMade, among other publications.
After graduating from The Juilliard School with a Bachelor degree and Master of Music, Arianna performed as a professional violinist at top venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie, Boston Symphony Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Blue Note jazz club, and so on. Her writing on music and culture has appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post, Slate, and Bustle.
Platform Hygiene
Jess Rauchberg is Assistant Professor of Communication Technologies at Seton Hall University, co-editor of Disability Media Cultures (forthcoming, NYU Press), associate editor of Creator & Influencer Studies, and co-founder of the Content Creator Scholars Network. A former content creator, Rauchberg's award-winning research, teaching, and public scholarship examines the relationships between disability, gender, and political inequalities in global creator culture.
Anjli Raval has been at the Financial Times since 2009, and has reported from London, New Delhi, and New York. Currently, she is Management Editor, reporting on corporate governance and the future of work. Previously, she was Senior Energy Correspondent, and covered oil and gas companies, Opec energy policy, and the global clean energy transition.
Assaad W. Razzouk is a Lebanese-British clean energy entrepreneur, climate activist and podcaster based in Singapore. With more than 400,000 social media followers, he is a high-profile thought leader on climate change and clean energy. He is a vocal advocate for raising awareness and dispelling the myths and misconceptions that have arisen around clean and renewable energy.
Arrested Adolescence: The Secret Life of Nathan Leopold (Rowman & Littlefield,2023)
Erik Rebain is an archivist who works for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago History Museum.
Nancy Reddy is the author of the poetry collections Pocket Universe and Double Jinx and co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Her essays have appeared in Slate, Poets & Writers, Romper, The Millions, and elsewhere. The recipient of grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, she teaches writing at Stockton University. She writes the newsletter Write More, Be Less Careful.
Howl: Decoding the Secret Language of Wolves
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was appointed the fifteenth Astronomer Royal in 1995. From 2004 to 2012, he was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010. He is co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risks at Cambridge University (CSER), where he is based as a Fellow at Trinity College.
Ashanté Reese is a writer, anthropologist, and assistant professor of African and African Diaspora at The University of Texas at Austin. Her first book, Black Food Geographies (2020) won the Best Monograph Prize from the Association for the Study of Food and Society & the Margaret Mead Award jointly awarded by the Association of American Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Her work work has been supported by the National Science Foundations, The Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), UNCF-Mellon, The American Council for Learned Society, among others.
Dads: The Case for Fatherhood: What Children Need, What Men Gain, and Why It Matters to Us All
Richard V. Reeves is President of the American Institute for Boys and Men, and Non Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on social mobility, inequality, and family change. He is also a contributor to the Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
His previous roles include director of strategy to the British Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank, Director of Futures at the Work Foundation, principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform, Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, and researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. He is also a former European Business Speaker of the Year.
He earned a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University.
The Global Elite
Benjamin Reeves is a contributing editor at Worth magazine and a freelance journalist and documentary director and producer. His work has appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, Miami Herald, Vice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McClatchyDC, USAToday, PRI’s The World and GlobalPost, among others.
Devika Rege was born and raised in Pune. Her first novel will be published in 2023 by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.
A writer-at-large for Vanity Fair, Reginato has written for Architectural Digest, Harper’s Bazaar, and Sotheby’s, among other publications. He also worked as Features Director at W Magazine.
A longtime conservationist and an economist at Nia Tero, John Reid has had his writing published in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, and elsewhere.
Aimee Reid is an author with a background in education and editing. She taught high school English, Music, and Special Education before she began to work full-time as a writer. As a child, Aimee was a voracious reader and could often be found—curled in a corner, tucked in the crook of a tree limb, or crouched by a book rack in the grocery store aisle—carried away to the world of a book. Now Aimee sends her own stories out into the world. It brings her great joy to think of other children nestled on a lap or cuddled on a couch reading good books to share.
THE MÈRES
Deborah Reid is a chef, culinary instructor, and journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Globe and Mail, CBC, and Eater, among others.
Jean Reidy’s bestselling and award-winning picture books have earned their spots as favorites among readers and listeners of all ages and from all over the world. She is honored to be a three-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, a Parent’s Choice Gold Award Winner, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor winner and recognized on “Best of” lists by School Library Journal, the New York Times, NPR and Amazon. Jean writes from her home in Chicago where she lives just a short walk from her neighborhood library … which she visits nearly every day.
Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World, Basic
Reiss chairs the English Department at Emory University.
Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People
Daphna Renan is the Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on the U.S. presidency and the design of American democracy from the perspective of administrative and structural constitutional law. She is writing a book with Nikolas Bowie currently titled Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People for Liveright.
L. Renée is a poet, nonfiction writer, independent researcher, and story collector. Nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net and two Pushcart Prizes, her work has been published in Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Tin House Online, Poetry Northwest, Minnesota Review, American Life in Poetry, Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She won the National Association of Black Storytellers’ 2023 Black Appalachian Storyteller Fellowship, representing the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Library of Congress 2024 Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award for Ethnology. Her honors also include The Arkansas International 2023 Editor’s Choice Poetry Prize, the international 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize, and Appalachian Review’s 2020 Denny C. Plattner Award. She is working on a book exploring Black Appalachian communities and traditions.
A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Watering Hole, L. Renée holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where she was Nonfiction Editor of Indiana Review and Associate Director of the Indiana University Writers’ Conference. She holds and M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Moore Fellow. She is a 2024-2025 Poetry Coalition Fellow at Mass Poetry, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, and a 2024-2025 Public Humanities Fellow, awarded by Virginia Humanities.
Rob Renzetti is a veteran of TV animation, whose work on Cartoon Network earned him an Emmy. He created the Nickelodeon show MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT, acted as the supervising producer for Disney’s GRAVITY FALLS, and served as executive producer on the first two seasons of Disney’s BIG CITY GREENS, as well as many other credits. He has also published four books for Disney Publishing, including the New York Times #1 Best Seller GRAVITY FALLS: JOURNAL THREE.
When he’s not writing, Rob likes to play boardgames, watch horror movies, and chase after his very naughty rabbit, Zigzag.
Laura Resau is the author of eleven acclaimed books for young people, and two adult novels. Her children's and young adult books have won five Colorado Book Awards and spots on “best-of” booklists from Oprah, the American Library Association, and more.
Trilingual, she’s lived in Provence and Oaxaca, and studied cultural anthropology and languages. She teaches graduate creative writing at Western Colorado University. You might find her writing in her cozy vintage trailer in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she lives with her rock-hound husband, musician son, wild husky, and a hundred house plants.
Under the Big Top: A Short Story Collection
Adam Resnick is the author of Will Not Attend, a pseudo-memoir, and is a television and movie writer who has written for The Larry Sanders Show, Late Night with David Letterman and has authored numerous movies, including the classic Death to Smoochy, directed by Danny DeVito.
Impermissible Punishments: Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights and Changing Prisons in America
Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, is a renowned authority on courts, procedures, prisons, and rights. She is completing a book, Impermissible Punishments: Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights and Changing Prisons in America for the University of Chicago Press.
Andrea Reusing is an award-winning chef, cookbook author, and leader in the sustainable agriculture movement. She is the 2011 winner of the James Beard award for Best Chef: Southeast and serves on the boards of the Center of Environmental Farming Systems and Chefs Collaborative. She has written for Saveur, Domino, Fine Cooking, Gourmet.com and the News & Observer. Reusing's book, Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes, was named one of 2011’s most notable cookbooks by the New York Times.
Man vs Maths: Understanding the Curious Mathematics that Power our World
Timothy Revell is an award-winning technology, maths and physics journalist. He is Executive Editor at the New Scientist, co-hosting their weekly flagship podcast ‘New Scientist Weekly’. He has a PhD in computer science.
Raegan Revord is an American actor and author who played Missy Cooper on Young Sheldon for all seven seasons (2017–2024).
Ana Reyes is the New York Times bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick The House in the Pines. She has an MFA from Louisiana State University and teaches creative writing. She lives with her husband in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Vulgaire, qui décide?
Valérie Rey-Robert is a French essayist and host of the blog 'Crêpe Georgette'. Her first two essays, Une culture du viol à la française and Le sexisme, une affaire d'hommes, were published by Éditions Libertalia, and her latest works, Télé-réalité, la fabrique du sexisme and Vulgaire, qui décide? (a collective work she directed) were published by Éditions Les insolent·e·s in 2022 and 2024.
Rhodeen is a practicing lawyer in New Haven, a lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center, and a former counsel to the New Haven Police Department. Before becoming an attorney, Rhodeen worked as a newspaper reporter and a teacher.
NOVAE
Jen and Kate, also known as Kaiju, a couple of comic artists working together to create projects close to their hearts. They are SVA graduates and debuted with Chromatic Press in 2014 with The Ring of Saturn. Their next work, Mahou Josei Chimaka, won a DINKy award in March of 2016. Their short comic Inhabitant of Another Planet, was also nominated for a DINKy the following year. They’re currently working on their YA webcomic series Novae and a middle grade duology called Haven and the Fallen Giants.
Jen and Kate, also known as Kaiju, a couple of comic artists working together to create projects close to their hearts. They are SVA graduates and debuted with Chromatic Press in 2014 with The Ring of Saturn. Their next work, Mahou Josei Chimaka, won a DINKy award in March of 2016. Their short comic Inhabitant of Another Planet, was also nominated for a DINKy the following year. They’re currently working on their YA webcomic series Novae and a middle grade duology called Haven and the Fallen Giants.
A keen outdoorsman, David Ricciardi is an avid sailor and has received extensive training from law enforcement and US special operations. These experiences inform his thriller writing, which began with the first book in his Jake Keller series, Warning Light, published by Berkley in 2018.
ER: The Oral History
Will You Accept This Rose?
Lynette Rice is a freelance writer who has been a senior writer at Deadline and, previously, worked for Entertainment Weekly from 1999 to February 2022, where she wrote about all things pop culture. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller HOW TO SAVE A LIFE, an unauthorized oral history of Grey’s Anatomy, and recently completed an oral history about ER, which will publish in Fall 2026.
The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Future, Chicago
Richard, an anthropologist and conservationist, is the former provost of Yale University and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University (UK)
Ex-graphic designer, Laurier The Fox is a trans activist, illustrator, and graphic novel writer. He draws and addresses mainly social and political subjects close to feminism, LGBTQIAP+ issues, anti-racism, ableism, etc. His first graphic novel ReconnaiTrans was published by Éditions Lapin in 2021. He also illustrated and did the sensitivity reading for the children’s book Je m’appelle Julie (On ne compte pas pour du beurre, 2022)
Taking Command
David Richards served in the Far East, Germany and Northern Ireland before commanding deployments in East Timor and Sierra Leone, where his intervention in the civil war, without official sanction from London, proving decisive in ending years of factional fighting. He later served with NATO and led ISAF forces in Afghanistan, becoming the first British general to command US forces in a theatre of war since World War II.
He became Commander-in-Chief Land Forces of the British Army in 2008 and held that role until 2009, when he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.
In 2010 he was appointed as Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces, and served in that position until 2013.
General Lord Richards was made a Life Peer in 2014.
His acclaimed autobiography, Taking Command, was published by Headline in 2014.
Dan Richards is a graduate of the University of Washington Writing for Children program and best known for his humorous picture books and middle grade novels. His books have been named Junior Library Guild Selections, Amazon Best of the Month Books, Indie Next Selections, and Washington Children’s Choice Awards Finalists, among other honors.
His most recent picture book NUBBY was chosen for the 2024-2025 Dolly Parton Imagination Library and is being enjoyed in over a million homes worldwide. Dan lives in Bothell, WA with his wife and mischievous doodle Arthur.
These Parasites Have it Coming
Anthony Riches is the bestselling author of the Roman epic Empire series and has recently launched a new action/adventure thriller series. He has a degree in Military Studies and a life-long curiosity in all things defence, security and policing related. He lives in rural Suffolk with his life partner and an irritable cat.
Jennifer’s endless curiosity has taken her from Philadelphia to Frankfurt and has led to careers in the U.S. Foreign Service, secondary education, finance, editing, audio description for television, and copywriting. Throughout all the changes in locales and jobs, writing was one constant. The other was her husband, whom she met in Germany while on her first tour as a foreign service officer.
Jennifer’s poetry, short stories, and novels draw heavily from her many interests and hobbies—with a particular focus on birding and astronomy. She’s passionate about expanding young people’s horizons and imaginations as well as promoting racial harmony over division. Now a resident of Maryland, Jennifer writes in a small upper-floor room overlooking her bird feeders. She also enjoys hiking, crocheting, and following the latest news from NASA.
Peace Makers: Shaping the Modern World: the Men and Women of the Foreign Office in WWII
Lord Peter Ricketts joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1974 and was at the heart of British foreign policy for 40 years. He was the Permanent Under Secretary at the FCO from 2006–10, the UK’s first National Security Adviser 2010–12 and Ambassador to France 2012–16. In all these roles, he was a close adviser to Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries. He has written for the Financial Times, The Times (London), the New Statesman and Prospect, and appears regularly on Sky News, the BBC, LBC and Times Radio. He is Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the House of Lords.
Danielle Ridolfi is a picturebook author-illustrator with an MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. Her debut picture book, When the Dark Clouds Come, was published by Quill Tree Books in October 2025. Danielle writes and illustrates picture books for children about the natural world and our equally complex emotional landscape that encourage quiet observation, discovery, and reflection. She uses collage and printmaking in her work and is interested in the ways these methods can connect readers with tangible objects, memories, and places. You can often find pressed plants, photographs, and bits of ephemera in her work, and all of them have a story.
Danielle is also an instructor at Washington University in St. Louis where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses about picture book illustration and children’s publishing and often writes about children's illustration and visual culture. She was the 2024 recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats & Kerlan Memorial Fellowship from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. When she is not in the classroom or the studio, you can find Danielle browsing antique stores, rehabbing her 1902 Victorian home, quilting, or camping in the Missouri Ozarks. Danielle lives in Belleville, Illinois with her partner Eugene.
The New York Post’s eminent theatre critic since 1998, Riedel co-hosts the weekly talk show Theatre Talk on PBS. He also played himself on the TV show Smash.
A bioethicist on the faculty of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, Travis Rieder's essays and opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, The New Republic, and The Guardian among others. He is a leading voice on the prescription opioid crisis and how to solve it while also caring for those who need relief from acute and chronic pain.
Raising Thinkers: How Russian Math Builds Resilient Minds in an Uncertain World
Inessa Rifkin is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Russian School of Mathematics (RSM). A mechanical engineer, computer scientist, and teacher, she has two children and seven grandchildren.
Phone Rules: 5 Simple Steps to Save Yourself, Your Kids, and the Planet
Luc Rinaldi is an award-winning journalist and author based in Toronto. He specializes in longform investigative narratives. His work has been published in Maclean's, The Walrus and Toronto Life, among other publications. His first book, Phone Rules, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Canada.
Regina Rini holds the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition at York University in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Aeon, and numerous academic journals.
His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche brings more than 2,500 years of Buddhist wisdom and teachings to the modern spiritual seeker by connecting ancient worlds with new people, cultures, attitudes, and lifestyles. He was born in Taiwan, grew up in America, and joined Gaden Monastery, India in 1988. He now resides in Malaysia as spiritual advisor to Kechara.
Amanda Ripley is a contributing writer at the Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective and the author of The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary.
Jessica Riskin is a historian of science, and Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University in the United States. She is also the Jean-Paul Gimon Director of the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford. She was educated at Harvard and UC Berkeley, and has taught at Iowa State, MIT and Sciences Po, Paris. She is a regular contributor to a number of publications, including Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
Dr Hannah Ritchie is a Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead at the online publication ‘Our World in Data’, which brings together the latest data and research on the world’s largest problems – from climate change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution to global poverty, health, and education – and makes it accessible to a general audience.
Her research appears regularly in global media including the BBC, WIRED, the New York Times, New Scientist, the Economist, the Financial Times, and Vox, among others. She regularly writes scripts and provides research for ‘Kurzgesagt’, the science communication YouTube channel, and has published widely in academic journals including Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Scientific Data, Global Environmental Change and Climate Policy. She was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and now lives in Edinburgh.
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Tu n’auras pas mon silence
Florence Rivières is an author, script and gamewriter. They navigate within various forms and genres in literature, and wrote the script for Tu n’auras pas mon silence, a graphic novel published by Marabulles in 2024.
Charlotte Rixon studied Classics at Leeds University and went on to gain an MA in Screenwriting. She has worked as a journalist, and more recently as a content marketing specialist working on luxury brands.
Food writer Sara Roahen is the author of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Norton).
Alice Robb is the author of Why We Dream (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) and has written for The New Republic, New York, The New Statesman, The Atlantic, Elle, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Vice, The BBC and British Vogue. Her work has been republished by Slate, CNN, The Week, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Town & Country. She graduated from Oxford with a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology.
A former fashion editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Roberts is an artist, illustrator, photographer, and stylist whose work also appears in Tatler, Italian Vogue, and other international publications.
Dr. Barbara Roberts was the first female adult cardiologist to practice in the state of Rhode Island, and she became director of the Women’s Cardiac Center at the Miriam Hospital. She was featured on the popular podcast “Crimetown” because of her heart patient Raymond Patriarca, Sr., the notorious boss of the Patriarca crime family.
Victoria L. Roberts is president at Verus Global, responsible for the execution and scaling of growth strategy.
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.
Martin is editor and founder of The Book of Man, who has nearly 20 years of experience in men’s media, working at the likes of Maxim and the NME, before helming ShortList at its peak for five years.
He created The Book of Man after feeling there needed to be a new narrative around men, one which concentrated on their inner lives rather than appearances, and supported them through a period of great change. Martin edits and writes for the site, but also hosts podcasts and events, and regularly speaks at publishing and advertising events about men today.
He is a dedicated campaigner around mental health issues, and believes in working in tandem with feminism to similarly dismantle male stereotypes and broaden the horizons for men.
The Book of Man has recently been nominated for two PPA Awards.
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."
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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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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.