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.
Born in Poland and raised in the United States, Anna Staniszewski grew up loving stories in both Polish and English. She was a Writer-in-Residence at the Boston Public Library and a winner of the Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award. Currently, Anna lives south of Boston with her family and teaches courses on writing and children’s literature. When she’s not writing, Anna spends her time reading, daydreaming, and challenging unicorns to games of hopscotch. She is the author of over thirty books for young readers, including the novels Clique Here and The Wonder of Wildflowers; the picture books Beast in Show and My Cousin’s Mermaid; and the Once Upon a Fairy Tale chapter book series.
A military veteran and associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, Stanley is the founder of the nonprofit The Mind Fitness Training Institute. Her work in mindfulness and mind fitness has received attention from the New York Times, NPR, ABC’s Evening News, TIME, and elsewhere.
Safe & Sound: A Renter Friendly Guide To Home Repair
My Turn
Mercury Stardust is a Trans advocate, TikTok sensation know by her moniker, “The Trans Handy Ma’am,” and the bestselling author of Safe & Sound: A Renter Friendly Guide to Home Repair. With over 14 years of experience as a home repair technician, Mercury helps her audience build the confidence, self-sufficiency, and foundational knowledge necessary to care for and maintain their homes.Has use of 10% verbatim material from the book in
Douglas Starr is a veteran journalist and co-director of the Graduate Program in Science Journalism at Boston University. His book, The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science (Knopf, 2010), tells the story of the 19th-century pioneers of forensic science and the notorious serial killer they caught and convicted with scientific techniques. The book won the Gold Dagger award in the UK, was a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe award in the US, and appeared on the New York Times Book Review’s “Editor’s Choice” list and the True Crime bestseller lists of the Wall Street Journal and Library Journal. His previous book, BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce (Knopf, 1998), tells the four-century saga of how human blood became a commodity.Professor Starr’s writings about science, the history of science and science in public policy have appeared in many venues, including The New Yorker, WIRED, SLATE, the New Republic, Discover, Science, Smithsonian, Public Television, National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine.
Mama's Nightingale
Dewey Dew, I Love You
If You Were an Elephant
Leslie Staub is a children’s book author and illustrator from New Orleans. An accomplished artist, her work has been exhibited nationwide. She loves animals and forests and drawing and reading and writing and making up stories. She didn't always love reading and writing because she has dyslexia.
Leslie works from her studio in the country with her dog, rabbit, and all the wild creatures who live in the woods.
A writer and independent curator who specializes in postwar American art, Stein is a former arts reviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition, and she writes regularly for Art in America. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review and other publications, and her work on Richard Bellamy earned a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.
Beck Dorey-Stein spent five years as a White House Stenographer. Prior to transcribing President Obama and Trump, she taught high school English. Beck graduated from Wesleyan University, where she worked in undergraduate admissions and served as captain of the women's lacrosse team.
Eating Purely
Elizabeth Stein is the founder and CEO of the natural foods company Purely Elizabeth and author of the cookbook Eating Purely (Skyhorse).
Alexandra Steinacker-Clark is an American-Austrian art historian, curator, writer and podcaster. She lives and works in London, UK. She obtained her BA in History of Art at University College London and continued her education at Goldsmiths University with an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy. Her specializations are in contemporary art and the contemporary art market along with accessibility, engagement, and the demystification of the professional art sector. She is the founder and host of the 'All About Art' Podcast, Board Member of SALOON Network, and a TEDx speaker. She is the co-director of NXT GEN: AWITA x All About Art Programme and has previously worked at Gallery Max Hetzler, Skarstedt Gallery, Shezad Dawood Studio, and Sotheby’s Auction House.
Comedian, director, and producer, Steinberg guest-hosted the Johnny Carson show 130 times, more than anyone else, and has directed countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Greg Steinmetz grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent fifteen years as journalist for publications including the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, New York Newsday, and The Wall Street Journal, where he served as the Berlin Bureau Chief and later the London Bureau Chief. He currently works as a securities analyst for a money management firm in New York. He is a graduate of Colgate University and has a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He has three children and lives in Larchmont, New York.
Sachiko
A Bowl Full of Peace
Stars of the Night
The Return of the Sword
Caren Stelson is the author of works for children and young adults. Caren has had a long career in education, as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and freelance writer. After receiving her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Hamline University in 2009, Caren decided it was time to write the stories that needed her attention. Accolades for her books include a Robert Sibert Honor Award, placement on the longlist for the National Book Award, and the Jane Addams Book Award.
Caren and her husband Kim have two grown children. They split their time between home in Minneapolis and the small town of Lanesboro.
Isaiah Stephens is a freelance illustrator and animator located in Lowell, MA. He studied Media Arts and Animation at the New England Institute of Art, and has illustrated book jackets for the Italian translation of The Hunger Games, the novel The Devil Came East, and others.
The Game She Plays
Tell Us No Secrets
Siena Sterling is an American citizen living in London. William Morrow, HarperCollins US published her first novel Tell Us No Secrets in 2022 and her second, The Games She Plays in 2023.
The Golden Class: A Psychiatrist’s Training in Despair, Hope and Love
Dr. Adam Philip Stern is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Psychiatric Applications at the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation. His writing has been published in The New York Times, NPR.org, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and Biological Psychiatry in addition to many other outlets and peer-reviewed journals.
Todd Stern is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change, and advising about ongoing efforts on climate change at both the international and domestic levels. Stern served as the special envoy for climate change at the Department of State and as President Obama’s chief climate negotiator, leading the U.S. effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement and in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to Paris. Stern has taught and lectured at Yale Law School and Brown Universities. He has written for various publications, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic,The American Interest, and The Washington Quarterly and has appeared on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and NPR, among others.
The agent and professional partner of legendary photographer Richard Avedon, Norma Stevens, in collaboration with journalist Steven M. L. Aronson, tells the compelling story of Avedon's life and career.
We Do Things Differently: Stories from the Frontline of the Future
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
What do the CEO's of the world's largest corporations, the planet's biggest recording artists, senior government and military officials, influential NGOs and the most maverick investors have in common? They turn to Mark Stevenson to help them make sense of, and navigate, an uncertain future - so that we might create a better one.
As an internationally renowned thinker on systems change and innovation Mark is one of the worlds' most booked speakers addressing audiences across the globe - drawing on his work helping organisations change the way they feel, think, invest and operate in order to answer the grand questions the future is asking us. Chris Anderson, TED Curator remarks, 'Stevenson wears no blindfold. His tools are curiosity, open-mindedness, clarity and reason.'
His two bestselling books, An Optimist's Tour of the Future and the award-winning We Do Things Differently are much needed shots of evidence-based optimism for our current turbulent times, mapping out existing and proven solutions to our planetary and societal dilemmas in an entertaining ideas-travelogue format.
Alongside his governmental, corporate and NGO engagements Mark (a former stand-up) enjoys a successful side career in the worlds of comedy and music. His internationally successful podcast The Book of Revelations with comedian Jon Richardson (and co-hosted by Ed Gillespie) has enjoyed over 1m listens to date and is rated in the top 0.5% of podcasts worldwide by popularity. His farce (co-authored with Jack Milner) Octopus Soup! completed a major UK tour just before lockdown and is set to be presented internationally. He is also co-songwriter and frontman for the critically acclaimed rock band Quantum Pig who release a second album and embark on their first national tour later this year.
Mark's eclectic skillset has led to him being appointed Special Advisor on Peace, National Security and Climate Change to the UK Ministry of Defence, Futurist without Borders for Medicines Sans Frontiers (UK) and Global Ambassador for environmental law firm Client Earth amongst many other advisory roles.
Amanda Sthers is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. She has written ten novels which have been translated in more than fourteen countries, and was given the title of "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government. Her latest novel, Holy Lands, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
Chana Stiefel is the award-winning author of more than 30 books for children, both fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent picture book is Let’s Fly!, co-written with Captain Barrington Irving, who broke the record as the youngest person and first Black man to fly solo around the world. The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs received many honors, including the 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award, a Robert F. Sibert Honor, the Margaret Wise Brown Prize, and the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature. Chana’s other titles include Let Liberty Rise: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty (nominated for the California Young Reader Medal 2025-2026), My Name is Wakawakaloch (nominated for the UNICEF Prize in Children’s Literature), as well as Mendel’s Hanukkah Mess Up, Bravo, Avocado, and Daddy Depot. Chana loves to visit schools and libraries to share her passion for reading and writing with children. She is represented by agent Miranda Paul. Learn more at chanastiefel.com.
Stillman’s books include Blood Brothers (Ohioana Book Award Winner; Kirkus Reviews, starred review; “Best of the West 2018,” True West Magazine); Desert Reckoning (winner of the Spur and LA Press Club Awards for Nonfiction, an Amazon Editors Pick, based on a Rolling Stone piece), and Mustang, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In addition, she wrote the cult classic, Twentynine Palms, a Los Angeles Times bestseller that Hunter Thompson called “A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer.” She's a member of the core faculty at the UC Riverside-Palm Desert MFA Low Residency Creative Writing Program, where she teaches nonfiction.
Robert Stone, an Academy Award nominated director who has been called by Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman, “one of our most important documentary film makers”. He has been producing, directing and writing feature documentaries about American history, pop-culture, the mass media and the environment for more than two decades.
A writer on environmental science, agriculture, and botany, Stone has written for National Geographic and is a former White House correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. His work has also appeared in Time, the Washington Post, Vice, and Literary Hub, and he teaches environmental policy at Johns Hopkins University.
Tripping Back Blue
The Room Where We Meet
Kara Storti knew she wanted to be a writer when she decided to skip her junior prom to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont. In the years following she spent most of her free time writing short stories, novellas, and poems, and composing pop songs. In 2006 she graduated from the University of Southern Maine with an MFA in Creative Writing, where she fell in love with writing novels for young adults. Kara has been a singer, songwriter, pianist, and flautist since she was a child and has performed throughout the world. She grew up in upstate New York and now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr Harald Stossier has an outstanding international reputation both as a practitioner and innovator of Mayr Medicine. After studying under the legendary Dr Rauch, he set up in 2004 as Medical Director of the legendary Viva - Centre for Modern Mayr Medicine on the shores of Lake Wörth near Klagenfurt, which is now regarded as the world's leading health spa. Harald Stossier has been deeply instrumental in the integration of complementary medicine within the medical profession. He has been a consultant for complementary medicine at the Medical Chamber of Carinthia and the Austrian Medical Association since 1988.
In addition to the The Viva Mayr Diet, he has published many articles and books on Mayr Medicine and nutrition and has also lectured widely.
Emily Strasser’s first book, Half-Life of a Secret, is a deeply researched memoir that traces her journey to reckon with the toxic legacies of secrecy of her grandfather’s work building nuclear weapons in the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It won the 2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award and the 2024 Minnesota Book Award.
Emily’s work has appeared in Catapult, Ploughshares, Guernica, Colorado Review, The Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Gulf Coast, among others. She was also the presenter of the 2020 BBC podcast “The Bomb.” Her writing has been honored by awards and fellowships including the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest, an AWP Intro Award, the W.K. Rose Fellowship, the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing, and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and she was a 2019 McKnight Writing Fellow. Emily now teaches at Tufts University.
Matt Strassler is a theoretical physicist, blogger and writer. He is currently an Associate of the Department of Physics at Harvard University, where he was formerly a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor. Previously he was a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington and Rutgers University. He was a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and has also been a visitor at the Galileo Galilei Institute in Florence and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara.
His research spans many areas of high-energy physics, and his insights into the subtle behaviour of strong forces have been influential in areas that range from mathematical physics and string theory to experimental particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider and beyond.
The Imperfect Marriage: Help For Those Who Think It’s Over
Pastors Darryl Strawberry and Tracy Strawberry are a husband-and-wife team who founded Strawberry Ministries, Straw Marketing, LLC, and the Darryl Strawberry Foundation and co-authored The Imperfect Marriage: Help For Those Who Think It’s Over (Howard Books). Darryl is a baseball legend, former New York Mets slugger, and home run leader who won four World Series titles and became an eight-time National League All-Star player.
Cheryl Strayed is the internationally acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail; Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar; and Brave Enough. The New York Times Book Review hailed Wild as “a literary and human triumph." It has sold over four million copies and has been translated into more than forty languages. Wild became a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.
Strayed’s New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things has been embraced by readers worldwide. The Hulu series based on the book premiered in 2023, and an Off-Broadway play has been staged nationwide. Her book Brave Enough collects more than one hundred of her inspiring quotations. Strayed is also the author of the debut novel Torch and co-host of two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars.
Cheryl Strayed’s stories and essays have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere and have been widely anthologized. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels HOLD STILL, WANT, and most recently, FLIGHT. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Bomb, Guernica, Literary Hub, Catapult, Elle.com, The Cut, New York Magazine, LARB, The Millions, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Princeton and her next novel THE FLOAT TEST is forthcoming from Mariner Books
Formerly a reporter for the Verge and Bloomberg News, Stroud writes about law enforcement and the companies That sell products to police and prisons. His work has also appeared in the Atlantic and Politico, among other publications.
Changing Gender
Susan Stryker is an historian and award-winning author, editor, and filmmaker whose credits include the Emmy-winning documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria and the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader. She is the recipient of Yale University’s 2015 Michael J. Brudner Memorial Prize and the City University of New York’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies’ 2009 David Kessler Award for her contributions to the field of LGBT Studies.
William Sturkey is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. His book Hattiesburg won the Zocalo Book Prize, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, on NBC News, and elsewhere.
Matt Sullivan is an award-winning journalist who has worked for Esquire, The New York Times, the Atlantic, The Guardian and, most recently, as Managing Editor of Bleacher Report.
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of the debut novel Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named one of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Month. Big Girl was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “achingly beautiful," and in a starred review, Publishers Weekly raved “Sullivan charms in her stunning debut novel about a Black girl’s coming-of-age... This is a treasure.” Big Girl has won the highest praise from bestselling authors, including Kiese Laymon, who hails it as “a new American classic.” For Janet Mock, it is “a tender and sumptuous offering of beauty.” And from Jacqueline Woodson, “Sullivan has given us a gift as big, beautiful and complicated as living itself.”
Sullivan’s award-winning short story collection, Blue Talk and Love, won the Lambda Literary Judith A. Markowitz Award for emerging LGBTQ writers. Among Sullivan’s many other honors and awards are the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Temple University, and a B.A. in Afro-American Studies from Smith College. Sullivan is a Professor of English at Georgetown University.
Melanie Sumrow received her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies and has maintained a long-term interest in studying social issues. She also holds a Juris Doctorate and has practiced both criminal and civil law for over sixteen years, with many of the criminal cases involving teenagers.
Dolly
Iris Apfel, Golden Book
This Book Will Make You an Artist
Audrey Hepburn, Golden Book
This Book Will Make You a Scientist
Dinosaurs, Space
Ellen Surrey is a Los Angeles based illustrator whose colorful work blends her love of mid-century design and vintage children’s books. Reminiscent of the classic Little Golden Book series, Ellen’s work generates feelings of nostalgia while also being contemporary.
Ellen’s work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Times. She is the illustrator of several children’s books including THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU AN ARTIST and DOLLY!
Black Panther Princess
Ericka Suzanne, a graduate of Spelman College, has spent more than a decade working in the arts. The daughter of two leading members of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown and Raymond Masai Hewitt, Ericka is under contract as co-executive producer with Laurence Fishburne for Party Girls, a Freeform network show based on her childhood.
Shanna H. Swan is one of the leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists in the world. An award-winning scientist, she is a member of the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sanai Hospital in New York City.
Pregnancy Personalized: Redesigning Nutrition and Lifestyle for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum
Rachel Swanson, MS, RD, LDN, is a Registered Dietitian and one of our nation’s mostprominent nutritionists to celebrities and C-suite executives. She is renowned for her expertise inhelping her clients achieve peak performance as the Nutrition Director for LifeSpan Medicine, aconcierge medical practice, and in her own private practice, Diet Doctors, LLC
Shubhangi Swarup is a writer and educator. Latitudes of Longing, her debut novel, was a bestseller soon after its release in India and has been published in seventeen languages worldwide. It won the Tata Literature Live! Award for debut fiction, was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Indian Literature, and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020 and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship for creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and has also won awards for gender sensitivity in feature writing. She lives in Mumbai.
Mathew Sweezey is Principal of Marketing Insights at Salesforce.com, and recently wrote Marketing Automation for Dummies, which was published by Wiley.
JOYRIDE: The Untold Bliss of Being in an Interabled Relationship
Charisma Sydnor is a video creator, disability advocate, and one half of the unstoppable duo behind the blockbuster YouTube channel “Roll with Cole and Charisma.” She and her husband, Cole Sydnor, have been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, and many other media outlets and their 2020 TedTalk, “Flipping the Switch on Ability” received over 500,000 views.
Jesse Szewczyk is a writer, recipe developer, and food stylist based in New York. His work has been featured in Food52, The Washington Post, The Kitchn, BuzzFeed, Tasty, Bake From Scratch, Apartment Therapy, and several other publications. He has spoken at several events, including ones hosted by The James Beard Foundation and Random House Books, and was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 of Food and Drink in 2021. He is the author of Tasty Pride, a collection of 75 recipes and stories from the queer food community (Clarkson Potter/Tasty, 2020) that raised $50,000 for GLAAD. He is currently working on his first solo cookbook, set to publish in 2021.
One of President Obama’s longest-serving speechwriters, Terence Szuplat was the deputy director of the White House Speechwriting Office during Obama’s second term. Before the White House, he served as chief speechwriter to the Secretary of Defense and a professional staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and worked as a freelance speechwriting consultant. As the founder of Global Voices Communications, Szuplat now shares his speechwriting expertise through multimedia keynote presentations and hands-on workshops. He has served on the Biden for President National Finance Committee, as an advisor to National Security Action, and as a board member for Legacies of War.
John Szwed was director of the Center for Jazz Studies and is a former professor of Music and Jazz Studies at Columbia University in New York; he is also the former John M. Musser Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies, and Film Studies at Yale University. He has authored or edited eighteen books and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post,TheVillage Voice, and many other publications. He has received fellowships from the John M. Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has produced several recordings and has appeared in a number of documentaries and television specials; as a jazz musician, he played the bass and trombone professionally for over a decade.
Karin Tanabe is the author of the historical fiction novels The Diplomat's Daughter and The Gilded Years (soon to be a major motion picture), as well as The List and The Price of Inheritance, all published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Her latest novel, A Hundred Suns, is out now from St. Martin's Press.A former Politico reporter, her work has appeared in dozens of publications including The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer and in the anthology Crush: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush.
Emma Tarlo is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Having authored numerous highly regarded academic titles, she published her first trade title, the prize-winning Entanglement, to great acclaim in 2016, and has recently curated ‘Hair: Untold Stories’, an exhibition at the Horniman Museum.
Looking for Smile
Becoming Blue
The Tree That Fell
Tiny Thing
Jelly Bean and Shoe
A Huge Mistake (Nora Dinosaura)
Ellen Tarlow writes stories for very young children. Her published children’s books include, most recently, LOOKING FOR SMILE and BECOMING BLUE. She has been a classroom teacher and for many years worked as an editor of early childhood classroom materials. In that job she got to write hundreds of stories for young children. Now that she is working less, she is excited to work on her own stories. After spending her whole adult life in New York City, Ellen just moved to the Hudson Valley with her husband David, a painter.
Sophie Tavert-Macian has been bringing her eclectic universe to cinema for twenty years, in a dozen films that play with formats (haiku, short and long), techniques (live action or animation), and genres. Her animated short 'Traces' was nominated for the 2021 Césars and Oscars. The adaptation of this film into an illustrated children's book was published by Delachaux et Niestlé in 2022. Her first novel, the sports-oriented and contemporary Gamba, was published in 2024 by Belfond.
Pilgrim's Rest
Untitled book in Maggie d'Arcy series
Untitled book in Maggie d'Arcy series
Sarah Stewart Taylor is a fiction writer and journalist who lives with her family on a farm in Vermont; her published mysteries include the Maggie d’Arcy series, starting with The Mountains Wild, the Sweeney St. George mystery series (the first book in the series, O’ Artful Death, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel), The Expeditioners series of adventure novels for middle grade readers, and Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean, a graphic novel for younger readers, which was nominated for an Eisner Award.
Jesus, Bane of Empires
Taylor is the author of Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America (Cambridge University Press, August 2023). He is a seminary-trained, mainline Protestant who studied American religion and Muslim-Christian relations at a Catholic University and is currently a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (Baltimore) where he specializes in translating academic knowledge into accessible forms for public and adult-learner audiences. He has contributed to HuffPost, The Baltimore Sun, and Religion Dispatches.
Golden Globe-winning and three-time Emmy-nominated actor Lili Taylor is known for her roles in classic indie films including Mystic Pizza and I Shot Andy Warhol and more recently in television hits American Crime, Six Feet Under, and The X Files, among others. An avid birder, Lili is also a board member of the National Audubon Society, the American Birding Association, and the New York City Audubon.
Susan Sontag (Jewish Lives Series)
Benjamin Taylor is the author of several novels, a short biography of Proust, and two memoirs, including “Here We Are” about his long friendship with Philip Roth.
Katie Taylor set up the Latte Lounge and its accompanying Facebook members group to offer the kind of midlife community she so desperately needed in her mid-40s - comprising not only peers but also an incredible network of experts and health professionals - and has gone on to become a leading voice in the nationwide conversation around midlife and menopause. As well as appearing regularly on national media, Katie also hosts numerous workshops, including for Downing Street staff.
CeCé Telfer is a Jamaican-American athlete and the first openly transgender woman to win aNCAA title. Her story has been covered by the New York Times, ESPN, CBS Sports, PEOPLE, Forbes, Women’s Health, and many other media outlets. She is an outspoken advocate for the rights of trans-athletes and has her sights set on the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Souvankham Thammavongsa is a prize-winning poet and fiction writer, and author of three books of poetry, Light (2013) which received the Trillium Book Award, Found (2007), and Small Arguments (2003) which won the re-Lit Prize. Her stories have been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Harper’s, Granta, Ploughshares, NOON, and Best American Non-Required Reading. Her newest collection of poems, Cluster, was published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada in 2019 and her collection of stories, How to Pronounce Knife, is out now from McClelland & Stewart and Little, Brown.
Established in 1872, The Boston Globe is Boston and New England’s leading source for breaking news and analysis, with coverage from across the world. The Boston Globe has been awarded 26 Pulitzer Prizes throughout its history.
Michelle Theall is the editor of Alaska magazine and the author of the acclaimed memoir Teaching the Cat to Sit (Gallery, 2014). Her writing and photography have been featured in National Geographic, Sierra Magazine, Backpacker, UtneReader, Outdoor Photographer, and elsewhere. She lives in Boulder, CO.
Dr. Bill Thomas, voted by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 Americans shaping aging in the 21st century, a TED lecturer who has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, PBS’s "NewsHour," "All Things Considered," and "Talk of the Nation," is the author of Second Wind (Simon & Schuster), a book about how Baby Boomers will change the stage of aging.
June Thomas has been a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate since 1997. She was the founding editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ section, and has hosted several podcasts, including The Waves and Working.
Anne Bahr Thompson is a leader in the branding field who has spent more than two decades working with some of the best-known brands in the world. She is the founder of Onesixtyfourth, a boutique research, trend, and brand consultancy based in New York City and former Executive Director for Strategy and Planning at Interbrand, the leading global brand consultant.
An ethnographer and arts journalist, Thornton has contributed to Artforum, The New Yorker, and The Economist, among other publications.
Dr. Allie Ticktin is a licensed occupational therapist with a specialty in sensory integration and early childhood development. Allie founded Play 2 Progress after recognizing the power of social play to facilitate individual progress.
James Timpson (Baron Timpson of Manley, OBE) is Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, and was previously Chief Executive of the Timpson Group for twenty-two years. His book, The Happy Index: Lessons in Upside-Down Management (2024), was a Sunday Times bestseller.
As CEO of the Timpson Group, he helped the business grow to over 2,100 shops and pioneered the recruitment of ex-offenders. He has served as Chair of the Prison Reform Trust and supports various prison charities and support groups. He was presented with an OBE in 2011 for the training and employment of disadvantaged people. He is also a Tate Trustee, a Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire and an Albert Medal winner from the RSA.
He lives in Cheshire with his wife Roisin and their 3 children.
Leah Tinari is a widely exhibited New York based artist. Since graduating from RISD in 1998, Tinari has documented her life and friends through painting the capture the energy and exuberance of her surroundings.
Write Yourself In: The Definitive Guide to Writing Successful College Admissions Essays
Eric Tipler has spent the last 19 years working with teenagers, first as a high school teacher and more recently as a writing coach, tutor, and college admissions counselor. He has taught writing to students from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds: he currently works with students at elite private schools in Manhattan and San Francisco, as well as doing pro bono work with families in NYC and rural New York. Eric graduated from Harvard (BA) and Yale (MA). In addition to teaching and tutoring, Eric writes musical theater and works as a story consultant for Broadway-bound musicals.
Noa Tishby is an Israeli actress, producer, and activist. She starred on the hit Israeli television show Ramat Aviv Gimmel, and created a pathway for Israeli content to be sold into the United States entertainment industry. An unofficial ambassador for the State of Israel, Tishby helped found “Act for Israel,” the first online rapid-response advocacy group devoted to correcting misinformation about Israel and the Middle East.
Ruby Todd is the author of the debut novel, Bright Objects. Named a Best Book of 2024 by Publishers Weekly, Bright Objects is set in a small town in Australia, where the appearance of a comet that has not been visible for centuries sets off a series of dramatic events for a young widow, an American astronomer, and a Doomsday prophet. The reviewer in the daily New York Times called it " luminous, unusual, unexpected." The New York Times Book Review named it an Editors' Choice: "Ruby Todd's gorgeously written Bright Objects...cranks into an unexpected thrillerish gear toward the end...the prose burns bright."
Winner of the Ploughshares magazine Emerging Writer’s Contest, the AAWP Chapter One Prize, and the inaugural Furphy Literary Award, Australia’s largest prize for a short story, she is also a creative researcher, poet, and essayist. Todd holds a PhD in poetics from Deakin University, Australia, and a B.A in Creative Writing and Visual Media from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Neil Tomba, 58, is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and the senior pastor of Northwest Bible Church in Dallas, Texas.
Jennifer Tosti-Kharas is an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, in Greater Boston. She has recently authored a textbook, Organizational Behavior: Developing Skills for Managers (with Eric Lamm, Pearson, 2020), edited a careers research compendium, Handbook for Research Methods in Careers (with Wendy Murphy, Edward Elgar, 2021), and finished her fifteenth year teaching people, among other things, how to get what they want from their work.
Marsha: The Beauty & Deviance of Marsha P. Johnson
One Day in June
Tourmaline is an artist, activist, writer, and filmmaker whose work is dedicated to aestheticizing Black trans survival, beauty, and liberation. In addition to her prison abolition, Black liberation, and trans rights activism, she was featured in the Time 100 list in 2020, has directed several award-winning films and advertising campaigns, and has had her artwork acquired by MoMA, The Whitney, and The Tate.
Kevin Tracey, MD, is a neurosurgeon, scientist, entrepreneur, and leader in the fields of vagus nerve stimulation and inflammation. He is president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health and a professor of Molecular Medicine and Neurosurgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Tracey has appeared on 60 Minutes and has been interviewed and profiled in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other major media.
Salt Lakes
Caroline Tracey holds a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA In Russian literature from Yale University. Her reporting,essays, and academic research have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Journal of Latino and Latin American Studies, among other publications. She has been awarded a Silvers Foundation grant, a Fulbright fellowship, and Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Fellowship in Human and Civil Rights Journalism. Caroline currently works as an editor at Zócalo Public Square and as an independent journalist covering the Southwestern US and Mexico.
Joe Tracini is an actor, comedian, magician and writer. Born in 1988, he grew up with no friends feeling more hollow than an easter egg – which turned out to be handy, because his childhood of being alone prepared him for a lifetime of feeling it. He's the son of comedian Joe Pasquale, and was performing on stage at the end of his father's shows at five years old as a mini-Joe Pasquale. By 2012, he was snorting £2,500 worth of cocaine a week, and nearly dying of organ failure. In rehab – after a suicide attempt pushed him to find out just what was going wrong – he realized that he was the problem, and was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, a mental illness that affects nearly 1% of the population. Properly treated, he grew to – mostly – learn to live with himself, despite hating himself. He’s now eight-years clean and five-years sober, and working hard on his recovery.His videos about living with BPD have had over 40 million views, and his approach to mental health – honest, open, vulnerable and self-deprecating – has been praised widely by public and media alike.
Geoff Tracy, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, is the owner of four major restaurants in the D.C. area. In 2009, Geoff was awarded the Albert Uster “Chef of the Year Award”. In 2010, he was named one of the top 40 business people under the age of 40 by Washington Business Journal. In 2011, Chef Geoff’s Tysons won the RAMMY award for “Hottest Restaurant Bar Scene.” With Norah O’Donnell, Geoff is the author of NYT bestseller, Baby Love.
Gayla Trail is the author, photographer, and designer of best-selling books on gardening, garden to table cooking, and preserving including: You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening, Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces and Easy Growing: Organic Herbs and Edible Flowers from Small Spaces.
Ly Tran graduated from Columbia University with a degree in creative writing and linguistics. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Art Omi, and Yaddo. House of Sticks, winner of the New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award, is her first book.
Phuc Tran is a tattoo artist and co-owner of Tsunami Tattoo in Portland, Maine, where he also teaches Latin at Waynflete School. He has taught Latin, Greek, German, and Sanskrit at independent schools in New York and Maine and is a former instructor at Brooklyn College's Summer Latin Institute. See his TEDx talk on “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” here. His first book, Sigh, Gone, is the winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award & 2020 New England Book Award.
Executive chef of the Filipino restaurants Jeepney and Maharlika, Trinidad and restaurant owner Nicole Ponseca won Time Out Magazine New York City’s Best Restaurant and Battle of the Burger in 2014.
Anjani Trivedi is the Economist's global business correspondent, reporting on global industry trends. Previously, she covered industrial companies across Asia-Pacific for Bloomberg Opinion, and was a columnist for ‘Heard on the Street’, the Wall Street Journal's financial market analysis and commentary column.
The Modern Italian Cook
Joe Trivelli is co-head chef at London’s iconic River Café, where he has worked since 2001. Southern Italian on his father's side but born and raised in Kent, Joe’s first book, The Modern Italian Cook, was published by Seven Dials. It won the Fortnum & Mason Debut Cookery Book award and was named the Observer Food Monthly’s best book of 2018.
The Accordion Years: A Memoir of Life Lived on the Cutting Edge
Quincy Troupe is an awarding-winning author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works.
Monique Truong is the award-winning author of the bestselling novels The Book of Salt, Bitter in the Mouth, and The Sweetest Fruits. She is also an essayist, food writer, lyricist/librettist, and intellectual property attorney.
Monique's first novel, The Book of Salt, was a national bestseller and the recipient of many awards, including the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fellowship, and an Asian American Literary Award. The Book of Salt was a New York Times Notable Fiction Book, a Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction Books, a Village Voice 25 Favorite Books, and a Miami Herald’s Top 10 Books, among other citations. Truong’s second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Rosenthal Family Foundation Award and was named in 2010 as a 25 Best Fiction Books by Barnes & Noble, a 10 Best Fiction Books by Hudson Booksellers, and the adult fiction Honor Book by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association. Among other honors, her third novel, The Sweetest Fruits, received the 2020 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Truong received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 2021. She and fashion designer Thai Nguyen are the authors of the new children's picture book, Mai's Áo Dài.
Terence Tse is a globally recognised educator, author, and speaker. He is a co-founder and Executive Director of Nexus FrontierTech, an artificial intelligence company. Terence is also a Professor of Entrepreneurship at ESCP Business School.
Jing Jing Tsong is a New York Times bestselling children's picture book illustrator.
Jing Jing's images are a digital collage of color, traditional printmaking techniques
and pattern. When not growing kale or surfing, Jing Jing spends her time translating
the world through her words and pictures.
Alexa Tsoulis-Reay is a Senior Writer at New York Magazine, where she helped launch the popular “What It’s Like” column for the site’s Science of Us vertical. Born in Auckland, New Zealand and educated in Melbourne, London, and New York, Tsoulis-Reay holds two Master’s degrees and has written for publications like Glamour, Slate, Vice, Bitch, and Newsweek.
Jing Tsu is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale University, where she is the chair of the Council on East Asian Studies. Tsu is a 2016 Guggenheim fellow and the author of two scholarly books, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 (Stanford University Press) and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard University Press).
Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor of law at Northwestern University where she teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and feminist legal theory. Tuerkheimer is a leading authority on sexual violence and a frequent media commentator who’s often quoted in high-profile publications such as the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Washington Post and The Atlantic and frequently appears on national television and radio.
Founder of the blog The Unmumsy Mum, Turner writes a column for Exeter Life magazine and has won MAD Blog Awards for Best Baby Blog and Best Writer.
Betsy Uhrig is the author of the middle-grade novels Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini, Welcome to Dweeb Club, The Polter-Ghost Problem, and Mind Over Monsters (all from McElderry / Simon & Schuster). She was born and raised in Greater Boston, where she lives with her family and even more books than you are picturing. She graduated from Smith College with a degree in English and has worked in publishing ever since. She writes books for children instead of doing things that aren’t as fun.