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.
A.A. Gill was a British writer and The Sunday Times' restaurant reviewer as well as a television critic. He regularly wrote columns for Vanity Fair, Esquire, Australian Gourmet Traveller and Departures.
In partnership with the respective restaurants Gill wrote The Ivy Cookbook, Breakfast at The Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel: Traditions and Recipes from a Grand Brasserie.
His memoir Pour Me: A Life was described as an “exquisitely moving book” (The Telegraph).
He was the author of A.A. Gill is Away, The Angry Island, Previous Convictions, Table Talk, Paper View, A.A. Gill is Further Away, The Golden Door, Lines in the Sand and Uncle Dysfunctional, as well as two novels. The Best of A.A. Gill was recently published.
The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State (University of Florida Press, 2021)
Ed Gillett is a journalist and film-maker based in South London: his work has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian, Frieze, Novara Media and The Quietus.
His writing focuses on the areas where politics, communities and culture meet, bringing investigative rigour and political nuance to topics which are too often treated as superficial or ephemeral. These include the social history of rave music, the political and financial interests of London councils and festival promoters, the impact of gentrification on grassroots music venues, and the distorting effects of wealth and class on electronic dance music.
Ed is a nominee for the 2020 International Music Journalism Awards, while his work on the BBC Four documentary Everybody In The Place, directed by the Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, as well as for Channel 4’s award-winning music and cultural strand Four To The Floor, have both won critical acclaim.
A selection of his work can be found at http://www.edwardgillett.com
Meghan Gilliss is a former bookseller and graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars as well as the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. Her work has been published in Salamander, The Rattling Wall, Nat. Brut, and fields magazine, among others. Her first novel LUNGFISH published by Catapult in 2022.
Kathy Gilsinan is a contributing writer at The Atlantic covering national security and global affairs.
John Giorno is a poet and visual and performance artist, and is also widely known as the subject of Andy Warhol’s first film, Sleep (1963). In addition to his creative work, he is the founder of the not-for-profit organization Giorno Poetry Systems and has been celebrated for his AIDS activism and fundraising.
Noah Gittell is a cultural critic with a focus on film, television, and sports. He has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, The Ringer, LA Review of Books and others.
The Threat: Why Digital Capitalism is Sexist and How to Resist
Lilia Giugni is a researcher at the University of Cambridge, a feminist activist, and the co-founder and CEO of the think tank GenPol - Gender and Policy Insights.
A political scientist by training, Lilia holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her research, writing and advocacy work cover gender-based violence, women's and LGBTQ+ rights, gender and technology, and gender inequalities in social, economic and political life.
Lilia sits in the advisory board of several feminist charities, social enterprises and activist networks, and regularly contributes editorials, talks, and keynote speeches on gender and social justice issues in the UK, the US, the 'EU bubble', and her native Italy. She is passionate about using research to inform policymaking, social innovation and better economic and organisational practices.
Her first book, The Threat - Everything You Should Know About Technology, Capitalism and Patriarchy was published by Longanesi in Italy and September Publishing in 2022.
The Threat uncovers the intersection between gender, technology and capitalism. It brings readers on a journey that starts with cases of non-consensual pornography in remote Italian provincial towns, and leads them straight into the world's corridors of power, where tech corporations and shrewd politicians capitalise on the suffering of women and marginalised groups. The Threat will throw light on the alarming technology-facilitated exploitation of and violence towards women.
Untitled on Virgil Abloh
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Givhan is the fashion editor for The Washington Post. She’s formerly a fashion correspondent and fashion critic for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Givhan’s The Battle of Versailles is under option to HBO.
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Xanthe Gladstone is a chef, grower and food sustainability advocate based in North Wales. She is partially self-taught but has attended the world renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School, taking their sustainable food course. Xanthe’s mission is to educate people about the positive effects that good food choices can have on ourselves and our environments, always with an emphasis on deliciousness.
Glamour magazine reaches more than 12 million readers each month and outsells more than 98 percent of magazines on the newsstand today.
Julian Glover OBE is a writer and journalist, and was previously Associate Editor of the London Evening Standard. In 2021, he lead the UK Government’s Review into the future of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Beauty in England.
He has also worked as leader writer and columnist at the Guardian and as a Special Adviser in Number 10 and the Department for Transport.
Sandrine Goeyvaerts is an author, sommelier and wine merchant based in the Liège region of Belgium. She writes regularly for the press (Elle) and has already published several books on wine: Jamais en carafe (2016), Perles d'une caviste (2017) and Carrément vin (2017) with Hachette, followed by the guide Vigneronnes (2019), Manifeste pour un vin inclusif (2021) and Cher Pinard (2024) with Nouriturfu.
Jen Golbeck is a Professor at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies and companion to six rescued golden retrievers. She studies the intersection of psychology, social media, and artificial intelligence at work, and, with her husband, runs a social media empire @theGoldenRatio4 to bring her dogs’ stories of joy and recovery to the world.
Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist, who has written for the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times (London), amongst other publications. She was awarded Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2010, also being nominated for Columnist of the Year, and was commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category in 2009.
Eliese Colette Goldbach received an MFA from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program, a Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award, and a Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant from the Ohioana Library Association, which is given annually to a young Ohio writer of promise. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Best American Essays, and beyond.
An American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, Goldberg received a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948. He was also a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society.
Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles
Danny Goldberg is the author of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit and Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business. Since 2007 he has been president of Gold Village Entertainment, whose clients include Steve Earle and Against Me. Previously, Goldberg was president of Gold Mountain Entertainment (Nirvana, Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers), CEO of Air America Radio, chairman of Warner Bros. Records, president of Atlantic Records, and vice president of Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records.
Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
Ron Goldberg is a writer and activist. His articles have appeared in OutWeek and POZ magazines, Central Park, and The Visual AIDS Blog. He served as a research associate for filmmaker and journalist David France on his award-winning book How to Survive a Plague and enjoys speaking at high schools and colleges about the history of AIDS and the lessons and legacy of ACT UP.
Fish Story: How Fish Make Our World—And How We’re Remaking Theirs
Ben Goldfarb is the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, named one of the best books of 2023 by the New York Times, and Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and entertainment reporter for The Boston Globe. In 2009, she began writing Love Letters, which inspired her memoir/essay collection, Can't Help Myself. Meredith was raised in Maryland, and lives in Boston with a David Bowie doll and a full-size cotton candy machine.
A chameleon, Adiel explores different forms of writing: poetry, slam, song, short story, novel and screenplay. In 2020, they won the French slam championships, and in 2021, finished semi-finalist in the slam world cup. In 2022, they wrote and directed their first short film, 'BONNARIEN', which explores identity and self-confidence through slam. While writing the film, they became aware of their trans identity and embarked on a medical and administrative obstacle course. Adiel is currently writing their second film, and runs writing and slam workshops in schools and prisons.
Mayra
Swallowing the Spider
Nicky Gonzalez is a writer from Hialeah, Florida. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, BOMB Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Taco Bell Quarterly, and other publications. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Granum Foundation, Millay Arts, Lighthouse Works, and the Hambidge Center. Her debut novel MAYRA and short story collection SWALLOWING THE SPIDER are forthcoming from Random House.
Good and Ready
Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler is a licensed psychologist and nationally recognized expert on the mental healthof tweens, teens and their families. She is the author of Mommy Burnout (Dey Street, 2018), the founder of the online puberty course for kids and their caregivers Start with the Talk™ and host of the podcast Dr. Sheryl’s Podcouch.
Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls
Chelsey Goodan is the author of the USA Today national bestseller, UNDERESTIMATED: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls, which was endorsed by Oprah Daily, saying: “If you have a teenage girl in your life, you need to read this” and was chosen by Amazon’s Editorial Director as an “Editor’s Pick, Best Nonfiction.” Chelsey has been a mentor and empowerment coach to teenage girls for 16 years. She speaks regularly to audiences about gender justice, conducts workshops, and serves as the mentorship director of DemocraShe and on the board of A Call to Men. As a keynote speaker, Chelsey teaches communication strategies that create psychological safety for everyone from teenage girls to CEOs. Featured on The Today Show with Hoda & Jenna, NBC News, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, and in TIME Magazine, Chelsey’s thought leadership explores humanity’s potential for authenticity, liberation, and empowerment. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Chelsey lives in Los Angeles.
Eric Goode is an American entrepreneur, naturalist, and conservationist. He is known as the founder of the Turtle Conservancy, a global conservation organization whose mission is to preserve and protect natural ecosystems, focusing on turtles and tortoises. Goode is also the co-creator and co-owner of the nightclub Area, B Bar restaurant, Lafayette House, and the Bowery Hotel.
The Care Dilemma: How to Care Enough in the Age of Sex Equality
David Goodhart is a commentator, journalist and best-selling author. He is Head of the Demography Unit at the Policy Exchange think tank, and in November 2020 was appointed a Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board commissioner.
Previously, he founded Prospect magazine in 1995, was Director of the think tank Demos, and was for twelve years a correspondent for the Financial Times.
The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Featured in T Magazine, Vogue, USA Today, Bon Appétit, W, and many other national publications, Gordon is the owner of Valerie Confections in Los Angeles. Valerie Confections sells its delicacies at Dean and Deluca and other specialty stores across the country. Sweet was nominated for a James Beard award in 2014.
Gia Gordon is a disabled author, speaker, youth activist, and former educator. Her 2024 YA debut, The Redemption of Daya Keane earned a starred review from School Library Journal and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Her 2024 MG debut, My So-Called Family, earned two starred reviews (Kirkus, Publishers Weekly), was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, named a Kirkus Best Books of 2024 for middle grade, named a Bookshop.org Best Books of the Year for Kids' Chapter Books, and has been longlisted for the Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Award. Common themes in Gia's work include chosen and found family, hidden identities, and living one's truth. As a dedicated children's literacy advocate, Gia is co-founder of Never Counted Out, a nonprofit that sends children's books of all levels and genres to programs and classrooms where access to reading material isn't readily available. When she’s not writing, Gia can be found thrifting or turning no-longer-wanted household goods into beautifully reimagined designs.
Jeff Gothelf is an expert on user experience and technology, as well as principal at the consulting firm Neo and co-author of Lean UX (O’Reilly Publishing) and Sense and Respond (Harvard Business Review Press), on how IT and apps are revolutionizing the entire practice of management.
Game Face: What does a Female Athlete Look Like?
Jane Gottesman worked as a sports journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle prior to curating the national “Game Face” book and exhibition. She has worked for ABC Sports as a writer, researcher, and associate producer on the series A Passion to Play and “Women in the Game” segments on Wide World of Sports. She is the Founding Director of Working Assumptions, a foundation that explores how humanity is reflected in daily routines — work, play, service, and family — where we connect with others, share common ground, and are open to transformative change, through the arts. She is based in Berkeley, California.
Sara Goudarzi’s non-fiction, poetry, and translations have appeared in Scientific American, The New York Times, and National Geographic News. The Almond in the Apricot is her first novel.
Markelle Grabo retells the fairy tales that frustrate her, which, based on that guideline, could include nearly all of them. Her debut YA novel, Call Forth a Fox, is a sapphic twist on "Snow White and Rose Red" that received a starred review from Shelf Awareness for its “beautifully layered construction of identity” and was selected for the American Library Association's 2025 Rainbow Book List. Markelle earned her master’s degree in creative writing for children and young adults from Hamline University and lives in the Greater Chicago Area with her husband and their two cats, Matcha and Kava.
Death by A Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Ian Shapiro) (Princeton)
The Wolf at the Door: Fighting Economic Insecurity (with IanShapiro) (Harvard)
Graetz, who has been professor of law at Yale and at Columbia, is an expert on tax law and its effects on society. He is writing a book on how the anti-tax revolt has shaped America for Princeton.
Andrew J. Graff is the author of the novel, Raft of Stars (Ecco - HarperCollins Publishers, March 2021). His fiction and essays have appeared in Image and Dappled Things. Andrew grew up fishing, hiking, and hunting in Wisconsin's Northwoods. After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Graff earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Ohio and teaches at Wittenberg University.
Southland: A Los Angeles County Almanac and Atlas
Wade Graham is a writer, historian, and landscape designer with a practice based in Los Angeles. His writing, on cultural history, environment, urbanism, landscape, art, and other topics, has appeared frequently in the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, and Harper’s, among other publications. His most recent books are Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii (University of California Press, 2018) and Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (HarperCollins, 2016).
Elyse Graham is a historian and professor at Stony Brook University, and the author of 3 academic books: YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?: The Unruly History Of New York English (Oxford University Press), A UNIFIED THEORY OF CATS ON THE INTERNET (Stanford University Press), and THE REPUBLIC OF GAMES (McGill-Queens University Press). She holds degrees from Princeton, Yale, and MIT, and has learned how scholars whisper, scheme, launder information, and guard secrets.
Ian Graham was Director of Research at Liverpool Football Club during the club’s most successful period since the 1980s. Whilst he was in this position, Liverpool won the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA World Club Cup (all in 2019), as well as the Premier League (in 2020). He now owns and runs Ludonautics, a sports consultancy.
One of the best restaurants in America according to Bon Appetit, Grand Central Market is a food hall in downtown Los Angeles with over 40 vendors and almost 100 years of history.
Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo are the founders of Highly Sensitive Refuge and Introvert, Dear, two of the largest websites for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and introverts. Together, they have helped hundreds of thousands of HSPs around the world live happier and more fulfilling lives.
A stage and screen actress, Grant has appeared in seminal movies such as Detective Story, In the Heat of the Night, Valley of the Dolls, The Landlord, Shampoo, and Voyage of the Damned. She has received two Academy Awards, two Emmys, a Directors Guild Award, and over ten other major nominations.
The Last Mile
Steve Grant is a nationally-renowned consumer psychologist, a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a former U.S. mail carrier, circa 2020-2021.
Carrie Grant MBE and David Grant MBE are BAFTA award-winning broadcasters, vocal and leadership coaches. They are also keen campaigners for change in our health, social care and education services.
Together they have four children, three are birth children one was adopted, they all have special needs and multi-hyphenate identities including trans and non-binary, gay and queer. Through their coaching and leadership work and parenting their incredible children they have shape-shifted into what they need to be for their family.
They are currently writing a book, “A Very Modern Family” reflecting family life in modern-day Britain. It’s a heart-felt story full of grit, inspiration and humour.
Together We Walk Towards the Fire: Steve Bannon, Breitbart News, and the Rise of Trump
Rosie Gray is the White House Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. Before that she was a staff writer for Buzzfeed News for five years, covering two presidential elections, and got her start at the Village Voice.
Free to Play
Dr. Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College with a special focus in neuroendocrinology, developmental psychology, anthropology, education—and children's natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play, about which he has published dozens of academic and popular articles. He is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences on play, education, and child development, a founding member of the nonprofit Alliance for Self-Directed Education and a founding board member of the nonprofit Let Grow. He is the author of an internationally acclaimed college introductory psychology textbook (Psychology), and of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (Basic Books, 2013), which has been published in 18 languages.
Samuel Graydon is Science Editor of the Times Literary Supplement, where he writes regularly on a variety of topics, including quantum mechanics, literature, music and comedy. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in English in 2015, and lives in Greenwich, in south London.
Margaret Greanais's debut picture book, Maximillian Villainous, was published in August 2018 by Running Press Kids. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children.
Robin Green is a TV writer/producer known for her work with her husband Mitchell Burgess, both as an Executive Producer and writer for The Sopranos on HBO and for creating the CBS drama Blue Bloods, now in its ninth season. She has won four Emmys, as well as several Golden Globes, two Peabodys and a Writers Guild Award, with many nominations for Emmys and WGA awards. She has been a writer at Rolling Stone and California Magazine, and has written for The Boston Real Paper, City Magazine of San Francisco, Magazine, and the L.A. Times, among others.
A former New York City Public Advocate and mayoral candidate, Green has served as president of Air America Radio and director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, the largest consumer rights lobby in Washington, DC. Green is currently the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Both Sides Now.
Ronnie Greene is the author of three books and a veteran investigative journalist who is a senior editor for ProPublica in Washington. His book, Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina, earned the prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors Book Award. His journalism has been honored with the Pulitzer Prize, an Emmy Award and the Harvard Goldsmith Prize.
Andy Greene is a senior staff writer and 14-year veteran at Rolling Stone.
A Thousand Dollars For A Kiss, Fifty Cents For Your Soul
Greenfeld's award-winning writing has appeared in publications such as Harper's, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ, and in anthologies including Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Sports Writing, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Best Creative Nonfiction. He is currently a writer for the television show Ray Donovan.
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett and Twelve Months That Transformed the Court (Random House)
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (with Michael Graetz) (S&S)
Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who for thirty years covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times where she now writes a regular column on the court.
Sabrina Greenlee is a nationally celebrated community activist, sounght-after inspirational speaker, domestic violence survivor, and founder of the non-profit S.M.O.O.O.T.H., who has dedicated her life to helping women grow and evolve. The mother of four successful children, one of whom is beloved NFL star DeAndre Hopkins, all of whom she raised by herself despite the attack which left her blind and burned over large portions of her body. She was awarded the 2020 Houston Humanitarian Award and the 2021 Iconic Woman Award from Fresh Spirit Wellness. She’s been featured in USA Today, The Houston Chronicle, Bleacher Report, People and ESPN Magazine.
Tommy Greenwald, the father of three sports-obsessed sons, has written dozens of books for children. His middle grade novel GAME CHANGER has been placed on over twenty state reading lists and was a YALSA Top Ten Book for Reluctant Readers. Tommy has published both middle grade and chapter books, including the popular CHARLIE JOE JACKSON series and the CRIME BITERS! series, and is also the co-author of THE RESCUES, written with Charlie Greenwald and illustrated by Shiho Pate.
Among Tommy’s other work is the musical JOHN & JEN, produced off-Broadway in 1995 and revived in 2015. Tommy lives in Connecticut.
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Charlie Greenwald is obsessed with dogs—especially his new rescue, Momo! Aside from children's literature, he has also co-written several plays with Jeremy Vandroff, including THE PAINTED WALL and SURPRISING SIMON, which won the RareWorks Theatre Festival at Emerson College. He lives in New York City with his wife.
Linda Gregerson is the author of eight books of poetry and the winner of many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and American of Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and her collection Magnetic North was finalist nomination for the National Book Award. The New York Times calls Gregerson “a storyteller at heart,” and the Los Angeles Review of Books praises “her remarkable ability to make imagination feel appropriate.” Reviewing Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, The New Yorker described her work as “dauntless, serrated.” Her new collection, Canopy, was published in 2022. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Chairman and former CEO of Nasdaq, Robert Greifeld is also the Chairman of the USA Track and Field Foundation. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.
Tony and Academy Award winning actor, Grey has appeared in Broadway classics such as Cabaret, George M!, Goodbye Charlie, Chicago, Wicked, and Anything Goes, and in films such as Cabaret and Dancer in the Dark. His photographs are part of the Permanent Collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Public Library.
Nicholas Griffin is an author and journalist who's been published in periodicals such as the Times of London, the FT, Men’s Vogue, and Foreign Policy. His nonfiction book, Ping Pong Diplomacy, was an Amazon Best Book of the Year in 2014, Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and Shortlisted for the UK's 2015 Political Book Awards. Nicholas was also elected a Term Member at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York in 2007.
The Inward Trip
Jennie Rothenberg Gritz has been a senior editor at national magazines for the past two decades; she’s a former senior editor at The Atlantic and currently a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine.
She’s a graduate of both the Maharishi School and Maharishi International University, and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she received the Harper’s Magazine Award for Outstanding Magazine Writing.
Neil Gross is the Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Colby College in Maine and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. An expert on an array of topics, from policing to the politics of higher education to the sociology of intellectual life, Gross writes frequently for The New York Times, is quoted often in other newspapers and magazines, and is the author of two influential academic books, Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? (Harvard University Press, 2013), and Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher (University of Chicago Press, 2008). He lives with his wife, the writer Jessica Berger Gross, and their son in Waterville, Maine.
The New Yorker’s most prolific cartoonist, Gross is also known for being the cartoon editor of The National Lampoon and one of its most renowned cartoon contributors.
Daniel Gross is a software entrepreneur who founded Pioneer, an upstart venture capital firm devoted to finding new talent around the world using on-line methods, in 2018 when he was 27; he is currently its CEO. Daniel began his tech career with a company called Cue, which he sold to Apple when he was 23, then becoming a Director at Apple. He served as a partner and founder at YCombinator, the esteemed Silicon Valley startup incubator. Forbes named him one of its “30 Under 30” in the Pioneers in Technology category in 2011. The following year, Business Insider named him one of the “25 under 25” in Silicon Valley, and in 2014, the site named him one of “30 under 30 Influential Young People in Tech”. He contributes to Tech Crunch and has written for Medium.
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As a longtime Vanity Fair contributing editor, Michael Joseph Gross has published investigative reporting and essays on topics including culture, technology, politics, religion, and business. A former seminarian and speechwriter, he was born and raised in rural Illinois, and he lives in New York City.
Olaf Groth is Program Director for Digital Futures at Hult International Business School, a member of the Global Expert Network at the World Economic Forum, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, a CEO and a contributor to the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and other publications.
Jennifer Grotz is the author of four poetry collections: the award-winning Cusp; The Needle, which was named one of the “Five Best Books of Poetry of the Year” by NPR; Window Left Open, which the San Francisco Chronicle hailed as “Extraordinary… A contemplative spirit ― calm but alert ― permeates the poems.” Her new collection, Still Falling, will be published in 2025. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Jennifer Grotz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester and Director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Jason Grumet is founder and president of the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). A frequent witness at Congressional hearings, he has written about the challenge of bipartisan collaboration in the New York Times, Bloomberg, TheHill, Roll Call, and many other publications. He is the author of City of Rivals: Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy (Lyons Press).
Empire of the Elite
Michael M. Grynbaum is a media correspondent for The New York Times, covering the intersection of business, culture and politics. Since starting at The Times as an intern, he has served as City Hall bureau chief, Metro political writer, transportation reporter and economics writer during the 2008 financial crisis.
YOU ARE NOT A F*CK UP: THE ADULT ADHD SURVIVAL GUIDE
Cate Osborn is an ADHD advocate, certified sex educator and intimacy coach, content creator, and performer. Alongside Erik Gude, they co-host the podcast Cate and Erik’s Infinite Quest.
Erik Gude is an artist, performer, and former chef known for his educational and funny TikToks on ADHD. Alongside Cate Osborn, he co-hosts the podcast Cate and Erik’s Infinite Quest.
Trained as a political economist and sociologist, Mauro Guillén is the Dean at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School and the Dr. Felix Zandman Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. An award-winning writer and scholar, his commentary has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Financial Times.
Sunetra Gupta is the author of the novels Memories of Rain, The Glassblower’s Breath, A Sin of Color (shortlisted for the Orange Prize), Moonlight into Marzipan, and, most recently, So Good in Black (Clockroot).
Elvis and the Colonel
Peter Guralnick is an American music critic, author, and screenwriter. He specializes in the history of early rock and roll and has written on Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips and Sam Cooke.
David Gushee, Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University and his wife, Jeanie Gushee, are the authors of Yours is the Day, Lord, Yours the Night: A Morning and Evening Prayer Book (Thomas Nelson).
Radical Trauma Healing: A Transformative Program for the LGBTQ+ Community and Beyond
Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik, a highly lauded, queer somatic therapist specializing in treating trauma and PTSD within the LGBTQ+ community, whose popular newsletter, workshops, and Instagram @somaticwitch reaches thousands of people each month. She has been featured insuch publications as The New York Times, Well & Good, Vice, Nylon and many others
Minrose Gwin is the author of the memoir Wishing for Snow and the novels The Queen of Palmyra, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Book, a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; Promise, which was an Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction; and The Accidentals, which was awarded the Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters 2020 Fiction Award.
Tiffany Haas has been performing professionally for the past ten years, most notably starring as Glinda in both the Broadway production and the national tour of the acclaimed musical Wicked. In addition to being in demand nationally as an actress and singer, Tiffany is a beloved judge and host for the Miss America pageant and leads a popular master class for aspiring performers of all ages. Her career has been profiled by major media outlets such as ABC News, Playbill, Broadway World, and Theater Mania, and Tiffany has frequently been invited to organize and run theater workshops at music conservatories, symphonies, and theater and dance conventions across the country. Her collaborative writer, Jenna Glatzer, is a respected and prolific author and ghostwriter, having worked on over twenty-eight books including the award-winning The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez and Celine Dion: For Keeps, the authorized biography of the pop superstar. Jenna’s books have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil, The Today Show, and The View, and Jenna herself has been interviewed for documentary series on both the E! and Lifetime networks, as well as by NBC News.
Secrets from a Shaman
Jorge Hachumak, a Peruvian of Spanish descent, learned ancient healings from native shamans, witches and herbalists in Northern Peru. Today he runs a compound on the Amazon River where he cultivates medicinal plants, rescues hurt jungle animals, practices Ayahuasca ceremonies with small groups, and performs traditional one-on-one healing sessions. Hachumak travels widely in Europe and the US giving lectures, doing hands-on healing, and working with people interested in learning about the shamanic arts.
Dave Matthews Band 35th Anniversary
The End of Listening: What We Lose When We Cancel Noise
Lise Haines is the author of the novels Girl in the Arena (Bloomsbury), a South Carolina Book Award Nominee; Small Acts of Sex and Electricity (Unbridled Books), a Book Sense Pick in 2006 and one of ten "Best Book Picks for 2006" by the NPR station, San Diego; and, In My Sister's Country (Penguin / Putnam), a finalist for the 2003 Paterson Fiction Prize, which The Boston Globe called "an authoritative fictional debut."
Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee and she is the recipient of the Best Fiction award from the Southern California Writers Conference, a Writing by Writers Emerging Voices fellowship, and a Hedgebrook residency. Her debut novel Hula is forthcoming from Scribner.
Wild that We're Alive: Momboy, vol. 1
Nancy Hale, 1908-1988, was a prolific and best-selling novelist whose short fiction appeared frequently in the New Yorker and other publications.
Gabrielle Hales is the founder of the Secret Yoga Club, which brings people together in unique settings to create new and exciting yoga experiences.
Established in 2013, SYC was the very first pop-up fitness experience in London and has evolved from its humble beginning in living rooms to venues as grand as the Royal Academy of the Arts, Sutton House and Wilton's Music Hall.
Meredith Hall is the author of the critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir Without a Map (Beacon Press). At the age of forty-four, Meredith Hall graduated from Bowdoin College. She won the $50,000 Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation, which gave her the financial freedom to devote time to her first book. Her other honors include a Pushcart Prize and notable essay recognition in Best American Essays; she was also a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Award. Hall’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, The Southern Review, Five Points, Prairie Schooner, and several anthologies. She teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire and lives in Maine.
Life Work (Beacon)
Essays after Eighty (HMH)
The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (HMH)
A Carnival of Losses (HMH)
String Too Short to be Saved
Hall, a Poet Laureate of the US and recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, was a beloved poet who mined the history of his family and his beloved landscape in New Hampshire over dozens of books of poems and children’s books, including Ox-Cart Man. He was married to the poet Jane Kenyon.
David Hallberg is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theater, and made history in 2011 as the first American to join the Bolshoi Ballet as a Premier Dancer. Among his numerous national and international accolades, he has received the Emerging Artist Award from Americans for the Arts and in 2017 became the first dancer to hold the title of Resident Guest Artist with The Australian Ballet.
Liam Halligan is an economist, writer and broadcaster, with extensive business experience. He is best known for his weekly award-winning ‘Economics Agenda’ column in the Sunday Telegraph, which he has written since 2003, and was formerly Economics and Business Editor at GB News.
Liam holds a First Class (Hons) degree in economics from the University of Warwick and an M.Phil (Econ) from St Antony’s College, Oxford University. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation and the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, an ESRC-funded research body based in the University of Warwick’s Economics Department. He is a citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Reefer Movie Madness: The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide
American Idol
Shirley Halperin is the Editor-in-Chief of Los Angele Magazine. An editor, writer, and frequent television commentator, she has worked at Variety, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, the Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, and High Times, and has appeared on MTV, VH1 and E!. She is based in Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter @shirleyhalperin.
Chris Hamby is an investigative journalist at BuzzFeed News, formerly with The Center For Public Integrity, whose series "Breathless and Burdened" was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Harvard Goldsmith Prize, and the White House Correspondents’ Association Award. He has received numerous other awards and recognitions throughout his career. He is also the author of the widely anticipated Soul Full of Coal Dust (Little, Brown), based on his series for CPI.
On Power: The Case for American Dominance
America Without God
Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, research professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Seminary, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine in 2019. Hamid is the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs, and co-editor of Rethinking Political Islam. His first book, Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014
An award-winning expert in family finance and identity theft, Betz-Hamilton is an assistant professor of consumer sciences at South Dakota State University.
A.B. Hamilton is a fantasy writer from south London. A school teacher by trade, he spends his free time crafting rich stories that explore themes of identity and belonging. His favourite authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, N.K. Jemisin, and Ted Chiang. He is an advocate for men’s mental health and supports increased inclusivity and representation across all levels of the publishing industry.