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Belle Burden
Belle Burden is a pro bono immigration attorney specializing in juvenile cases. Her writing has appeared in the
New York Times
. She lives...
T Clark
T Clark is from Westchester County, New York. They received BAs in sociology and English from Rutgers University in New Brunswick and an...
Jenny Jackson
Jenny Jackson is the
New York Times
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The Shampoo Effect
. A...
Tom Junod
Tom Junod is senior writer for
ESPN
, where his work has won an Emmy and the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting....
Kelly Foster Lundquist
Kelly Foster Lundquist is the author of
Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage
, named by SheReads as a Most Anticipated Memoir of...
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy is the author of four books,
Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain, Brat: An '8
...
Kate McKinnon
Kate McKinnon is a #1
New York Times
bestselling author, award winning performer, and writer, who is celebrated globally for her work in film...
Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection,
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize,...
Kevin Powers
Kevin Powers was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Since publishing his first novel in 2012, his books have been translated into more than...
Rick Ross
Rick Ross is an American rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur and founder of the Maybach Music Group. All eleven of his albums have landed in the Billboard 200,...
George Saunders
The recipient of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (“Genius” Award), George Saunders has authored two novels, four collections of short stories, a novella, a book of...
Katy Simpson Smith
Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Katy Simpson Smith is the author of
The Story of Land and Sea, Free Men, The Everlasting,
...
Darnell Lamont Walker
Darnell Lamont Walker is a Death Doula and Emmy-Nominated Writer whose work lives at the intersection of creativity, care, and transition. Sometimes that...
Tiffany L. Warren
Tiffany L. Warren is a novelist and screenwriter who has published over thirty novels. In addition to writing books, Tiffany has written and...
Michelle Young
Michelle Young is an award-winning journalist and author. Her latest book,
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of World War II
...
