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Kristen Arnett

Kristen Arnett

Kristen is the author of the New York Times-bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things and the award-winning collection Felt in the Jaw. A queer writer based in Florida, she has written for The New York Times, Guernica, McSweeney's, The Guardian<...

Kai Bird

Kai Bird

Kai is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian who has published biographies of John J. McCloy, McGeorge Bundy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Ames-and now The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. He has also authored a memoir about his childhood in the Middle East....

James R. Crockett

James R. Crockett

James is an accounting professor emeritus from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has held various types of teaching and administrative positions at six universities including Ole Miss. Crockett is a CPA and he has published several accounting-related articles and monographs. The University Press of...

Beth Ann Fennelly

Beth Ann Fennelly

Beth Ann has published three poetry books: Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables, all with W. W. Norton. She is also the author of 3 books of prose: Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs; Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother, a collection of...

Melissa Ginsburg

Melissa Ginsburg

Melissa is the author of the poetry collections Doll Apollo and Dear Weather Ghost, the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. Her poems have appeared...

Tiffany D. Jackson

Tiffany D. Jackson

Tiffany is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of YA novels Monday's Not Coming, Allegedly, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Grown, White Smoke, Santa in The City, The Weight of Blood, and co-author of Blackout. A Coretta Scott King-John...

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee is the author of the New York Times bestselling illustrated collection of nature essays World of Wonders, chosen as Barnes & Noble's Book of the Year and as a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. She has published four award-winning poetry collections and is...

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