KarenWhiteis theNew York Timesbestselling author of more than twenty-five novels, including the Tradd Street series,Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass,...

A Paul and Daisy Soros fellow, Sanjena Sathian is a 2019 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Francisco, with...

Emma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of four novels, All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, The Vacationers and Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and the short story collection...

JenniferCravenis the author of “A Long Way From Blair Street” and “All That Shines and Whispers,” both works of historical fiction. In addition to her novels, she had bylines...

IlanaMasadis a fiction writer, essayist, and book critic whose work has appeared in theNew York Times,Los Angeles Times,Washington Post, theParis Review, NPR,BuzzFeed,Catapult,StoryQuarterly,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, as well as several others.All...

Kathryn Nicolai is the creator of the enormously successful podcastNothing Much Happens and the author of the book of the same name. Nicolai is an architect of coziness, writing...

Kirsty Capes works in publishing and, as a care leaver, is an advocate for better representation for care-experienced people in the media. She recently completed her PhD which investigates...

Meghan Scott Molincomes to writing by way of a Masters in Architecture, a minor in Opera, a professional career as a barn manager, and five years crash course as...

Kristin Beckfirst learned about World War II from her grandmother, who served as a Canadian army nurse, fell in love with an American soldier in Belgium, and married him...