Calvert Morgan is executive editor at Harper and editorial director of Harper Perennial, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers, and the board chair of the Center for Fiction. His authors include Jess Walter, Roxane Gay, Porochista Khakpour, Christopher Bollen, Kate Zambreno, and Blake Butler.

Nan Graham has worked in publishing at Pantheon Books; Viking Penguin, where she was the Executive Editor; and Scribner as its Editor in Chief before becoming Scribner’s publisher in 2013. She has edited writers of fiction, sociology, history, and psychology. She has worked on many memoirs, including Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History. Her other nonfiction works include National Book Award–winner The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and National Book Critics Circle Award–winner Far from the Tree, both by Andrew Solomon, and Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize–winner, The Emperor of All Maladies, and his second book The Gene: An Intimate History. She has edited Don DeLillo for twenty-five years and Stephen King for twenty years. Her other fiction authors include Annie Proulx, Amy Hempel, Colm Toibin, Ann Beattie, M.L. Stedman, Rachel Kushner, Miranda July, Dana Spiotta, and Anthony Doerr.

Erroll McDonald, a trustee of PEN America, is a Vice President, Executive Editor in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group of Penguin Random House. Among the authors he has edited and published are: James Baldwin, Italo Calvino, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Henry Louis Gates, Michael R. Gordon, Kazuo Ishiguro, Randall Kennedy, Fran Lebowitz, Arthur Levitt, Wangari Maathai, Toni Morrison, Bao Ninh, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Posner, Salman Rushdie, and Wole Soyinka. McDonald graduated from Yale and Columbia Business School. He has been a lecturer at Yale and an adjunct professor at Columbia.

Chris Jackson is the Publisher and Editor in Chief of One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Previously, Jackson was an Executive Editor at Spiegel & Grau, where he edited several bestselling authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson, Eddie Huang, Jill Leovy, Matt Taibbi, Victor LaValle, and Jay Z. His forthcoming One World authors include Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, Alex Wagner, Quiara Hudes, Molly Crabapple, Marwan Hisham, and Binyavanga Wainaina. His own writing has appeared in TheAtlantic.com, The Paris Review, and Callaloo among other places.