Emily Cook was named one of the Publishers Weekly “Top 40 Under 40.” Former marketing & publicity director at Milkweed Editions and program director at the Chicago Tribune Lit Fest, she also worked for Granta and helped launch Figment, a social networking site. She just completed her first book.

Alana Wilcox is the editorial director of Coach House Books, an independent literary publisher in Toronto. She is the author of an out-of-print novel and the founding editor of the uTOpia series of books about Toronto.

Elias Wondimu is a social entrepreneur, knowledge broker, and cultural ambassador. He is the founding director of TSEHAI Publishers and its four imprints. Since the 2011 closure of Howard University Press, TSEHAI is the only African or African American publisher housed in an American university.

Kate Gale