Joanna Rakoff is the author of the bestselling memoir, My Salinger Year, the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age, which won the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, and the forthcoming memoir, The Fifth Passenger. She writes for The New York Times and Vogue, and has taught at Columbia University and Brooklyn College.

Adrienne Brodeur is the executive director of Aspen Words, a program of the Aspen Institute. The founder of Zoetrope: All-Story magazine, Adrienne worked as a book editor from 2005-2013. She has had essays in the New York Times, and her memoir is Wild Game.

Steven Rowley is the national bestselling author of the novels Lily and the Octopus and The Editor, both in active development for major motion pictures. His fiction has been translated in nineteen languages. A third novel is forthcoming in 2021.

Garrard Conley is the author of the NYT bestselling memoir Boy Erased, translated in a dozen languages and now a major motion picture. Conley is also creator and producer of the podcast UnErased. His work can be found in the New York Times, Time, Vice, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

Eleanor Henderson