Stacie Williams has hosted hundreds of authors at a large independent bookstore in the Midwest for over eight years, and she has moderated past AWP conference panels with Alison Espach, Alan Heathcock, Eleanor Henderson, Aryn Kyle, Antonya Nelson, Benjamin Percy, Stewart O’Nan, Tea Obreht, and Alexi Zentner. 

Amber Tamblyn has been a writer and actress since the age of nine. She has been nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award for her work in television and film. She has published two books of poems and is the co-founder of Write Now Poetry Society. 

Adam Wilson is the author of What's Important is Feeling: Stories, and Flatscreen: A Novel. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review, Tin House, VICE, and Best American Short Stories, among many other publications. In 2012 he received the Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize for Humor.

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Jessica Anya Blau is the author of the novels The Wonder Bread Summer; Drinking Closer to Home; and The Summer of Naked Swim Parties.