Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel, MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING, is the second novel in his Dark Star fantasy... Read More

Padma Lakshmi is an Emmy-nominated food expert, television host, producer and a New York Times best-selling author. She is the creator, host, and executive producer of... Read More

Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel FEVER DREAM, a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the novel LITTLE EYES, and the story collection... Read More

Rebecca F. Kuang is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the POPPY WAR trilogy and BABEL: AN ARCANE HISTORY, as well as... Read More

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer and screenwriter from New England. EILEEN, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man... Read More

Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, GOOD BONES, THE WELL SPEAKS OF ITS OWN POISON, LAMP OF THE BODY, and the national... Read More

Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University.... Read More

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer... Read More

Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, aphorist, and playwright. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and... Read More