Speakers

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    Marguerite Feitlowitz

    Marguerite Feitlowitz is a writer and translator. Her newest book-length translations are Night, by Ennio Moltedo, a collection of 113 prose poems written during and against the…

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    Saraciea Fennell

    Saraciea J. Fennell is a Brooklyn-born Black Honduran American writer from the Bronx. She is the founder of The Bronx Is Reading and creator of Honduran Garifuna…

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    Annelise Finegan

    Annelise Finegan directs the graduate program in translation and interpreting at New York University in the Center for Publishing, Writing, and Media. Her translations from Chinese include…

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    Aja Gabel

    Aja Gabel is the author of the novels Lightbreakers and The Ensemble, both from Riverhead Books. Her prose has appeared in The Cut, Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed,…

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    Hafizah Geter

    Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian/U.S. writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Ohio and South Carolina. She is a 2026 Hawthornden Fellow in fiction, a…

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    Michelle Goldberg

    Michelle Goldberg is an opinion columnist at The New York Times, where she has written since 2017. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer…

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    Reyna Grande

    Reyna Grande is an author whose life and work speak to resilience. Born in Mexico, she was left behind for years before embarking on a perilous journey…

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    Amanda Gronich

    Amanda Gronich is an award-winning scriptwriter who has devoted her career to telling true stories. With Tectonic Theater Project, she is the co-author of Here There Are…

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    Robin Ha

    Robin Ha (she/her) is the award-winning author/illustrator of the graphic novel memoir Almost American Girl. At fourteen she moved to the United States from Seoul, Korea. Her…

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    Mohammed Hanif

    Mohammed Hanif is a writer born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as a Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a…

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    Nino Haratischwili

    Nino Haratischwili is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and theatre director. Born in Tbilisi in 1983, she is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of contemporary…

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    Rodrigo Hasbún

    Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian writer and screenwriter. He is the author of eight works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels Affections (Simon & Schuster) and…

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    Justin Haynes

    Justin Haynes is a writer born in Trinidad and Tobago who later moved to Brooklyn, New York, as a teenager. His writing has been supported by fellowships…

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    Alejandro Heredia

    Alejandro Heredia is a writer from the Bronx. He has received fellowships from LAMBDA Literary, the Dominican Studies Institute, UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, and elsewhere. He received…

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    Jennifer Holm

    Jennifer L. Holm is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling children’s author with nearly ten million books in print. She is the recipient of three…

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    Matthew Holm

    Matthew Holm is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of more than 50 books for children. He is the co-creator, with his sister Jennifer Holm,…

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