Speakers

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    Molly Jong-Fast

    Molly Jong-Fast is a contributing writer at The New York Times, an MSNBC political analyst, the host of the Fast Politics podcast, and the author of the…

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    Mónica Ojeda

    Mónica Ojeda es una escritora ecuatoriana nacida en 1988. Es autora de las novelas La desfiguración Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa, 2014), Nefando (Candaya, 2016), Mandíbula (Candaya, 2018)…

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    Nancy Naomi Carlson

    Nancy Naomi Carlson is a translator who won the 2022 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and was decorated by the French government with the Academic Palms. She serves…

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    Naomi Novik

    Naomi Novik is the author of the Scholomance trilogy, the novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver, and the Temeraire series. She is a founder of the Archive of…

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    Natalia Viana

    Natalia Viana is a Brazilian investigative journalist and writer. She is the co-founder and executive director of Agência Pública, Brazil’s largest investigative newsroom. At Pública, she leads…

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    Natasha Lehrer

    Natasha Lehrer is a writer and translator whose long-form journalism and book reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, and Fantastic…

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    Neige Sinno

    Neige Sinno is a French writer who lived for almost twenty years in Mexico. She studied and taught literature at various universities and has written essays, stories,…

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    Nicholas Boggs

    Nicholas Boggs is the New York Times bestselling author of Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of the iconic figure in over three decades. He…

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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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    Patrice Nganang

    Patrice Nganang is an American writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and activist who lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and serves as head of the Department of Africana…

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    Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

    Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is the author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, which blends nature writing and memoir to challenge expectations of what is…

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    Patricia Smith

    Patricia Smith is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2025), winner of the 2025 National Book…

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    Phil Klay

    Phil Klay is a novelist and essayist. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Prize for…

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    Quan Barry

    Quan Barry is the author of eight books of fiction and poetry, including When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East; We Ride Upon Sticks, winner…

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    Ramzy Baroud

    Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian author, historian, and academic whose work focuses on Palestinian history, liberation, and people’s history. He is the editor of The Palestine Chronicle,…

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    Rana Ayyub Shaikh

    Rana Ayyub is an Indian investigative journalist and a Global Opinions columnist at The Washington Post. Over a nineteen-year career, she has worked as a reporter, editor,…

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