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Shalom Auslander
Author of Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir
R. Dwayne Betts
Author of A Question of Freedom and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice
Chaz Bono
LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of Transition
Eleanor Brown
New York Times-bestselling Author of The Weird Sisters
Wendy Burden
Author of Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir
Catherine Chung
Author of Forgotten Country
Jared Cohen
Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Stephen Dau
Author of The Book of Jonas
William Deresiewicz, Ph.D.
Author of A Jane Austen Education
Junot Díaz
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Danielle Evans
Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book...
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
John Green
#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska and...
Laura Harrington
Award-winning Playwright and Author of Alice Bliss
Kristin Hersh
Critically Acclaimed Pioneering Rock Musician and Author of Rat Girl
Julie Klam
New York Times-bestselling Author of You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of...
Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
Jillian Lauren
New York Times-Bestselling Author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Craig M. Mullaney
Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
Nami Mun
Author of Miles From Nowhere
Bich Minh Nguyen
Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls
Mahbod Seraji
Author of Rooftops of Tehran
Josh Sundquist
Motivational Speaker, Paralympic Ski Racer, and Bestselling Author of Just Don't Fall
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture
Koren Zailckas
Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood