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Children's Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Best-Selling Author of the "Goosebumps" Series; Emmy-Award Winning TV Show & Film Producer

Bestselling & Newberry Honor Author; Known for "Echo," "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Award-Winning Author of "Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide" and "Facing The Fracture: How to Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation"; Professor of Counseling Psychology & Associate Dean for DEI

New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "The Radium Girls" & "The Woman They Could Not Silence"

Nonbinary, Genderfluid Content Creator & Bestselling Author of “How To Be You”

NYT Bestselling Novelist Known for "Crank"

Award-Winning Author, Known for "Here Comes the Sun" & "Patsy"

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Longmire" Series

Award-Winning Science Fiction Author, Known for "Story of Your Life" and "Exhalation"

Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer

Author of the Bestselling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series; Creator of "The Summer I Turned Pretty" Television Series

Attorney & Author; LGBTQ, Trans & Diversity Rights Activist; Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition

Author, Musician & LGBTQ Activist

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Heft," "The Unseen World," "Long Bright River" & "The God of the Woods"; Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Temple University

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "Puddin',"Dumplin'" & "Side Effects May Vary"

Award-Winning Novelist, Poet & Children's Book Author; Known for "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe"

Creator of the Global “Twilight” Phenomenon & "The Host"; One of the World’s Bestselling Authors

New York Times Bestselling Mystery & Thriller Author; Former Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan