KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

Author & Illustrator Known For "Lost in Translation"

National Book Award Longlisted Poet

Transgender Poet Known for "feeld"

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Artist, Poet & Author

Author & Creative Writing Professor; Best Known for "Tampa" & "Made for Love"

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

New York Best-Selling Novelist of "The Ghost Bride" & "The Night Tiger"

"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Founder & Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul Book Series, Mega-Entrepreneur, Business Speaker & Devoted Philanthropist

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

Award-Winning Author