KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Legendary Children's Horror Author & Storyteller; Creator of "Goosebumps" & "Fear Street"; Guinness World Record Best-Selling Author

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

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

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

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

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

Canadian-British Blogger at Pluralistic; Bestselling Science Fiction & Non-Fiction Author; Social Media & Tech Activist For Change

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Longmire" Series

Six-Time Emmy Award Winner; Children's Book Author & Creator of the "Arthur" Book & PBS TV Series; Advocate for Children's Literacy

NYT Bestselling Author Known for the Joe Pickett Series; Executive Producer on ABC's "Big Sky" & Paramount's "Joe Pickett"

Acclaimed Contemporary Fiction Author & Literary Innovator; Pulitzer Prize Winner; Professor & Founding Director, Rutgers-Newark MFA

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

Poet, Educator & Children's Literature Innovator; No. 1 New York Times Bestselling Author; Newbery Medal & Emmy Award Winner

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

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "Red, White & Royal Blue"

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

Pastor, Counselor & Author of "The 5 Love Languages" Series; Authority on Love & Human Relationships

NYT Bestselling Novelist Known for "Crank"

Perennial Bestselling Author & Voice of Contemporary American Literature