KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer

NYT Bestselling Novelist Known for "Crank"

Perennial Bestselling Author & Voice of Contemporary American Literature

Literacy Advocate, Author & Actor Known for "Roots," "Star Trek" & "Reading Rainbow"