KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

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

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

NYT Best-Selling Author of "Something Borrowed" & "Heart of the Matter"

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

NYT Bestselling Novelist Known for "Crank"

NAACP Image Award Nominee. Author of "The True Definition of Neva Beane"

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

NYT Best-Selling Author of "The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury"

International Award-Winning NYT Bestselling Novelist; Known for Her Work in Science Fiction & Fantasy

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Longmire" Series

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Bestselling Author, Former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief, Suspense Novelist

Media Executive, Startup Investor, Founder of Bedford Books, Women's Empowerment Speaker & Best-Selling Author of "The Myth of the Nice Girl"

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Podcast Host & Encourager of Women

Director of Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan; Author of "The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys' Club"

Journalist & Bestselling Author

Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer