KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contemporary Crime & Supernatural Fiction Author, Known for "The Ridge" & "An Honest Man"

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Novelist & Short-Story Writer Exploring Identity, Gender, and the Immigrant Experience; Known for "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Humanitarian, Children's Rights Advocate, Journalist & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Enrique’s Journey"

Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer

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

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author, Digital Creator, VidCon Co-Founder & Entrepreneur

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

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"; Authority in Historical Fiction

NYT Bestselling Novelist Known for "Crank"

Award-Winning Entrepreneur; "Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Former NFL Football Player; Vietnam Veteran & Purple Heart Recipient; Inspiring Veteran's Advocate