KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Best-Selling Author Known for the "Goosebumps" Series

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Children's Book Author; Creator of "Arthur"; Advote for Children's Literacy

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

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

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

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Author of the #1 NY Times Best-Selling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series

Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

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

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

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Historical & Transcultural Novels and Memoirs

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

Novelist, Poet & Children's Book Author Known for "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe"

International Bestselling Novelist & Screenwriter, Known for "The Notebook"

#1 New York Times Best Selling Author, Award-Winning Children's Musician & Original Author of the "Pete the Cat" Series

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"

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