KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

Author & Creative Writing Professor; Best Known for "Tampa" & "Made for Love"

Spoken Word Educator, High School English Teacher & Author

Author of "The Dig"

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

New York Times Best-Selling Author of Suspense

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

CEO of THIS Inc. & Best-Selling Author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less"

Writer & Editor; Author of the "Daily Rituals" Books

Futurist; Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Author; Journalist; Editor; Critic

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

American Author

American Economist, Professor at Columbia University & Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2001

MSNBC's 'The Practical Futurist' & Technology Expert

Founder & Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul Book Series, Mega-Entrepreneur, Business Speaker & Devoted Philanthropist