KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

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

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

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; "Viper Rum," "The Devil's Tour," "Abacus," "The Liars' Club"

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

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

New York Times Bestselling Author, Best Known for the "Jack Reacher" Series

Author Known for "Landline," "Attachments," "Fangirl," "Eleanor & Park" & "Carry On"

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

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

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

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

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.

NYT Best-Selling Author, Angel Investor, CEO of Renegade Global & Host of the "Why Not Now?" Podcast

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