KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

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

Award-Winning Novelist; Known for "Black Mamba Boy"

New York Times Bestselling Author of "The Lunar Chronicles"

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

Mexican Novelist, Essayist & Screenwriter; Known for Bestselling Novel "Como Agua Para Chocolate"

Contemporary Fiction Author Best Known for "The Hand That First Held Mine"

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

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

Best-Selling Author Known for the "Goosebumps" Series

Career & Business Strategist; Author of "Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One"

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

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

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

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

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion