2025 Authors & Speakers
Cynthia Blakeley
Cynthia Blakeley is a freelance academic editor and an instructor at Emory University in Atlanta, where she teaches courses on memory…
Elizabeth Bradfield
Writer/Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s (she/her) books are SOFAR (forthcoming in August), which includes poems that were published…
Essie Chambers
Essie Chambers is an award-winning author and producer. Her bestselling debut novel, Swift River—a Today Show “Read with Jenna” Book…
Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An…
Edgar Gomez
Edgar Gomez Edgar Gomez is a queer NicaRican writer born and raised in Florida. He is the author of the memoir High-Risk Homosexual, winner…
Xochitl Gonzalez
Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of Anita de Monte Laughs Last, a Reese's Book Club Pick longlisted for the…
Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Elizabeth Gonzalez James is a screenwriter and bestselling author of the novels, The Bullet Swallower and Mona at Sea, as well as the…
Joseph Lee
Joseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer based in New York City. He has an MFA from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at…
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Jeremy Atherton Lin is the author of Deep House — a true love story, out this June.
He also wrote Gay Bar— a New York Times Top Book of…
Dennis Minsky
A long-time resident of Provincetown after hitchhiking there in 1968, Minsky has worked as a wildlife biologist at the Cape Cod National…
She’s danced in recent projects by Monstah Black, Sally Silvers, among many other choreographers, and in 2024, appeared in the short film “Don’t…
Benedict Nguyen
Imani Perry
Imani Perry received a BA (1994) from Yale University, a PhD (2000) from Harvard University, a JD (2000) from Harvard Law School, and an LLM (2002) from…
Ruben Reyes Jr.
Ruben Reyes Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants. He completed his MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is a graduate of Harvard College…
Lisa Williamson Rosenberg is a writer, former ballet dancer, and psychotherapist specializing in depression, complex trauma, and racial identity. Lisa’s….
Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
Judith Newcomb Stiles earns her living as a potter, turning mud into money in the guise of colorful utilitarian pots that last ten thousand years. Throwing on…
Judith Stiles
Mako Yoshikawa
Mako Yoshikawa, who was born and raised in Princeton, NJ, spent two years of her childhood in Tokyo. She has also lived in England, France, Switzerland, and…