Laird Barron
American author and poet known for horror, weird fiction, dark fantasy, and noir.
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American author and poet known for horror, weird fiction, dark fantasy, and noir.

Marie Benedict is an American historical fiction author and lawyer who writes about overlooked women in history.

Max Gladstone is an award-winning American speculative-fiction author known for the Craft Sequence, Empress of Forever, and This Is How You Lose the Time War, co-written with Amal El-Mohtar.

Meagan Spooner is an American young adult author known for science fiction, fantasy, and romantic adventure novels, including the Skylark trilogy and collaborations with Amie Kaufman.
Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award-winning American novelist and nonfiction writer known for noir, crime fiction, and psychologically intense stories about women, ambition, desire, and power.

Miles Cameron is the fantasy-fiction pen name of Canadian novelist Christian Cameron, a military veteran and medieval-history graduate.
Edgar Award-winning American novelist from Ohio who writes across young adult and adult genres.
American self-help author and motivational lecturer best known for Think and Grow Rich.
British-American author of speculative fiction, crime novels, historical fiction, memoir, short fiction, and literary nonfiction, known for queer and disabled perspectives.
American comedian, actor, writer, and author known for stand-up comedy, memoir, nonfiction, and comic-book writing.

American novelist and short-story writer known for science fiction, horror, speculative fiction, and superhero fiction.

British science-fiction and fantasy author known for cyberpunk, hardboiled, dystopian, and grimdark fiction.

Rin Chupeco is a Chinese Filipino nonbinary author of young adult and adult speculative fiction, fantasy, and horror.
British writer and academic known for award-winning books about landscape, nature, memory, language, travel, and environmental change.

S. L. Huang is a Hugo Award-winning author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy.

Sandra Cisneros is an American Chicana poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, and author of children's books.

American New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of young adult fantasy, romantasy, and adult fantasy romance.

Sarah Gailey is an American author of speculative fiction, horror, mystery, short fiction, essays, and comics.

Susan Dennard is an award-winning American author best known for young adult fantasy, horror, mystery, and romantic fiction.

Tess Sharpe is an American author of award-winning fiction for children, young adults, and adults, including Far From You, Barbed Wire Heart, The Girls I've Been, and No Body No Crime.
Dutch author of horror, fantasy, and magical-realist fiction, internationally known for Hex, Echo, Orakel, November, and Het laatste verhaal van Jamie Gunn.

Tiffany D. Jackson is an American author and filmmaker known for young adult and middle-grade fiction, including suspenseful, socially engaged novels and picture books.

American poet, essayist, journalist, and author whose Leaves of Grass transformed nineteenth-century poetry.
Walter Trier (1890–1951) was a Prague-born German-speaking Jewish painter, caricaturist, illustrator, graphic artist, and author of humorous picture books, best known for his work with Erich Kästner and his political cartoons.

American novelist, folklorist, anthropologist, essayist, playwright, and memoirist associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

American science-fiction and thriller novelist known for science-driven mysteries, apocalyptic scenarios, and speculative adventure.


Egyptian-born Italian-American writer and professor known for novels, memoirs, essays, and short fiction exploring desire, memory, exile, and place.

Polish-American horror and thriller author known for atmospheric, psychologically intense fiction.

American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.

American research professor, author, and storyteller whose work focuses on vulnerability, shame, courage, belonging, and leadership.
American fantasy artist, comics creator, illustrator, and author known for mythic, folkloric, and fairy-tale imagery.

American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for The Sun Eater series.

Former police officer and Sunday Times number-one bestselling crime author.
Curtis Sittenfeld is an American novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically astute fiction about class, identity, politics, relationships, and public life.

American young adult author known for fantasy, contemporary, and historical novels.

American historian and author known for richly narrated histories and biographies of major figures and events in American history.

American author, editor, former teacher and librarian, and board chair officer of We Need Diverse Books. She writes young adult and middle-grade fiction, especially fantasy, romance, mystery, and speculative fiction.

Elle Cosimano is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of mystery, thriller, fantasy, and young adult fiction.

Emily McIntire is a bestselling romance author known for dark, contemporary, and emotionally intense love stories.

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is a British-Nigerian, queer, Muslim writer of young adult mystery, thriller, romance, and speculative fiction.

American author of short fiction, novels, essays, literary criticism, and illustrated children's fiction, known for darkly comic speculative writing.
Australian novelist and nonfiction author best known for The Rosie Project.

American essayist, poet, naturalist, philosopher, and transcendentalist best known for Walden and Civil Disobedience.

Jasmine Guillory is a New York Times bestselling American romance novelist from Oakland, California.
American novelist known for suspense, psychological thrillers, supernatural horror, and young adult fiction.

British author and former journalist known for psychological thrillers and near-future speculative fiction.
American molecular biologist, professor emeritus of medicine, and pioneering author on mindfulness, meditation, stress reduction, pain, and healing.