Leora Skolkin-Smith

Leora Skolkin-Smith, author of Edges: O Israel, O Palestine.

Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen

Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, author of Elizabeti’s Doll, Elizabeti’s School, Mama Elizabeti, Babu’s Song, We’ll Paint the Octopus Red and The Best Worst Brother. 

Ellen Sussman

Ellen Sussman, author of On A Night Like This.

Terese Svoboda

Terese Svoboda, author of Tin God, Treason: Poems, Trailer Girl And Other Stories, A Drink Called Paradise, Mere Mortals: Poems, Cannibal, Laughing Africa, All Aberration, and Cleaned the Crocodile’s Teeth, Nuer Song.

Lori Tharps

Lori Tharps, co-author of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, and author of the forthcoming Kinky Gazpacho.

Adriana Trigiani

Adriana Trigiani, author of Home to Big Stone Gap, Big Stone Gap, Milk Glass Moon, Big Cherry Holler, Lucia, Lucia, Queen of the Big Time, Rococo, and  The Big Stone Gap Trilogy. She also coauthored Cooking With My Sisters.

Thrity Umrigar

Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us, Bombay Time and First Darling of the Morning.

Jennifer Vanderbes

Jennifer Vanderbes, author of Easter Island.