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SELF was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2008. The Drop 10 Diet was a New York Times Bestseller.

Anjali Sachdeva’s fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Tor.com, among other outlets. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Augustana College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD is her first book and winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize and 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

A former Benjamin Rush Scholar in the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Dr. Sacks works as an instructor at the Women’s Program at New York Presbyterian-Columbia and at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the co-author, with Dr. Catherine Birndorf, of What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood, from Simon & Schuster.

Aminah Mae Safi is the author of four novels, including Tell Me How You Really Feel (Feiwel & Friends) and the forthcoming Travelers Along the Way: a Robin Hood Remix (Feiwel & Friends, 2022). She’s an erstwhile art historian, a fan of Cholula on popcorn, and an un-ironic lover of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Her writing has been featured on Bustle and Salon and her award-winning short stories can be found in Fresh Ink (Crown Books) and the forthcoming Freshman Orientation (Candlewick Press, 2023).

Dr. Rafe Sagarin was a marine ecologist at the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 where he was leading a project to create a living model of the Gulf of California. His two recent books are Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorism, Natural Disasters, and Disease (Basic Books) and Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World (Island Press).

An american painter and printmaker, Salle has helped define postmodernism. His work can be found at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Tate Modern, among other places.

Felix has been a staff writer for or freelance contributor to Conde Nast’s Portfolio, WIRED, Reuters, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Euromoney, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Slate, New York Magazine, and Medium, among others. He’s currently the chief financial correspondent and a weekly columnist at Axios, and he has hosted the Slate Money podcast since 2014.

A Yemeni peace activist, Al Samawi is interested in interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural outreach. He is a frequent public speaker and lecturer on the war in Yemen, the refugee crisis, and extremism in the Middle East.

An English professor at West Point, Samet received her BA from Harvard and her PhD from Yale. Soldier’s Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was also named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books in 2007.

Scott Sampson is a dinosaur paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and educator, as well as the host of PBS’s Dinosaur Train show, the Chief Curator of the Denver Museum of Natural History, and the author of How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature (Houghton Mifflin).

The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were key reporters on the newspaper’s award-winning series George Floyd’s America and contributors to the well-received Post Reports podcast episode on Floyd’s life.Samuels has earned distinction for his intimate reporting style while writing on-the-ground stories about politics, policy and the American identity, and contributed a chapter to The Post’s best-selling book, Trump Revealed. Samuels grew up in the Bronx and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. At the Miami Herald, Samuels won several statewide awards for feature writing as an enterprise reporter. Since joining The Post in 2011, he has been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Toner Prize for National Political Reporting, the nation’s premier award for political reporting.

María Sánchez is a Spanish writer and field veterinarian and the author of Cuaderno de campo (Field Notebook), Almáciga: Un vivero de palabras de nuestro medio rural (Seedbed), and Tierra de mujeres: Una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural (Land of Women), a bestseller in Spain, with translations into French and German. Her poetry and prose have been translated into French, Portuguese, English, and German, and she is a regular contributor to publications on literature, feminism, and rural culture.

Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Santiago de Compostela, 1968) is one of the most important contemporary female Spanish writers. She is also a literary critic and a translator, and coordinates several writing workshops. She is the author of the novels Las lagartijas huelen a hierba (Lengua de Trapo, 1999), Bueyes y rosas dormían (Siruela, 2001), Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey (Anagrama, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 2004), Alas (Trama Editorial, 2005), Coco (2007), Los escarpines de Kristina de Noruega (Roca Editorial, 2011, finalist to Premio Espartaco de Novela Histórica), Ellibro de Julieta (Grijalbo, 2011), Las Inviernas (The Winterlings, Anagrama, 2014), Alguien bajo los párpados (Someone Beneath Your Eyelids, Anagrama, 2017), and La nostalgia de la Mujer Anfibio (The Longing of the Amphibian Woman, Anagrama, 2022). She is also the author of the award-winning short story collection El niño que comía lana (The Boy Who Ate Wool, short stories, Anagrama, 2019). Her work has been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Russian.

Julian Sancton is a writer and editor based in New York. He has worked for publications including Vanity Fair, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, and is currently the senior features editor at Departures. His formative years were split between the United States and France.

DaVaun Sanders is the author of the middle grade book Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew. He serves as Executive Editor for FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, winner of the WorldFantasy, British Fantasy and Hugo Awards.

Rob Sanders is a teacher who writes and a writer who teaches. He is known for his funny and fierce fiction and nonfiction picture books and is recognized as one of the pioneers in the arena of LGBTQ+ literary nonfiction picture books. 

A native of Springfield, Missouri, he has lived in Texas, Alabama, and Tennessee. After earning a B.S. in Elementary Education and a Master’s Degree in Religious Education, Rob worked for fifteen years in children’s religious educational publishing as a writer, educational consultant, trainer, editor, editorial group manager, and product developer.

In 2006, Rob moved to Florida and began working as an elementary school teacher. Soon he was serving as a district writing trainer and resource teacher. But he spent most of his career teaching fourth graders about books and words and reading and writing. Rob now writes full time. 

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Jonathan Santlofer is an artist and award winning writer, most recently of the critically acclaimed thriller The Last Mona Lisa, and the memoir The Widower’s Notebook. His debut novel, The Death Artist, an international bestseller, is currently in development for screen adaptation. Anatomy of Fear, won the Nero Award for best novel. He is the creator and editor of several anthologies including It Occurs to Me That I Am America, a collection of original stories and art. His paintings and drawings are included in many public and private collections. He lives in New York City.

Yaffa S. Santos was born and raised in New Jersey. She is the author of A Taste of Sage, which was named an Indie Next List Pick and Amazon Editor’s Pick, Winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Novel–Romance, and the forthcoming A Touch of Moonlight. Yaffa is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied writing and visual art. She enjoys books, coffee, and the beach, and lives in Central Florida with her family.

Marta Sanz is an award-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and scholar, and one of Spain’s leading feminist writers. In the last two decades she has written 15 novels and four collections of poetry, in addition to her edited anthologies and frequent contributions to major Spanish media publications including EL PAÍS, El Mundo, Público and Infolibre. She is a frequent guest commentator and public speaker at mainstream media outlets and literary events.

Sanz’s novels tackle social issues, challenge contemporary thinking with innovative literary styles, engage readers with insightful treatments of topical themes and entertain with biting satire. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into talian and Hungarian.

Originally from south Louisiana, Blake Sanz won the 2021 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his collection of short stories, The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, selected by Brandon Taylor. It was also a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and longlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. His essays, interviews, and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Missouri Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. He has been a work-study scholarship recipient at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a scholar at the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, a guest panelist at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans and Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop, and a funded participant at The Community of Writers. His work has also been recognized by the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Competition, and he has held residencies at Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, Art Farm in Nebraska, and Elsewhere Studios in Colorado. Son of a Mexican father and a Cajun mother and a graduate of the MFA program at Notre Dame, he teaches fiction at the University of Central Florida.

Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, psychedelic-assisted therapist, writer, meditation teacher and researcher, and former Buddhist monk. He is also a transformational coach for musicians, athletes, former special operations veterans, scientists, CEOs, authors, and playwrights.  He presents internationally for The Institute of Noetic Sciences, has given numerous keynote addresses at large conferences and he leads psychedelic retreats for the special operations community in Mexico through various organizations.

Margie Sarsfield is a Reno-based writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, Seneca Review, Northwest Review, CutBank, Salt Hill and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2019 Calvino Prize and holds a MFA from Ohio State University.

Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was born in Cairo and educated in Paris, Milan, London and the USA. He obtained his PhD under Eric Hobsbawm’s supervision. In 2019, he won the Acqui Award of History (Premio Acqui Storia) for lifetime achievement in the field of history.

Ayşegül Savaş is the author of the novel Walking on the Ceiling. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Guernica, The Paris Review Daily, Pleiades and her next novel, White on White, is forthcoming from Riverhead.

Dr. Keith Sawyer is one of the country’s leading experts on the science of creativity and innovation. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which are Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (Basic Books) and Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity (Jossey-Bass).

Bobuq Sayed is an Afghan cultural worker who divides their time between Berlin and Miami. They were a Steinbeck fellow at San José State University in 2022-2023 and their writing has received support from Tin House, Kundiman, and the Lambda LiteraryEmerging Writers Retreat. Bobuq is the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook forthcoming from Common Room Editions in 2024, and the co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices from Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen and Unwin).

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Suzanne Scanlon is an MFA/MA candidate and Litowitz Fellow in Creative Writing at Northwestern University. She is the author of Promising Young Women (Dorothy, 2012), a novel in stories, and 37th Year, an Index (Noemi, 2015), a fictional memoir in the form of an index. She is at work on Committed, a memoir about madness in life and literature, for Vintage.

Dr. Rob Scanlon is Board Certified Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care (ICU medicine) andactively in practice for over 20 years. He began his journey as a hiker/backpacker in 2002 toreduce the stress of work life. He joined the Wilderness Medicine Society (WMS) in 2018through his love for the outdoors and medicine and to pursue his growing desire to impact thestaggering rate of hiker death and rescue.

Thomas F. Schaller is professor of political science at UMBC, and the author of four books and hundreds of articles on American politics.

Kate Schapira is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Brown University where she teaches nonfiction writing, with a focus on narrative, diverse formal strategies, and environmental and ecological storytelling. Schapira is the creator of the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, which offers peer mental health counseling related to climate change.

Stylist, creative director, and illustrator, Schelter’s work has been published in Vogue, Style.com, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She owns Kate Schelter, LLC, a full service agency specializing in branding, creative direction, styling, illustration, events, and image consulting.

Erika Schickel is an author, journalist, and essayist and has written for such publications as Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, LA City Beat, LA Observed.com, Bust Magazine, The Huffington Post, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. Erika’s first book, You’re Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom (2007), was a People Magazine pick and a Walmart “Latest and Greatest” book.

Dr. Kathryn Schmitz overturned years of entrenched dogma that told breast cancer survivors to avoid upper body exercise with the publication of two ground-breaking scientific papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Schmitz’s study proved that, contrary to common clinical advice, upper body exercise was safe and beneficial for survivors of breast cancer. She has made it her personal mission to use exercise for cancer prevention and recovery in the same way it has been used for heart disease—only better. This work has made Dr. Schmitz among the most sought-after international speakers and media commentators on the role of exercise during cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Currently a professor of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Schmitz also holds appointments as a professor of Kinesiology as well as Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Penn State. She maintains an adjunct professor position at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the founding director of the Exercise Medicine Unit at the Penn State Cancer Institute where she directs a team of therapists and provides exercise counseling and personalized exercise recommendations to cancer patients.

The author of five nonfiction books, Schneider has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, Elle, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among other publications.

The co-author with Sam Kashner of Hollywood Kryptonite: The Bulldog, the Lady, and the Death of Superman – which the movie "Hollywoodland" was based on – and of Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, Schoenberger is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the College of William and Mary.

Kate Schroeder is an Emmy-nominated Entertainment Producer and Head of Books for Access Hollywood.

A journalist at The New Yorker covering culture and the arts, Michael has written features, reviews, and over 50 "Talk of the Town" pieces. He is the theatre editor of Goings On About Town, and an ongoing contributor to the New York Times.

Emily Schultz is the cofounder of the influential Joyland magazine. Her newest novel, Little Threats, was published by GP Putnam's Sons and was named an Apple Books Best of November 2020 pick. Her novel, The Blondes, released in the U.S. with St. Martin’s Press and Picador, and in Canada with Doubleday was named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews. Schultz's writing has appeared in Elle, Slate, Evergreen Review, Vice, Hazlitt, and Prairie Schooner. She is currently a producer at indie media company Heroic Collective and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Claire Schultz was born and raised in New Jersey but moved to the UK to study children's literature. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and now works in publishing. She lives in London with a haunted cat.

Creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, comedian and actress Schumer won a Peabody Award and was nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, in 2015. Schumer also wrote, starred in, and produced the Judd Apatow directed movie Trainwreck in 2015.

Bradley Schurman, Founder and CEO of Demogera, is one of the foremost experts in aging and longevity in the world. He has worked with some of the biggest organizations on these subjects and how they interact with living, working and learning, including AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons), AEGON, IBM, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Economic Forum.

Evan I. Schwartz is author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins), named one of the 75 best business books of all time by Fortune, and Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story (Houghton Mifflin). He is a former award-winning editor at Businessweek and MIT’s Technology Review and has been published in WIRED and the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. With Myrieme Churchill, an esteemed psychotherapist, he is writing Crossing Casablanca, a riveting memoir about Ms. Churchill’s early life.

Erich Schwartzel is an entertainment reporter at the Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, where he covers all the major studios and theater chains and focuses on the growing entanglement of China and Hollywood. Before moving west, he spent several years covering fracking in Appalachia for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; his investigative work there won the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting.

Edward Schwarzschild is the author of the novel Responsible Men and the story collection The Family Diamond. His stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, Hazlitt, Tin House, The Yale Journal of Criticism, The Virginia Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, The Believer and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, NYFA Fellow in Fiction, and Fulbright Scholar, he is now Director of Creative Writing at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute.

New Scientist is a weekly non-peer-reviewed English-language international science magazine, founded in 1956. The magazine covers current developments, news, reviews and commentary on science and technology.

Su Scott is a Korean-born food writer living in London. In October 2019 she won the Best Reader’s Recipe category at the prestigious Observer Food Monthly Awards with her recipe for kimchi jjigae. Since winning the award, she’s pursued a freelance career as a food writer and recipe developer, in between being a mother. In January 2021, she was featured in Waitrose Food magazine as a rising star of the food world and contributed her family recipes under the title ‘Home Comfort’. Her domestic kitchen-friendly recipes based on food from her childhood have been well received by editors, food teams and readers for their purposefully simple approach and impactful flavour, and her recipes can also be found in many other food publications including Sainsbury’s magazine, Olive magazine and Waitrose Weekend newspaper.

Jane Scovell is the author of collaborative biographies with, among others, Elizabeth Taylor, Maureen Stapleton, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Horne, Kitty Dukakis, QVC host Kathy Levine, and Tim Conway. She has also written biographies of Oona O’Neill Chaplin and Samuel Ramey. Her books Elizabeth Takes Off (Putnam), It’s Better to Laugh (Atria), Now You Know (Simon & Schuster), What’s So Funny? (Howard Books), and Oona: Living in the Shadows (Warner Books) made the New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists. Her articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Sunday New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Travel and Leisure, and Opera News. She is currently at work on a dramatization of A Hell of a Life based on her book with Maureen Stapleton.

Anchal is a 29 year old British Indian beauty blogger and influencer with 100k followers on Instagram, close to 200k subscribers on YouTube with 19m views of her videos on this platform. Her podcast 'What would the Aunties Say?' is the inspiration for her first book.

Mark Sedgwick trained as a historian at Oxford University, taught for many years at the American University in Cairo, and finally moved to Denmark, where he is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University. He is also chair of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies. His work has focused mostly on Islam, Sufism, Traditionalism, and terrorism.

Laurie Segall is an award-winning investigative journalist known for her interviews with tech founders. Formerly the senior technology correspondent for CNN, she developed and hosted a series of docuseries that explored the impact of technology on sex, love, and death.

Josh Seiden is an expert on startups, technology and apps, as well as principal at the consulting firm Neo and co-author of Lean UX (O’Reilly Publishing) and the forthcoming Sense and Respond (Harvard Business Review Press), on how IT and apps are revolutionizing the entire practice of management.

Mark Seliger was Rolling Stone’s Chief Photographer from 1992-2002,where he shot over 150 covers. Seliger now shoots frequently for Vanity Fair, Italian Vogue, and many other magazines; he also shoots advertising work for Adidas, Levi’s, Netflix, and many more. Seliger is the recipient of such esteemed awards as the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, Lucie Award, Clio Grand Prix, Cannes Lions Grand Prix, among others; his photographs are part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Hannah Selinger is a sommelier and lifestyle journalist based in New York and Massachusetts.  She is a 2022 James Beard finalist for the MLK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award and was a 2020 IACP Award finalist in Narrative Beverage Writing

Tom Selleck is an actor and producer best known for his roles as Thomas Magnum on the original Magnum P.I. television series, Dr. Richard Burke, Monica’s older boyfriend on Friends, and NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan on the hit crime drama Blue Bloods. He has also made numerous films including Three Men and A Baby, in which he played Peter Mitchell, The Closer, and Mr. Baseball.

Kavin Senapathy is a brown woman, mother, and secular daughter of immigrants. Her journalism covers health, food, parenting, and science for outlets like Slate, The Daily Beast, Undark, SELF, SciShow, and Forbes. Her work has looked at everything from the lack of diversity in human genomic databases to how natural parenting dehumanizes women. She’s also the co-founder and contributing editor at SciMoms.com, a website dedicated to the pursuit of evidence-based parenting.

Beatriz Serrano graduated with a degree in Journalism from Madrid Complutense University. She has since worked in digital journalism specialising in new narratives, and has worked for a variety of institutions such as BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, SModa and Vogue. She currently works for El País and, along with writer Guillermo Alonso, co-directs the podcast Arsénico Caviar, which won the Ondas prize for best conversational podcast. Discontent is her first novel.

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Variety New York Bureau Chief and former Newsweek Senior Writer, Setoodeh has written more than 20 cover stories on celebrities such as George Clooney, Bill Murray, Jake Gyllenhaal, Barbara Walters, Rosie O’Donnell, and Megyn Kelly.